Bicho Raro

after the last ready-made

The Performance BICHO RARO by Danilo Andrés is part of the exhibtion “after the last ready-made”.
BICHO RARO explores the world of bodybuilding – its lifestyle, routines, and aesthetics – revealing the tension between contemporary body cults and a queer perspective on the body. Rather than simply contrasting the rigid, static body with a flexible, fluid one, it challenges the very concept of the body itself, creating a new kind of bodily science fiction. In BICHO RARO, the somatic, the punk, and the horror glitch together in the body, drawing inspiration from underground comics, post-humanism, and cyberpunk culture. The work tells a story of transformation, presenting the human body as a system ready for mutation.

after the last ready-made

Artists: Danilo Andrés, Atabey fka Carlos Maria Romero, Feministisches* Bloco Descolonial, Zosia Hołubowska, Otto Krause & Milan Loviška, Nina Sandino, Kia Sciarrone, Anita Steinwidder

Curated by Dorian Bonelli and Frederik Marroquín

after the last ready-made is part of the art and community festival “Synergies of Solidarity” organized by Queer Art Spaces Vienna. Within the festival queerness is conceived not as an identity but as a strategy for encountering our turbulent times through artistic and collective ideas drawn from the community.
Festival Management and Head of Queer Art Spaces Vienna: Michael Kaufmann and Jasmin Hagendorfer

The exhibition after the last ready-made focuses on textile work, crafting and sensitive creative processes. The ready-made once marked a radical gesture: the moment an ordinary manufactured object could be displaced, renamed, and reimagined as art. A century later, the logic of ready-made commodities has become the logic of everyday life. Our clothes, our identities, even our desires are “off the rack” and offered to us as standardised, readily available, and endlessly replaceable objects.

after the last ready-made gathers queer artists working with textiles, garments, and material practices to question this condition. Clothing resides at the intersection of body, industry, and self-invention. It is one of the most intimate interfaces between mass production and personal identity. In the era of fast fashion, garments are produced through global systems of extraction, exploitation, and waste.

Opposing this regime of standardised identities and commodities, the works in this show slow down, share, repair, and shapeshift into new forms of belonging.
Queer practice has long understood identity not as something given but as something made – improvised, altered, and continuously negotiated. In this sense, the exhibition does not simply declare the end of the ready-made object. It asks what comes after: when bodies refuse standardized forms, when materials are reworked rather than consumed, and when fashion becomes a space of collective imagination as opposed to disposable production, when our chosen second skin becomes sensitive again.

Funded by WASt, Wiener Antidiskriminierungsstelle für LGBTIQ-Angelegenheiten, ÖH Uni Wien.
Supported by Schlumberger.