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Bad Romance was a group show and live programming that I co-curated alongside Tessa Makai at David Lynch’s Club Silencio in Paris. I hosted the program and performed at the opening. The vernissage premised attendees gathering at the Club that night in my memory and performers carrying me onstage in a coffin; our drag performer read an obituary and then I, surprisingly undead, rose and began hosting the show. Guests were treated to film screenings, a reading, live music, and a drag show. The idea of the show came from my personal history with Lady Gaga, who was the first interdisciplinary creative I was inspired by when I was in middle school. The show was supported by Parsons Paris.
Curatorial statement | 13.05.23:
Bad Romance explores fantasy, desire, and loneliness in search of identity. The group exhibition and live program features rising artists from Parsons Paris as well as guest performers from the wider community. The title alludes to Lady Gaga’s iconic 2009 track. Gaga presented a landmark of interdisciplinary art, performance, film, and sound practice in the 2000s, shaping the generation whose work is presented. The show is nostalgic but simultaneously utopian, loving but also loathing, invoking questions surrounding the ‘tortured artist’ and suffering for one’s art. After all, don’t all great artists have a Bad Romance with their work?