AUSTIN, TEXAS
When I brought artist Millie Brown as part of the talent at the HUF House in SXSW, I didn't know she would do the most controversial performance of the year yet. On the way to Austin, she told me that her friend Lady Gaga was going to be in town and that she wanted to do some sort of collaboration. Actually, they both had already worked together for a music video of the singer's Monster Ball album, few years ago. Gaga is into Millie's "vomit art". Yep, one of Millie's most acclaimed work as performance artist is to drink colored soy milk and regurgitate it into a canvas. I know what you are thinking, I was shocked when I first saw her perform during Miami Art Basel 2013. But that's what art is, right? With Millie I experienced two days of rehearsals with Lady Gaga and her team, I was quite impressed with Gaga at work - she definitely runs the show, from choreography to the sound mixing deck. She told Millie that her "dream" was to be vomited on while riding a pig (I laughed, I guess only Gaga could have dreams like this), and Millie made her dream come true! When Millie went on stage, they automatically clicked, I was backstage and it looked like they rehearsed for a month. It didn't look gross to me then (maybe because I knew that was going to happen) but the faces of the front row were epic. It was very cool. Hope you like the behind the scenes pics of this now iconic moment of pop culture.
Millie and I backstage after the performance
Gaga has the best make up artist ever, can I borrow her?
Gaga wardrobe
Lady Gaga limited edition beer
Set list
Millie before performance
And Millie after performance!
Actually, I wanted to publicly denounce that a photo I took of Millie Brown is published in People magazine but they didn't credit the author despite having been asked to do so, how uncool are they?
Lady Gaga ARTPOP
The performance was filmed by FUSE NEWS, here's a still from their footage:
