Staging Decadence

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Staging Decadence @DecadentStages Oct 31

New(ish) blog post! An interview with the utterly fabulous Angel Rose, on pink, glitter, ornament, and "excessentialism".

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www.stagingdecadence.com Angel Rose – Interview for Staging Decadence — Staging decadence Angel Rose is an artist with a penchant for morbidity, filigree, and disco. Her interdisciplinary practice since 2010 spans performance, painting, filmmaking, and zines. She has been exhibited...

Staging Decadence @DecadentStages Apr 17

Registration open!

Disgusting Civilisations: Decay, Degeneracy, and the Aesthetics of Revulsion

14-15 May 2026. Senate House, University of London

Keynotes: Matthew Potolsky & Jenkin van Zyl

For the full programme & to register, visit: bads.gold.ac.uk/disgusting?mc_…

Staging Decadence @DecadentStages Feb 26

Join us for our next event in collaboration with Triangle LGBTQ+ Cultural Centre in Deptford.
Codpiece workshop with E.M. Parry
13 March 7.30 - 9.30pm
Join artist and theatre designer E.M. Parry for this one-off workshop, exploring prosthetic and performative gender play.

Staging Decadence @DecadentStages Feb 2

New blog! Gareth Brookes reflects on their creative responses to Michael Field, which include double-sided embroidery that stitches images together, while keeping individuality discrete.
For Brookes, Michael Field were an activity as much as an identity.
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Image: Michael Field double sided embroidery. Image by and courtesy of Gareth Brookes. © Gareth Brookes (2026).

Staging Decadence @DecadentStages Jan 5

New blog! Louis Shankar on ‘Greer Lankton’s Decadent Narcissism’.
She was one of a kind. Her dolls are from a Rachildean fever dream.
‘Lankton’s work is decadent inasmuch as it holds up a mirror to the decadence of her world — its excesses and its decay’.
stagingdecadence.com/blog/greer-lan…

Image: Greer Lankton, It's All About ME, Not You (1996). Photographs by Tom Little. Courtesy of Mattress Factory.