Reviews 1994-2006

2006 2 August DAN EVANS Theatre Fringe Round-Up ‘Kick Kiss Kill’ SCENE #652 p.38

“… ’Kick Kiss Kill’

Evelyn Hartogh has an MA degree in Women’s Studies and Creative Writing [sic: MA Cr. Wr. UQ 2002 & MA W. St. GU 1997 see CVs] 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”

2006 3 July DAN EVANS Box Office Critics Pick ‘Kick Kiss Kill’ SCENE #648 p.27.

“ … Dan Evans picks ‘Kick Kiss Kill’ Wonder Woman … Barbie … Lillith … all in one performance? All facing a postmodernist 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 culture [sis] icons that promises to be both comical and off-the-wall …”

2006 3 July FRONT COVER Evelyn Hartogh SCENE #648 p.27.

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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 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 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 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 July ANONYMOUS Art Love Jam: A Review SEMPER p36.

“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. I do dislike 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 … admittedly the acrobats were interesting, as were the rollerskaters with fireworks, but maybe that was because they didn’t open their mouths … a disgrace …”

1999 July NATHAN BROOKS All F***ked Up and Full of S**t SEMPER p.3.

“Evelyn you are all f***ked up and full of s**t . Maybe I’m coming down with a bug but I felt physically sick reading your pseudo-intellectual, half-assed, femanazi bullshit. Stop your insecent whining about humanity realising the differences between males and females. While the rest of society gets on with life you’re left screaming at yourself about extremist doctrines of a radical and permanently obsoltet, ideology. God help you, cos you’ll explode with your own anger and hatred before any intelligent lifeform takes you seriously. So GET OVER IT!!!! then we can all be happy J”

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 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 …

“She draws from mythology and iconography to focus on how women are commodified and fetishised and comments on the silencing of queers … very well paced switching between academic essays, short observations, photography and comical satires … ”

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 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 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 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

BRISBANE - “Performance Artist and Feminist Evelyn Hartogh will be launching a book entitled SOLD OUT which documents her work over the last four years. The book features original scripts of her performances including ‘Barbie’, ‘Wonder Woman’ and ‘Tampon woman’. Hartogh’s work seeks to challenge patriarchal representations of women’s roles and women’s bodies. She will be launching the book with a series of performances around Brisbane. She will appear at Metro Arts on Wednesday September 20 and at the Zoo as part of the Writer’s Fringe Festival on Thursday September 28”

1995 31 May ABBIE MORRISSEY Review of Big Time Small Fi TIME OFF

”… A well orchestrated event … a solid line up of solo and performance artists … thought provoking … frenetic pace”

1995 Feb ANONYMOUS Review of Typecast SEMPER

”… 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 … ”

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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