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Tentacular Spectacular

Oozing Gloop

A photo of Oozing Gloop performing, Her face is painted green with gold fragmented foil makeup on her eyelid and cheeks, with red lipstick. She’s wearing a white and brown long-sleeved cow pattern dress and a red pirate hat that has white feathers on either side. Blue and green stage lights are gleaming behind her
Photo by Manuel Vason, at Fierce Festival 2022

Curated by the world’s premier, green, autistic drag queen Oozing Gloop, Tentacular Spectacular is an (ad)venture into networking networks of narrative, phobia, hope and utopia by showcasing the self made cryptids of 21st century trans* performers.

Oozing Gloop is joined by the architect of your eternal suffering, Olympia Bukkakis. Together, these Jesters of the new Dark Age will lure you through a psychosexual swamp of fester, rot & future relics. 

The writing is on the wall – everywhere, slimy green figures of folk horror are a-spawnin’. Moulding as our climate collapses into a primordial sludge, this slime becomes a generous furnace of creation. Emerging from this decay are the fruitful offshoots of this tentacular undergrowth; myth-busting, world-building ogre Shrek666, non-binary, body-horror performer  Bonnie Bakeneko and a mystery guest goblin working with themes of monstrosity & mulch. Jenkin Van Zyl conjures an inflatable underworld for these critters to play in, accompanied by melodic, monstrous and magical sound design by Nicol Parkinson. 

These gender-non-conforming, trans* & (by coincidence) neurodivergent drag artists invite you to fester in the problems that we have, whilst celebrating the solutions that are wrung from rot. It’s frog-memes, it’s goblins, it’s fashion baby!

This piece was originally commissioned for Fierce Festival 2022.

Oozing Gloop describes herself as “the world’s premier green, autistic drag queen”. Troublesome, camp and revolting; her interdisciplinary practice born out of a life of cabaret creates a queer spectacle exploring Awe: the awful, the awesome, and the autistic.

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Created by Oozing Gloop

Core Artist: Bonnie Bakeneko

Core Artist: Olympia Bukkakis

Core Artist: Shrek666

Guest Artist for Fierce: China

Dramaturgical Support: Olympia Bukkakis 

Creative Direction Support: Hester-Stefan Chillingworth 

Technical Stage Manager: Meg Hodgson

Set Designer: Jenkin Van Zyl

Sound Designer: Nicol Parkinson

Lighting Designer: Bryan Schall

Lead Artist Assistant: Becky Plotnek

Lead Artist Access Assistant (Germany): Sarah Binz

Meme Artist: Esben Holk

Filmmakers: NewfrontEars

Produced by Cat Harrison, Farha Bi and Aidan Strudwick for 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, the Jerwood New Work Fund, and part of the British Council’s International Collaboration Programme

For more information on this project contact Cat Harrison at cat@artsadmin.co.uk

Date Title Venue City
25 August 2023 An open air; Tentacular-Spectacular-Creature-Feature-Film-Trail Southampton Pride Southampton
13–17 June 2023 Tentacular Spectacular Battersea Arts Centre, London
25–27 May 2023 Tentacular Spectacular Kampnagel, Hamburg
13–14 October 2022 Tentacular Spectacular 7SVN Fierce Festival, Birmingham
A photo of Oozing Gloop performing, Her face is painted green with gold fragmented foil makeup on her eyelid and cheeks, with red lipstick. She’s wearing a white and brown long-sleeved cow pattern dress and a red pirate hat that has white feathers on either side. Blue and green stage lights are gleaming behind her
Photo by Manuel Vason, at Fierce Festival 2022
A photo of Oozing Gloop and Olympia Bukkakis performing on stage to an audience. They are both stood centre-stage smiling with one hand open to the side. They are attached to a single rope wrapped around them. Oozing Gloop’s face is painted green, she is wearing a brown and white long-sleeved dress with a red pirate. Olympia Bukkakis has white skin, a bald head and long elf ears. She is wearing an identical brown and white dress. Purple stage lights gleam behind them as the crowd engagingly watches them.
Tentacular Spectacular at Fierce Festival 2022. Photo by, Manuel Vason
A photo of Bonnie Bakeneko performing. They are knelt on a white medical bed with their head tilted back against a dark background with blood stains all over them and the bed. They are wearing a cream undergarment and a red horn headpiece with long red strings and jewels hanging off it.
Tentacular Spectacular at Fierce Festival 2022. Photo by, Manuel Vason
Tentacular Spectacular at Fierce Festival 2022. Photo by, Manuel Vason
A photo of Shrek666 performing. He is a green creature with two horns and a long light purple beard. He is leant forward with one arm on his back and one arm hanging. The set contains soft green and red lights, with green smoke appearing behind him
Tentacular Spectacular at Fierce Festival 2022. Photo by, Manuel Vaso
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