Dixie Belle: The Further Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was conceived as a holiday epistle informing Tom Sawyer of the author's gender-bending adventures in a New Orleans bordello after the Civil War. The Spanish brand's creative director, Jonathan Anderson, played host to coterie that included Derek Blasberg, Tsubasa, Stephane Bak, Inma Cuesta, Justin Vivian Bond, and more. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra saxophonist Ted Nash, a visionary composer at the top of his game. An Evening of Bi-Polar Witchy Wonder” and “The Bi-Polar Express,” and musical offerings within them have been known to showcase stirring renditions of songs such as “Somebody’s House Always Burns At Christmas.” This year, in the cozy environs of Joe’s Pub in New York, the tradition continues with a multi-night run for the newest variation on a theme: “Justin Vivian Bond: Manger Danger! [15] Bond appeared in the 2017 Music Box Theatre performance of the Tales of the City musical, with score by Shears. I had just moved to the big city from Kansas and had quickly become disabused of any notion that I might actually know what I was doing here. [45] The show played again at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in London. Some of the queens scheduled to perform were annoyed about their running mascara, but the bigger issue was ticket buyers, who largely stayed home. Together, over drinks in San Francisco, they cooked up the idea of doing a set of videos inspired by the Home Shopping Network. [66], The musician Rufus Wainwright, son of Canadian folk singer Kate McGarrigle, was another rising star from the downtown club scene who befriended Bond at this time. The book coincides with an exhibition opening at projects+gallery in St Louis on 13 September, featuring 22 selected portraits of trans people between the ages of 50 and 90, which were taken over the past five years. Everyone was age-inappropriate and everything about it was so wrong, but so sparkly and wonderful. Review: “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon”As Donald Trump provokes a backlash against a laundry list of marginalized groups, many museums have commendably stepped up with programming aimed at countering the reactionary tone of the current administration. Bernhard told the room that she’d written no memorial Tweets that day, no posts “riding on other people’s tragedies”; she publicly shared no memories of 9/11. Justin Vivian Bond is the Upstate goth in the chambeige minivan. The New York Public Library has one of the largest collections of LGBTQ artifacts from that tumultuous period, which is now being displayed in a major exhibit, "Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50." BWW Review: JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND: UNDER THE INFLUENCE at Joe's Pub. Think about this exhibition, then, as a salvo in the rekindled culture wars. In the wake of the Summer of Love, Woodstock, and the escalation of the war in Vietnam, Karen Carpenter's voice and Richard Carpenter's lush musical arrangements—described by detractors as "saccharine" and championed by others as distinctly smooth and easy on the ears—began to dominate the airwaves at the start of the 1970s. Kiki and Herb are the alter egos of Justin Vivian Bond and Kenny Mellman. Their memoir Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels (Feminist Press) won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction. Here, two veterans of New York’s performance-art scene, Justin Vivian Bond and Penny Arcade, reflect on the current crisis.Justin Vivian Bond: As a young person in the 1980s and early ’90s, I found that the AIDS crisis gave me a trajectory. And Herb is her long-suffering piano player. "[80], Bond has decided to clarify an identity as a trans-person, explaining that "for me to claim to be either a man or a woman, feels like a lie. Back in the 2000s, I was obsessed with a film called Shortbus. As we mourn, we fall into patterns, and we fall hard. "[65], Jake Shears, lead singer of Scissor Sisters, has cited the Kiki and Herb Christmas Show as inspiration. The audience was ecstatic—they hadn’t seen this pair since 2008, the year Obama was elected. Camp puts a twist on reality to reflect back how absurd it is. Bond, a fan of Collins since they were young, has found a different way to pay tribute to the legendary entertainer. The ceremony brought together attendees, sponsors, and celebrities to celebrate excellence in LGBT literature and twenty-nine years of the groundbreaking literary awards. That's basically true of anyone at some