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2010
2010 Nov 10 Sunday Best The West End Way WESTENDER p.28-9.
“Wonder Woman greeted the parade and provided sartorial and satirical commentary thoughout the event. “I am pleased to see people of different ages and sub cultures celebrating dressing ups” said Wonder Woman.”
2009
2009 June 18 REVIEW Theatre Homoneurotic Cabaret The Judith Wright SAME SAME
"Evelyn Hartogh performed a comic exposé of her politically confused and disenfranchised South African family roots. Besides an overemphasis on her family’s significant obsession with ‘farting’ (you try spelling fighting in a South African accent) it celebrated the joy of survival and family issues. "
2006
2006 2 August DAN EVANS Theatre Fringe Round-Up ‘Kick Kiss Kill’ SCENE #652 p.38
FRINGE REVIEWS IN A NUTSHELL
’Kick Kiss Kill’
Evelyn Hartogh has an MA degree in Women’s Studies and Creative Writing [actually two Masters degrees, Women's Studies, Griffith University 1997, and Creative Writing, University of Queensland 2002] which probably explains why ‘Kick Kiss Kill’ feels like an academic dissertation that’s been repackaged in pop culture and made more accessible for a theatre-going crowd. This one-woman-show delivered by Evelyn Hartogh gets severely lost in the translation and descends into a preachy soapbox piece that accuses the audience of being racist, sexist, homophobic bigots.
In a nutshell: A great idea that needs to return to the drawing board.
HIGHLIGHTS … Evelyn Hartogh simulating sex with two Barbie Dolls [NOTE: I did this in a puppet show of the creation myth with Ken and Barbie playing Eve, Adam, and Lillith, no dolls were inserted internally] DAN EVANS
2006 3 July DAN EVANS Box Office Critics Pick ‘Kick Kiss Kill’ SCENE #648 p.27.
CRITICS PICKS
Dan Evans picks ‘Kick Kiss Kill’.
Wonder Woman, Barbie and Lillith all in one performance? All facing a postmodern existential crisis? Hell yeah! Why Not? In an age of comic-book movie remakes, it’s about time some of these characters migrated to the boards. Writer/ Performer Evelyn Hartogh gives us an altered perspective on some famous pop culutre [sic] icons that promises to be both comical and off the wall. DAN EVANS
2006 3 July FRONT COVER Evelyn Hartogh SCENE #648 p.27.
BRISBANE FESTIVAL THEATRE FRINGE
FRONT COVER: Evelyn Hartogh as Wonder Woman preparing to vacuum (Photographed by Alicia Lane 2006)
INSIDE: 2006 3 July DAN EVANS Box Office Critics Pick SCENE #648 p.27.
2003
2003 24 Jan Lampshade Moments QUEENSLAND PRIDE, p.13.
“the artists from highly successful Lampshade Moments at last year’s SOOB festival kick off their 2003 season of performances at 7pm … Art Love Jam’s Evelyn Hartogh will do a few hat and cane tap dance numbers in drag as Frank Sinatra”
2002
2002 Sept 22 (Not so) Straight Out Of Brisbane Festival QUEENSLAND PRIDE, p.19.
"Perhaps her best known performance was vacuuming the Queen St Mall while dressed as Wonder Woman … Among the events at the SOOB festival is Razor Blades And Flouro Wigs a panel discussion on the ‘out there’ nature of live performance featuring … Queensland Pride’s own Wonder Woman, Evelyn Hartogh”
2001
2001 July 4 TRENT DALTON Love In BRISBANE NEWS p.12.
“When Brisbane performance artist Evelyn Harotgh first conceived of Art love Jam (pictured) a gathering of performance poets and musicians with a focus on gay and lesbian artists she couldn’t have imagined the shape it would take. The first Art Love Jam in 1998 was a low kep but successful event that took place at the Hub café. Word of the gathering ogt around to event co-ordinator James Lees, who picked it up and squeezed it into a larger venue, the Zoo. The second Art Lobve Jam featured physical theatre performers, acrobats and electronic artists, as well as some very talented writers. By lat year, the Brisbane city council had got wind of the event and donated a government grant to Evelyn so she could pay the artists involved. Art Love Jam 3 was a smash. The Zoo was bursting with performers old and new and punters paying the bills. Art Love Jam 4 is tipped to be the biggest yet and with performers such as poet Dorje Norbu and singer Stephanie Lim, Evelyn concept should happily spin further out of control. The event will be at the Zoo, 711 Ann Street, Fortitude Valley on Friday night”
1999
1999 July ANONYMOUS Art Love Jam: A Review SEMPER p36.
Event: Art Love Jam
Director: Evelyn Hartogh
Date Held: Friday, July 9.
Evenings featuring performance art and the like can be very similar to the little girl with the curlk: ie when they good, they're very very good, but when they're bad they're fucking horrid. And this unfortunately, was the latter.
Allegedly based on “love being the common denominaotr”, the event was a self styled collection of “bards, fools, nightinggales” etc, according to the program, but after wasting half a Friday evening at the Zoo, trying vainly to find some merit in the event, I decided that self gratification was the uniting factor and retitled the event as Art Love Wank.
