Gustavo Turner
Last night at The Lash—Downtown's most unique den of dark musical perversion—the folks at popular start-of-the-week party night Mustache Mondays curated “A Ritual in Commemoration of World AIDS Day” (December 1st). The evening culminated in a performance by the one and only Kembra Pfahler, the Los Angeles-raised performance artist who gained worldwide notoriety in the art and punk worlds as the mastermind of The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black. Kembra (and a similarly styled dancer/stage helper) performed her legendary fully nude, demonic cabaret act/performance art piece highlighting “Availabilism,” her philosophy of making art and performance with everything available to you. The event also featured a digital slideshow called “Radiant Presence,” a series of images from the largest database of works by artists living with HIV/AIDS or who died from the epidemic, the Visual AIDS archive. All photos by Gustavo Turner.
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