Pepper Pepper

Pepper Pepper is a Portland, OR-based multidisciplinary artist. His work transforms vulnerability into spectacle - using artifice, technology, and camp to metabolize trauma into luminous, often magical performance worlds. Pepper has presented performances on stages and at festivals including Risk/Reward, the Time-Based Art Festival (TBA), Performance Works Northwest, NCECA, and internationally at OFF! Biennale Budapest. Their visual and installation work has been exhibited at Oregon Contemporary, Linfield University, Seattle Central College, and The Budapest Art Fair.

Pepper has incubated new experimental works at residencies like MacDowell, Monson Arts, Playa, Caldera, Signal Fire, and PonderosaTanz (Germany), Pepper’s practice bridges experimental performance and nightlife legacy. With over 20 years in cabaret and drag production, Pepper has appeared at and been featured at The Austin International Drag Festival, OUTstages (Victoria, BC), and is co-host of The Portland Drag Theatre Festival alongside frequent collaborator Anthony Hudson.

His ongoing project Pink Moment explores PINK as queer energy, ritual, and resistance while hybridizing performance, photography, and installation into an evolving archive of embodied glamour.

@thepepperpepper
www.thepepperpepper.com

Events

TBA:13 TBA:17 CONVERSATION: Houses: Community, Creativity, and Competition TBA:15 THE WORKS: CRITICAL MASCARA: A Post-Realness Drag Extravaganza TBA:17 LATE NIGHT: CRITICAL MASCARA by Pepper Pepper TBA:15 TBA:14 THE WORKS: CRITICAL MASCARA "A Post-Realness Drag Ball"TBA:14 CONVERSATION: Tea with Madison Moore & Pepper Pepper MASQ TBA:14 TBA:13 THE WORKS: Pepper Pepper & Chanticleer Tru TBA:13 CONVERSATION: Reading is Fundamental TBA:16 WORKSHOP: VOGUE MOVE!TBA:18 LECTURE: Meet the Creative Exchange Artists NIGHT SCHOOL: Drag Animism and the Cyborg Sissy TBA:16 LATE NIGHT: Pepper Pepper Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper are GLOOP Coming Up!GOOD GAME