Blue Paper Suit, Tape 2 to (...)

Video/Performance
2025–ongoing

Once the ideal is formed to the body, it loses its shape to become more human. In 2024, I assembled, wore, and tore a blue paper copy of a generic men’s long sleeve shirt and pair of denim pants sourced from my personal wardrobe. Developed within a larger body of work, the blue paper suit contemplated the flattening of the body and the fragility of enforced binary systems of gender within the context of the public bathroom and so-called bathroom bills. Following a fallow period of nearly a year, I returned to the suit to mend its tears.

Unable to hold, the blue paper suit materializes a dissonance between the body and the representational devices which contribute to its image. Blue paper Suit, Tape 2 to (...) is an ongoing series of reenactments, a negotiation between nature and construct, depth and surface, as tears and tape mends re-define and re-constrict the paper form. 


Project Index
2026 [V] Blue Paper Suit, Tape 4: Repair
2026 [P] Blue Paper Suit, Tape 3
2026 [V] Blue Paper Suit, Tape 3: Repair
2026 [P] Blue Paper Suit, Tape 2
2025 [V] Blue Paper Suit, Tape 2: Repair

2024 [V] Video no. 02 Untitled (Blue Paper Suit), Rehearsing the (*) Bathroom: A Collection of Scenographic Studies

Blue Paper Suit, Tape 4: Repair
00:02:37
Recorded July 11, 2026

Blue Paper Suit, Tape 3
Perfo Miroir 5 | Expo Miroir
June 21, 2026

Photographed by Aurélie Venne

Blue Paper Suit, Tape 3: Repair
00:02:26
Recorded May 7, 2026

Blue Paper Suit, Tape 2
Marathon #3 | Studio 303
April 25, 2026

Photographed by Steffie Boucher

Blue Paper Suit, Tape 2: Repair
00:02:13
Recorded August 31, 2025
© John Vaccaro