point, even the ones who are "easy to love." [citation needed], 2011 saw the opening of The Fall of the House of Whimsy exhibition at Participant, Inc., an alternative, Manhattan gallery that hosted an installation of "artifacts, media, and ephemera" from Bond's nearby loft (then slated for demolition) including original Bond photographs and watercolors. London shows included Where Are We Now?, Kiki & Herb: There's a Stranger in the Manger, and Kiki & Herb Mount The President, the latter performed aboard HMS President in the River Thames. One show this Spring, however, sought to change this gender imbalance: The Whitney Houston Biennial. I also loved it because of the club’s beautiful MC, a gender-ambiguous chanteuse called Justin Bond, who sang an anthemic song called “In the End”. Now, they host semi-regular cabaret shows across the United States and Europe. This year’s show features over 160 female-identified artists.“For the first version, I imagined that if I was tapped as the curator of the Whitney, I would show three floors of women artists,” says Finley. Bond is transgender[4] and uses the gender-inclusive honorific Mx. I spent quite a bit of time with my friend Victoria Leacock in her duplex on 9th between Fifth and Sixth. [12] Consequently, Bond grew up feeling "invisible", resenting the younger sister who "got everything I wanted. Wanting to get something out quickly and not sure how to do it, Bond released a five track EP Pink Slip in June 2009 featuring four original songs ("The New Depression", "May Queen", "The Puppet Song", "Michael in Blue") and a cover of Radiohead's "Arpeggi/Weird Fishes". But it's fine with me. (Ten free standing-room tickets are dispensed nightly.). When I moved to New York City and met them in person I was drawn to their cause and we were like kindred spirits. Thousands of new, high-quality pictures are added every day. Inside the 'Hillbilly Studio 54,' Where Drag Queens Preach the Gospel. New York ‘alt-cabaret’ Joe’s Pub comes to Seattle. [72], In July 2009 Bond made an appearance on the Logo TV comedy series Jeffery & Cole Casserole, playing a Catholic nun who serves as the principal of the show's all-girl Catholic school. Bakery creates bread and flour tributes to LGBTI icons for Pride Month. Meet The 81-Year-Old Voice Coach Who Gives Debbie Harry And Mx Justin Vivian Bond Their SoundBarbara Maier Gustern's vocal students comprise a who's who of the NYC avant garde scene -- a virtual calendar come to life of everyone who's ever graced Joe's Pub with creativity and grace. Bond channels Collins, and her songwriters. The capacity audience engaged attentively – as far as anyone can judge – with few walkouts and a solid 10 minutes of cheering at the end, especially for Kate Lindsey, the UK-based American mezzo-soprano who sang, outstandingly, the marathon of a title role. A certain queer generation has come of memoir age—which is a bit bracing (read: terrifying) for those of us who survived the ’80s and ’90s, and still consider ourselves in the prime of some type of youth. "[48], The EP and the two albums that followed likewise appear to have arisen rather spontaneously, differing largely in terms of the original material they contained as a result of Bond's decision to venture into songwriting. It has to do with who you’re loving.”. For a decade and a half, it was an annual rite on New York City’s L.G.B.T. That, Kiki claimed, was the reason for their hiatus. Justin Bond is raising funds for SILVER WELLS -a new CD from Mx Justin Vivian Bond on Kickstarter! "[62] Backups included Matt Ray on piano, Claudia Chopek on violin, and Nath Ann Carrera on guitar. With money reserves depleted and a downturn in night life (as part of Mayor Giuliani’s quality-of-life initiatives), Wigstock died in 2001. If you voted for President Trump and his cronies and still support them in spite of the policies they are implementing, you are inarguably and unequivocally a collaborator in the destruction -both literally and figuratively- of innocent lives. Viv was the first person I’d encountered who claimed the middle ground, the shifty sweet spot between genders. "Justin Vivian Bond Makes Broadway History with, "A Not So Silent Night (Kate & Anna McGarrigle/Rufus & Martha Wainwright) [DVD]", "More! Described as "the best cabaret artist of his generation"[1] and a "tornado of art and activism",[2] Bond first achieved prominence under the pseudonym of Kiki DuRane in the stage duo Kiki and Herb, an act born out of a collaboration with long-time co-star Kenny Mellman. The duo traveled repeatedly to London, where Bond continued