About
Club Chrome is a grassroots arts collective focusing on queer pole dancing, prioritizing queer POC and/or sex worker artists from Western Sydney. We organize showcases and create performance opportunities for queer pole dancers at events such as Soft Centre, Vivid Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Queer Art After Hours, House of Mince, Heaps Gay, Sydney Solstice, DEiFY, Shandy Party, Eulogy for a Dyke Bar, and more. In 2022, we made our international debut with sold-out showcases in London and Singapore and have since established a Singaporean chapter of our collective.
Our core mission is to platform, support, and develop stigmatised minority artists within the LGBTQI+ community, providing a space for artists to practice with full freedom of expression.
2024
- ‘Heartsoul’ (Working Title, TBA): A video recording of 'Ampulex Compressa' will be shown as part of a group exhibition at Pari Gallery, investigating relationships, play, desire, longing, and liberatory futures. Scheduled for September to November 2024.
- World and Australian Premiere of ‘Club Chrome: Fxckery’ Documentary: The documentary will premiere at GAZE International LGBTQIA Film Festival in August and at the Sydney Underground Film Festival in September.
- Mentee Showcase, Red Rattler Theatre: A performance showcase featuring the mentees from the Worship Collective x Club Chrome mentorship program.
- Club Chrome x S.C.U.M, Closing Act, Just Diddit: The Gatho, Pari Gallery: A collaboration for the closing act of ‘Just Diddit: The Gatho’, commissioned by Pari Gallery.
2023
- Club Chrome Showcase, UltraSuperNew Gallery, Singapore: Featuring visual and performing artists and DJs from Singapore, London, and Australia, with proceeds going to Project X.
- ‘Ampulex Compressa’, Club 4A, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia: A 12-minute performance piece commissioned by the 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.
- ‘Untitled’, Night Mass, Dark Mofo, In the Hanging Garden, Hobart, Tasmania: A 30-minute group performance piece created for Night Mass at Dark Mofo.
- Fxckery, Sydney World Pride, PACT Centre for Emerging Artists, Sydney, Australia: The world premiere of Club Chrome's first full-length, fully choreographed group show. Awarded the 2023 FBi SMAC for Best Arts Program.
- WAIFU, Live Streamed Performance + Panel, Dommune, Tokyo, Japan: A pole performance and panel talk with WAIFU, a queer and femme collective.
- Chim Pom Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan: Pole movement activation of an art installation by Chim Pom.
- Club Chrome Takeover, Eulogy for the Dyke Bar, National Art School, Sydney, Australia: A movement takeover of Macon Reed’s sculptural memorial, commissioned by UNSW Galleries.
2022
- Club Chrome Showcase, Vogue Fabrics Dalston (VFD), London, United Kingdom: A showcase of Australian and UK pole dance and DJ talent.
- Club Chrome Showcase, Room 0416, Singapore: A performance showcase with proceeds going to Project X.
- Crescendoll x Club Chrome, Closing Act, Soft Centre, Bay 18 of Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia: Featuring a collaboration with Crescendoll and costumes by diaspora.
- Jesswar Album Launch and Listening Party, Woodburn Creatives, Sydney, Australia: An original 20-minute group dance performance.
- Pxssy Palace, Colour Factory, London, United Kingdom: A 20-minute performance by live musician Anji and improvised movement and pole dancing by Linhqu.
- Queer Art After Hours, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia: A pole dance activation for their 2022 Queer Art After Hours program.
