[Montreal Heels]
Artist(s)/Author(s): Kayla Noriko Tange
Format: Archive Item
Keywords: AAPI, sex work, heels, burlesque, Performance Art
City Produced/Published: Los Angeles
Reference Number: B.32497.TA
Location: Box
Acquisition Date: 8/20/2021
Copies: 1
Collection: Private Practices: AAPI Artist and Sex Worker Collection
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Collection: Kayla Tange
Donated By: Kayla Noriko Tange
Description:

These shoes were worn in various instances, one of them during the Montreal Burlesque Festival where I performed as Coco Ono. This is when I started to incorporate my bejeweled leaf blower, which I took to Canada. The act was called "The Socially Acceptable Drug," where I eat, strip, and blow my hair with the leaf blower. The most recent use of the shoes was for a show called (not my) President's Day with A Queer Cabaret, where I stripped and stepped on a graham cracker cake made to look like the white house. Some of the cake is still caked on the bottom of the heels. 

K.T. 
9/21/23

 
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