Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper are GLOOP
Part of Time-Released 2023 at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
DATE
August 17, 18, and 19, 2023, at 7:00 pm
TICKETS
Sliding scale starting at $10
https://pica.org/events/gloop
LOCATION
PICA, 15 NE Hancock St, Portland, OR
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!