Anthony Hudson / Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper

(Portland, OR)

Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper are GLOOP

Access Notes

Ages 18+ due to language, sexual content, drug use, clowns, forced vaccinations, and exposed breastplates.⁠

DESCRIPTION

GLOOP is a lifestyle. GLOOP is a brand. GLOOP is a modality. GLOOP is Glamorous Ladies of Opulent Persuasion. GLOOP is Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper—Portland, Oregon’s premier avant-garde drag duo—bringing you an evening-length, partially improvised drag explosion sending up whiteness and wellness culture.

In GLOOP, Carla and Pepper are slated to lead a psychedelic wellness seminar in Sedona until their party bus runs out of gas at PICA, where they are left with no choice but to teach homodalities and hole-istic healing practices—and all before the mushrooms kick in. Tackling art therapy, micro-dosing, land acknowledgments, and demonstrating what it looks like when a drag queen has a meltdown while lip-syncing on an actively-inflating airbed, GLOOP will teach you how to overcome (and monetize) your limiting beliefs through a gauntlet of spectacularly unhinged drag from two of Portland’s most beloved grifters. 

After over a year on tour, GLOOP returns home to Portland for the first time since February 2021!

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Anthony Hudson (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Siletz) is an artist and writer sometimes better known as Portland's premiere drag clown Carla Rossi. Together they host and program Queer Horror—the only LGBTQ horror film and performance series in the country—at the historic Hollywood Theatre. Anthony's performances have been featured at the New York Theatre Workshop, La Mama, PICA's TBA Festival, Portland and Seattle Art Museums, Portland Center Stage, and have toured internationally. Find out more at TheCarlaRossi.com.

So spice, they named her twice—Pepper Pepper is a multimedia performance artist and writer. Their work explores the comedy and vulnerability of life through a surreal filter of magic, history, and technology. Their 15+ year participation in Portland’s drag nightlife parallels collaborations with Portland theater and dance companies Hand2Mouth Theater, Risk/Reward, and Linda Austin Dance. A 2020 Visual Arts Fellow from Oregon Arts Commission, Pepper actively hybridizes visual and performance practices through projects like Diva Practice and, more recently, Pink Moment—a series of self-portraits about gender, magic, and digital identity in ink, video, and dance. Find out more at thepepperpepper.com.

sponsorship

GLOOP is sponsored in part by The Property Weirdos.