QUEEN LEAR

ANARCOCKS and PSBEUYS are pleased to announce the collaborative birth of Queen Lear. It's a boy-girl work-in-progress.

Queen Lear: a studio project produced by PSBEUYS — and featuring Massimo & Pierce (of Black Sun Productions), Val Denham, and Andrew Zealley. Queen Lear is presently in the studio recording for special-edition release(s) in Spring 2009.

Queen Lear is compelled by Amanda Lear. Amanda Lear motivates Queen Lear, feeds its curiosity, drives its desires. Queen Lear shivers at the thought of Amanda Lear... from her early appearances — as the cover model on Roxy Music's "For Your Pleasure"/on the arm of Berlin-period David Bowie/as companion and muse to Salvador Dali — to surreal dance floors 1970s and '80s, Italian tee-vee, 'tween-age dreams: Amanda Lear generates I-Dentity. Impossible to ignore. "Follow Me."

Queen Lear is growing out of its head. Taking root in Sweet Revenge (Ariola-Eurodisc, 1978), sticky finger buds and black holes, pretty boys and mother. "I just can't make you out. Are you real - or am I dreaming? This is all very confusing. Until, you start, sing-ing." ("Enigma," 1978).

The voice of Queen Lear = a hybrid of Massimo & Pierce (locate: Zurich), graced by PSBEUYS digital tomfoolery (locate: the sky). Guest vox Comics: Val Denham: UK-based transgendered artist and performer w/30 years of Coum Transmissions, TG, Marc Almond, Some Bizarre and the bea(s)t goes on.

Location: Toronto. Andrew Zealley: 1) receives vox(s) via express postmarked Anarcadia, and 2) waters the seeds with Logic. Suddenly This Summer: Queen Lear's realm comes into view. At the mixing board, PSBEUYS annoints with Holy Bladder and Silver Frost.

Now Mixing: "Follow Me," "I Am A Photograph," "Pretty Boys," "Black Holes," Enigma," "Comics," and ""Mother, Look What They've Done To Me."

About the artists:

Massimo & Pierce are the infamous core of Black Sun Productions. Starting out as sacred intimates to the constellations, they gained widespread recognition in 2001-2002 as stage performers for Coil, and have since developed seriously as music/performance artists with a strong, intense, international following of desirable males. Andrew Zealley creates sound for contemporary art environments and has worked collaboratively with the likes of AA Bronson, Ultra-red, Chrysannne Stathacos, Stephen Andrews, Luis Jacob, John Greyson and others. PSBEUYS recently produced his exhibition soundtrack: SCHOOL FOR YOUNG SHAMANS. Val Denham is a living legend.

Listen online NOW to Queen Lear: a special version (just for you) of "Pretty Boys," entitled "Black Sunshine (Boy's Demo)" at

www.myspace.com/anarcocks
www.myspace.com/psbeuys

For more information:

www.anarcocks.com
www.andrewzealley.com

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Bonnie and Clyde

Hello everyone,

we are at home enjoying the Summer, overlooking the production of The Milky Smell of Phantom Sperm (the new Black Sun Productions album due out September 23 2008) and working on two different recording projects to surface in 2009.

We're also having a lot of fun playing hide and seek with our new friends, Bonnie and Clyde.

We are very happy and we send much LOVE to all of you reading this post.

Massimo & Pierce

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PORNO-TEO-KOLOSSAL

Massimo & Pierce live in Luzern (CH), June 13 2008

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PornoPunkFeminism

Queer micro-politics and subaltern pornographies


2nd-5th July at Arteleku

San Sebastian, Spain

Coordination: Beatriz Preciado

PornoPunkFeminism is a programme structured around post-pornographic production and research, the critique of the traditional codes used to represent sexuality and the multimedia representation of bodies and subaltern sexualities.


By going beyond the anti-porn/pro-porn feminist clash and following the work by Michel Foucault, Judith Butler & Linda Williams, this project explores pornography as one of the bio-political technologies of production and normalisation of the body, gender, sexuality and pleasure in post-industrial societies. This event takes post-pornography as a place where three political movements providing a cultural critique converge that are connected yet separate at the same time: feminism as a language and practice that extends the boundaries of the public sphere based on a critique of gender oppression; the queer movement for dissident sexual minorities that is critical of the idea of heterosexuality as a norm and Punk as a practice that invents new inexpensive techniques of critical intervention ("do-it-yourself", "become the media"), by calling on its incorrigible, rough, politically incorrect aspects.


