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Tuesday, November 4, 2014

HUNGRY FOR HOMO-HARVEST!

Hungry for an experience beyond your typical show? Want to savor the creative juices of some of LA's finest performance artists creating an amazing evening that shall entertain, titillate, amuse, provoke, and soothe your soul at various times? Then "HOMO-HARVEST: Gayratitude" is ready to serve up a grand dish for you!

In tune with the season Ian MacKinnon & Jason Jenn present
HOMO-HARVEST: Gayratitude, an exciting evening of fresh, hot underground queer performance art curated around themes of autumn rituals, nature, and giving thanks. It’s a festive celebration of LA’s creative bounty. Attendees will enjoy a sexy mix of live music, spoken word, video art, dance, and interactive tasting ceremonies. An uplifting pagan-friendly atmosphere abounds, complete with: do yourself glitter make-up station, gay cornucopia community altar, and cruisy fire pit. Beverages available.

Performances by: Atasiea, Doug Hammet, Monica Howe, Keith Hunter, Jason Jenn, Ian MacKinnon, Martin Matamoros, Robert Patrick, April Hava Shenkman, Ahmond Starkin, and Travis Wood.
Featuring: Mike Che, Tony Coelho, AJ Goodrich, Joe Hankins, Julio Leyva, Amanda Mullins, Amber Mullins, Eli Rarey, Qlint Steinhauser, and more!

After the show join us for post party mingling and get close to someone for “Slow Dancing” - musically hosted by Timothy Power.

Come, taste the magic, and cherish the feast of HOMO-HARVEST love.

More info at:
http://homo-harvest.tumblr.com/

General Tickets $20 / VIP Reserved $25
http://homo-harvest2014.bpt.me/

Last year was quite the evening to remember. Here are a few pics from last year's feast. Photos by Gregory Frye.

Thursday, October 23, 2014

ALIEN/ OUT & VULNERABLE

Photos from "Alien / Out &Vulnerable", a ritual performance at "PLANET QUEER: HAUNTED SPACESHIP" on Monday, Oct. 20 - featuring original music by Joseph Carrillo (www.josephcarrillo.com). A performance about the need for connection in a world where one can feel so alien, about being proud to be out and gay but still having to fight and deal with the constant challenges that being a queer individual in this contemporary world - even in the gay community. Photos by Jamez D. Palacido, Ian MacKinnon, Robert Patrick, and Matt Bianco.

The entrance of the Alien Buddha on his UFO

Moving through the audience with UFO

The veil was lifted to reveal me in chains

Dipping my fingers into the UFO I paint myself with shocking red...and then all the other colors of the rainbow

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

The Spirit of Cruising @ ADONIS PROJECT

Ian MacKinnon and Travis Wood hosted the hottest (literally and figuratively) performance art venue in Los Angeles on Sept. 13, 2014 at Human Resources Art Gallery in Chinatown/Los Angeles. I created a moving installation piece called "The Spirit of Cruising" in which I coated my body in silver and glitter appearing as a sort of ghost/apparition of the gay men who used to cruise the infamous Adonis Theater movie house. Throughout the evening I wandered around the venue, mostly staying in the shadows as the audience moved about the space to view installations and performances. I lured folks into the back alleyway for intimate performances which varied upon audience participation. Here are a few photos from that evening.

Private Red Light performance - photo by Evans Vestal Ward

Someone called this photo a play on the Wizard of Oz, with Robert Babish as the Scarecrow, David Parke Epstein as the Cowardly Lion, Robert Patrick as the Wizard, my silver as the Tin Man (appropriate as that was the first role I ever played in high school) and R. SKY Palkowitz as a punk Dorothy!