Kembra Pfahler




American musician, performance artist, singer





















Kembra Pfahler

Kembra Pfahler.jpg
Kembra Pfahler (center) with her band at the "It's Not Only Rock'n'Roll Baby" exhibition, Bozar, Brussels, 19 June 2008

Background information
Born
(1961-08-04) August 4, 1961 (age 57)
Hermosa Beach, California, United States
Genres
Glam rock, punk rock, shock rock
Occupation(s) Singer, filmmaker
Instruments Vocals

Kembra Pfahler (born August 4, 1961 in Hermosa Beach, California, United States)[1] is an American filmmaker associated with the Cinema of Transgression, a performance artist, rock musician, and film actress.


She is mostly known as the lead singer of the glam, punk, shock rock band The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black,[2] and for the often nude and sexual nature of her art exhibits. Pfahler has been called the "godmother of modern day shock art" [3].




Contents






  • 1 Early Life and Education


  • 2 Actress


  • 3 Model


  • 4 Music


  • 5 Visual and Performance Art


  • 6 References


  • 7 External links





Early Life and Education


Pfahler is the daughter of surfer Freddy Pfahler, who had appeared in the 1958 surf film Slippery When Wet, directed by Bruce Brown.[4] Her brother is Adam Pfahler, the drummer of Jawbreaker. [2] She grew up in Southern California. She went to college at the School of Visual Arts in New York and studied under Mary Heilmann and Lorraine O’Grady. [5]



Actress


She appeared as a child actress in TV commercials for Kodak film. Later on, as a teenager, she moved to the East Coast of the United States and became involved in the 1980s East Village scene associated with ABC No Rio, when she began acting in low-budget horror, fetish and sadomasochistic films.[2] She appeared in the films Surf Gang (2006) and Gang Girls (2000), both directed by Katrina del Mar.



Model


During the 1980s, Pfahler worked as a Calvin Klein model, during a heroin chic campaign.[6] She appeared as a model in the photographs accompanying the article "These Children that Come at You with Knives" written by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain in a 1999 issue of Pop Smear Magazine. In this comic-book style layout depicting the Manson Family, Pfahler played Sharon Tate alongside Maynard James Keenan as Charles Manson. [7]



Music


In 1990, Pfahler and Samoa Moriki, her husband at the time, founded the band The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black on the Lower East Side. The band was named in homage to actress Karen Black. They released three albums: A National Healthcare (1993); Anti-Naturalists (1995); and Black Date (1998); as well as several limited-edition presses on vinyl. [7][2]


Pfahler and Samoa shot many horror films and used visual and performance art for their performances. VHOKB's live performance of The Wall of Vagina appears on Disinformation DVD - The Complete Series. VHOKB also appear on the a;bum Virgin Voices: A Tribute to Madonna.


Pfahler sang backup on the song "Shoot, Knife, Strangle, Beat and Crucify" on the album Brutality and Bloodshed for All of GG Allin And The Murder Junkies.[8]


In 2013, she covered the traditional "Barnacle Bill the Sailor" for the sea shanty compilation Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys.[9]



Visual and Performance Art


Pfahler founded the art movements and conceptual philosophies of availabilism,[10][6] using what is closest at hand ("available") as both the inspiration for her work and the medium of her expression, and Antinaturalism, describing the aesthetic of total artificiality. [7][11] She has shown work at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, Deitch Projects, The Hole Gallery in New York, Bowman Gallery, and Kenny Schachter Rove Gallery, in London. Her drawings are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. [12]


Pfahler, while in Europe, discovered and took inspiration from the Viennese Actionism movement, specifically Rudolf Schwarzkogler.[6] Her performances have included the cracking of paint-filled eggs on her vulva.[2] In 1984, she performed in XS: The Opera Opus when it was presented at the Pyramid Club. She created solo performances in the 1980s at ABC No Rio. In a performance piece shown in Richard Kern’s Sewing Circle (1992), Pfhaler had her vagina sewn shut by artist Lisa Resurreccion while only wearing a “Young Republicans” t-shirt.[6][13]


In a 2005 Pfahler held a solo exhibition at Rove Projects in London. The exhibition, titled "File Under V", consisted of self-portraits, performance documentation, and band props from Voluptuous Horror. [14] In January 2007, Pfahler, with Julie Atlas Muz, curated a mixed-media art exhibition titled Womanizer at Deitch Projects. The show included works by E.V. Day, Breyer P-Orridge, Vaginal Davis, and burlesque performer Bambi the Mermaid.[15] Her contribution was an installation with a bed set that contained a skeleton and dolls painted in multiple colors, surrounded by walls plastered with red paste, as well as a video that shows her ripping the dolls out of a birthing canal.[16] As part of the 2008 Whitney Biennial and with support from the Art Production Fund, Pfahler and Voluptuous Horror gave a performance in the Park Avenue Armory's Drill Hall on 14 March 2008.[17] These performances included her works Actressocracy and Whitney Live. [7]


in 2009 alongside author Kathy Grason, Pfhaler published a photographic catalog of her work in the form of a book titled Beautalism . [18]



References





  1. ^ "Kembra Pfahler : Whitney programme". Archived from the original on 21 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-02..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ abcde Georgina Cardenas (July 11, 1996). "Rocky Horror Stage Show". Miami New Times. Retrieved 2007-06-02.


