Camopansies — Charlie Lee

— There is no inside or outside anymore

Camopansies is a choreographic fantasy for a ghillie suit, rubbish, and series of holes. Entwining environmental toxicities and trans-corporeality, the distinction between inside/outside, self/world, human/nature begins to collapse. The edges of a body start to wriggle and slip, pores and plastics are indistinguishable.

Recognising that waste is a permanent reality in an ecological crisis, Camopansies looks to queer theory to imagine how we might find pleasure alongside our unruly toxic progeny. Both expansive and intimate, the boundaries of the stage collapse in a limning interplay between reality and the imagined.

Eva Hayward uses “trans*” as it references the prefixal nature of transgender – transformation, movement sideways, across, between unfixed states. Soil, phthalates, hormones and chintzy trinkets collide in a diaphanous crash, breaking into small splinters to be sucked and mouthed on, digested again and rinsed down a sink hole with leachate and spit. Part dance, performance lecture, and recycling facility, Camopansies delivers an eco-erotic ode to camp and slippery trans* embodiment in a time where there is no going back.

Concept, Choreography, Performer: Charlie Lee
Choreography, Performer: Iris Elgar
Lighting Designer: Chiara Wenban
Sound Designer: Clio Greig
Film/Dramaturg: Sam Carson
Development: Angie Collins

Camopansies is supported by LGI and made possible by WXYZ Studios.