Today, they launched the first installment of a new social media campaign series called JWA-TV. Viv was the first person I’d encountered who claimed the middle ground, the shifty sweet spot between genders. Of course not. 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. Justin Vivian Bond Photos on BroadwayWorld.com bwwstatic.com. Rachel Comey’s Dinner and a Fashion Show Returns With Even More to Chew On, Thursday night, after a show well done, Rachel Comey tucked a dinner menu into her purse to take home and show her husband, who she says she hasn’t seen “in days.” She’s been busy putting together a dinner-party-slash-fashion-show for a small group again. represents their first public reunion since a 2007 Carnegie Hall concert. In a night dedicated to Judy Collins — a great influence on Bond — tunes from folk singers Tom Paxton (“Leaving London”) and Richard Farina (“Reno, Nevada”) mixed with swinging surprises by Stephen Sondheim (“The Girls of Summer”) and Duke Ellington and Carl Sigman (“All Too Soon”). 5 Ways to Celebrate Pride Away From the Mainstream. “And I got a lot of requests. For years, Justin Vivian Bond has been one of the world’s most singular performers. (Bond uses the pronouns they/them.) As we mourn, we fall into patterns, and we fall hard. Emotionally, it's evened me out. The episode will be hosted on their Instagram live, here. I love it. We went to the nursing home to see all the old people in a production of Hello, Dolly! The pair briefly reunited in 2016, but today Bond tends to focus on solo outings, including annual cabaret stints at the Spiegeltent, the fabulous 1920s pavilion, all louche velvet furnishings and Weimar vibes, that sits at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson. 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! On September 25, 2012, Bond hosted a special edition of Weimar as a fundraiser for the reelection of U.S. President, Barack Obama. Described in one place as "tragically hip",[28] the inspiration arose "out of my own trauma regarding AIDS and so many people dying,"[29] according to Bond. What Anderson and Hendifar may have lacked in experience they make up for with their eye for material, texture, and the unexpected. Justin Vivian Bond on the Inevitability of Assholes. After events running from March 14 to 19, Mx Bond's series will end with a queer punk rock dance party. Customer reviews. Then I did a solo art exhibition and got to meet Joy Episalla, who interviewed me for a magazine covering the show. Bond is one of more than 40 intergenerational artists in “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon,” opening on Sept. 27 with work that explores gender beyond the binary of “male” and “female.”. the psychic landscape of my holiday season was changed forever. Pink Slip was recorded at Le Poisson Rouge and Bond hoped income from the EP would help fund the recording of an album. “We’re not going back in the closet,” says resident curator Dan Halm. (2018) and Ugly Betty (2006). 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. View this post on Instagram. Now the legendary duo is back. But another march slated to begin at the landmark Greenwich Village bar aims to carry on the protest spirit of the Stonewall uprising that some activists say the main parade has lost. 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. "[29] Eschewing gender reassignment surgery, Bond explained that "I like my penis, and I am keeping it, but I am creating a transbody—a physical record on my body and a medical record that I am a transgendered person. 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." With “Under the Influence,” Bond returns to Joe’s Pub (Sept. 27-Oct. 2) as part of Judy Collins’s Vanguard Residency. Upholding the cheeky, kitschy legacy of those sorts of shows, typically marketed to bored housewives across America, is London luxury label JW Anderson. I went to Jackie 60 quite a lot, where I met a lot of my friends. Mx Justin Vivian Bond is a writer, singer, painter, and performance artist. Over 16s. “I know that so many of you young people have tuned in to our sound. 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. Justin Vivian Bond (born May 9, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. The first icon they selected was Ellen DeGeneres. With a musical voice self-described as "kind of woody and full with a lot of vibration",[3] Bond is a Tony-nominated (2007) performer who has received GLAAD (2000), Obie (2001), Bessie (2004), Ethyl (2007), and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists (2012) awards. Bond played Kiki DuRane—a boozed up and apparently ancient lounge singer—and Mellman played Herb, her equally aged gay pianist, and they so completely embodied their roles that you actually forgot that what you were seeing a very polished show (which, at this point, they’d been perfecting for nearly a decade) and not some truly rough-around-the-edges, apocalyptic, geriatric cabaret meltdown happening right in front of your eyes. Since Otomo spoke little English and could not understand what Bond was saying, he watched the recording engineer through the glass and "when I see he laugh, I play something funny. Citing the intersectional activism and art happening between marginalized communities, Vivian said, “Bringing all these different groups together with one common cause … that is a really powerful thing that you are unleashing.”