The Ironing Maidens are a Gimuy/Cairns-based multi-arts duo whose practice draws on queer feminist and posthuman ideas. Blending electronic music, projection, movement, humour, and live performance, they create works that reimagine domestic life and open space for playful, critical futures. Having toured nationally and internationally for more than a decade—across festivals, performance events, and even laundromats—they continue to push the boundaries of electronic performance art.

Their latest work, Hot & Heavy, is an immersive mix of installation, performance, and dance-floor uprising. It imagines non-binary, post-extractive futures through hacked appliances, speculative storytelling, and sensory-rich environments. Audiences move through projected interiors, live electronic music, aerial performance, and an iconic “ironing board band,” blurring the line between performer and spectator. Described as a call to action and a cross-generational wake-up, Hot & Heavy turns the everyday into a site of protest, pleasure, and collective transformation.