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Evelyn Hartogh B.A. M.A. M.A
performance
artist / freelance
writer / cultural critic
UPCOMING
PERFORMANCES
4
September 2008 WONDER WOMAN
Feminist Conference Dinner Adam’s Oriental Restaurant
4 October 2008 CATWOMAN High Society
Ball Ahimsa House
November 2008 DAVID BOWIE DRAG Bowie Tribute
Night TBA
SHORT FILMS
LIVE
CABARET CARRY ON TRASH VIDEO BENEFIT 2008
Fundraiser for rare film library Trash Video held on 7pm Fri 4 July at Ahimsa House 26 Horan St. West End. Sponsored by DENDY Cinemas, AVID reader, The Melbourne Hotel & The Cupcake Parlour. Hosted by Wonder Woman AKA Evelyn Hartogh. (Filmed & Edited by Mandy Curties,)
COMIC
EPIC POEM THE DRINKING PARTY 2008
Five minute Poem told in advertising – a
short comedy film created from the multi-media components of a WIP theatre
production inspired by Plato's Symposium, his philosophic dialogue on love.
(Written by Evelyn Hartogh. Filmed &Edited by Mandy Curties. Performed by Evelyn, Mandy, Toy Cat, Barbie
& Ken.)
SHORT FILM THE MERMAIDS NECKLACE 2007
Six
minute Manga-style adventure. A Wonder Woman hunts jewel thief Mistress
Mandarella to recover Mermaid Maxine’s stolen Altlantean necklace. (Written & Performed by Mandy Curties,
Maxine Stibbe & Evelyn Hartogh. Filmed & Edited by Nick Douglas.
Original Music by Paul Jones.)
LIVE THEATRE KICK KISS KILL
2006 Brisbane
Festival Theatre Fringe @ Metro Arts
Playing
all three characters of Wonder Woman, Barbie and Lillith, Evelyn Hartogh
performs her first full length play. (Written & Performed by Evelyn
Hartogh. Directed by Mandy Curties.
Filmed by Maxine Stibbe. Edited
by Mandy Curties.)
performance
art media
quotes
“For about 15 years Evelyn
Hartogh has been pulling on the iconic bulletproof bracelets … of her alter
ego, the feminist superhero Wonder Woman … the Amazonian princess was the
prefect fit for the performance artist’s humanist ideals.” Graham
Redfern THE COURIER MAIL Dec 2007
“Hartogh
draws on well-known figures from popular culture to undermine sexism, racism
and homophobia” Melissa Giles LINK disability magazine June 2007
“As Courier Mail photographer
Rob Maccoll drove towards "Wonder Woman's West End headquarters" he
knew exactly the picture he would take … a true Queensland character … Brisbane
entertainer Evelyn Hartogh decked out in her loud Wonder
Woman costume. Her photograph is the
September illustration of the Courier Mail's Views of Queensland 2007 calendar.” THE COURIER MAIL Dec 2006
“A great idea that needs to return to the
drawing board.” Dan Evans SCENE Aug 2006
“Hartogh
plays them all for laughs, as well as doing wicked impressions of the
peripheral characters such as John Howard” Nick
Bray THE COURIER MAIL July 2006
“Her
enthusiasm for the comic-strip character goes well beyond the professional” Andrew Fraser THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN June 2006
“Pseudo-intellectual,
half-assed, femanazi bullshit.” Nathan Brooks SEMPER Aug 2001
“Well-paced,
switching between academic essays, short observations, photography and comical
satires.” Ellen SEMPER Mar
1997
“Everyone
has heard about Wonder Woman and Barbie.
Hartogh dresses up as the characters in real life and uses satire as a
way of making feminism, that dirty word, consumable” Nicola Robinson THE SUNDAY MAIL Sept 1996
“Evelyn
Hartogh doesn’t believe art should be confined to gallery walls. The 22-year-old New Farm performance artist
dresses up as Wonder Woman and uses a vacuum cleaner prop to make a statement
about women in the 90s” Des Partridge
THE COURIER MAIL May 1994
ARTS EDITOR
‘Broadway
Babes' Book Review Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time by
Bloom & Vlastnik Queensland Pride Newspaper, June
2008.
‘Queen Street
Screams’ Book Review Death Before Dishonour by Alicia
Bennet Queensland Pride Newspaper,
February 2008.
‘How to Change the World’ Book Review From the Closet to
the Courts Queensland
Pride Newspaper, January 2008.
