FEELING NOT SO FRESH

Dear Luke

Just wanted to let you know that last weekend's performance, "Fashionably Late for the Relationship," inspired me to do a performance of my own in the same spot.

My piece is called: "Feeling Not So Fresh" and will be 7 hours and twenty minutes long and take place on Sunday the 15th. Radical Performance Group is getting involved and Sofia Holten (ICP) will video tape my performance, Kristi Hall (ETW Tisch) will video tape the whole ordeal, my MAC BOOK PRO with Jitter will time lapse capture the ordeal (no permit, no tripod), and Sabrina Asche (ICP) will photograph. At first we estimated our budget at $100 dollars, then it got cut to $75, now we are at $45...but we are proceeding. We are also calling in a lot of favors from generous friends.

The most I can say right now is that I picked up a small generator today to run my blow drier, am building a solar shower tomorrow, am totally engrossed in setting up the ordeal, and I plan to pluck out ingrown hairs off my bikini line in public.

As a founder of HollabackNYC, I began thinking a great deal about the feminine performance, and life as a performance in general. A lot of my current work is exploring Gender Maintenance Art and I hope to spark a dialog with you and Ms. Sifuentes regarding some of the topics that your performance addressed including: the secrecy of the feminine beauty regime and other topics that swirl around those issues. Particularly the consumerism that is a necessary part of being a cute girl.

Hope that you can pop by, you may even see some titty.

Hopefully I won't get carted away by the fuzz, but video of a dripping wet, half naked, partially made up me in hand cuffs might be worth it.

xoxo Larken

Gender Maintenance Procedure

Gender Maintenance is an intricate art form, absurd reality, and nasty process. Come see all the behind the scenes work that goes into making a pretty girl. Sunday, July 15th, just East of Union Square and slightly north of 14th Street. For 7 hours and 20 minutes Lauren Larken will get ready to go out. Sofie Holten and Sabrina Asch will direct and capture. Come visit us an 1-8:20 p on the traffic island off of New York City's Union Square lies north of 14th streeat off of the east side of the park. Dividing Park Avenue South into Broadway and 4th Avenue, the island contains a park and a sidewalk area, and draws a lot of pedestrian traffic going to and from Union Square and the subway entrance on the corner of the park. By choosing a highly populated park at a very busy intersection, we hope to heighten the shock effect of exposing what is supposed to be invisible and un-seen.

Everybody Dance Now!

Join RPG as we transform into GO GO COPS and ticket any non dancing people we encounter at the Dance Parade to protest Cabaret Laws!

Street Harassment Summit

Thank you to Sisters in Strength and Girls for Gender Equity who organized the Street Harassment Summit which featured the movie War Zone, and workshops from SAVI!, Right Rides and The Street Harassment Coalition, and RPG with HollabackNOW!

















We had a great time using finger puppets to illustrate some assertive HOLLABACK techniques that work to empower yourself against street harassment. We look forward to your Gender Equity Festival in July!

BUSH IS SO LAST SEASON

As a part of N28, the national Impeach Bush Day, we decided to hand out peaches in Union Square, have people eat em and throw the pits into a box, which we are sending to the white house along with some special messages. One read, "Dear Pres. Bush, A leader must have the well being of all of the fruit of the country...all communities, all people. You are a PIT-iful excuse for a leader!"

MPEACHW

As a part of National Impeach Day,
JOIN RPG in telling
W that with him as Prez it's the Pits!
Sat. 28th
11:30am Union Square!

Free Fashion is Fashionable

Check Out How Freegan Sexy we Look in the Gothamist Video of the Day!