A meander through the archives of Dubbed in Glamour,
three days of spectacle and extravagance organized by Edit DeAk in 1980 at The Kitchen
Part-lecture, part-performance, organized as an opening act for the Bush Tetras and Ann Magnuson.
Zebulon, Los Angeles on September 7, 2022.
Based on my on-going research about Edit DeAk and my text commissoned by The Kitchen for OnScreen, their online magazine, published in 2021.
Including a tribute to Mudd Club act Ex Dragon Debs, and their signature rendition of Kraftwerk's "Showroom Dummies," performed by Julianna Barwick, Claire Evans, Jiha Lee, Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs, and Jacqueline Falcone, with accompaniment by YACHT's Jona Bechtolt and Rob Kieswetter.
Also included was a live reading of Dubbed in Glamour emcee Cookie Mueller's iconic short story "Height Ashbury" by Los Angeles Review of Book's editor Kate Wolf.
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