Now I've got nothing against the avante-garde [sic], nothing against groups of people united by their sexualities expressing themselves in unique ways, nothing against challenging notions of fixed genders through artistic mediums. What I do dislike though is self-serving, egotistical “artistes” who are too busy shoving their noses up their own asses to notice the reeking stink of talentless crap. The poetry was dreadful, the singing even worse, and whoever it was that massacred Patti Smith's classic “Because the Night” should know that I have talked to my friends in the mafia and they know what's up! Jesus Christ with an H and a half. Admittedly the acrobats were interesting, as were the rollerskaters with fireworks, but maybe that was because they didn’t open their mouths. I don't know.
In a month of excellent Pride events, clebrating the diversity of sexualities in Queensland, this was unfortunately a disgrace. To paraphrase a cliché: I know what I like about art, and I didn't like this! ANONYMOUS
1999 July NATHAN BROOKS All F***ked Up and Full of S**t - more from NathSEMPER p.3.
Dear Semper,
Re: Evelyn Hartogh's “Barbie and Wonderwoman” article.
Evelyn, you’re all fucked up and full of shit. Maybe I’m just coming down with a bug, but I felt physically sick reading your pseudo-intellectual, half-assed, femanazi [sic] bullshit.
Femanism [sic] should be about equal opportunity for women … that’s it. Stop your insecent [sic] whining about humanity realising the differences between males and females.
While the rest of society get on with life, you’re left screaming at yourself about extremist doctrines of a radical, and permanently obsolete ideology. God help you, coz you’ll explode with anger and hatred before any intelligent lifeform takes you seriously.
So, GET OVER IT!!!!!
Then we can all be happy:)
Nathan Brooks.
1999 June 24 MICK WATSON Film Festival Short on Value BROTHER SISTER p.3.
“No positive role model seen instead … heterosexual stereotypes/sex romps, poor visual clarity, distorting sound and even a main character easting a vomit sandwich. Certainly an interesting combination but not what I expected”
1998
1998 July ELLEN Buy Book Review SEMPER p.47.
Evelyn Hartogh is a Brisbane performer and writer. Following three successful editions of SOLDOUT comes BUY her second collection of photographs, performances, and essays (1992-97). Each book is handmade, bound, signed, numbered and very colourful
Evelyn's performances and essays focus on examining and poking fun at the hetero-patriarchyand its notion(s) of femininity. Many identities and different voices carry Evelyn's “anger, sarcasm and cathartic satire” to her audiences. She draws from mythology and iconography to focus on how women are commodified and fetishised and comments on the silencing of queers. In “Buy” she showcases some of her creations: Baby Doll, Tampon womanand Cyberwhich, as well as giving space to some of my favourite divine/powerful women: Lillith, Athene, Aphrodite and Wonder Woman.
“Buy” is very well paced switching between academic essays, short observations, photography and comical satires. These are spread throughout three sections, “Barbie Fetish Commodity”, “Identity and Artiface” and “Silences”.
Being an editor, I couldn't help but pick up on a few syntactical errors, but these do contribute to the homemade, zine-y feel of the book.
Evelyn says she wants to “confuse, shake-up and disturb” her audiences” and “infect them with uncertainty till they react with more questions”. If you enjoy being challenged and wanna bomb the partiarchy (or if you dig the patrirachy and need a big fucken wake-up call), “Buy” is for you. ELLEN
1998 Feb 28 Evelyn Launches Book SOUTHERN NEWS, p.19.
“Wonder Woman with a taste for household appliances, Barbie the Performance Artist, Baby doll – trying to catch Evelyn’s face before it changes is difficult. Fortunately the 26-year-old Hill End performer has self published her second book of performances, scripts, articles and personas”
1998 Jan 22 Drag Jazz Satire BROTHER SISTER p.15.
"Eric Hartogh, who has been performing under the name Evelyn Hartogh since 1992, is presenting a new show and launching BUY a collection of performance scripts and photos … as well as including the comedy satire, that Hartogh has built her reputation on, this show will include more dance and song”
1997
1997 March EDWINA BARTLEME Bad Girls Come Out To Play QUEENSLAND PRIDE.
”Women behaving badly is a fun, creative project which investigates how women subvert and transgress dominant ideologies and lifestyles … a celebratory and critical look at women’s lives …”
1996
1996 Oct 20 Festival Frolics THE SUNDAY MAIL p.65.
Evelyn Hartogh is not likely to shock easily after pushing a vacuum cleaner down the Queen Street Mall dressed as Wonder Woman. So she will not be daunted by wrapping a few tuna cans around herself in her latest incarnation as Millennium Mermaid. Hartogh, 24, will appear as the fishy Goddess as part of La Boite’s Shock of the New Festival, until Saturday.
