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Kembra Pfahler: On The Record Off The Record: Volume Two

May 19–20, 2022
159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231

Above all else, Kembra Pfahler is a downtown New York icon. She has also been a dominatrix, a punk rocker, a Playboy model, a Calvin Klein model, a wrestler, a lifelong feminist, and a performance artist who uses her own body as the site of some pretty serious feminist horror, painting herself shades of red and blue, and cracking eggs over her naked body. Pfahler’s latest work, On The Record Off The Record: Volume Two, is a commission by the Brooklyn space Pioneer Works. The performance piece employs a massive sculpture of a black vinyl record. Sonically rigged, it doubles as a musical instrument and will be “played” by members of the The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, a band started in 1990 by Pfahler and Samoa Moriki. Look forward to a performance of feminist transgression. —Sophie Kemp