SUN. FEB 19

*NOTICE ABOUT AUSTIN MARATHON TRAFFIC*

Due to the Austin marathon happening on Sunday February 19 from 7am-4pm, we suggest driving to The VORTEX from the east side (via airport blvd), and not I-35/west side.

Please plan ahead to ensure you make our earlier showcases on time! Reminder that our programming begins at 11am with Erica Nix & Nikki DaVaughns “Country vs. Cunty Aerobics” followed by Kay Turner’s “Lesbopalooza: The Movie” at 12 noon.

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Country vs. Cunty

presented by Erica Nix and Nikki DaVaughn
11:00am-12:15pm @ VORTEX Parking Lot
Come get Sweaty and Sexy and “Yeehaw” with these Texas Natives while DJ Alchemical (aka Angelica McAuley) serves a mix of Country, Hip Hop, and down right SEX jams to get you HOT the way only TEXAS can. Feel free to come wearing your shortest Daisy Dukes, Cowboy hat, or whatever makes you feel Sexxxy. Both High and Low Impact Dance moves will be offered. Please bring comfortable shoes and the support for your bits.

Lesbopalooza: The Movie

presented by Kay Turner
12:00-2:30pm @ VORTEX Main
A documentary dive into lesbian performance, Lesbopalooza: The Movie brings you front and center to Lesbopalooza, the epic lesbian variety show held at Dixon Place (NYC) in June 2019 as part of the Stonewall 50th Anniversary Celebrations. Hosted by Kay Turner and her band “Girls in the Nose,” (founded in Austin in 1985), Lesbopalooza features performances by iconic dykes such as Alix Dobkin, Carmelita Tropicana, Moe Angelos, Nedra Johnson, and Marga Gomez, along with Austin familiars such as Gretchen Phillips, Lex Vaughn, Joanna Labow, and Ann Cvetkovich.

Following the screening will be a panel with special guests including Flowacunt

AU(R)TIST

performed by Beto (ALO) & Pepx Romero3:30-3:55pm @VORTEX Tent
The pair of artist brothers come together for the first time in a performance, which consists of the creation of a 30-meter-long banner that will be displayed alongside a video that explores the relationship between both artists, considering Beto’s (Alo’s) neurodiverse condition as seen by Pepx Romero. The 30-meter-long banner captures the growth and development of the brotherhood bond between the two artists through the depiction of the friendly human and non-human faces that characterize Beto’s work.

El Vacío

performed by Carmina Escobar & Madeline Falcone with Alejandra Martorell
4:30-5:10pm @ VORTEX Main
In the dark of the deep space of the mind, our human bodies become filaments of light. We thread, we intertwine, we encounter each other and form knots that show no beginning or end, polymorphic individuals in the collective. We reverberate in the space linking it all, building a mesh with us, conductors of light, sound, emotion, and memory, guiding each other in the labyrinth of being. In El Vacio, performers Carmina Escobar, Madeline Falcone, and Alejandra Martorell materialize the strings of energy that link us, forming a net revealing the voids between them, a liminal space in which we find ourselves.

VENUS

performed by Tyler Matthew Oyer
7:30-8:20pm @ VORTEX Tent
Part operetta, part techno club, part esoteric ritual, VENUS is a stage show by Tyler Matthew Oyer. The concert takes all notions of Venus as its meditation; femme, anti-patriarchal, celestial non-dominant icons. The orbits of Venus and Earth dance in the pattern of a 5-pointed star or 5-petaled flower, a rhythmic traversing ebb and flow that reminds us our identities are not fixed, but constantly in flux; a relational orbit with our icons, past selves, and constellations of people, stories, dreams and inspirations. The performance features music from Tyler’s records NO TEMPLE, RETEMPLE, TENDERNESS and their forthcoming album VENUS.

Anthology of the New Depression

performed by Dorian Wood
9:00-10:00pm @ VORTEX Main
Since the beginning of 2021, artist Dorian Wood has recorded a different cover song every Friday for her Patreon subscribers, telling her story through the works of others. Over ninety songs (and counting) comprise this Anthology of the New Depression, and for the very first time, Wood brings a broad selection of these reimagined pop and folk classics to a live stage; songs from artists such as Beyoncé, Nine Inch Nails, Loretta Lynn, Bad Bunny, The Stooges, Olivia Newton-John, Violeta Parra and others, in a devastatingly intimate voice-and-piano performance.