Performance Artist Leigh Bowery Goes Shopping

Recently uploaded to YouTube is this wee gem of a video of Leigh Bowery shooting a shopping segment for the UK BBC TV’s ‘The Clothes Show’ in 1988.  Bowery was a London-based performance artist, club promoter, and designer who created the legendary club Taboo which became the hang out of London’s alternative ‘artists’.  Taboo was really ahead … Continue reading

Performance artist Percy Katt’s Swan Song

  The alter ego of avant garde performance artist PERCY KATT is an  exhibitionist. provocateur and libertine. with an extraordinary undisciplined imagination.  Percy transcends gender and refuses to be pigeon-holed, and is a celebration of artistic and sexual diversity who has produced SWAN SONG as a bookend to the last ten years of Percy’s creative life.   This  … Continue reading

Performance artist and queer theatre maker ALEXIS GREGORY talks with Queerguru about his latest piece FUTURE QUEER

  Queerguru first met London-based queer playwright, performer, director and producer. ALEXIS GREGORY some years back when he wrote and starred in SEX/CRIME some five years ago. Since that interview, Queerguru has become both a fan of his work and his friend. We were more than happy to be able to report on his outstanding … Continue reading

Performing Under A Big Top

Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circuses may have finally have closed their big tents for the last time after 100 years in business, but there is a new Circus in town.  London Town that is. The Sex Circus boasts that none of its very fit performers are cruel to animals but the facts  are … Continue reading

Perfume de Gardenias : a delicious black comedy about funerals

  Whether this post-pandemic time is suitable for this rather wonderful black comedy that takes aim at the hypocrisy of funerals, seemed irrelevant. This deliciously funny satire is after all the work of Macha Colón, a character created by the artist Gisela Rosario Ramos and inspired by the iconic actor and drag queen Divine. In … Continue reading

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