Volsungasaga

Inbred Hybrid Collective presents: VOLSUNGASAGA A Book Club Burlesque inspired by "The Saga of the Volsungs" artists and performers: musicians, dancers, circus, variety, burlesque performers, film makers, puppeteers, piano players, drag queens, installation artists, photographers, actors, freaks, the bizarre, strange, and subversive We highly recommended that you read the book because this IS a BOOK CLUB. You can get this book in paperback all over the city or read it free online. The goals for our Book Club Burlesque parties are to : 1. promote literacy; 2. showcase unique talent; and 3. Have SEXY FUN! If these things are important to you then come join the collective! This is a great opportunity for artists to create. We encourage our artists to fully bring their own creativity to their pieces. Contributors include: Walt Cessna: started his career in fashion as a Vogue obsessed thirteen year old who caught the eye of 7th Ave. silk knock off king & dress mogul Jack Mulqueen, who promptly put Walter to work as an assistant designer. At the same time he was Xeroxing his anti-fashion, pro-style musings in a crudely Xeroxed zine called The Key. Norma Kamali took him under her wing and for his 18th Birthday Walter was simultaneously written up in The New York Times as a ’fast food fashion’ journalist and sold his 2 year old zine to a huge publisher. All of this would come crashing to a halt less than a year later, but Cessna was able to transform himself from teen design sensation to fashion stylist/editor of such note-able publications like Per Lui, Lei, Italian Vogue, Vanity, Details, The Village Voice, Interview, I.D., Elle, Mirabella, Ray Gun & Paper. In between the next twenty odd years of this Cessna designed & self-produced a much acclaimed line of men’s women’s sportswear called Dom Casual which was carried in Macy’s & Patricia Field. He also styled & created original clothing for such performers as Nine Inch Nails, Milla Jovovich and The Crystal Method. After a few years of soul searching in San Francisco, Cessna returned to NYC in 03 to release the first (and last) issue of his art journal CSNA which featured the works of thirty emerging (Liz McGrath) & established (Ruben Toledo) artists without any text save for the credits. It was sponsored by Red Bull and the back cover features a photograph by Cessna featuring Red Bull in a rare print/advert collaboration. The cover featuring a topless model wearing a bondage mask made out of a Louis Vuitton bag resulted in a lawsuit from LV and Cessna having to forgo any financial gain or risk censoring the cover. In the name of art, Cessna gave up his profit and gave away ten thousand copies of the alternative publication for free. Forced to find as real job that actually could utilize his knowledge of fashion, art & publishing, he landed at Gallagher’s Fashion Archive where he spent the next 3 years managing the 12th St gallery/book shop while starting to take pictures again after giving away all of his film cameras in financial disgust in 98. His first project of solarized doll photographs called ’Get Christy!’ http://www.waltercessna.com/ was presented at Ver Unica in San Francisco in 2006 and sponsored by Mac Cosmetics. His second show was at Rapture Café in NYC’s East Village in 2007 featuring photographs of pretty/vacant local youths and tiled ’Hot Child In The City’. In early 2009 he was included in a group show curated by Billy Miller of Straight To Hell zine fame at the Exile Gallery in Berlin Germany called ’In Cock We Trust’ which featured photographs from a series shot at a punk rock squat house in Oakland Ca. In January 2010 he was included in a group show at Gallery U in Montclair New Jersey featuring a selection of his portraits and street art/graffiti images. FUKT 2 START WIT was his first NYC showing. Sabrina Chap: has got classical piano skills, the ballad heartbreak of Tom Waits, the onstage antics of Phyllis Diller and the voice of a whiskey angel. Her sets are a ragtime stompin' good time, full of laughs, heartbreaks, and just plain good songwriting. She frequently performs in the NY area, and often tours in DC and Baltimore- most notably at the various Burlesque shows they've got going on over there- including Trixie Little Burlesque, Cheeky Monkey Sideshow, Hot Dutch Oven Burlesque and the amazing Schlapentickle Family Burlesque and Revue- a touring family burlesque performance act, in the vein of the Aristorcrats- that will be touring the East Coast this August. Schlapentickle.com Her new album 'Oompa!' is available on iTunes, CDBaby and on her website- sabrinachap.com Jessica Delfino: sings folk songs with dirty lyrics, she's like if Joni Mitchell were raised wrong. This gypsy gemini witch princess has been publicly denounced by the US Catholic League and celebrated by important people with pens. Join the party at www.jessicadelfino.com Jena Friedman: is a comedian, writer and actor living in New York. Her work has been featured in such publications as