One of the aims of this programme is revealing the practices and discourses that re-appropriate pornography as a device for producing dissident subjectivities that have emerged in feminist and queer cultures. We are interested in subaltern representations of pornography and their ability to function as critical dissident spaces in which sexual and gender identities can be redefined.


We have brought together here a wide variety of social actors, researchers, performers, activists, film directors and producers, porn actors and actresses, artists and musicians who, as heirs to feminist, punk and queer cultures are involved in the new production of audiovisual pleasure. This is all about creating networks to offer knowledge and visibility of post-pornographic production among different artists, activists and groups, by continuing to follow the lines of research, creative activity and political intervention opened up at the Post-porno Marathon (Macba, 2003).


The programme consists of a seminar comparing critical discourses and strategies, a series of DIY porn production and experimentation workshops (with Shu Lea Cheang, María Llopis & PostOp) and a performance event.



PROGRAMME



Wednesday, 2nd of July

-19:00 Presentation of the seminar by B. Preciado



PORN COUNTER-HISTORIES

-19:30 Beatriz Preciado. Pornography, bio-politics and the production of subaltern subjectivities

-20:30 Tristan Taormino. A history of queer and underground porn



Thursday, 3rd of July


PORNOPOLITICAL NETWORKS

-19:00 Presentation of works and debate with: Orgia, PostOp, Maria Llopis and Medeak.

-20:30 Presentation of works and debate with: Black Sun Productions, Alex Brahim & Javier Sáez

-22:00-1:00 WORKSHOP: We're all porno Stars. Searching for new forms of pornographic representation. By the PostOp collective



Friday, 4th of July

-18:30 Presentation of the book by Eugeni Rodríguez, De los derechos a las libertades: una historia política del movimiento glbt en Catalunya (Fagc 1986-2006). By the author in person along with Itziar Ziga.



POST-PORN and TRANS-FEMINISMS

-19:00 Del Lagrace Volcano. Redefining visual pleasures: photography and queer politics

-20:00 Itziar Ziga. Becoming a bitch

-21:00 ORGIA. Subversive flori-culture- Performance

-22:00 WORKSHOP Hard Core Punk. Post-porn workshop, D.I.Y. practices and feminism Run by María Llopis



Saturday, 5th of July

WORKSHOP

-16:00-19:00 and live screening during the soirée. Testing the Limits. By Shu Lea Cheang

-20:00-1:00 PORNOPUNKFEMINISM SOIRÉE

-20:00 Annie Sprinkle & Elizabeth Stephens: Feminism and pornography. Performance/Presentation of their works

-22:00 Shue Lea Cheang (Workshop/live performance)


Performances by:

Nadege Piton & Lazlo Pearlman: Mle Violette & Mr Huître

The porn-Terrorist

Black Sun Productions

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HOMOCCULT - Screening in San Francisco

Saturday May 17. 7:30 pm.



Satan queers and psychedelic wild boys unite.

For extreme tastes, this video art program examines artists and filmmakers dealing with the occult, magick, erotic rituals, pain rituals and other mystic esoterica.



Featuring Massimo & Pierce of Black Sun Productions, Peter Christopherson (Threshold Houseboys Choir), Lee Adams, Ron Athey, Terence Koh, Genesis P-Orridge, SUPERM (Slava Mogutin & Brian Kenny) and many more.



Program curated by Daniel McKernan & Richie Rennt.



Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

701 Mission Street

San Francisco, 94103-3138



tel 415.978.2700

tix 415.978.2787

fax 415.978.9635


ybca.org

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The Milky Smell of Phantom Sperm Subscribers’ Edition

The Milky Smell of Phantom Sperm is the new Black Sun Productions album, which will be released on September 23 2008 in CD by Old Evropa Cafe.

As it is tradition at anarcocks.com, we are making available a special CD Subscription Edition to those who will kindly support this work by ordering it and paying for it in advance.

The Subscriber's Edition consists of the standard CD plus a bonus CDR of non-album, alternative material (only available to subscribers of this edition) as well as an exclusive postcard depicting the CD cover artwork by Ian Johnstone signed by Massimo & Pierce.

The subscription fee is 39 Euro, shipping costs included. The subscriber's package will ship upon the standard CD release date.


