This young monster - Charlie Fox

'Some kids act like they are possessed.' The artist Cameron Jamie rides through the suburbs of Hollywood dressed as Dracula to avenge his awful childhood, Alice in Wonderland (now a teenage runaway with a headful of hallucinogens) schools us on her favourite heroines from art history, and a pre-teen Buster Keaton performs unspeakably dangerous stunts for delighted crowds all around America. This Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dark, disturbing things. What does it mean to be a freak? Why might we be wise to think of the present as a time of monstrosity? And how does the concept of the monster irradiate our thinking about queerness, disability, children and adolescents? From Twin Peaks to Alexander McQueen, Cindy Sherman to Frankenstein, This Young Monster gets high on a whole range of riotous art as its voice and form shape-shift, all in the name of dealing with the strange wonders of what Nabokov once called 'monsterhood'. Ready or not, here they come.