1996 Oct 17 OLIVIA STEWART Expect the Unexpected, What's On COURIER MAIL p.5.
"An eclectically clad modern mermaid … innovation, invention and imagination are the priority … MILLENIUM MERMAID [PHOTO: Evelyn Hartogh]: an interact piece combining stamps, sculpture and slide projection, which questions cultural depictions of female sexuality, autonomy and power”
1995
1995 June FRONT COVER Evelyn Hartogh FRUIT: A QUEER ANTHOLOGY.
a queer anthology fruit
FRONT COVER: Evelyn Hartogh as Humphrey Bogart smoking (Photographed by Anna Zsoldas 1995)
CONTRIBUTION: 1995 June EVELYN HARTOGH The Compulsory Heterosexuality Supermarket FRUIT
1995 Sept 20 Evelyn Hartogh’s book Soldout GREEN LEFT
1995 31 May ABBIE MORRISSEY Review of Big Time Small Fi TIME OFF
BIG TIME SMALL FI
350 Upper Roma Street Fri May 26 1995
This well orchestrated event was put together by Chapter Muzik, with an impressive line-up of interstate and local acts and the large crowd that crammed into the disused warehouse was overwhelmed by a feast of the senses.
To warm up the evening and provide accompaniment to the food, art and visuals was a solid line up of solo and performance artists. On the musical side of things we were entertained by Paul from the Sump/Under my skin, Pat from Small World Experience and Deb from Wonderous Fair. Performance-wise Evelyn, Jacinta and Nicole rendered some thought provoking pieces.
The most remarkable aspect of the evening was the frenetic pace which the enterainment sprang forth and before you had finished eating, listening or at the last thing to catch your eye, Ashtray Boy was centre stage playing their unashmaedly Australa\ian tunes. This sydney three-piece was down a bass player, but as a two piece they still managed to win over quite a few of us who hadn't had the pleasure of witnessing their tales of suburbia. There is a raw edged guitar sound, that may have been emphasised by the absense of bass, but all in all they ahd a rock/pop combination of catchy tunes and sang about subject matter most of us could idenity with e.g. Romper Room.
Stoned Posers are a truly interstate band, with origins in Perth and a slow Easterly migration ensuring an extra band member or two along the way. It had been a while since I have heard this particular brand of sounds and I must say it was most pleasant. The Posers have an unfettered rockin' sound that almost verges on old school punk, but it still retains a pop feel. There is no obscuring of instruments behind layers of effects, only pure enthusiasm and toe-tapping noise.
A now familiar name to the local scene is Minimum chips. They did what they do best and that isto create a soundscape with strings, percussion and winded instuments. They performed haunting instrumentals and mostly instrumentals. Minimum Chips were a striking contrast to the bands so far but added to the variety and spice with their eerie layers of sound.
By this time most of the crowd were becoming quite weary , but Sea Hags were just the pick-me-up required. Charged with umour and eagerness Sea Haggs launched into a totally rockin' set. The sounds were varied from jangly pop to some funky numbers, all mixed in with some awesome voila sounds. Consensus voted Car Troubel up there with some of the classics.
Finally on Tripod, and although by this stage the crowd was thinning dramatically, but those die-hard Tripod devotees were there til' the death. They produced their patented instrument drone with even less structure than the last time I had seen them, but I will never understand how they can make the noise they do with such casual ease. Tripod won't be playing again for some time so this was a great way to go out. ABBIE MORRISSEY
1995 Feb ANONYMOUS Review of Typecast SEMPER
A Queer cultural event – lesbian, bisexual and transgenderist creative artists.
Sandra Davey kicked off the evening with “out of my shell”. Her performance began with depilation of underarms, pubes and head, commenting on the myth ofhariless beauty, and the work it involves. To the tune of rhythmic drumming, Davey smashed eggs full of paint over naked body, to conclude the performance. Stick then performed some poetry, smeearing mud/ [to represent} shit over himself as he spoke about toilet training, wetting the bed and having sex. Stick's delivery was smooth and his phrasing eleoquent.
Next up was Lollie, the chillout cherub, demonstrating a lot of soul and thought behind the cute girly image, and throwing some light on the machinations behind “funkify yourself”. Lollie's suprising performance un accompanied, improvised and showed influences in vocal style fomr Bjork and Sinead O'connor to Eartha Kitt. The Vinyl Kitten Vamps are Michaela Costigan and Shane rowlands, two established performers working together to produce a hilarious and incisive critique of lesbian culture. VKV covered topics as diverse as the 1994 Lesbian confest's exclusino of transgenderist lesbians, and the Vinyl Kitten Vamp's guide to flirting.
Sometimes Bodily Harm examined a blance between masculine and feminine, and featured Dallass anguish, the co-curator of the exhibition. The performance used mirror imagery, masks and fire, foreshadowing the finale. The Bouncinettes performed a weird one called Fruit and Heels, with one woman embodying the fruit, and the other representing the utensils used to cut, juice and devour. The meeting of the juice squeezer bra and the orange halves bra was a real crowd pleaser.
Evelyn Hartough [sic] stole the show with the women of the Toilet Doilies walking on stilts as she spoke. The fires at the bottom of one of the women’s stilts set off the fire alarm, and the crowd of two hundred hot sweating art enthusiasts had to evacuate the premises. ANONYMOUS
1995 Jan 11 MOCK-E Typecast TIME-OFF.
”Evelyn Hartogh is a performance art regular who … has been working with Bartleme Galleries for the last two years and has used characters such as Wonder Woman and Barbie … ”
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