![]() ![]() Have you ever performed in a place like this? Empress Stah and her top secret laser butt plug (Photo: Simon Day). It’s about gender, religion and the universe. What is the message the laser shining from her butt is supposed to carry? It’s about the light inside of all us, about finding our own god in who we are. It’s also top secret and I can’t show you a photograph, or tell you about how it is made. It’s a surprisingly large and elaborate piece of equipment, and requires her husband to control the colour changes during the performance. She arrived at our interview on the grassy bank behind the Splore mainstage carrying a solid silver briefcase – inside was the famous laser butt plug. And while her reputation precedes her on the European scene, there is a lot more allure (and apprehension from certain more conservative institutions) for her first laser butt plug show on this side of the world. Since then she’s appeared with Cirque Du Soleil and Dita von Teese, performed at Splore, and in 2015 collaborated with Peaches, the genesis of her now-famous laser arse show. And someone invited me to a trapeze class, I’d always been on the monkey bars as a kid, and so I got on the trapeze and I never got off. ![]() And I was into a lot of the body piercing stuff in the modern primitive scene. So I start doing some drag shows (in Sydney clubs). “I was floating around, I was on the dole, I thought I wanted to be on stage but didn’t really know how or why or what. The Australian performer who has been based in London for the majority of the last 20 years, began her career in performance by dropping out of economics degree. She wants her audience to question their understanding of how a body can and should be used. She wants the crowd to be challenged about the way they see things like gender, sexuality, and fetishism. Was this crazy stunt a circus performance, cabaret, or art? Empress Stah says it’s all of those things, and designed to make the audience take more out of her show than just mere entertainment. It was athletic, hypnotic, multi coloured, and coming straight out of her arse. ![]() The music, produced by Canadian artist Peaches, was dark and intense as she spun on her hexagonal swing, as the laser butt plug changed colours and size from a single tight beam to a thick rainbow haze. Her muscular body swung, her legs stretched far apart, and then a laser shot out of her anus and across the crowd. Simon Day spoke to her about how her art challenges audiences to look at the world in a different way.Įmpress Stah hung from her trapeze above the stage as hundreds of Splorers waited for the moment.
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