Created by Silky Shoemaker, Lex Vaughn and Paul Soileau, SHABOOM! is a spectacle teetering at the edge of disaster. Sharing a mind of anarchy and absurdity, they create environments and actions of pleasure and liberation.
SHABOOM! is not just an experiment with failure, but a jubilant funeral procession for the notion of success, driven by maddening determination and an impressive lack of good judgement. SHABOOM! is theatre for the masses that forces culture and critique through the clown horn of queer slapstick.
Silky Shoemaker is an artist from central Pennsylvania. She makes work that explores queer community in its many despairs and ecstasies, solitudes, strangeness, and epic iterations. Recent activity includes solo shows at Art Yard in Frenchtown, NY and LAST projects in LA, and dancing backup with post gender punk Christeene at the Barbican in London.
Lex Vaughn is a multi-disciplinarian artist living in Los Angeles. Her work revolves around queer absurdity and butch visibility through performance, installation, video, and novelty items. Lex is one half of the multi-media gross-out duo, FFTWINZ, with Beth Schindler, whose focus is creating spaces and content for like minded gaywads. Lex has also been a drummer for several bands, including Lesbians on Ecstasy, co-directed and starred in Peaches’ music video Rub, and has a terrible ventriloquist act: Graham and Diane.
Paul Soileau is a performer and artist manipulating and perverting the realms of gender, identity, and good taste. He is best known for his personas CHRISTEENE and Rebecca Havemeyer. Paul’s work has been presented in spaces ranging from The Barbican Centre in London to The Parkside Lounge in NYC. He has collaborated with, as well as performed with, numerous acclaimed musicians including Faith No More, Peaches, Fever Ray, John Grant, Kembra Pfahler, Suicide, David Hoyle and Marc Almond. He resides with his cat, Tickles Pickles, in Brooklyn, NY.