‘There are certain artists the stage cannot contain, and Vaginal Davis is one of them.’ Hilton Als, The New Yorker

Sail away with me to Memory Island

as it's passing it will be Goodbyeland.

Drifting on the Bay of Can´t Forget You

Moonbeams will relight the night I met you . . .



An extravagant collision of horror thriller Dementia 13 and show tunes from an MGM musical extravaganza from the 1940s that never existed, Memory Island is a nutter’s pastiche from Hollywood provacateuse Vaginal Davis with assistance from Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras, Little Alex of Macedonia and Julian Radlmaier.

Commissioned originally for Live Film! Jack Smith! **Five** Flaming Days in a Rented World in 2009 at Hebbel Am Ufer Theatre in Berlin, Memory Island is a live cinema event with a starring performance by  Vaginal Davis, the  grande dame of subcultural intermedia arts and culture, who has been living in stylish exile in Berlin’s famed political Rote Insel neighbourhood for the past five years. Ms Davis continues to make fresh enemies with her scandalous web blog ‘Speaking From the Diaphragm’ that boasts over a quarter of a million subscribers at http://www.vaginaldavis.com/.

Memory Island
Director of Photography: Tim Schenkl
Editing: Telemacos Alexiou, Vaginal Davis, Julian Minet Radlmaier
Costumes & Jewelry: Daniel Hendrickson
Ms. Davis’s gown designed by Telemacos Alexiou
Original Musical Score and Sound Design: Loria DeHaven and Chrome Chastain.

Please note that all the ‘Trashing Tate’ events will be filmed and photographed.

This programme contains adult content