About

Curated by Greg Ellis/Ward 5B
With Brian Paul Clamp and Jackson Siegal

“You thought it meant a swishy little boy with peroxided hair, dressed in a picture hat and a feather boa, pretending to be Marlene Dietrich? Yes, in queer circles they call that camping. . . You can call [it] Low Camp. . . High Camp is the whole emotional basis for ballet, for example, and of course of baroque art. . . High Camp always has an underlying seriousness. You can’t camp about something you don’t take seriously. You’re not making fun of it, you’re making fun out of it. You’re expressing what’s basically serious …