Rainer Werner Fassbinder makes Hanna Schygulla float during an appearance in the 1970s show "Stars in der Manege"

Second draft done. You, my pretties, get to read it next summer from WW Norton and Pushkin Press.

hamboning ;) prepping for tonights performance with Carmina Escobar and working on the nerves! vocal duet, minimal acoustic instrumentation and lots of non-lingual vocals, ICA LA at 8pm!

KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS. Director’s Cut. Restored and Remastered. In Theaters October 16.

next friday Carmina and I are presenting Mouth Full ;) ICA-LA

Solar Anus powdering for Monday vibes ;)

My collage of Divinity as Executioner, with Egerton MS as backdrop. They haven’t been well the past year, this performance at HR Chinatown was profound ❤️‍🔥

Prosthetic scarification 1970 Jean Paul Goude ❤️‍🔥🏆

Saturday I'm part of the 1pm panel discussion on Steven Arnold's Zanzibar studio salons! 6 hours of events including a keynote from Jarrett Earnest. Come to the Shirley Temple House in Santa Monica!

Finally announced and taking reservations at the ICA LA, pleased to be a live component of the Speaking in Tongues exhibition up now. Galleries will be open up to the start of performance. If you're in LA and need this please book soon.

at the getty later today www.getty.edu/calendar/per...

Friday at the Getty for PA Museum's High Performance Magazine flashback, LA is giving this week! Tuesday I'm in the Bay to take Linda's workshop, feeling fortunate to spend time 💗

Tomorrow night for April Fool's Day, I'm co-hosting this event Pippa Plays the Fool for the late great Pippa Garners. this is a fundraiser to the in-development Pippa Garner Foundation, merch and reasonable $15 ticket for the video screening all go to the cause. Foxy Moron! join us if yer in LA!

I’m finally in San Francisco for this!!!! I’ve alway been tickled by it 🤓🍒🏆

🏆 Tuesday moods: Hammer fall, Rachel Freire leather nipple cube, Leigh Bowery performance shot, my priest cap

Coming in April! I’m doing a cameo for Eva O at the live set, do joint, United Artists theatre downtown LA 🖤🖤🖤🖤

Also, I'm doing a book launch event in London at @qmul.bsky.social's QUORUM on 15 April. It's gonna be held both online and in person and feature a performance work by a great post-Soviet performer Pianka Pärna. You can register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Akhnaten at LA Opera with my dear friend and artist idol Johanna Went today 💗💗💗

with the fab William Wei, MD and art collector at his art week reception last night in Los Angeles. psyched to be in his college and love this neon psychic cross from Gen 💗

RICK CASTRO: PSYOPS & PHOTO OPS Photographic group exhibition __________ @laluzdejesus.bsky.social opening reception- March 6th 7-11pm La Luz de Jesus 4633 Hollywood Blvd Los Feliz. 90027 On exhibition thru March 29th, 2026

Always missing the late great Wanda Coleman 💗💗💗

I run my mouth in this! 🖤🖤🖤

RIP Rev. Jesse Jackson 💗 I saved this photo from the 1999 defiance of Clinton - piking up a POW and conducting a prayer circle with Milosevic 💗 www.thecrimson.com/article/1999...

Tonights watch!!! Manly P. Hall's When You Were Born starring Anna May Wong 1938, I was looking for it for years, bless YouTube 😜

More deets on the Fakir Musafar film and the exhibition at the ONE. Photo of Fakir and I was taken days before he died in Menlo Park, California. He gifted me a series of prints including the 4th image with vise clamps ;) 💗

Join us at the ONE institute for the screening of the Fakir Musafar doc film, A Body to Live In, with director Angelo Madsen, myself and curator Quetzal Arévalo. I'm talking head in the flick and honored to be part of this discussion event and exhibition at the ONE 💗

New hed shotz by @l-m-k-studio.bsky.social 🩵🩵🩵

I visited this Mausoleum in Oslo and couldn't believe the acoustics. psyched Diamanda did a concert there in 2012. If youre in Oslo visit, only open on Sunday afternoons.

Excited that Carmina Escobar and The Industry Opera at REDCAT is on Feb. 20-22, and including the Death Valley Amargosa Opera House video we shot a few weeks ago! Get tickets via REDCAT! www.redcat.org/events/2026/...

I just got more drone footage from our Automatic Writing session from October 2025 in Athens, Greece. Working on more Darkness Visible locations, for this 10 day immersive workshop. This space, once Communitism, now Plex, is hard to match, we produced 45 performances for our finals night!

Had the great pleasure of working on a Carmina Escobar produced video this week at Amargosa Opera House in Death Valley, with the fabulous singer Astrid Hadad! Love this older video that booms through who costume art! Our other component was the movement performer Oguri. Incredible experience 💗

There’s a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross’s legal expenses for murdering Renee Good. This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it. A thread on how to do that 🧵

A few years ago we were staying in Oracle Arizona for the winter hold and visited the Rancho Linda Vista, location of Warhol’s 1968 film Lonesome Cowboys

NYE 1985, at my friend Brad Lapin's party, 41 years ago ;)

James Magee and The Hill, (1945-2024) I had the pleasure of spending an unplanned day with him in El Paso just before his death, still had the art making boner! 💗

my personal fave non profit gallery JOAN Los Angeles benefit a few weeks ago, I'm host committee in case you couldn't tell ;)

Coming very soon to New Discretions Gallery in NYC, psyched to be in this lineup, art favorites living and dead. I've made 3 new photographic collages from Judas Cradle and autoFF images on the Egerton MS backdrop (medieval books of blood), sized for frames that John Cage scores were in! 🥀🥀

Happy New Years, resolutions stewing in me ;)

One xmas season Kembra Pfahler was driving to my old earthquake shattered silver lake house and found Falling James at a west side bus stop in this dear French maid's outfit 💙💙 I can't sleep with an LED light on in the room let alone have silver walls, so this was a very temporary Factory moment ;)

With Vaginal Davis, Palm Springs 1997, Rick Castro for LA Weekly 💖

In La Paz MX this week ringing in 64 🩵🎂🥳

1999 installation and Ms. Davis and I’s monthly performance club st Zen Sushi Silverlake 🧡🧡🧡

RICK CASTRO: Devil Doll for Tea~2025 ~ Devil Doll Sips tea in my first gallery wearing Braver New World T~Shirt ~ The T-shirt is a limited-edition art item not a mass-market product. For purchase information and details available via email ~ [email protected]

“The funny thing about Dial-a-Poem was that there was no substance. It worked, but it wasn’t an object. In those years, artists were trying to make things, things, things” -John Giorno #BOTD

My friend the photographer Michael Matson found these quilt panels online, co-founders of club fuck and I knew Miguel from early 80s days of working at clothing shops on Melrose ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Early birthday present from my friend Charles 💝💝💝

World AIDS Day, always feeling the loss of Butch Dehner and Cliff Diller 💔💔

Pam Hogg 🥀 with Sage Charles and Lydia Lunch 2014

RIP Pam Hogg 💔💔💔

Feels like the holy day season is on early 💗