Find Justin Vivian Bond tour schedule, concert details, reviews and photos. The exhibition, which was founded two years by curator and painter Chritsine “C.” Finley, has since doubled in the size of the space and the number of artists included. "[31] The New York Times has dubbed Kiki "the town's most endearingly unhinged chanteuse",[32] comparing Bond favorably to more conventional performers for whom "the point is never the prettiness of the voice. Bond is set to reprise this emcee role in summer 2015, with guests including Alan Cumming, Suzanne Vega, Martha Wainwright, Stephen Merritt, and Lea Delaria. Thriving on collaboration, Bond used the platform provided by Kiki and Herb to forge working relationships with a number of rising stars among the downtown demimonde, including filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell, performer Jake Shears, and musician Rufus Wainwright. A predictable handful of booers waited until Neuwirth herself took a bow to voice their discontent. 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. It has to do with who you’re loving.”. What started small in San Francisco evolved into a Broadway show and ended with a sold-out farewell at Carnegie Hall. The Hedwig and the Angry Inch creator shares details about his anthology podcast series Anthem: Homunculus, which will also feature 30 new songs. The performance piece last was a world premiere of his new work, Transformation, featuring Wynton Marsalis and award–winning actor and personal friend Glenn Close. Kiki is a drunk, brazen, over-the-hill lounge singer. More! Buy Mx Justin Vivian Bond tickets at the Feinstein's at the Nikko in San Francisco, CA for Jun 16, 2021 08:00 PM at Ticketmaster. From 1993 until 2008, Kiki and Herb, known offstage as Justin Vivian Bond and Kenny Mellman, performed under the guise of failed, septuagenarian lounge singers, earning a devoted audience that included luminaries from the pop, film and fashion worlds. 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! Their memoir Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels (Feminist Press) won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction. At 80, and with a voice that still resonates, the singer-songwriter is enjoying fancy wigs, Persian cats and performing 120 shows a year. [51] Bond put the songs together as a set list for a show, only later deciding to go into the studio with Bartlett. [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. In a glittery pink dress, Mx Bond shifted between poses — coquettish, demure, self-conscious — amid the gleeful laughter of the audience. But it's also, as usual, to the creators' credit that the intense events at the episode's core (death, grief, dealing with exes, being robbed) are dealt with humorously and generously, with room for weirdness, judgment, and ambiguity that keeps things from being too one-sided. The letter was read by Bond and enacted by the drag troupe Pixie Harlots. Described as the best cabaret artist of his generation and a tornado of art and activism, Bond first achieved prominence under the pseudonym of Kiki DuRane in the stage duo Kiki an Nobody wants to see Kiki and Herb when they have hope.’ ”Now that hope is passé, the cabaret duo has made its boozy, triumphant return, and not a moment too soon. "[65], Jake Shears, lead singer of Scissor Sisters, has cited the Kiki and Herb Christmas Show as inspiration. £20/15. Randy Newman and Jacques Brel were also represented, among others. In anticipation of this year’s Met Gala theme, “Camp: Notes on Fashion,” we at ButchCamp went in search of anything in the Met Gala’s history that had that ineffable whiff of camp dykery, and then dug deeper still. The sophomore feature from Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher (October Country), Gospel of Eureka explores how the denizens of Eureka negotiate differences around religious beliefs, gender expression, and sexual freedom through drag performance and political action. Justin Vivian Bond and Kenny Mellman, have played all over the world at various points in the past two decades, but for longtime fans like myself, the show is forever tied to a mostly bygone era of downtown New York. Their pieces are at once retro leaning and forward thinking, whimsical and utilitarian, altogether uncommonly chic. Your show sold out very quickly. His creation for the JLCO, The Presidential Suite, earned him Grammy Awards for Best Large Ensemble Jazz Album and Best Instrumental Composition in 2017. Justin