Six cults need a biopic

Leigh Bowery

Famous for his dramatic and controversial performance art, Leigh Bowery originally hails from a sleepy Melbourne suburb called Sunshine. . Between the nights between Heaven, Asylum and his sprawling career Taboo, Bowery began radicalizing his look by dressing his 6’1 frame in a gimp mask, towering platforms and thick rubber wigs. He carves holes in his cheeks for safety-pin piercings, the gaffer pastes his flesh onto impossible female figures and drips his bald head with hot glue.

By day, Bowery designed costumes for Culture Club, Michael Clarke’s dance company, and did art direction. Massive attackto be later Lucian Freud‘s muse and the subject of the late painter’s nude series. In the year In 1994, Bowery passed away from AIDS-related complications, just as combination therapies were beginning to extend the lives of people living with HIV. When should a biopic be done right, to see the dramatized version during one performance? Eds In the year At a benefit in the early 90s, Bowery turned his back to the audience, bent over and sprayed the contents of his bowels on a front line that had never ripped his guts out.