Join us for at the Michigan Theater for "Artist talk with Machine Dazzle: Revelations of Maximalism".

Creative provocateur Machine Dazzle has been dazzling stages via costumes, sets, and performances since his arrival in New York in 1994. An artist, costume designer, set designer, singer/​songwriter, art director, and maker, Machine describes himself as a ​“radical queer emotionally driven, instinct-based concept artist and thinker trapped in the role of costume designer, sometimes.” Machine designs intricate, unconventional wearable art pieces and bespoke installations.

A new sculptural installation called Machine Dazzle: Ouroboros will open at UMMA directly following this event. The sculpture will evolve over three chapters from March through July 2024, and use trash recovered from local waterways as its primary material to contemplate our own extravagant cycles of life, death, waste, and rebirth.