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Tentacular Spectacular

Oozing Gloop

A swirling gloopy wave of neon greens, blues and purples surrounds a series of photo-collage images including green jellyfish, mushrooms, straws and analogue televisions. There are smaller images of Oozing Gloop in different poses on the television screens and in the background of the waves. On the left side is a picture of Oozing Gloop, a drag artist with a black-bob wig, green face, green snake eyes, gold leaf eye make-up, fuchsia lip and gold bullring. Gloop is wearing a bronze corset with gold embroidery, with a high-neck coral neck-piece that drips over exposed breasts with coral roses covering the nipples. Gloop has a salty expression and is holding their hands as if mid-sentence.
Photo by Tomás Eyzaguirre. Editing by Esben Holk.

Slide into a multi-sensory, psychosexual swamp inhabited by transgressive drag frog Oozing Gloop and some of her many fae-like friends.  

Is it just me, or has the world totally lost its mind? As our climate collapses into a pre-humanity, primordial sludge, come bolthole into the butt holes of the sharpest savants around and see what these gender-non-conforming, neurodivergent drag artists have to offer. 

Be amazed, appalled and enthralled as together we wander through this installation of performances and cursed objects from a new anthropomorphic age… it’s frog-memes, it’s goblins, it’s fashion baby! And all underground critters are welcome. 

Oozing Gloop describes herself as “the world’s premier green, autistic drag queen”. She has completed 500 miles of queer pilgrimage through the co-ordinates of her unconscious. This was the furnace that melded six years of disappointing study with a sublime cabaret practice, creating a queer spectacle exploring Awe; the awful, the awesome and the autistic. Her interdisciplinary practice seeks to put a very particular voice upon a powerful pedestal of the universal subject and seeks to make society assimilate her. In the same way as society expects him to assimilate it. Troublesome, camp and revolting. 

thegloopshow.com

@oozing_gloop

Created by Oozing Gloop

Core Artist: Bonnie Bakeneko

Core Artist: Olympia Bukkakis

Core Artist: Shrek666

Guest Artist for Fierce: China

Production Manager: Joe French

Technical Stage Manager: Meg Hodgson

Set Designer: Jenkin Van Zyl

Sound Designer: Nicol Parkinson

Lighting Designer: Ali Armstrong

Lead Artist Assistant: Becky Plotnek

Lead Artist Access Assistant (Germany): Sarah Binz

Artist Liaison: Lacey McFadyen

Meme Artist: Esben Holk

Filmmakers: Alex and Liane

Produced by Artsadmin

Co-commissioned by Fierce, Battersea Arts Centre, Kampnagel and Take Me Somewhere

Supported with public funding from an Arts Council England’s Project Grant and part of the British Council’s International Collaboration Programme

  • There is a short section using strobe lighting
  • There is use of dry ice, haze and smoke grenades
  • The performance involves loud music
  • There are no moments of complete darkness
  • The performance includes partial nudity
  • There is a section of around 10 minutes that depicts femme body mutilation and birth trauma

  • The performance is around 90 minutes long
  • All performances are Relaxed – this means you can move or make noise if you need to, and you can go in and out of the performance space
  • Latecomers will be permitted
  • There is no interval
  • Audiences move around the space as guided by the performers
  • There are platforms and stools available to sit on if needed
  • There is a chill out space in a small covered area outside
  • There is no captioning or BSL available
  • There is an accessible toilet available

Date and time

13–14 October 2022

Please note
This is now a past event.

Venue

7SVN
77A Upper Trinity Street
Fierce Festival, Birmingham
B9 4EG
UK
Fierce Festival

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