VAGINA'S APOLOGIES
JULY 8, 2016
#BERLIN
URBAN SPREE
#BERLIN
URBAN SPREE
#sorrynotsorry
DANAE-CUESTA
http://cargocollective.com/danaeshootsfilm/
ZIGENDEMONIC
www.zigendemonic.org
SHALTMIRA
www.shaltmira.com
Julia Sinelnikova aka THE ORACLE
www.juliasinelnikova.com
CULTTASTIC
www.culttastic.com
DOLLAR BABY
www.facebook.com/dollarbaby666
VIVIANA DRUGA
www.vivianadruga.com
CHORDEVA
https://chordeva.com/
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WORSHIPPERS
www.soundcloud.com/vvorshippers
UnReaL - DJs BlackBlackGold & xorzyzt
www.unreal-life.com
DANAE-CUESTA
http://cargocollective.com/danaeshootsfilm/
ZIGENDEMONIC
www.zigendemonic.org
SHALTMIRA
www.shaltmira.com
Julia Sinelnikova aka THE ORACLE
www.juliasinelnikova.com
CULTTASTIC
www.culttastic.com
DOLLAR BABY
www.facebook.com/dollarbaby666
VIVIANA DRUGA
www.vivianadruga.com
CHORDEVA
https://chordeva.com/
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WORSHIPPERS
www.soundcloud.com/vvorshippers
UnReaL - DJs BlackBlackGold & xorzyzt
www.unreal-life.com
Vagina's Apologies is a vision brought forth by Lithuanian artist and organizer Shaltmira, known for her complex, dark illustrations and ritualistic performances. Shaltmira has recently relocated to Berlin, and for this exhibition she brings together a diverse group of visual and performing artists with international backgrounds, all of whom are tied together by their alchemical approach to feminism. The participating artists draw equal inspiration from the futuristic to the traditional, drawing on technology, cyberfeminism, and ancient witchcraft to fuse the digital and the handmade into synergistic works. The exhibition ranges from visual art, live performance and video projections, framed by the driving musical stylings of UnReaL and Worshippers.
For both the curator and the artists, breaking down the walls of gender and the way it is conceived in language and society is a goal and a tool. They aim to use humor, charged imagery and the body in its extreme forms to demolish the labels which continue to haunt even the most progressive circles. The fluidity of the human spirit trumps all in this exploration, rather than a single definition of what is, or of the right approach to these questions. In an era where the norms of gender and methodologies of feminist art have come to the forefront of the discussion in many parts of the word, the participating artists bravely examine these issues through photography, costume, video, illustration and song.
Notably, most of the artists hail from Eastern Europe (Russia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Romania), while all are loosely based in Berlin and Brooklyn, New York. Eastern European folklore is rich with allusions to witchcraft and sorcery – these are the types of stories children are commonly raised reading, and idiomatic phrases in the languages often derive from such tales, making their way into the common consciousness. Thus, artists steeped in technology in their urban worlds are drawing on a deep cultural connection to their heritage.
SKIN - WALKERS
DOLLAR BABY
DOLLAR BABY
https://www.facebook.com/dollarbaby666
https://www.instagram.com/dollarbaby666/
Dollar Baby is a drag disaster, transgressing boundaries between drag, satanic striptease and ritualistic performance.
https://www.facebook.com/dollarbaby666
https://www.instagram.com/dollarbaby666/
Dollar Baby is a drag disaster, transgressing boundaries between drag, satanic striptease and ritualistic performance.
VIVIANA DRUGA
Viviana Druga
http://www.vivianadruga.com/
We wille invite you to bring your offerings to the Mother.
