Wigs & Gloves

Drag, burlesque, queerlesque, vaudeville, cabaret, circus, belly dance and acrobatics. Artists question and discuss gender norms in their performances, creating a queer space that allows for freedom beyond worlds of binary thinking. With humour, eroticism, irony and tragedy, their performances are political and queerfeminist.

In the loop of the 16mm film, elements that stand for historical power relations and feminist movements are revealed; nostalgia, pop culture and fashion styles flow as quotations into the artists' performances. The Polaroid, as an ephemeral medium, visualises this retro-nostalgia and refers to cartes de visite, cards with which the first burlesque performers presented themselves in the mid-19th century.

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