sex columnist Trinity Diva on her annual public nudity event in Cape Town. Details about the event can be found on the Naked Artist blog.
1. How are you related to the original Lady Godiva?
I am the reincarnation of Lady Godiva of Coventry, infamous naked horse rider and 11th Century Art Patron. I have past memories and unexplained coincidences in my life that indicate to me that I carry a portion of her soul.
2. What do you think about the body, should it be exposed?
I believe that we should all be as naked as we want to be, without weapons of any kind. Nudity leads to peace. Even lovers cover themselves with a sheet when they are arguing in bed. Nobody ever went to war naked. Except me, but then my war is the war of the sexes, the war of the senses, the fight of love against fear.
3. Was your horse in on the action – what is his/her name?
My Piebald war-horse is called “Apache”
4. Feedback from the public, how do they relate to what you did?
My Public Nude shows always have a similar reaction. Human beings are respectful of the vulnerability of nudity. I am always treated with love and respect as well as the inevitable mass shock and mass hypnotism that my show invokes. My audience will never forget me. I inspire them with passion, freedom, horror, and extreme emotions of every kind. I instill life energy.
5. Are there any taboos left, boundaries you wish to cross?
Yes. The most dangerous taboo of them all. I wish to combine Love and Sex.
6. Do you know about the Lady Godiva in Poland?
Yes. There are many Lady Godiva’s all over the world. We are the Wild Women brought back to life in a tide of rebellious balancing feminine energy that is now sweeping the planet.
7. What possessed you to become a sexual freedom fighter?
It is my destiny. I am an artist, I am a human, I have lived through the sexual trauma being born in a sexually repressed society, I have no choice but to heal the damage done to the sexual spirit, in myself and my society, using my talents as an artist, psychologist and sex therapist.
8. What is the best and worst question you have received as a columnist?
The best sex question is always that saucy sexy thing that everyone never knows how to talk about but everyone wanted to try…Tantra, tonsils, toes, torniques, tossing the roles, trying new roles, testing boundaries, tree hugging… it’s all titillating.
The worst ones are just expressions of the darkness of the sexual soul. These are also about toes, tonsils, triggers, tears, terribles, trauma-reliving and trust broken.
9. What do your publishers think about this?
My publishers support sexual healing. They probably want good sex lives just like everyone else I know.
10. It’s obvious you draw your inspiration from other public nudity artists, what have you to say about city bylaws against public nudity?
Eventually anti-nudity law will naturally fall away as nudity will no longer be that naked space of protesting artists but our natural birthright as sacred sexual beings.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Friday, December 12, 2008
Naked Love Warrior.
A naked woman on a horse, charmed and shocked thousands of people in the streets of Cape Town this Saturday 7th December 2008 at Obs Festival.
The blue Mohican haired punk Godiva rode bareback on an apache' piebald warhorse, wearing only a bow with heart arrow and boots. She looked as though she had just ridden out of a science fiction punk movie.
"I am a Love Warrior" she told the crowds who thronged around her horse, tying to touch her but were held off by her pink punk-haired bearer and steenbok horn-bearing Valkyrie attendant. "Make Love not War"
Trinity Godiva, an ex-model and psychologist is producing a movie for sexual healing. She belongs to the new genre of open minded, non-judgemental sex therapists, and calls herself "A South African Sexual Freedom Fighter."
Godiva writes sexual articles for various magazines and her book Red Hot Pages is a bestseller by South African standards.
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
The Naked Artist is looking for documented stunts
If you're a Naked Artist or a Public Nudity spokersperson, then please submit documented evidence of your stunt, stating time, place and motivation. We will publish the result and if you get press, then you are automatically in our hall of fame. anaartjie@yahoo.co.uk
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Derek Serra outed as D'Angelo
IN WHAT must come as a surprise for many nude artists, a Cape Town photographer, Derek Serra, has announced that he plans to take naked photographs in the city as part of "an exhibition of D'Angelo". Exactly who or what D'Angelo is, remains a mystery, however according to Media 24, an often hysterical news site, D'Angelo is now "an Italian photographer, well-known for his photographs of nude subjects." and not the international pop singer as some would suppose.
Previous media installments from international tabloid company, The Independent Group, have painted a picture of a "public nudity spectacle" with massed groupings of naked Capetonians enjoying the summer weather without any clothing at all. However, after initial hopes that this would mark a breakthrough for the pent-up frustrations felt by many citizens still forced to wear clothing by a fuddy duddy local government and imprisoned by less than common sense in the mother of all conventions, such hopes could be dashed and the bid could turn out to be nothing more than a hoax.
Are we still stuck in fashionable business suits that have become de rigeur attire in the terribly trendy Cape Town, pretending to be artists involved with public nudity? "At best the whole thing is a publicty stunt that that will do nothing but drop ones shorts in the muck," that's according to one art critic who should know." We beg to differ and hope something more edifying comes of all this talk. Will Capetonians bare all, or simply forget to put on their clothing this summer? The Naked Artist Blogsite will keep you updated and we can only hope that the city that gave us beaches like Sandy Bay has something more risque up its err, lets just call it a sleave and leave it at that.
