The Ironing Maidens, a Gimuy / Cairns-based multi-arts duo, fuse electronic music, projection, movement, humour and live performance through queer feminist and post-human lenses. Known for works like Electro House Wife and A Soap Opera, they’ve toured nationally and internationally for over a decade, from Splendour in the Grass to Germany’s Fusion Festival, often performing in unconventional spaces such as laundromats.
Their latest work, Hot and Heavy, is an immersive blend of installation, performance and dance-floor revolt that imagines non-binary, post-extractive futures. Domestic objects become strange and subversive as hacked appliances, immersive sound, aerial movement, and live electronic music transform everyday spaces into zones of protest, pleasure and collective power. Audiences describe it as a call to action – playful, provocative and emotionally resonant – where identities are fluid and radical futures are forged on the dance floor.
Part of Midsumma Festival.
Hours 
| Date | Times |
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| Thu 22 Jan |
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| Fri 23 Jan |
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| Thu 29 Jan |
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| Fri 30 Jan |
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Location 
Cobblestone Pavilon
Meat Market
3 Blackwood St
North Melbourne 3051
Price and bookings
From $20 to $35
Contact details
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