Vivian Bond. The many personas of v (Vivian’s long-preferred gender pronoun, though lately v also uses “they” and “she”) — including Mx America and Kiki DuRane, an alcoholic, aging burlesque singer — are equal parts self-aggrandizing and self-loathing, glamorous and heartbreaking. [15] The newly minted freshman saw Simon and Garfunkel in concert in Central Park, but it was visiting Carnegie Hall for the first time to see Judy Collins that invoked the realization that "I had escaped my hometown and was finally beginning to live the life I'd dreamed of. In 2004, Bond and Mellman did a cameo in the Sony Pictures release Imaginary Heroes, with script by Dan Harris. Enthusiasm and handmade signs were the hallmark of pretty much every group involved, from the artists with the Howl! [50], In 2012, Bond toured nationally with lesbian-feminist, spoken-word collective Sister Spit. 40.7k Followers, 4,019 Following, 6,370 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Mx Justin Vivian Bond (@mxviv) “When you’re a cisgender little boy or girl, you’re raised to emulate the parent of the gender that you are, and you sort of form your identity around—or against—their experience of being a man or a woman," Bond, who is transgender and uses they/them pronouns, explained. Buy Justin Vivian Bond tickets from the official Ticketmaster.com site. 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”. Welcome to 28 Barbary Lane,” will be an affirmation.Tales of the City’s New York arrival—even if only for a one-night-only benefit concert—has been anticipated since its 2011 premiere at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theatre. Justin Bond: Christmas Spells opened in December 2010 at Abrons Arts Center on Grand Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side. 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. Recently described as “A bar of gold in the new depression” by Hilton Als in the New Yorker, singer, songwriter and Tony-nominated performance artist… 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. 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. For your event’s refund or credit eligibility visit your account or learn more about options for canceled, rescheduled and postponed events. An artistic chameleon, nothing is out of their grasp. They toured twice in the U.S., including the 2007 'Year of Magical Drinking Tour.'[38]. It outgrew the park and moved to the piers along the West Side Highway. [7] The young Bond idolized "more icy people" like Joan Didion, Patti Smith, Marianne Faithfull, Vivien Leigh, and Grace Kelly,[8] keeping scrapbooks of Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave. What is going on right now is unprecedented. Intriguing, but, alas, she didn’t elaborate and the chat moved on to other subjects. You can imagine my sheer delight when their long out-of-print Christmas album began making the rounds on social media a few years back. All these preoccupations, and an encyclopaedic array of others, from the atom bomb to flower power, the women’s movement, sexual abuse and climate change, burst to expansive, sprawling life in Neuwirth’s Orlando – the first full-length, main-stage work by a woman in the Vienna State Opera’s 150-year history – which had its world premiere last weekend. [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. 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.”. Joe’s Pub ― The closest thing I have to a temple. Everyone was age-inappropriate and everything about it was so wrong, but so sparkly and wonderful. Olga Neuwirth’s new adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s gender-crossing novel is the first work by a woman at the Vienna State Opera. Downtown being downtown, the event was also a fundraiser for two essential cultural institutions: Participant Inc., the nonprofit art space led by superhero Lia Gangitano, and The Gender and Family Project, which provides space and services for the families and loved ones of gender-talented children. Justin Vivian Bond and Parker Posey attend the Performance Space 122 2015 Spring Gala Honoring Claire Danes at Capitale on April 20, 2015 in New York... Justin Vivian Bond, Alan Cumming and Kate Clinton arrive at the 27th Annual Lambda Literary Awards … Mx Justin Vivian Bond. Mx Justin Vivian Bond is a trans-genre writer, singer, painter, and performance artist living in New York City.As a performer both on and off-Broadway, Mx Bond has received numerous accolades, winning an Obie (2001), a Bessie (2004), a