. In December 2015 an EP also called Christmas Spells was released including 3 songs (Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Remember (Christmas) and Christmas Spells). This is not true, or at least it’s not the whole story. The Carpenters, a brother-sister duo known for cheery pop tunes and for love songs overflowing with sweet sentiments, came to prominence during one of the most tumultuous eras in the U.S. both musically and politically. [27] Critics lauded both the performance and the edgy, eclectic repertoire. 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. For instance, though Nancy Brooks Brody’s series of “Glory Hole” paintings—netlike organic grayscale grids with flashes of color so subtle they appear more illusory than real—are exquisite and mesmerizing, their precise connection to gender mystifies this viewer. and pronoun v (with vself instead of her/himself), a reference to Bond's middle name.[5]. Meanwhile, a couple of queens backstage perform a faux exorcism to cast out their inner queer. That is certainly the case with Kiki and Herb, the Catskill-style cabaret duo currently performing at Joe's Pub. Here is what we found: Justin Vivian Bond Serves QVC Realness for JW Anderson. Alternative To NYC Pride Has Different Message: 'It's Not Over'. 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. 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. "[54] Bond also appeared in Paul Festa's Apparition of the Eternal Church (2006).[55]. Olga Neuwirth’s new adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s gender-crossing novel is the first work by a woman at the Vienna State Opera. Bond has also been a vocal and visible transgender activist. Joan Crawford (Autumn Leaves) is a 4-by-4-inch watercolor by Justin Vivian Bond. But, after a break of almost a decade, Kiki and Herb are reuniting for a set of shows this spring.Molly Ringwald: Coming back to these characters that you dreamed up in your 20s now that you’re almost 50, is it different? Mx. Darsteller. Their breakthrough hit, "(They Long to Be) Close to You" (1970), was penned by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and released nearly a decade earlier by Dionne Warwick to little fanfare. I have been a fan of Kiki & Herb – the iconoclastic alter egos of Justin Vivian Bond and Kenny Mellman – since my days as a Midwestern teenage theater weirdo. [59], Bond starred as Warhol Superstar Jackie Curtis in Jukebox Jackie as part of the 50th anniversary season of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club between May and June 2012. 2011 Preview SONG TIME American Wedding. Modern Feminists, in Their Own WordsJustin Vivian Bond, a singer and performance artist, has said, “I’ve always been a feminist, since I was a kid. lens in “LatinXoxo” (Oct. 15, Nov. 6-7). [56][57] Justin Bond is Close To You reinterpreted Karen Carpenter's album Close To You as part of Joe's Pub in the Park in Central Park in 2007, later moving to Australia's Sydney Opera House. 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. Then, in the spirit of sanity and all the joy that follows, she belted Laura Nyro’s “Save the Country,” and brought the house down (as it were). "[65], Jake Shears, lead singer of Scissor Sisters, has cited the Kiki and Herb Christmas Show as inspiration. A turning point occurred when Kate Bornstein cast Bond in her new play, Hidden: A Gender, using the life of the French, intersex person Herculine Barbin as an autobiographical device. New York Icon Justin Vivian Bond Is Modeling Some Personal History at the New Museum This HalloweenJustin Vivian Bond burst onto the New York nightlife scene two decades ago as Kiki DuRane, one half of the famed cabaret show Kiki and Herb with Kenny Mellman. [46] In a 2011 interview with The Guardian, Bond quipped that Kiki DuRane, if not actually deceased, was at least "in a nursing home in New Jersey."[29]. Despite a smattering of stellar works and an admirably diverse list of artists, too much here fails to engage, or is too tangential to the subject. Thousands of new, high-quality pictures are added every day. September 29: MANDATORY … On a recent February afternoon at a Lower East Side bar, Bond and Mellman admit they haven’t even begun rehearsing for the impending engagement (which runs April 21 through May 22). Certainly, the present national situation feels like a good time for a comeback. "[30] Journalist John Russell saw in Kiki "an icon to rival Hedwig. And now, after eight years, Kiki and Herb are reuniting for a monthlong engagement beginning Thursday, April 21, at Joe’s Pub, as part of the commissioning program New York Voices. See more ideas about performance artist, american singers, radical faeries. He was a wonderful person, but he changed his name to Victor. In December 2008, Bond appeared at London's Southbank Centre as Sinderella, in the original musical written by Martyn Jacques of the British cult trio Tiger Lillies. New York’s Most Subversive Christmas Show: Review of ‘Justin Vivian Bond: The Bipolar Express’The latest installment of Justin Vivian Bond’s two-decades-plus cabaret act, currently at Joe’s Pub in New York City, is true to the spirit of its mischievous title.A cult figure with crossover appeal, Bond is a Tony-nominated performer who rose to acclaim as Kiki of the Kiki and Herb cabaret duo, which ran from the ‘90s up until 2007 and enjoyed a revival series of shows earlier this year.Screen roles such as in the film Shortbus and the HBO web-turned-television