to work on an MA in scenography at Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design when not performing. As for Vivian, that's my self-given middle name. "[47] The album was ultimately released under the Seeland label in 1999 as PantyChrist, with a European, promotional tour. The Queer Liberation March aims to carry on the spirit of protest that some LGBTQ activists say the main NYC pride parade has lost. Buy Now. "Justin Vivian Bond to Star in Brecht's 'A Man's A Man. Vienna opera house stages first opera by woman. I’m proudly feminist, if not arrogantly so. Now comes another such venture, “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon,” a look at concepts of “trans” and “queer” as embodied in new art. Based in New York City's East Village, Bond recently curated New York Live Art's annual Live Ideas Festival, which ended this weekend.In response to reactionary, right wing narratives that increasingly dictate our lives, Bond centered the festival around building new narratives across all marginalized communities. They blame their absence on the Obama presidency, noting, "No one wants to see Kiki and Herb when they have hope." ON THE EVE OF THEIR COLUMBUS DEBUT, THE CABARET PERFORMER TALKS ABOUT THEIR CAREER, IDENTITY AND WHERE THEY FIND INSPIRATION. This is not true, or at least it’s not the whole story. Justin Vivian Bond Sings The Carpenters: Note on the Program. Justin Vivian Bond (born May 9, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. When I was a wee baby queerling, one of my favorite things to do with my grandmother was to watch the Home Shopping Network and QVC. Bond and Mellman ruled the downtown cabaret scene as the salty chanteuse and her slightly demented gay accompanist throughout the '90s and early 2000s, culminating in a 2006 Broadway show, Kiki and Herb: Alive on Broadway! The result is that — much as I wished the show could be — “Trigger” cannot be rightly called a new Transavantgarde (after the explosive 1980s Italian art movement). “As an American and as a trans person, I find this hypothesis to be really interesting.”, The Return of Kiki & HerbThe cabaret darlings are back with a new sold-out show at Joe's Pub, Seeking Asylum!When tickets were released last fall for Seeking Asylum!, Kiki and Herb’s upcoming reunion in New York City, fans went nuts, buying seats like groceries the day before a hurricane. [5][54], In concert at the end of 2014, Bond disclosed having received an invitation to return home for Thanksgiving, conditional upon leaving behind "that fake woman." Leacock knew Jenny Lumet, a granddaughter of Lena Horne, and managed to get Bond backstage to meet Horne, who appeared "icy, intimidating, beautiful and talented – everything I hoped to be one day. the psychic landscape of my holiday season was changed forever. 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On the second evening of the show's four-night run earlier this month, Bond's control over the melodic rasp of v's voice was impeccable. I went one night with Eric to see Lady Rizo at Joe's Pub. By the time they were in their late teens they were playing professionally on the Burlesque Circuit where Kiki, who had just given birth to her first child – a bastard named Bradford – was billed as "The Completely Insane Miss Kiki DuRane". There is no art museum introducing more new ideas and sharing more radical art on such a large stage. Justin Vivian Bond's LIVE IDEAS Series 'Mx'd Messages' Reimagines a World Without BinariesRunning this week is New York Live Arts' 2017 LIVE IDEAS festival, which features a series called "Mx'd Messages," curated by queer icon and trans-genre artist Justin Vivian Bond. “They’re thinking about their hopefulness. Obsessions can be comforts and also a form of sickness. KM: And, luckily, a lot is going on.JVB: It’s helpful that Kiki and Herb have known several of the current presidential candidates personally. "[42] Ironically, Bond was by then moving away from the stage act after more than a decade, having almost come to resent the "very intrusive" presence of Kiki and the demands associated with playing this "very dark" role. And it was a salon too, according to the dinner’s host, former model and Olympic swimmer Casey Legler. Justin Vivian Bond Comes to AustinThe queer cabaret legend is the friend we all need right nowThe legendary performer – who’s starred in John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus, won the Lambda Literary Award for their memoir Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels, and was nominated for a Tony – is coming to town for just one night (and a quick symposium at UT-Austin) to help build a stronger and brighter community bond at a time when queer and trans folks need it most. (V also pioneered and campaigned for the non-binary title Mx.). The artist and performer Justin Vivian Bond, who prefers the pronoun ‘‘they,’’ has been fascinated with Edie Sedgwick for as long as they can remember. Justin Vivian Bond original. For years, Justin Vivian Bond has been one of the world’s most singular performers. 