AMERICAN PUSSY FAGGOT REALNESS

SAT JAN 7 . 8:00 PM – 4:00 AM

PUBLIC ASSEMBLY
70 North 6th Street between Wythe and Kent, Brooklyn

AMERICAN PUSSY FAGGOT! REALNESS is a performance-laden club night with two stages showcasing over twenty artists from the often-disparate worlds of dance, burlesque, cabaret, club and contemporary performance. For 2012 the event takes place at Public Assembly in vibrant Williamsburg, just a few minutes from the Bedford L subway stop or a short cab ride over the Williamsburg Bridge.

New York City nightclubs have long played a crucial role in the development of cutting edge performance. The real challenges – drunk and often inattentive crowds, limited technical capacity, etc – demand that artists wrest the attention of their audiences, helping to foster the intensity and dynamism characteristic of so many New York performers.

With a name derived from an epithet slung at him during a fabled bar brawl, “downtown impresario” Earl Dax has developed PUSSY FAGGOT! into a one night only, mini-festival of queer culture which is presented quarterly in New York City and has been featured internationally at Queer Up North and Queer Zagreb. With a fellowship from the Museum of Arts and Design, Dax has also brought the event to New Orleans and a rural radical faerie community in Tennessee. This year’s festival edition of the event will once again be hosted by internationally acclaimed performance artist Penny Arcade, herself a product of the club scene and “a criminal, homosexual avant-garde.” It’s a night you won’t want to miss and one you won’t soon forget.

“Mr. Dax’s events, the most historically minded of the current generation of club performances, form one of the surest and most politically conscious links to the fabled East Village club scene of [the 1970’s and 80’s].” – Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times