On January 3rd, 2006, I appeared on Feast of Fun podcast (then Feast of Fools), a Chicago-based LGBTQ comedy podcast hosted by Fausto Ferños and Marc Felion.
Continue reading “Feast of Fun #216 – Tips + Trends for 2006, Chicago (interview)”In 1998, I choreographed and performed a movement piece inspired by William S. Burroughs’s Apocalypse at Big Chicks in Chicago, as part of Feast of Fools, a cabaret hosted by Fausto Ferños with the Chicago Radical Faerie Circle.
On March 16th, 1998, I curated Gender Trash + Other Cookies with Kathleen “Snatchleen” O’Shea in our personas, Twinkie and Star, The Giovanni Sisters. Gender Trash & Other Cookies was an evening of queer and sex positive video screenings at Randolph Street Gallery in Chicago.
Continue reading “Gender Trash + Other Cookies, Chicago (curatorial)”On November 1, 1997, Kathleen “Snatchleen” O’Shea and I created “Petting Zoo”, an interactive installation which featured a human petting zoo as part of Halloween Howl, a carnival fundraiser at Randolph Street Gallery in Chicago
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On April 17th, 1997, I performed The King of Pop’s New Clothes in the Columbus Drive Performance Space at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In King of Pop’s New Clothes, a reclusive pops star’s drug-fueled attempts at being loved through personal reinvention go horribly wrong when his public and private lives collide. The King of Pop’s New Clothes existed as both a live performance with projected video art and as a video art piece that screened at Randolph Street Gallery.
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In the spring of 1997, I created The Silver Room, an installation for Fausto Ferños’ Wig Show, at Gallery 2 in the south loop of Chicago. In this collaboration, I created a silver room-sized environment. Stationed on an alter like a metallic deity, I modeled one of Ferños’ aluminum foil wigs and blew bubbles and lit sparklers over viewers.
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