Glamour, Salon.com, Hulu.com, Current TV, The Huffington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Funny or Die, Atom Films, UCBcomedy.com and Time Out New York. As a stand up, Jena can be seen performing at legitimate comedy clubs and hipster bars around the world. She was a finalist in Time Out Chicago’s Funniest Person Contest and recently appeared in The 2010 Glasgow International Comedy Festival, The 2010 Laughing Skull Comedy Festival in Atlanta and The 2010 Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, Oregon. Jena has appeared in a few music videos and comedic sketches on Atom.com, Funny or Die, UCBcomedy.com, College Humor and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (the blog) and was recently the female lead in American Florence, and independent feature film shot in Italy and expected to be released Fall 2010. In addition, her play, ’The Refugee Girls Revue: A Musical Parody,’ received critical acclaim in The 2008 New York International Fringe Festival. Jena hosts a weekly variety show in the East Village called ’Entertaining the Bartender,’ a goal the show often lives up to. For more information, check out www.jenafriedman.com Nicholas Gorham: is a graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and has been performing in New York since the early part of the century. After crossing the Canadian border, Nicholas had an awakening that theatre could exist without limitations. Since then he has performed at La Mama, Glasslands, The Slipper room, Arena Studios, and Santo’s Party House. He has also appeared Off-Broadway at The Bleecker Street Theatre, The Barrow Street Theatre, and The Cherry Lane. Nicholas thanks all the magical geniuses in his life for their undying support in all spiritual and creative endeavors. Elizabeth Rabinovici: was born in Brooklyn, Ny in 1984 and grew up in long island. She graduated with a B.F.A from the School of Visual Arts in 2008 . She currently has a studio in Bush Wick . Elizabeth will be attending graduate school at Pratt in fall 2010 . Elizabeth Rabinovici creates sculptures, paintings , installation art and other artistic wonders Gerry Visco: is illegally blonde and is at large on the Upper East side. One of her frequent laments is, "I'm so fabulous it makes me sick." A writer, performer, photographer, fashionista, and radio show host, she regularly covers parties, events, and the arts for New York Press. She created her own one-woman show at the Hot! Festival at Dixon Place in August 2009 dramatizing her colorful life as muse, FIT student, actor, fag hag, rent girl, and disco diva in the gritty glamorous world of New York City during the 1970s and 1980s, the subject matter for the memoir she is currently writing. Projects include transforming into Miss Juicy Geraldine, an 85-year-old senior citizen sex advocate, and Gerrification, an anti-gentrification global effort designed to bring joy and beauty to America and the world by making people dress like her. Let’s face it, we all need a makeover. On July 27th, Gerrification, a full-length theater work, will be performed at the Hot! Festival 2010. She hosts the Gerry Visco Cocktail Hour at Dixon Place once a month on Saturday. www.gerryvisco.com Jack Waters: is a film maker, writer, media artist, choreographer and performer. He and partner Peter Cramer are the creators of "The Ring OUR Way", a treatment of the Wagner Ring Cycle. They were subjects of the PBS series "In The Life" for their video installation "We Remember" in the NYC Donnel Library windows. Jack's film "Berlin New York" was shown on the Sundance Channel's "Underground Shorts: Politics" program. His video short "The Male Gayze" was shown at the Whitney Museum Of American Art’s exhibition "The Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art" curated by Thelma Golden. June 29, 2009 doors at 8pm, show promptly at 8:30pm $7.00 21+ inbredhybrid@gmail.com Parkside Lounge www.parksidelounge.com 317 E Houston St New York, NY 10002 (212) 674-9308 ABOUT US: Inbred Hybrid Collective was established in 2005. Our mandate is: to stimulate a consciousness of the external factors affecting our human existence. The type of interventions associated with Inbred Hybrid Collective, achieved as artistic concept, constitute a provocation for the public to reflect upon the influence that this immersion has had upon them. We encourage our artists to fully bring their own creativity to each piece, relating their performance or installation to themes or text, and having sexy literate fun. Past books have included: Lolita, Valley of the Dolls, Less Than Zero, The Scarlet Letter, Archie Comics, the Brothers Grimm Collection, Siddhartha, Stranger in a Strange Land, City of Night, The Curious Sofa, Mutiny On The Bounty, Please Send Money, Geek Love www.inbredhybridcollective.com For the New Yorker review of a past show: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/02/fiction-fetish.html Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=81143730039&ref=ts