"Machine Dazzle is the much-in-demand designer and artist behind popular cabaret, drag, and performance stars such as Taylor Mac and transgender icon Mx. Justin Vivian Bond. For the first time, his over-the-top stage creations, made for himself and others, are collected here alongside stage environments, ephemera, and photos from his career. In Machine Dazzle's world, costumes are transformative objects with world-making capacity. The artist's "queer maximalism" encapsulates a more-is-better attitude to making and creating, which looks to counter elitist notions that spectacle and extravagance are vapid. For him, these associations are embraced as queer for their affirmation of hybridity and the rejection of hierarchies of every kind. On the occasion of a major exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design, curator Elissa Auther brings together an expansive collection of essays and reminiscences from fellow performers, historians, and cultural critics that consider every aspect of Machine Dazzle's rich body of work."--Publisher's webpage

• A machine that dazzles / Elissa Auther
• Mike Albo
• Kalle Westerling
• madison moore
• Sally Gray
• David Rom??n
• Taylor Mac
• The muses / Queer maximalism, wildness, and Machine Dazzle's A 24-decade history of popular music / MX Justin Vivian Bond in conversation with Machine Dazzle
• You have a whole stage to fill - why not fill it up!: Machine Dazzle's queer maximalism / Machine Dazzle, in his own words
• Utopian feelings : splendor, unsettlement, and fabulousness in Machine Dazzle's Treasure / Unfiltered and alone : Machine Dazzle's pandemic self-portraits / On Matthew Flower (a.k.a. Machine Dazzle) : an adaptation of Melville's "The lee shore" / Exhibition checklist
• Costume design history