28 Self-Portraits Show the Beauty of Queer Creativity. Herb, her devoted sidekick and accompanist, was at the piano, his gray hair in a ponytail and the rest of him in a Vegas-style silver suit. Bruni observes that "on top of all of the other odd aspects of its evolution, "Shortbus" represented a reunion and collaboration of fringe artists [like Bond] moving closer to the mainstream. “It’s hard to survive in the city if you’re not going at full gallop.”. It's a risky choice that occasionally pays off in big ways. An Explainer by Way of 10 Past Met Gala Looks. He’ll have to shave to reprise his role, and Bond, who also goes by the nickname V, will have to look less lovely to portray the haunted, manic Kiki. Justin Vivian Bond, And V Is Trans", "Welcome back David Hoyle: you're a divine director", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Justin_Vivian_Bond&oldid=1013729826, Pages using Template:Infobox musical artist with unknown parameters, Articles with unsourced statements from July 2011, Internet Off-Broadway Database person ID same as Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Live performances previously recorded with, Michaline Babich, Chris Gallagher, Matt Gallagher, This page was last edited on 23 March 2021, at 04:03. After graduation, Bond moved into the city to work briefly at Details magazine with Lumet. Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels von Bond, Justin Vivian und eine große Auswahl ähnlicher Bücher, Kunst und Sammlerstücke erhältlich auf AbeBooks.de. [79], "In contrast with the furious, blowsy, manic DuRane," wrote Maria Bustillos of Out Magazine, "Bond is gentle, disciplined, observant, and beautifully mannered; a student of the theater, a serious and subtle conversationalist and raconteur. In spite of their retirement, Kiki and Herb appeared on a list of the top 40 favorite New Yorkers in Time Out New York in 2008. “My country ’tis of thee.” The track slowly crescendos with drums and waves of post-punk guitar feedback. Tell our readers how your connection with fierce pussy came about. It’s said that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it — but the Reclaim Pride Coalition, organizers of the Queer Liberation March, planned to do exactly that. Though it wasn’t expressly positioned as a response to the Whitney Biennial, the Whitney Houston Biennial seemed to revel in inclusivity and, in that sense, felt like a rebuttal.Now the 2017 Whitney Biennial has arrived in the museum’s new home, bringing it with both praise — for showcasing a more heterogeneous group of artists engaged with the world around them — and considerable critique — for hollow depictions of violence. Emotionally, it's evened me out. . Justin Vivian Bond manifest rage and radiance that will stay with me forever. But even with a museum delivering shows as sophisticated as The New Museum, any show with 40 plus artists is going to run into curatorial issues. Mx. Playing the part of Mx America, a girlish but knowing former beauty queen with a slight Southern drawl, Vivian told the crowd, “I’m an aspirational white woman of elegance.”The joke, of course, is Mx America’s delusion: An older woman is asking the audience to assess and reassess her; the room laughs — an aging trans woman is convinced she is beautiful. On view through June 30, Queer As I is comprised of 50 self-portraits by different artists both established, like photographers Catherine Opie and Jack Pierson, and emerging. Entdecken Sie alle Hörbücher gesprochen von Justin Vivian Bond auf Audible.de. In the show’s world premiere, Anna Madrigal—who reveals that she is transgender—was played by Tony Award-winning actor Judy Kaye.