Video: Adele Bertei and Nan Goldin Discuss TWIST at McNally Jackson Books
On March 23, 2023, author and iconic queer rocker Adele Bertei and legendary photographer and activist Nan Goldin lit up McNally Jackson Seaport in front of a packed house while discussing Bertei's astounding memoir, Twist. Video by Yvonne Brooks.
About the Artists
ADELE BERTEI began playing music in Cleveland with Pere Ubu’s legendary Peter Laughner, and as an original member of the Contortions, produced by Brian Eno on No New York. She was lead singer of the first out, queer, all-women rock band, the Bloods. Her singing and songwriting career includes recording, performing live, and writing for such diverse acts as Thomas Dolby, Tears for Fears, Culture Club, Whitney Houston, Scritti Politti, Sheena Easton, Jellybean Benitez, Lydia Lunch, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, the Pointer Sisters, and John Lurie. Bertei played a lead role in Lizzie Borden’s seminal feminist sci-fi film Born in Flames. She is the author of two previous books: Peter and the Wolves, and Why Labelle Matters, a finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards. Twist is the story of how it all started.
NAN GOLDIN is an American photographer and activist. Her work often explores LGBT subcultures, moments of intimacy, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and the opioid epidemic. Her work and life was most recently documented in the film All The Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) and her most notable work is The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1985).
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