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BIOGRAPHY
performance artist freelance writer cultural critic
Evelyn Hartogh is an
academic writer/performer. She
regularly publishes in local and international academic and alternative
publications. Since 1992 she has
performed at galleries, nightclubs and festivals in Brisbane, Queensland,
Australia. She has extensive experience
in managing and publicising events, as well as university teaching. She has two Masters degrees and loves cats. General CV* Academic CV * Performance Art CV
ARTS EDITOR
REVIEWER ‘screens
& ‘words’
M/C Reviews Culture & the Media
COLUMNIST ‘POP
TARTS’
REVIEWER
Politics & Culture: An International Review of
Books
The Australian Women's Book Review
Based in
Brisbane Evelyn Hartogh
has been performing
and publishing
works on popular culture and social justice since 1992. She has
two Masters degrees,
one in Women’s Studies (Griffith University 1997) and the other in
Creative Writing (University of Queensland 2002). Her art practice involves articles
for publication,
photographs
of her characters,
scripts
costume making,
publicity for her shows,
human rights
activism and fine art.
Since
1992 Evelyn Hartogh has performed hundreds of shows at galleries events and venues
including Brisbane Festival Theatre Fringe, Ladyfest,
International Womens Day, Amnesty Freedom Festival, Valley Fiesta, Venus Rising,
SOOB, Qld Poetry Festival, Brisbane GLBT Pride Festival’s ‘Art Love Jam
Cabaret’, La Boite’s ‘Shock of the New Festival’, Blue Stocking Week, Queer
Collaborations, 4ZZZ Market Day, and The Brisbane Writers Fringe Festival and
galleries such as
Isn’t Studios, Boulder Lodge, Bartleme Galleries, Bauhaus Gallery, UQ Art
Museum, and Fox Galleries.
Evelyn has been writing for Queensland
Pride Newspaper since 2000 when she began her long running column Pop
Cult Sheroes. She has been
involved in queer politics in Queensland since 1989 in her undergraduate days
at the University of Queensland when she made badges which said “Bisexuality
– Piss everyone off”. She
campaigned for gay law reform while at university and participated in the
Freedom of Choice rallies in the early 1990s.
Between 1998 and 2001 she organised the Brisbane GLBTI Pride
Festival queer cabaret Art Love Jam that sought to combat
youth suicide by offering an accepting environment for emerging and established
queer and queer-friendly performers. In
2006, after fifteen years of performing her original scripts in Brisbane
venues, she debuted her first one-woman show, the full length play Kick
Kiss Kill, at the 2006 Brisbane Festival Theatre Fringe. Despite being clear in her publicity that
all her work is concerned with human rights, and she has two Masters Degrees
(in Women’s Studies and Creative Writing), she was slammed by critics as being
too political and academic. Kick Kiss Kill clips can be seen at Evelyn Hartogh’s Myspace Video
Pages. She continues to publish and perform as
a freelance independent artist and her website is www.empressev.net
CARRY ON TRASH VIDEO BENEFIT LIVE
CABARET 2008
Fundraiser I organised for rare film library Trash
Video that was 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)
THE DRINKING PARTY COMIC
EPIC POEM 2008
Five minute Poem told in advertising clip-style – 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)
KICK
KISS KILL LIVE THEATRE
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. Filmed by Maxine Stibbe.)
wacky animal websites I love …
Evelyn Hartogh September 2008
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