horny ghosts
18+
A queer sex worker gothic melodrama – Part chronicle, part love letter, part brothel intro, part pirated copy of Microsoft Office 2009. Say it once… Say it twice… But we dare you to say it three times HORNY GHOSTS HORNY GHOSTS HORNY GHOSTS
Are you haunted by the never-ending and repetitious nightmares of being containing by your fleshy vessel? Does your body leak and ooze? Are bots stealing your image and creating alternative versions of you in 00 and 11s? Cursed Messages in lipstick on you mirror? Ectoplasm left on your personal massager? Specters blasting whale song while you’re trying to give someone a relaxing hand job in your local suburban massage parlour? Don’t worry – you’re not alone.
Upon this dark and stormy night, sex worker, towel art enthusiast, gender fraudster and self doxxer M.V Pask (a.k.a queenie bon bon) brings you the off off off broadway production of Honry Ghosts. A queer gothic melodrama of terror and delight. A journey through the ooky spooky voids and apparition filled crevasse of houses, bodies and the world wide wiggly web
Part chronicle, part love letter, part brothel intro, part pirated copy of Microsoft Office 2009.
An honouring to all who have been on swirly, whirly adventures of 0s and 1s with IP addresses to horni for community standards and bodies more mysterious than miss marple marathon. Let us all shimmy and cruise together through abandon brothels and vacated digital multiverses. A joyous come hither wink from the spectres of your old backpage ad.
“It’s a curious mix of someone giving a presentation that’s also stand-up. A tender performance on the horrors of ageing, the perilous hoops the neoliberal internet increasingly forces sex workers to jump through, and what it means to be a chronically ill person and worker in a time that fetishises productivity, Horny Ghosts is an ode to rest and the spectres of selves past. It’s a eulogy.” – Horny Ghosts The Age ★★★★★”
Duration: 1 hour with no interval
Artist bio
mv pask (aka Queenie Bon Bon) is a writer, performance artist and sex worker living and working in Narrm/melbourne. Their work focuses on care, labour and chronic illness. Horny Ghosts is their fifth solo show. Their work has been featured on locanto, backpage and in Maximum Rock and Roll and The Lifted Brow. They are a member of Australian sex worker art collective Debby Doesnt Do It For Free. In 2021 they released their first chap book ‘ the body is its own language’.
Brown's Mart Studio
Ticket price $17.00 - $23.00
Restrictions
18 & over Contains themes of death & grief References mental illness, suicide or self harmAccessibility
• Licensed Venue
• Wheelchair Accessible
• Offer gender neutral toilets
• Have a fully accessible public toilet that is unlocked
• Access to the smoking and bar areas are wheelchair friendly
• Accessible by public transport
• Car park suitable for wheelchair transportation available within 2 minutes of the venue entrance
• Signage is clear, large and easy to read
• Assistance dogs welcome
• Seating options are available in all spaces
• Railing is used where appropriate (stairs and toilets etc)