A worship shrine with guidance by Viviana Druga
Viviana Druga is a Berlin-based artist who uses performance and photography as her main forms of expression. She was born in Transylvania - Romania. Until the age of 12 she would visit together with her sister the grandparents living near the Carpathian mountains. Her childhood was influenced by the free life of the mountain area and the Christian - orthodox Mysticism brought in by her mother. Before she left Romania in 2008 she was predominantly interested in the social side of art, performing activist art actions in Bucharest such as infiltrating the international biennial, photographing herself with the president on the street while being dressed like a guerrilla, and convincing people to pose in their swimsuits in winter at a busy intersection where an off-limits park had been constructed. Since she moved to Berlin, she has been investigating the personal, poetic side of performing, the new dimensions of reality and capturing that reality through photography - using art as a magical activity that can help the subject / audience discover new dimensions of oneself.
Photo from the performance SOLAR IMMORTALS.
http://www.vivianadruga.com/
We wille invite you to bring your offerings to the Mother.
A worship shrine with guidance by Viviana Druga
Viviana Druga is a Berlin-based artist who uses performance and photography as her main forms of expression. She was born in Transylvania - Romania. Until the age of 12 she would visit together with her sister the grandparents living near the Carpathian mountains. Her childhood was influenced by the free life of the mountain area and the Christian - orthodox Mysticism brought in by her mother. Before she left Romania in 2008 she was predominantly interested in the social side of art, performing activist art actions in Bucharest such as infiltrating the international biennial, photographing herself with the president on the street while being dressed like a guerrilla, and convincing people to pose in their swimsuits in winter at a busy intersection where an off-limits park had been constructed. Since she moved to Berlin, she has been investigating the personal, poetic side of performing, the new dimensions of reality and capturing that reality through photography - using art as a magical activity that can help the subject / audience discover new dimensions of oneself.
Photo from the performance SOLAR IMMORTALS.
ZIGENDEMONIC
http://www.zigendemonic.org/
http://zigendemonic.blogspot.de/
zigendemonic@gmail.com
Instagram: Zigendemonic
ZIGENDEMONIC - Ukrainian visual artist and illustrator.
Born in Kiev in 1988. Since 2002 works under alias.
Her recognizable dark-psychedelic characters intended to convey the surreal spirit of post-Internet age by naive fine art way.
Zigendemonic about her art:
«All ever seen accumulated in the subconscious as a huge interwoven chaos of visual images - which begins to manifest itself as dreams, obsessions and visions - and as completely formed abstract stream goes into the canvas» – 2013
«Taking pleasure in the observation of the supersaturated visual space, especially digital "dimension", where the atmosphere of the information chaos is predominant, causing a feeling of romantic tragedy in the face of absolute beauty of new technologies and sentimentality of sleepless nights spent staring at the computer monitor, and sweet lucid dreams after. I'm trying to convey an emotional attitude to certain cult objects and attributes of the modern world - transferred into a neutral space and changing their values to take an absurd combination with each other. Maintaining a sense of melancholy, of irrationality, to reveal the ambivalence of objects and symbols, experimenting and changing the hierarchy of fetish objects. At work, I often use the method of free association, leaving enough space for the "law of randomness", trying to go beyond the generally accepted limits of a visual image - for me is important to bring to the canvas images from the subconscious. I am calling on the viewer to peek over the brink of stereotypical thinking in the search for new levels of visual beauty» – 2012
http://zigendemonic.blogspot.de/
zigendemonic@gmail.com
Instagram: Zigendemonic
ZIGENDEMONIC - Ukrainian visual artist and illustrator.
Born in Kiev in 1988. Since 2002 works under alias.
Her recognizable dark-psychedelic characters intended to convey the surreal spirit of post-Internet age by naive fine art way.