Tony nomination (2007), The Ethyl Eichelberger Award (2007), The Peter Reed Foundation Grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant for Artists. A Performer’s Most Prized Possession: Edie Sedgwick’s Hat. Justin Vivian Bond Bio, Photos, Theatre Credits, Stage History - learn all about their career on stage. "[26] Kiki's equally-damaged accompanist Herb, played by pianist Kenny Mellman, made up the other half of the duo, billed as Kiki and Herb. [44] This was followed by a return to Carnegie Hall for a one-night show on December 12, 2007, billed as Kiki and Herb: The Second Coming – A Christmas Concert. The two-part show included a trademark cabaret performance of holiday tunes, showcasing an original composition, Could Baby Jesus in His Manger Foresee the Hate Sprung From That Night? As for Vivian, that's my self-given middle name. But it's fine with me. So I think I'm gonna make it. [22] The duo played a number of gigs, both in and out of character; three years after attending Pride for the first time, Bond was hosting the show at the end of the parade. Alongside it, the Whitney Houston Biennial has quietly made a return too, in a space run by Chashama just 1.5 miles from the main event and lasting for 10 days instead of four hours. "[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. lens in “LatinXoxo” (Oct. 15, Nov. 6-7). [58] Bond has appeared with Carol Channing, Tilda Swinton, and Chocolate Genius, Inc., among others. Earlier this year saw the release of Marc Huestis’ gossip-dripping Impresario of Castro Street as well as photographer Melissa Hawkins’ blockbuster “SoMa Nights” show at the GLBT History Museum, which captured SF’s queer nightlife during the height of the AIDS epidemic here. The legendary performer and label have teamed up for a festive video series to help you live your best Christmas life. “I just missed it, I guess,” Comey said. Featuring more than 40 artists and collaborative groups, “Trigger” grows out of the idea that what we talk about when we talk about gender has shifted from a fixed and simple binary to something multiplicitous, contentious and unstable.But given the dynamic provocation of its title and the urgent charge of its topic, the show comes off as a surprisingly lugubrious affair. 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. “And just because you’re Christian, doesn’t really have anything anything to do with who you’re fucking. Their show Kiki & Herb: Alive on Broadway ran for five weeks in 2006, and was nominated for a 2007 Tony for Special Theatrical Event. "All our friends were dying of AIDS, and it was a way to get out all our rage," said Mellman. In November, Bond announced a performance to benefit the Ali Forney Center for LGBT youth in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Justin Vivian Bond and Penny Arcade Discuss the Role of Art in Trump's EraGreat art subverts, drawing attention to what is wrong and corrupt in society while forging communities that draw strength from their collective outrage. And just hotly arrived through my mailslot today is Mad Dogs and Queer Tattoos: Tattooing the San Francisco Queer Revolution by Robert E. Roberts, detailing designs of resistance from the 1970s-1990s. With money reserves depleted and a downturn in night life (as part of Mayor Giuliani’s quality-of-life initiatives), Wigstock died in 2001. Consisting of a drunk, delirious septuagenarian lounge singer (played by Justin Vivian Bond) and her long-suffering gay piano player (Kenny Mellman), Kiki and Herb reinvented downtown cabaret and thrust a hot, angry knife through the stiff dogma of the Bush era. 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. A gay-owned bakery is paying tribute to LGBTI icons for Pride Month. Celebrating Valentine's in Manchester, a raucous and seductive evening of songs and stories about love from one of New York's finest cabaret stars. The day tickets went on sale, the Joe’s Pub Web site crashed. With a president determined to stifle the voices and rights of marginalized communities, the cabaret stage has yet again become a catharsis for Vivian. Before capping off a yearlong celebration of Bond's 25th anniversary of being a performer with a VIVification benefit, v's---Bond's preferred pronoun---GOLDEN AGEwas a fever dream, full of charming anecdotes about shared psychoanalysts, spirit guides, and Blythe Danner. Spare and strong, “I know what ‘nothing’ means, and keep on playing.”, Kiki And Herb Make America Great Again“Herb and I are quite delighted that we are finally able to perform for the millennials,” the ancient cabaret diva Kiki DuRane declared from the stage of Joe’s Pub the other night. Make no mistake, camp has always been a primarily homosexual schtick, yet gay men have been the gatekeepers of the camp canon for most of its history. And my favorite party was, of course, Squeezebox at Don Hill’s. 