8ATINA SATURNINA
BIOGRAPHY
Satina Saturnina, underground art house musicians/punk performance artists
from New Zealand, now living in Vancouver, Canada.
THE FOLLOWING CHRONOLOGY IS A COLLECTION OF CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

1994:
• Avant Garde Women's Music Festival (The Stomach, Palmerston North, New Zealand).
• Various gigs in alternative music venues...the press called the act "weird punk cabaret".
• Satina visits Vancouver, Canada and performs some solo spoken word pieces at
"poetapolooza", the opener for Vancouver's taste of Tollapolooza 1994".

1995:
• Performance art show "Satori" (International Festival of the Arts, Fringe Festival, New Zealand).
This show reinforced the "weird punk cabaret" tag; however it was mutated and became "a
marvelous cabaret for the hallucinogenically inclined"...The Evening Post NZ.

1996:
• Independent release- Demo EP "Sleeping Kewpie" (King Records, NZ).
• Satina Saturnina performs in "A Little Night In" (Fringe Art Festival, NZ)
• Opened "The Incredibly Strange Film Festival" (Paramount Theater, Wellington, NZ)
• Received an arts grant from The New Zealand Arts Council to produce an album; "Clitoris
Goddess"
• Performance art show "SSSnice" (Wellington City Art Gallery.NZ)

1997:
• 7" release "Annabellee", and "Doll Valley" (Kato Music, NZ)
• Opened "The Incredibly Strange Film Festival" (Paramount Theater, Wellington,NZ)
• "Annabelleels selected for INDIE HIT DISC #3 (NZ on Air)
• "Penthouse Pet" is made into a music video by Saturn TV, Wellington, New Zealand.

1998:
• "Clitoris Goddess" is released to New Zealand audiences with series of punk cabaret style
shows at Bats Theater, Wellington, New Zealand.
• "Clitoris Goddess" is distributed in New Zealand and Australia by KATO music.
• Satina Saturnina moves to Vancouver, Canada.
• Music Waste (The Brickyard, Vancouver, B.C)
• Grrrl Feast (The Brickyard, Vancouver, B.C)

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Headline Act; The Art Rock Show (The Brickyard, Vancouver, B.C)
Live to Air (Thunder Bird Radio Hell, CITR)
Headline act (The Picadilly, Vancouver B.C)
Headline act (Fetish Night, The Lotus Club, Vancouver B.C)
Headline act (Drag Night, Capilano College, Vancouver B.C)
Headline act (Railway Club, Vancouver B.C)
Freak Night (The Picadilly, Vancouver B.C)

* The New Zealand shows with the most significance are noted here. Satina Saturnina have
played various shows in alternative bars in New Zealand.
*lt is important to note when reading this biography that "Satina Saturnina" exists as a show in
"gig" format;as well as in a "performance art" context.The shows documented here mention both
of these formats.
Impending performances of significance include "Sector X"; to be performed as part of "Live at
the End of the Century" in October 1999 (Curatored by Glenn Alteen, Grunt Gallery) and a show
at The Knitting Factory in New York (September 1999).