“I thought it was fantastic,” Bond says of the ACT premiere. Their numerous collaborators included Debbie Harry of Blondie, comedian Sandra Bernhard, and Antony of Antony and the Johnsons. What Would It Be Like To Live In A World Without Binaries? Bond has hosted the Weimer New York variety show since its inception in 2007. The first season—subtitled Homunculus—is comprised of 10, 30-minute episodes with more than 30 original songs by Mitchell, who also stars, and his co-creator Bryan Weller. [67] Bond has appeared in concert with Rufus Wainwright's sister, Martha Wainwright, whom Bond calls a "Taurean sister." And thus celebrity spokesperson Sandie Stone was born. Nearly five years in, it has grown into one of the country’s most talked-about design studios, with a staff of 35, a new showroom in New York, and work installed in swank hotels and restaurants around the world. calendar, a “circuit party” for people who wouldn’t normally be caught dead on the circuit. More! Joe’s Pub is a performance-art nerve center in New York City — an intimate, “alt-cabaret” space attached to the Public Theater that has presented and incubated both experimental artists and household names. For an exhibition about things “blurred,” “trans,” and not “normative,” “Trigger” is laden with art that too neatly fits into totally known and familiar lineages, namely post-conceptualism of the 1960s and 1970s. And Justin Vivian Bond would like to apologize. It tells the story of a one-of-a-kind place in the Ozarks where Christian piety and a thriving queer community coexist featuring Lee Keating and Walter Burrell, proud husband-owners of Eureka Live Underground, a local gay bar they liken to a “hillbilly Studio 54.”, “Just because we serve alcohol doesn't mean that we're perverted and we’re not Christian,” Burrell says in an exclusive clip released to OUT. represents their first public reunion since a 2007 Carnegie Hall concert. Meanwhile, a couple of queens backstage perform a faux exorcism to cast out their inner queer. Mx. With a president determined to stifle the voices and rights of marginalized communities, the cabaret stage has yet again become a catharsis for Vivian. Alternative March returns Pride to its roots. Viva Viv“IS IT A MAN OR A WOMAN? I beg you to please wake up before it's too late. (Bond uses the pronouns they/them.) The ethereal soprano that guided listeners through the 1960s — the “gentle voice amid the strife,” as Life magazine proclaimed on a May 1969 cover — still resonates in 2019. Hosted by performance artist Justin Vivian Bond, the awards ceremony honored Nick Cave’s production of The Let Go at the Park Avenue Armory; performers Gabrielle Hamilton and Shamar Watt; the visual design team of Oba Qween Baba King Baba by Ni’Ja Whitson, which was co-commissioned by Danspace Project and Abrons Arts Center; and choreographer Daina Ashbee, among others. The legendary performer and label have teamed up for a festive video series to help you live your best Christmas life. I didn’t want to sound strident or over-earnest and I had this character to let me do it, because she was this wizened, experienced older person. All About Jazz & Jazz Near You were built to promote jazz music: both recorded albums and live events. Which, by the way, was the last line of the show. Edit Artist ; Share. Joe’s Pub ― The closest thing I have to a temple. As Mx America told the crowd later that night, bathed in pink light, “My friend Billy’s father once said you could measure the depth of a person’s tragedy by the amount of distance between how they see themselves and how they’re seen by others.” She paused to take a sip of her white wine on the rocks. Judy Collins couldn't be here tonight. Bond, dressed in black, sits across from Mellman, who sports a sweatshirt emblazoned with a moon face, along with biblically long hair and a beard. The ceremony will feature performances by Tony Award-nominated Once On This Island and Choir Boy choreographer Camille A. 122, and Fez. We rely primarily on venues, festivals and musicians to promote their events through our platform. Justin Vivian Bond. Kiki and her musical collaborator, Herb, made it all the way to the bright lights of Broadway and a 2007 Tony nomination, a defining moment for downtown culture. (We offer it as an antidote to recent, modernized versions by Sam Smith & Michael Buble.) Pink Slip was recorded at Le Poisson Rouge and Bond hoped income from the EP would help fund the recording of an album. It hit 40 this year, by some reckonings early middle age, though it’s still thinking young, or youngish, and living in the now. [73] Also on display was a music video of the Bond composition, American Wedding.