trixxie carr
The Right to RULE
2012
Gorilla, Manchester
Producer | live performance,
Featuring trixxie carr, Honey Mahogany, Jeremy Bailey, Volkov Commanders
A new commission for Abandon Normal Devices Festival
Created by trixxie carr, a born-female drag queen orphan, singer, songwriter and musician from San Francisco, The Right to RULE was the performance-party highlight of AND 2012.
Revolutionary in her radical inclusion through art, trixxie carr often seeks out people who aren’t necessarily experienced in drag, dance, acting or singing to participate in her numbers as well as her theatrical works, creating a shared learning experience as well as a shared stage experience.
No one should have to fight for the right to be awesome, yet ruling classes exist (royalty, government, capitalist and corporate), sometimes because they are revered and respected by their subjects, and sometimes through violent and oppressive regimes.
Examining the right of those outside of the status quo ruling classes to succeed within them, regardless of birthright through lineage, and instead by right of being (as in being, here, alive), The Right to RULE was a thrilling, subversive live experience that fused drag, comedy, fashion, live music, riot-theatre and interactive new media.
The show featured Honey Mahogany (San Francisco), new media artist Jeremy Bailey (Toronto), dance duo Ultra Violet Violence, The Volkov Commanders, Tranarchy and Eggs Collective (Manchester). Culminating with trixxie carr delivering a Studio-54 homage upon a full-scale, specifically constructed unicorn.
Conceived in part as a response to the winners-rhetoric of the London 2012 Olympics, it chose to share the winner’s podium with all those who may not be first past the finish line, but who sure as hell put in the effort.