Here's that strange missive from Media 24 again:
Capetonians to bare all
Cape Town - A handful of Capetonians are willing to pose in the nude for photographs soon.
Cape Town photographer Derek Serra plans to take nude photographs in Cape Town to form part of an exhibition of D'Angelo, an Italian photographer well-known for his photographs of nude subjects.
The exhibition is entitled Nude World and will be held in 2007. Serra's photo project will start on September 20. The local photographer decided that South Africa simply had to be part of this exhibition. "There are already 40 people who are interested - most of them male," Serra said on Sunday.
"Maybe South African women are still a bit conservative for such photos?"
The photographs will show individuals going about their ordinary business in the nude.
Serra said ever photo tells a story and symbolises "freedom".
The project will take two months to complete.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Backpage/HotGossip/0,,2-1343-1344_1765241,00.html
Previous media installments from international tabloid company, The Independent Group, have painted a picture of a "public nudity spectacle" with massed groupings of naked Capetonians enjoying the summer weather without any clothing at all. However, after initial hopes that this would mark a breakthrough for the pent-up frustrations felt by many citizens still forced to wear clothing by a fuddy duddy local government and imprisoned by less than common sense in the mother of all conventions, such hopes could be dashed and the bid could turn out to be nothing more than a hoax.
Are we still stuck in fashionable business suits that have become de rigeur attire in the terribly trendy Cape Town, pretending to be artists involved with public nudity? "At best the whole thing is a publicty stunt that that will do nothing but drop ones shorts in the muck," that's according to one art critic who should know." We beg to differ and hope something more edifying comes of all this talk. Will Capetonians bare all, or simply forget to put on their clothing this summer? The Naked Artist Blogsite will keep you updated and we can only hope that the city that gave us beaches like Sandy Bay has something more risque up its err, lets just call it a sleave and leave it at that.
Here's that strange missive from Media 24 again:
Capetonians to bare all
Cape Town - A handful of Capetonians are willing to pose in the nude for photographs soon.
Cape Town photographer Derek Serra plans to take nude photographs in Cape Town to form part of an exhibition of D'Angelo, an Italian photographer well-known for his photographs of nude subjects.
The exhibition is entitled Nude World and will be held in 2007. Serra's photo project will start on September 20. The local photographer decided that South Africa simply had to be part of this exhibition. "There are already 40 people who are interested - most of them male," Serra said on Sunday.
"Maybe South African women are still a bit conservative for such photos?"
The photographs will show individuals going about their ordinary business in the nude.
Serra said ever photo tells a story and symbolises "freedom".
The project will take two months to complete.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Backpage/HotGossip/0,,2-1343-1344_1765241,00.html
Monday, September 12, 2005
Is D'Angelo for Real?
Doubts as to the veracity of claims by local artist and photographer "D'Angelo to have "taken pictures of hundreds of kaalgat South African citizens in New York, London and Berlin" have begun to emerge. In fact the man who calls himself "D'Angelo" aka Michelangelo could turn out to be a fraud and the project a hoax perpetrated by the Independent Tabloid company.
A recent "sexclusive" in Cape Town's Daily Voice carried photographs of work by Spencer Tunick next to D'Angelo's name. The attempt to pass off the notorious works of public nudity as the work of another artist have drawn eyebrows and criticism from some quarters. After numerous phonecalls and messages to D'Angelo were left unanswered, The Naked Artist blogsite decided to dig a little deeper and assess for itself whether or not the project is phoney.
As it turns out, D'Angelo's press release doesn't mention public nudity but rather a project involving nude photography "in the comfort of ones own home". A far cry from the public exhibitionism promoted by various tabloids and genuine naked artists such as Tunick. Does this mean local artists are too afraid to expose themselves to the elements these days, or are shirking back from the risks involved in offending laws governing public decency?
The Naked Artist challenges D'Angelo to strip down to his promise of showing Cape Town "warts and all" in the run-up to Nude World 2007
A recent "sexclusive" in Cape Town's Daily Voice carried photographs of work by Spencer Tunick next to D'Angelo's name. The attempt to pass off the notorious works of public nudity as the work of another artist have drawn eyebrows and criticism from some quarters. After numerous phonecalls and messages to D'Angelo were left unanswered, The Naked Artist blogsite decided to dig a little deeper and assess for itself whether or not the project is phoney.
As it turns out, D'Angelo's press release doesn't mention public nudity but rather a project involving nude photography "in the comfort of ones own home". A far cry from the public exhibitionism promoted by various tabloids and genuine naked artists such as Tunick. Does this mean local artists are too afraid to expose themselves to the elements these days, or are shirking back from the risks involved in offending laws governing public decency?
The Naked Artist challenges D'Angelo to strip down to his promise of showing Cape Town "warts and all" in the run-up to Nude World 2007
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