[74]. These intensely beloved characters, the cabaret noms de plume of Mx. Alvin Orloff's new memoir documents crazy nights, retro-camp glamor, and punk sensibility in the face of the AIDS crisis. With its inclusion of abstraction along with figurative work, it struck some viewers as not explicitly gay enough, as dodging the political issues its title raised. At a certain age, or so we have come to believe, a singer loses her voice. (2000), and Kiki and Herb Will Die for You: Live at Carnegie Hall (2005). They were on a mission from Catherine Did It, a focus group affiliated with San Francisco's brand-new chapter of the ostentatious activist organization Queer Nation, which had an estimated 40 chapters around the country. A predictable handful of booers waited until Neuwirth herself took a bow to voice their discontent. “I’m Going to Come in Like Gaga at the Super Bowl”—Justin Vivian Bond Talks Creative Collaboration With Rachel ComeyRachel Comey is switching things up this season, relocating her signature dinner cabaret­–meets–fashion show from Red Hook, Brooklyn, to downtown L.A. Fed up with what they call the corporate takeover of the Heritage of Pride March (the big one), they put together an alternative. The shattered vase was an omen of things to come. A gay-owned bakery is paying tribute to LGBTI icons for Pride Month. Since the legendary chaos of 1970s and ’80s, New York has evolved to the point where the city’s “Disneyfication” is taken as a matter of public record. She’s still more wizened and more experienced, but in a certain way I can own it a little bit more. What the heck is the American Songbook at this point? (The name is a play not only on the key lock mechanism but also the poet John Keats.) Feb 21, 2017 - Just Vivian, quote Wikipedia; American singer-songwriter, author, painter, performance artist, occasional actor, drag queen, and Radical Faerie. One journalist commented that this expressed "in just one scene that heightened sense of simultaneous hope and despair in post–9/11 downtown New York City. “Now that it has, this festival really feels like an important intersectional gathering of queer community. Though assigned male at birth, Bond (born Stanley Huffman Bond III but known as Chip) never identified as such. Here is where to find the deals. Bobbi told Frank that she was transgender. I loved it because it was so honest about the difficulties of physical as well as emotional intimacy. A Performer’s Most Prized Possession: Edie Sedgwick’s Hat. remarkable for their generosity of spirit..."[70] Bond participated in the original Gay Shame event in New York in 1998, performing as Kiki and Herb and recorded in the Scott Berry documentary, Gay Shame '98. But in 2007, at the height of their popularity, they hung up their hats. "I didn't feel like the other songs were saying what I wanted to say," V explains. The project, “My Model | MySelf: I’ll Stand by You,” proudly puts what Bond calls a “queer face” on the glamour created by gay people that has long been appropriated by mainstream culture. Others utilize chains made of materials like porcelain and horsehair. ‘Do You Hear What We Hear?’: The Sacred Profanity of Kiki & Herb. Bond took the job partly to find out "whether or not I could, if I had to, make a living in the 'straight' world" as a "normal, middle-class, semi-closeted gay..."[17] According to Bond, this experiment provided the confidence to "plunge into my life as a gender non-conforming queer in San Francisco a year later believing that I could – in case of emergency – break the glass ceiling by returning to my closeted white male privilege again one day if need be. New York–based artist Justin Vivian Bond’s breakout came in San Francisco in the 1990s as part of Kiki & Herb, a dastardly and delightful duo that paired Herb (a sometimes-screaming pianist played by musician Kenny Mellman) with Kiki, a pill-popping, cocktail-swilling lounge singer that Bond embodied with élan. The letter was read by Bond and enacted by the drag troupe Pixie Harlots. [53] Performing with the House of Whimsy Players at The Kitchen in October, Bond staged Re:Galli Blond (A Sissy Fix), "a self-penned musical spectacle of transgender oppression and uplift. A pre-show announcement warns, "These performers are in their eighties and are doing their best." The first icon they selected was Ellen DeGeneres. This is the Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth’s description of herself, growing up “in a charming but xenophobic region near the Slovenian border”. Their visual art and installations have been seen in museums and galleries in the US (Participant, Inc, The New Museum) and abroad (Vitrine, London). Kiki and Herb met in the Eerie Childrens Institute in Western Pennsylvania in 1934. Post-Kiki, Bond continued to move freely between San Francisco and New York, frequently traveling to London and less frequently, to Australia. 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