  3. ^ "Future Feminism, Art and Shock; a conversation with Kembra Pfahler – Too Much Love Magazine". Retrieved 2019-01-14.


  4. ^ Engle, John. Surfing in the Movies: A Critical History, McFarland, 2015,
    ISBN 978-0786495214


  5. ^ Magazine, BOMB (2015-11-11). "Kembra Pfahler: You Will Lose Friends for Your Art". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2019-01-14.


  6. ^ abcd Meltzer, R. Disinformation: The Interviews, New York: Disinformation Ltd, 2002,
    ISBN 0-9713942-1-0pp.68-80


  7. ^ abcd Women of the underground : music : cultural innovators speak for themselves. Burden, Zora von, 1968-. San Francisco: Manic D Press. 2010. ISBN 9781933149509. OCLC 701110652.


  8. ^ GG Allin and the Murder Junkies: After Hours DVD, Volume 2


  9. ^ "Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys - Various Artists - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 November 2017.


  10. ^ Kembra Pfahler interview by Brienne Walsh, Bomb, 6 November 2015


  11. ^ "Kembra Pfahler". www.roveprojects.com. Retrieved 2019-01-14.


  12. ^ "Bowman Gallery | Kembra Pfahler". bowman-gallery.com. Retrieved 2019-01-14.


  13. ^ "Kembra Pfahler: You Will Lose Friends for Your Art", Huffington Post, 11 November 2015


  14. ^ "Kembra Pfahler". www.roveprojects.com. Retrieved 2019-01-14.


  15. ^ Womanizer at the Deitch Projects Archived November 21, 2010, at the Wayback Machine


  16. ^ Robinson, Andrew C. "Post-Gender Pandrogyny"Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine Gay City News, 18 January 2007


  17. ^ "2008 Whitney Biennial". Deitch.com. Archived from the original on 10 February 2009. Retrieved 11 November 2017.


  18. ^ Kembra., Pfahler, (2008). Kembra Pfahler : beautalism. Grayson, Kathy., Whitney Biennial (2008). New York, NY: Deitch Projects. ISBN 9780981577135. OCLC 271453255.




External links




  • Kembra Pfahler on IMDb

  • DisinfoTV: The Voluptuous Horror of Kembra Pfahler


  • The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black: Bring Back the Night, The Guardian, 31 July 2012









-

Popular posts from this blog

Guess what letter conforming each word

Image
6 $begingroup$ This is an entry in the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #41: Short and Sweet. 1 letter only could be mean anything . With an additional letter in front , could be used as medicine component and something you definitely learn or at least heard once. Add another letter in front , you would possibly hear that many times . Add an additional letter in front , you would found an independent country . With an additional letter, in the end , you would found something related to apple . Add another letter in the end , you would found something bad . Hint: Each letter is unique . word knowledge letters chemistry share | improve this question ...
Read more

Port of Spain

Image
For ports in the country of Spain, see List of ports in Spain. City in City of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain City City of Port of Spain Top to bottom (left to right): Skyline of Port of Spain from Gulf of Paria; National Academy for the Performing Arts, Independence Square, Eric Williams Plaza; MovieTowne, Port of Port of Spain Motto(s):  "We Gather Strength As We Go Along" Port of Spain Coordinates: 10°40′N 61°31′W  /  10.667°N 61.517°W  / 10.667; -61.517 Coordinates: 10°40′N 61°31′W  /  10.667°N 61.517°W  / 10.667; -61.517 Country   Trinidad and Tobago Jurisdiction City of Port of Spain Settled 1560 Incorporated (town) 1853 Incorporated (city) 1914 Government  • Mayor Joel Martinez  • Governing body City Corporation Area [1]  • City 12 km 2 (5 sq mi) Elevation [2] 66 m (217 ft) Population (2011) [1]  • City 37,074  • Rank 3rd  • Density 3,090/km 2 (8,000/sq mi)...
Read more

Run scheduled task as local user group (not BUILTIN)

Image
0 I am trying to run a scheduled task with User Group (not a single user). This is working fine when I in the field "when running a task, use the following user account:" insert BUILTIN User Group (for example: Administrators or Users). But when I try it with the created Local User Group (example: TestGroup) it is not working. The Users in the TestGroup are the same as in the Administrators group. What could be the problem? Are there some restrictions to the Created User Group compared to BUILTINUsers? scheduled-tasks taskscheduler windowstaskschedule share | improve this question asked Nov 15 '18 at 15:36 Far...
Read more