OBJECT DRAG + OBJECT RUNWAY

Object Drag is an ongoing research project giving loving attention and flamboyant care to well worn objects. Through costumes designed to restrict their usual function, they are offered relief from their subservient role to humans. As a queer art form, drag subverts body expectations and, at its best, soars for collective liberation from our ongoing hostage relationship to systems of domination, through camp, humour, disguise, and a good dose of flash and dazzle. This language is brought to puppetry: allowing objects an imagined body autonomy, as comrades of miraculous joy and solidarity, to be seen and to perform in new light.

Combining the Object Drag designs with a fashion context, in Object Runway: alarm clocks become celebrity fashion models featured in this catwalk micro-performance. With the help of a mechanically turning runway, clocks strut the catwalk to an audio soundtrack mixing Madonna’s ‘Hung Up’ with Berlin drag queens giving their hot-takes…