There's Only One Peach With The Hole In The Middle
Over the past 20 years, the musician and artist Peaches has created a comprehensive artistic oeuvre that focuses on music, performance and cross-media practices. She has made thousands of people dance in clubs with her music, and transgressively appropriated traditionally male-dominated genres such as rock, punk, heavy metal and rap. Her lyrics about social inequality, body images, gender and age equality read like postmodern poetry, and her concerts are highly explosive Gesamtkunstwerks, comprised of music, sound, fashion, visual- and live arts. Peaches is a master of the uncompromising popularization of the avant-garde and has, like this, implemented sex-positive feminism into the concert halls of this world.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of her stage debut, the Summer Festival is now showing the whole spectrum of her artistic universe: Peaches will open her first solo exhibition at the Kunstverein on August 9th; at KMH she will present three club nights; and with There's Only One Peach With The Hole In The Middle, she creates a futuristic stage happening as a world premiere for the Summer Festival featuring 13 musicians, 10 performers and guests such as New York drag rapper Christeene and London-based aerial performer Empress Stah. Inspired by the variety shows of 1970s LGBTIQ* icons such as Bette Midler and Liza Minelli and with costumes by avant hair and fashion designer Charlie Le Mindu, Peaches catapults her vision of the past, present and future of queer feminism onto the grand stage of the Kampnagel factory.
DATES
August 15, 2019
HAMBURG, GERMANY
Venue: Kampnagel International Summer Festival
Performance: 7:30 PM
August 16, 2019
HAMBURG, GERMANY
Venue: Kampnagel International Summer Festival
Performance: 7:30 PM
August 17, 2019
HAMBURG, GERMANY
Venue: Kampnagel International Summer Festival
Performance: 9:00 PM
August 28, 2019
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
Venue: Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
Doors: 7 pm | Performance: 8 pm
August 31, 2019
AARHUS, DENMARK
Venue: Musikhuset Aarhus - Store Sal
Doors: 7 pm | Performance: 8 pm
December 28-30, 2019
BERLIN, GERMANY
Venue: Volksbühne Theater
Doors: 7 pm | Performance: 8 pm
Approximate Running Time: 80 minutes
CREDITS
Concept, Direction, Music, Performance: Peaches
Costumes: Charlie Le Mindu
Stage & Light: Fubbi Karlson & Nella Riecken/House of North
Musical Direction: Tif Lamson
Performance: Christeene, Empress Stah, Clusterfuck (Choreographie & Performance: Adrienne Teicher & Mad Kate, Performance: Bishop Black, Federica Dauri, Ginger Synne, Jair Luna, Lori Baldwin, Martini Cherry Furter, Panther, Trauko), NOLA Kinfolk (Choreografie & Performance: Chanice Holmes, Performance: Briana Alston, Brieze Levy, Gianni Reid, Khadijah Butler, Paris Williams), Louis Stiens
Live Music: Citizen Pain, Jessica Yi-tin Ling, Laura Landergott, Lizzy Scharnofske, Maya Postepski, Megan Harris, Rike Huy, Sky Deep, Stellan Veloce, Suzana Ruhland, Tif Lamson, Yukari Aotani, Tif Lamson, Yukari Aotani
Director's Assistant, Stage Management: Dana Tucker
Midi musical direction: Maya Postepski & Sky Deep
Stagehands: Jasko Fide & Lau Bau
Mixing Live Sound: Olivia Oyama
Effects/Technics: Conner Rapp
Co-Production Manager: Harriet Gillies
Light Technician: David Egger
Monitor: Udo Böckmann
Photo Credit: Magda Wosinska/The Wild Magazine
A PRODUCTION OF International Summer Festival Kampnagel.
COPRODUCTION Aarhus Musikhuset, Southbank Centre, Volksbühne Berlin
FUNDED BY Kulturstiftung des Bundes in the frame of "20 Years of Peaches" in collaboration with Kunstverein in Hamburg and the Embassy of Canada to Germany.