Vagina Jones

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Add to My Profile | More Videos I've had a lot of stage names in the past, Mary Magdelane on a Stretcher, Flying Jesus, King Leah. In 1998 I joined the Church of the Subgenius and needed a new one. I wanted something that was tough and cool like Cleopatra Jones and something that was feminist, sexy and silly. A friend suggested the name and it fit like a glove. I thought it was so perfect as my aim in those days was to make awkwardness sexy and sexy awkward. I wore my underwear over my clothes and used props like a dildo harness with a three headed plastic hypodermic needle, duct tape, giant metal boots, plastic hands and funny hats. I wanted people to say vagina when they saw me and feel strange about what they thought it was before. I'm a woman, so it fits, but what does what I do have anything to do with this organ? Vagina means everything you think it means, but it also has connotations to it I like to explore: sex, blood, birth, vulnerability, pleasure, pain, etc When I do performances on stage I purposely go in unexpected directions, ones that appear to have absolutely nothing to do with it. By doing so I create new meanings and question again and again how I define Vagina. It's not just a hole to pee from or have sex with and it's not the only thing that makes me a woman. (That said, I don't believe all women have them.) And if I am redefining it's connotations, I hope that the audience will do the same.VAGINA JONES "Few cassettes have terrified me as much as the tape I received from Vagina Jones (AKA Berlin-based artist King Leah). Shouts, scrapes, and a pitilessly long yet compelling track called "His Name Is Gomez" remain burned in my brain for life." Chistopher DelaurentiFebruary 17, 2007 Vagina Jones DJs and VJs at White Trash Schoenhauserallee 6/7 BerlinFebruary 21, 2007 Vagina Jones Djs and VJs at Moebel Fabrik for a B2 magazine party Brunnenstrasse 10 BerlinMarch 3, 2007 Vagina Jones and Dave Sills perform there Cello/Akordeon/Vocals set at White Trash Schoenhauserallee 6/7 BerlinI also have a weekly radio show on www.wtnrradio.com called "Vagina Jones Ear Worm" every saturday from 6pm to 6am world time.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4I miss you Mia. You will always be my rock n roll idol.