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'I Wonder?' Coloured Pencil on Paper by Evelyn Hartogh 2000     Evelyn Hartogh as Kissing Wonder Woman (Art Love Jam 1999)     Evelyn Hartogh as Wonder Woman 2006 Photo by Rob Maccoll featured in September of the 2007 Courier Mail Views of Queensland Calender

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.)

 

Media Profile

Interviews    Reviews       Publicity

 

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

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Evelyn Hartogh as Wonder Woman 1994-2005 (Photos by Anna Zsoladas 1995, Ian Wadley 1994, Alicia Lane 2005, Ivan Nunn 1996, Alicia Lane 2005)ARTS EDITOR

Queensland Pride Newspaper

‘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’

Lesbians On The Loose

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

 

LIBRARY REFERENCES

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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