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. Bond was credited in the band's album of the same name. Camp puts a twist on reality to reflect back how absurd it is. 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. 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. In December 2014, Bond's wide range and appeal, as well as the personal struggles that have informed all of Bond's work, were once more on display in Star of Light! The title role is played by the singer Kate Lindsey. Bond and Shears became friends, with the Scissor Sisters fronting for Kiki and Herb at The Knitting Factory, and with Bond later returning the favor after the band's eponymous debut album went platinum in the United Kingdom in 2004. “I want to congratulate everyone who’s nominated tonight. For those unlucky enough to live outside the radius of a major city, Bond has a new project with JW Anderson, advertising the label’s new Keyts bag. “I’m going to come in like Gaga at the Super Bowl, on a rip cord,” Bond wisecracks. Bobbi told Frank that she was transgender. There’s more: On Thu/17, SFMOMA hosts a celebration for the launch of Justin Vivian Bond and Nayland Blake’s book remembering seminal artist Jerome Caja. Justin Vivian Bond. 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. Bond already appeared on two tracks ("Not Your Girl" and "The Man In The Blue Slip") on Ostertag's 1995 album, "Fear No Love", sharing co-lead vocals duties with Mike Patton. In 2006, Bond appeared in the film Shortbus, as part of cast that included Sook-Yin Lee, PJ DeBoy, and Paul Dawson. Soon people began asking about the striking designs, and—as these stories often go—Apparatus turned into a fully formed entity. Pink Slip was recorded at Le Poisson Rouge and Bond hoped income from the EP would help fund the recording of an album. I am already arranging for 2019!”. Then something happened, according to its founder, Lady Bunny. From crystal-clear photography to abstracted compositions — the portraiture, an image for each year since the Stonewall Riots, reflects a gloriously diverse range of creativity. An Explainer by Way of 10 Past Met Gala Looks. I had an uncle named Vivian Francis. At the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, as the rights and lives of LGBTQ+ people continue to be threatened worldwide, the visibility of queer folks — bodies, faces — has never been more critical. The event includes panels, workshops, keynotes, installations and performances from global LGBTQ artists including Hari Nef, Macy Rodman, Kate Bornstein and Severely Mame, among others.Mx'd Messages aims to reimagine the world without binaries, looking at how that affects gender, politics, theology, sensory perception and race. Narrated by multiple-genre artist Mx Justin Vivian Bond, Gospel of Eureka is a heartfelt, often humorous documentary set in Eureka Springs, Ark., which is home to both a vibrant LGBTQ and drag community and to devout evangelical Christian residents. In this series for T, Emily Spivack, the author of “Worn Stories,” interviews creative types about their most prized possessions. More! "[50], Bond's new show, Mx America, was slated to open in Australia in February 2013.[60]. From Justin Vivian Bond's annual holiday show at Joe's PubVideo by Kevin Yatarola http://www.kebya.com In 1957 Kiki and Herb released their first LP "The Hazy Days of Kiki" to universal indifference. “Mx’D Messages” asks the question: what would it be like to live in a world without binaries ― across the lines of “gender, politics, theology, sensory perception and race”?Roughly 75 different artists, activists and speakers are scheduled to be involved with “Mx’D Messages,” including Laverne Cox, Kate Bornstein, Hari Nef, Colin Self and more.“When we started to put this festival together, the 2016 election hadn’t happened yet,” Bond and Koke said in a joint statement sent to The Huffington Post. 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). 