bambi@fizzymag.com    





cultural critic














The Collapse Tour
Summer 2024


May 19
Chicago
Lincoln Park Conservatory


Bambi Kunst in
Algotrapping
Site-specific four-channel audio installation in the fern room with performance activation for Florasonic, hosted by Experimental Sound Studio. The Collapse Tour announcement show.




May 31
Chicago
Coll
pse Contemporary
1450 W 18th St. Pilsen


In the Group Chat
Apartment gallery group show of painting, sculpture, and sound objects curated by Bambi from various artist group chats.




June
Berlin
Location TBA


Bambi Kunst in Berlin is Brutal

Durational performance in public space wearing clubwear made from German Woodland Camo Gauze and waterboarded in liters of 🍉 watermelon juice. Followed by 4 hours of guided clubbing at Trauma Bar und Kino.



July 2
Berlin
K-Fetisch


“Algotrapping: Cultural Criticism in the Age of Profilicity,”

a workshop on post-digital publishing, hosted by Bambi Kunst from FIZZY Mag. What is the future of criticism in an age of billionaire buy-outs, global fascism, and digital censorship? We will dig into the history of the situationist movement, game theory, and subcultural codes to strategize for possible solutions.  



July 6
Rome
Location TBA


My Roman Empire is Bambi Kunst
90-minute body-based performance in public space.



July 7–21
Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy
Teatro della Concordia


Bambi Kunst in Influencer to the
Smallest Theater in the World

12-day performance activation in the smallest theater in the world, est. 1808 with only 99 seats.
On echo chambers, accelerationism, trend forecasting, and the algorithmic flattening of image culture.

 
July 24–27 
Venice
P E R F O R M A T I C A


Bambi Kunst in Venice is Drowning

90-minute rags-to-riches fairytale set in the climate apocalypse, using the global art market as a backdrop. Curated by Hector Canonge for Performatica: Foreign Bodies All Over during the Venice Biennale. Dressed by
Alexander McQueen.




August 2
London
Location TBA


Bambi Kunst in
UK Hardcore with Rubber
Body-based performance with liquid rubber featuring sound by Vic from the bands Rubber, Merging, and Negative Space.



August 2
Chicago
Stasia’s Gallery


Absent Art Star at Local Opening
:
Featuring Bambi Kunst’s Chorus of Critics

A performance for the opening of exhibition Our Delicate Armor, curated by Veronica Clemens. The performance conciders Lacan’s small object of desire and Paramount Pictures’ byronic hater Regina George. Bambi Kunst’s Chorus of Critics features three emerging theorists, two art historians, and three people who actually hate Bambi.




August 19–22
Chicago
Bloodfruit Library


“Identity Fatigue:
Accelerationism and the End of Identity Politics”
Essay published concurrently with the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Performance lecture to follow.



August ?
Portland, OR
Performance Works NW


“I Traveled from the Margins to the Center and Back Again for Fun. Top Ten Things They Don’t Want You To Know!”

A performance lecture reflecting on Bambi Kunst: the Collapse Tour as a situationist détournemont thru fashion magazines, clickbait articles, the Venice Biennale, subcultural spaces, and art galleries.  



September ?
Chicago
Working Title


“I Traveled from the Margins to the Center and Back Again for Fun. Top Ten Things They Don’t Want You To Know!”

A performance lecture reflecting on Bambi Kunst: the Collapse Tour as a situationist détournemont thru fashion magazines, clickbait articles, the Venice Biennale, subcultural spaces, and art galleries.  

















this is me
Bambi Kunst is a cultural critic working in Chicago and Berlin. At night, Bambi makes deranged and durational performance art in subcultural spaces, art galleries, and raves. During the day, they are a columnist and art critc at FIZZY Mag, an independent fashion magazine based in Berlin, est. by Riot Grrrl photographer Brit the Kid in the early 2000s. CollⒶpse Contemporary, Bambi’s apartment gallery, is located in downtown Pilsen in Chicago. Bambi is a post-digital situationist. They are like if Hal Foster had an Instagram account and could only publish text while shouting out a plumping lip gloss sponsorship. Born in 1996 to teenage grunge musician parents, Bambi is like if a nepo baby inherited noise and cultural critique instead of money. Bambi is currently packing for a European tour, where they will spend their aesthetic inheritance fast.
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