Zigendemonic about her art:
«All ever seen accumulated in the subconscious as a huge interwoven chaos of visual images - which begins to manifest itself as dreams, obsessions and visions - and as completely formed abstract stream goes into the canvas» – 2013
«Taking pleasure in the observation of the supersaturated visual space, especially digital "dimension", where the atmosphere of the information chaos is predominant, causing a feeling of romantic tragedy in the face of absolute beauty of new technologies and sentimentality of sleepless nights spent staring at the computer monitor, and sweet lucid dreams after. I'm trying to convey an emotional attitude to certain cult objects and attributes of the modern world - transferred into a neutral space and changing their values to take an absurd combination with each other. Maintaining a sense of melancholy, of irrationality, to reveal the ambivalence of objects and symbols, experimenting and changing the hierarchy of fetish objects. At work, I often use the method of free association, leaving enough space for the "law of randomness", trying to go beyond the generally accepted limits of a visual image - for me is important to bring to the canvas images from the subconscious. I am calling on the viewer to peek over the brink of stereotypical thinking in the search for new levels of visual beauty» – 2012
Julia Sinelnikova aka THE ORACLE
www.juliasinelnikova.com
julia.sinelnikova@gmail.com
Instagram: @or_acle
ABOUT
Julia Sinelnikova is an interdisciplinary artist who works with holograms, performance, and digital culture. Her light installations have been exhibited internationally, and she has performed widely
as The Oracle of Vector Gallery. She has received commissions from Norte Maar, Pace University, SELECT Fair, Webster Hall, and Good Room. She has received residencies from Brooklyn Art Space, The Banff Centre (Canada), Untitled BCN (Barcelona), KulttuuriKauppila (Finland), and The Museum of Human Achievement (Austin). Selected profiles of her work have appeared in The Creators Project,The Wall Street Journal, VICE, Revolt Magazine, Huffington Post, PAPER Mag, and The New Criterion. Her work has been presented at the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, The Oulu Museum of Art, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, and The Vazquez Building. Sinelnikova has also exhibited sitespecific installations for Miami Art Week / Art Basel annually since 2011. She holds a BFA in Sculpture from The Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY). She lives and works in Brooklyn.
CULTTASTIC
CULTTASTIC
www.culttastic.com
culttastic@gmail.com
Instagram: @culttastic
ABOUT
Culttastic is the solo project of NYC-based producer-songwriter Xenolith Y. Originally hailing from Kiev, Ukraine, she grew up in Houston, Texas with a childhood background in competitive figure skating, rhythmic gymnastics and contortion. All elements are still present in Culttastic visuals, spanning from circus athletics to séances to cyber aesthetics. She draws sonic and stylistic influence ranging from Benny Benassi to Ladytron to Space Slave Trade. The pristine sounds of Culttastic are marked by
futuristic production and hypnotic hooks. She writes and performs comfortably across languages and genres, from Russian to Japanese, from J-pop to witch house.
“Her music is a combination of dark but high energy dance tunes with loads of seductive lyrics and contortionist style poses.”
- Mishka NYC
www.culttastic.com
culttastic@gmail.com
Instagram: @culttastic
ABOUT
Culttastic is the solo project of NYC-based producer-songwriter Xenolith Y. Originally hailing from Kiev, Ukraine, she grew up in Houston, Texas with a childhood background in competitive figure skating, rhythmic gymnastics and contortion. All elements are still present in Culttastic visuals, spanning from circus athletics to séances to cyber aesthetics. She draws sonic and stylistic influence ranging from Benny Benassi to Ladytron to Space Slave Trade. The pristine sounds of Culttastic are marked by
futuristic production and hypnotic hooks. She writes and performs comfortably across languages and genres, from Russian to Japanese, from J-pop to witch house.
“Her music is a combination of dark but high energy dance tunes with loads of seductive lyrics and contortionist style poses.”
- Mishka NYC
UnReaL - DJs BlackBlackGold & xorzyzt
www.unreal-life.com
www.unreal-life.com
Charging 14 patches with Sigil of Lilith I made today. Burning the Past, welcoming the Future.
Preparation for VAGINA'S APOLOGIES. Blasphemous art-show I'm organizing July 7th at Urban Spree. #berlin
www.shaltmira.com
#occult #magick #mediamagi #lilith #humanskullscollector #shaltmira
Preparation for VAGINA'S APOLOGIES. Blasphemous art-show I'm organizing July 7th at Urban Spree. #berlin
www.shaltmira.com
#occult #magick #mediamagi #lilith #humanskullscollector #shaltmira
