Fri 9/30
On the final weekend of the second FRONT International Triennial, electrifyingly creative local drag artists Dr. Lady J performed at the Cleveland Institute of Art’s student lounge in front of a FRONT installation called Joy(FULL) by CIA alum Loraine Lynn. Her self-designed and constructed costume played off the installations colorful fiber shapes intended to be touched and to “incite joy.”
Much joy was incited by Dr. Lady J’s intense performance in a long, swirling skirt of fiber ropes that reflected the colors of Lynn’s work. The performance was followed by an engaged Q&A with questions from intrigued students that elicited enlightening comments from the performer who is actually a “Dr.”: she earned a PhD in Music from Case Western Reserve University, with a thesis on the mainstreaming of drag in the 90s.
View the PHOTOSTREAM here.