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. Mx. Marc Ribot, Steve Earle Protest Trump on New Song ‘Srinivas’, Track appears on Ribot’s upcoming LP ‘Goodbye Beautiful/Songs of Resistance 1942-2018,’ which also features guests Tom Waits, Meshell Ndegeocello. Then we were on a panel together, so we became art fans and friends of each other, sharing a similar world view. 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. Bond voices Desire on the Audible original adaptation of The Sandman.. calendar, a “circuit party” for people who wouldn’t normally be caught dead on the circuit. The exhibition seems undercooked—more like one of New Museum’s shambolic Triennials than a thematic show with a persuasive curatorial thesis. The outdoor drag festival will feature Lady Bunny and Neil Patrick Harris on Sept. 1 at Pier 17 in Lower Manhattan. Through it all, Bond’s engaging personality and quirky-yet-dignified stage presence infuse an eclectic set list of covers, holiday standards and original compositions with signature charm. Mx Justin Vivian Bond, Actor: Shortbus. If all of that as the underlying subject of the last episode of High Maintenance's first season sounds heavy, well—it is. The shattered vase was an omen of things to come. This era’s influencers, more diverse in gender and race than the lions of the past, reflect how the city’s power base has evolved. [45] The show played again at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in London. Justin Vivian Bond (b. I'm not a woman. The festival's keynote, "Queer as in Fuck You: Under The Influence of Homocore," was a tribute to the queer anarchist punks who "set the stage for the conversations that eventually led to queer theory and changed the way we demonstrate and advocate politically," Bond said in an interview with Broadly. Naturally, when Jonathan Anderson, an old friend of Justin Vivian Bond’s, got in touch about working together on something for his fashion label JW Anderson, it was a creative match made in heaven. A similar charge of indirection, or indeterminacy — I’d call it healthy disorder — could probably be leveled at “Trigger.”As an exhibition, its brief is to break down, through art, the binary male-female face-off that gay and lesbian often represented, to stretch the perimeters of gender to the snapping point. Werque! Mx. Guests Take In the Golden Hour at Loewe's Sunset Party. Justin Vivian Bond, the Bessie Award-winning multidisciplinary artist and Tony-nominated co-creator of Kiki and Herb, has been announced to host the 2019 Bessie Awards, which will be presented October 14 at 7:30 PM at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. A little charisma goes a long way, even in our two-dimensional Insta Age. [23] In 1993, Bond hosted the first San Francisco Drag King Contest at the DNA Lounge with Elvis Herselvis. (V also pioneered and campaigned for the non-binary title Mx.). Variety called it "a needed shot of all-American optimism ... Mosher and Palmieri prove a town doesn’t need to be perfectly aligned. 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 are the recipient of an Obie, a Bessie, and a Tony nomination, an Ethyl Eichelberger Award, The Peter Reed Foundation Grant, The Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant for Artists, and The Art Matters Grant. “Extended Sensibilities” had problems. Justin Vivian Bond’s first great act was the immortal Kiki DuRane, a songstress of the old school—drunk, world-weary, perpetually in thrall to an old-world glamor. Bond started out clerking in a gay bookstore[9] to buy the coffee at Cafe Flore on Market and Noe, a bohemian salon that became a "spiritual home. 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. In 2008, Bond participated in a Christmas show at the Knitting Factory that included Rufus Wainwright, members of Wainwright's family, Grammy Award-winner Emmylou Harris, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, and performance artist Laurie Anderson. JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND AT JOE’S PUB Through a career spanning theater, film, cabaret and visual art, Justin Vivian Bond has continually defied gender and genre boundaries. With no floats or corporate sponsorship, Sunday’s alternative march took the same route as the first, from Sheridan Square to Central Park. When I moved to New York City and met them in person I was drawn to their cause and we were like kindred spirits. [19] Participation in Queer Nation and ACT UP, advocacy groups combatting HIV/AIDS, anti-gay violence, and media prejudice, gave Bond "a voice and a sort of grounding in politics" that were new. 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