The Unwritten History Project Detail Record

Detail Record for Queer Rites: Sandra Golvin, Robin Podolsky, Douglas Sadownick

Event Title: Queer Rites
Series Title: Franklin Furnace "In Exile"
Location: P.S. 122
Date: 11/19/1994 - 11/20/1994
Event Type: Performance

Event Documentation:

	Sandra Golvin, Photo by Marty Heitner

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Bio:

Press Release: For Immediate Release September 28, 1994 Contact Martha Wilson (212) 925-4671 FRANKLIN FURNACE ANNOUNCES PERFORMANCES "IN EXILE" AT PERFORMANCE SPACE 122. … November 19th and 20th at 7:30 p.m.: QUEER RITES, four highly acclaimed Los Angeles performance artists, take to the stage with an evening of word music that knits together a journey for a spiritual, political and erotic language about lesbians and gays who come together to talk the talk. Luis Alfaro, Sandra Golvin, Robin Podolsky and Doug Sadownick have been weaving a masterful evening of intelligent conversations across the United States with sold out performances in Washington D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego. This rare collaboration has been called "a victorious statement of personal truths by four culturally diverse artists" by the San Francisco Bay Times. They won't slam, but they'll call it the way they see it. … For more than eighteen years Franklin Furnace has been at the forefront of the contemporary art world's fight for freedom of expression. The non profit art space has been able to turn adversity into advantage, presenting performance art "in exile" at Judson Memorial Church, The Great Hall of Cooper Union, and in Wollman Hall at the New School for Social Research, ever since its basement performance space was closed by the Fire Department in 1990 in response to an anonymous caller who claimed Franklin Furnace was an "illegal social club." Franklin Furnace has received support for launching the careers of artists from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; the New York State Council on the Arts; Jerome Foundation' Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation; The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc.; The Peter Norton Family Foundation; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.; Phillip Morris Companies Inc.; and the friends and Members of Franklin Furnace. Artists presented in Franklin Furnace in Exile at Performance Space 122 have received Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art awards supported by Jerome Foundation ; the New York State Council on the Arts; and the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation.

Proposal Information: Program Text: Performance Space 122 and Franklin Furnace present QUEER RITES (three l.a. writers in an evening of spoken word on sex, jews and the body) with Sandra Golvin, Robin Podolsky, and Douglad Sadownick Lighting Designer Bridget Tierney Assistant Lighting Designer Alison Loebel Special Thanks to The Franklin Furnace and P.S. 122 staff. Franklin Furnace (in exile) Franklin Furnace has been at the forefront of the contemporary artworld's fight for freedom of expression, ever since its basement performance was closed by the Fire Department in 1990 in response to an anonymous caller who claimed Franklin Furnace was an "illegal social club." Each season's emerging artists are selected by peer panel review of proposals received from all parts of the globe. Artists in Franklin Furnace "in exile" at P.S. 122 were selected by Laurie Carlos, Yoshiko Chuma, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Tom Mulready and Carol Sun. BIOGRAPHIES Douglas Sadownick's first novel, Sacred Lips of the Bronx, was published last spring by St. Martin's Press. He is now writing a book on sex between men for Harper / San Francisco. He lives in Venice beach with his boy friend Tim Miller and dog Buddy. The 1988 Whittier earthquake caused Sandra Golvin to leave ten years of corporate law behind to become a dedicated advocate for queer culture. Golvin is a published poet, performance and visual artist whose most recent solo show "Pumpkin Pie" premiered this summer at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica as part of Ecce Lesbo / Ecce Homo, the Sixth Annual National Lesbian and Gay Performance Festival. Robin Podolsky contributed, for one and a half years, a regular column for the L.A. Weekly, called "Pollyanna With A Hatched." Her book in progress, Roughing It Out, received a special citation from the PEN Center in New York. After a decade of work as a self-taught artist, she has surrendered to the academy and is earning her B.A. from Pitzer College in California. Queer Rites has, since 1991, explored the terrain of queer politics, sexuality and culture through the use of poetry and autobiographical monologue. The group as performed during the 1993 March on Washington and has appeared in venues throughout San Francisco, L.A. and San Diego. Bridget Tierney is the technical director of P.S. 122, an avid traveler, a work renowned music enthusiast and an all around great woman. But let her put her keys down for a split second, and BAM! Instant tragedy. Alison Loebel has been as a lighting designer and technician in and around New York City for about a year now, in which time she has checked the Empire State Building on a nightly basis, It is still there.

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