series High Maintenance have followed. “It was a real honor to get people like Catherine Opie and Justin Vivian Bond to commit to this show right off the bat. My identity falls somewhere in the middle and is constantly shifting. Bornstein isn’t content on resting on their laurels as a pioneer in transgender rights and acceptance, acknowledging that positions they once held are always subject to reassessment. We seek out a sort of sapphic strand of camp and patiently await the return of its subversive potential. For years now I have been transfixed by its endless stream of must-see art exhibitions from some of the most important and subversive contemporary artists working today: Chris Ofili, Jim Shaw, Pia Camil, Nicole Eisenman, Cally Spooner, Pipilotti Rist, Raymond Pettibon, Carol Rama and Kaari Upson have all delivered knock out exhibitions at the storied Bowery-located museum since 2015. When I first heard the sleigh bells and screaming that initiate you into Kiki & Herb’s Do You Hear What We Hear? 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. "[43] Locked into a stage act consisting of one other person, it appears that Bond had also begun to feel socially constrained. Depending on the outcome of the presidential election, the name was intended to refer either to "the whimsical joy of making fun shapes in the snow," or "the imprint you would leave in the snow if you were being raped. A friend joked that I was the only homeless queen she knew who was staying in a duplex off Fifth Avenue. Then something happened, according to its founder, Lady Bunny. Justin Vivian Bond on the Inevitability of Assholes. I said something about Justin, how much I loved his voice, and he said, “Oh, but Justin isn’t ‘he’. 5 talking about this. 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. It’s the story behind just one of 86 transgender portraits taken by St Louis-based photographer Jess T Dugan, released in a new photo book entitled To Survive on This Shore. Drag Queens Tackle Sexual Expression and Religion in Gospel of Eureka. Justin Vivian Bond will host a new episode of Auntie Glam's Happy Hour today! It just needs to agree there’s a universal right to personal liberty.". “I want to congratulate everyone who’s nominated tonight. Her vocal cords stiffen and slow. [50], In 2012, Bond toured nationally with lesbian-feminist, spoken-word collective Sister Spit. The Hudson Hawk, Spice World, and Gosford Park actor couldn’t find much info about the best-selling-celebrity-biographer-turned-forger’s friend and accomplice to inform his performance. Werque! Bond is transgender[4] and uses the gender-inclusive honorific Mx. Of course, the two performers aren't really in their 80s (if the exaggerated lines painted on their faces are any indication). A little charisma goes a long way, even in our two-dimensional Insta Age. 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. As for Vivian, that's my self-given middle name. 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. Her curatorial effort falls in line with New York Live Arts' "annual humanities festival of arts and ideas," which explores the "ideas, controversies and thinking informing a different bodily-oriented theme each time out.". It outgrew the park and moved to the piers along the West Side Highway. Justin Vivian Bond. At the behest of the record label Asphodel, an album was recorded in this location and in studio at Toast, with additional tracks and musicians added later. I was basically couch surfing for almost the first year. My 10 Favorite Books: Justin Vivian BondMy Bookshelf, MyselfFor his bookshop and website One Grand Books, the editor Aaron Hicklin asked people to name the 10 books they’d take with them if they were marooned on a desert island. I was watching this great interview on YouTube yesterday with Joni Mitchell, and she was like “I’m not a feminist, I don’t hate men.” I can proudly say I do!”. Here is where to find the deals. Age: 57. Bond's solo career as a singer, emcee, cabaret artist, and actor, grew up alongside Kiki and Herb, and ultimately outlived them. Bond’s friends are sometimes famous, and always interesting. ‘Do You Hear What We Hear?’: The Sacred Profanity of Kiki & Herb. 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. But a few years ago, Bond began departing from their well-known antics as the boozed up, ancient lounge singer Kiki by beginning performances with standing for two minutes in complete silence onstage, interrupting the audience’s discomfort and surprise only to declare what was by then obvious: “Two minutes is a long time.” Those words are also the only ones that Bond has ever heard spoken by Karen Graham, the 70's and 80's model and former face of Estée Lauder, whom they idolized as a child. 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. Bond received a 2012 Lambda Literary Award for the memoir, Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels. Interview: Kate Bornstein on Their Broadway Debut in Straight White Men. At 80, and with a voice that still resonates, the singer-songwriter is enjoying fancy wigs, Persian cats and performing 120 shows a year. The film is a necessary story for divisive times. With the assistance of a twenty-something Berkeley drop-out named Kenny Mellman, Bond created the award-nominated lounge act Dixie McCall's Patterns for Living around the persona of actress and singer Julie London. 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