“Costume designers generally work within a realistic tradition. But the only script that the theatrical genius Machine Dazzle follows is an emotional one.”
-The New Yorker
Award-winning costume design meets cutting edge performance art!
Maximalist multi-disciplinary artist and longtime collaborator of Taylor Mac, Machine’s DIY and transgressive nature comes face to face with his conceptualist-as-artist identity; the results can be seen on stages all over the world, and now, in Catskill.
Taylor Mac and Machine Dazzle discuss their 2017 collaboration,
A 24-Decade History of Popular Music
Machine Dazzle (né Matthew Flower) moved to New York City in 1994 after attending The University of Colorado Boulder. Mixing odd jobs by day with art and dance clubs by night erupted in a unique lifestyle grounded in costume and performance art.
In 2018 Machine served as Grand Marshal in New York City's 45th Annual Village Halloween Parade.
Machine has worked with Taylor Mac, Justin Vivian Bond, Joey Arias, Julie Atlas Muz, Big Art Group, The Crystal Ark, The Dazzle Dancers, Stanley Love Performance Group, and The Pixie Harlots, to name a few.