Black Exhibition

About the show

The work is set on Fire Island and features a range of LGBTQ+ themes including poppers, group sex, and sexual rejection. A parallel theme is writer's block. It features a range of characters inspired by queer figures, including Gary Fisher, Michael Johnson, Kathy Acker, Yukio Mishima, and Samuel Delany. Harris played Fisher, reading from his published works, with the four other figures as muses or advisors to the character. Cultural references in the work make reference to social media culture on Twitter in the early 2010s, as well as the "Twitter gay" trope. The piece uses physical comedy and humour alongside serious dialogue, free verse, choral speaking, dance, and tableaux vivants.