Theater of Pain | Annie Howard
A new book and compilation album bring the fervent degeneracy of the Blacklips Performance Troupe work back to life.
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A new book and compilation album bring the fervent degeneracy of the Blacklips Performance Troupe work back to life.
A new compilation looks back on the storied New York drag ensemble where ANOHNI got her start, placing the troupe in a lineage of queer artists who treated drag as a means of accessing selfhood.
Tabboo!, Tabboo! 1982–1988. New York: Gordon Robichaux/Karma Books, 2021. 140 pages. ONCE UPON A TIME in the early 1980s, New York City’s East Village was cheap and scary, a petrified forest of desiccated industry. Among the ruins, fantastic creatures built worlds of fantasy and devised strategies to survive. They made themselves at home. One of these creatures was Stephen Tashjian, who had come to New York with a gaggle of friends, each full of promise, after graduating from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Some were photographers: Mark Morrisroe, the prolific punk, and Jac...