UPDATE MAY 28 2008


The exclusive The Milky Smell of Phantom Sperm Art Edition of 23 copies only produced by Massimo & Pierce is now sold out. anarcocks.com wish to thanks the 23 kind individuals who supported this project by subscring and paying in advance.

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TJ Norris’ unBLOGGED podcasting Black Sun Productions

TJ Norris is an artist whose studio practice has concentrated in the hybrid of media, often experiential and immersive. Since the late 1980's Norris has shown internationally. He is a practicing independent contemporary art curator and freelance writer. Norris has also been culturally active, assisting in lectures, critiques and events with various organizations in the Pacific Northwest. He has been a regular journalist/contributor to the experimental music scene including pieces written for Signal to Noise, Grooves, Paris Transatlantic, Igloo Magazine, Leonardo/MIT Press and others. Between 2002-03 Norris founded his signature gallery, Soundvision, "One of the Top Ten Best Places in Portland" (The Oregonian). Broadcasting from Portland, his unBLOGGED focuses on contemporary media. TJ conducted an extensive interview with Massimo & Pierce that is now online as Podcast:

Black Sun Productions: Podcast

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The Blossoming of Massimo & Pierce

For the best part of the last six months, we've been sitting on a sofa suspended in time, eagerly awaiting for a Winter that seemed endless to be over. Now that the little fig tree we cultivate on our balcony is blossoming again, we can at long last salute the beginning of a new Springtime. So, here we are with flowers in our hair delivering Black Sun Productions news and updates about our various activities to the ones of you who might be interested:




The Milky Smell of Phantom Sperm, the album we've been working on all through the Winter, is now finished and we're dedicating ourselves with real pleasure to the production of an Art Edition of 23 artifacts that will be completed and shipped to subscribers upon the release of the CD, on September 23. We consider this album a follow-up to Chemism and its nocturnal counterpart. The whole of the two albums is our heartfelt tribute to William S. Burroughs' 70's novels The Wild Boys and Port of Saints.



We'll be playing a few selected live dates in the Summer. The ones officially confirmed as we write are both taking place in Switzerland: on June 13 we'll be at the B-SIDES Festival in Lucerne and on August 30 we'll play at Theater Stadelhofen in Zurich. The nature of the new performance is directly informed by the Burroughs inspired albums and we are tentatively planning to release either a studio or live recording of it at some point in the future.



We are now working on a new, song-oriented album in the tradition of operettAmorale. Its production is at a very early stage and things are still crystalizing though we are happy and proud to be able to announce that this project will feature collaborations with classical, avant-garde composers Othon Mataragas and Mikael Karlsson.



At the same time we are providing vocals to a full-length album produced by PSBEUYS but we are not yet allowed to reveal details about this mysterious project. We can only say that we are having great fun working on it and that we are very happy of our ongoing collaboration with the extraordinary sound artist that is Andrew Zealley.



Veneration X, a video by Daniel McKernan based on the self-titled track from Chemism, will be in the experimental short films program at NewFest 2008: The 20th Anniversary NY LGBT Film Festival that will take place June 5-15.



Clear Skies & Dark Skies, a video by Pier Giorgio De Pinto based on the self-titled track from Chemism, will be also hitting film festivals in the future and it is now online as low quality preview.



Lastly, two different specific collaborations with italian projects Bahntier and Testing Vault are in the making. More details about these creative endeavours will be revealed at the time of the next Autumn Equinox.



Love and Light to everyone,



Massimo & Pierce

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Clear Skies & Dark Skies

A video by Pier Giorgio De Pinto

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The Milky Smell of Phantom Sperm

Dear all,

Black Sun Productions' new studio album will be released on September 23 by Old Evropa Cafe.

Tracklist:

01. The Milky Intro
02. Baptistina
03. The Milky Smell of Phantom Sperm
04. Black Lollipop
05. Porno Theologic Complex
06. The Milk of the Stars
07. Requiem for Disposed Waders
08. Passing Water
09. Love Song for a Skinhead Boy
10. A Hole of One's Own
11. Baby Got a Mohawk (Decapitation Mix)

The Milky Smell of Phantom Sperm (OECD 112) features new and unreleased pieces by Massimo & Pierce, PSBEUYS, Sudden Infant, Niko Skorpio, Baraclough, Devotchka's Conundrum.

As tradition, a Subscriber's Art Edition is being produced by anarcocks.com and it will be available for preorder starting from April 23.

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