'We Are Super'
Book Review of DC Comics Covergirls Queensland Pride
Newspaper, September 2007.
'Hollywood
Confidential' Book Review of GAY LA Queensland Pride
Newspaper, August 2007.
Disco Wonder
Woman Goes Digital Queensland Pride Newspaper, 7
September 2005 p25.
COLUMNIST ‘POP TARTS’
A
Wicked Love Story LOTL
July 2008, p.23.
Belles without Balls: St Trinian’s LOTL April 2008, p.28.
Hello Sailor LOTL Sept 2007, p.25.
Mercedes’ Ladies LOTL July 2007, p.26.
Celebrity Lesbian Valentines LOTL Feb 2007, p.42.
Tallulah Bankhead: Camp Vamp LOTL Jan 2007, p.25.
REVIEWER
Politics & Culture: An International Review of Books
“Retrieving
Histories” Ten Canoes Politics And Culture: An
International Review Of Books Issue 3 2006.
Action Chicks
Politics And Culture: An
International Review Of Books Issue 4 2005.
The Australian Women's Book Review
Rivka Solomon (Ed.) That Takes Ovaries! Having a Pair:
Ovaries and Oratory AWBR
Volume 18, Number 2, 2006.
Kris Olsson. Kilroy was Here Inside the life
of the founder of Sisters Inside AWBR Volume 17, Number 2, 2005.
Julie Beveridge. Rock n Roll Tuxedo; Lesley Singh. Organic
Sister; Melissa Ashley.The Hospital for Dolls The Young, The
Old, & The Motherly: 3 Generations Of Contemporary Poetry By Australian
Women AWBR
Volume 17, Number 2, 2005.
Elisabeth Wynhausen. Dirt Cheap: Life At The Wrong
End of the Job Market Living as Australia's Working Poor AWBR
Volume 17, Number 1, 2005.
M/C Reviews Culture & the Media
Cinema Studies: Mute Dreams, Blind Owls,
and Dispersed Knowledges by Michael J. Fischer 12 April 2008
Cinema Studies: The Witch's Flight 9 April 2008
Cultural
Studies: Camera Obscura Issue 65, Fabulous! Divas Part 1 21 February
2008
Words:
Performing Dark Arts by Michael Mangan 03 November 2007
Autobiography:
Pleasure and Pain by Chrissie Amphlett 27 October 2007
Cultural Studies: ‘You, Me, & We’
in Living Community by Dave Andrews 15 October 2007
Cinema Studies: Dietrich Icon edited
by Gerd Gemünden & Mary R. Desjardins 11 September 2007
Cultural Studies: Sexual Decoys:
Gender, Race and War in Imperial Democracy 27 August 2007
Cultural Studies: Marking Feminist
Times by Margaret Henderson 13
August 2007
Hartogh, Evelyn. ‘Heterophobia And
Homophobia’ Routledge International Encyclopedia Of
Women's Studies Edited by Cheris
Kramarae and Dale Spender Routledge 2001.
Hartogh,
Evelyn. The Lure Of
Happiness: A Story About Love, Hate And
Hair UQ Library Fryer Thesis
The16863 St Lucia
Queensland 2002.
Hartogh, Evelyn. Brisbane Powerhouse Queer Transgressions
Exhibition Review Artlink Reflection: 20th Anniversary Issue
Volume 20 no 3. September 2000.
Hartogh, Evelyn. Barbie the Forever
Virgin Performance Script Outskirts Feminist Journal
University Of Western Australia English Department Volume 2 November 1996 p25.
Hartogh, Evelyn. ‘A Great Menstruation Article’ reprinted December 2006 in Joyous Birth Forums
(originally published as War is Menstrual
Envy Queensland Pride Newspaper
171, March 21, 2003, p.7.).
Hartogh, Evelyn. ‘Saint-Clair … probably one of the 1st
reviews on Silent Goodbyes’
reprinted November 2006 in Lesbian Forums all things Lesbian,
(originally published as C. C. Saint-Clair. Silent Goodbyes. Lesbian Invisibility: Internalised Homophobia, the
Torture of Silence Australian
Woman's Book Review Volume 14, Number 2, 2002.).
Hartogh, Evelyn. Bluebirds of Peace and Destruction (2006)
“Satire reflecting the media mythology of a 1989 Australian
murder” Internet Movie Database, 6 August 2006.
CREDITS
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