‘NO ORDER IN DISORDER’
DRAKO OHO ZARHAZAR
21/22, 25-29 June 2025

NoHAWKERS is pleased to present an immersive installation reimagined from the extraordinary home of Drako Oho Zarhazar  (1936 - 2012).

Born Tony Banwell in Shanghai and educated in Switzerland, his career began as a stage dancer in London, Paris and Rome. Mixing there with the cool underground scenes he later created an alias to better suit his individualistic, queer, performative nature. Evolving into an artist model, Drako was selected to be the central character in Salvador Dali’s masterpiece “Tuna Fishing” 1967/8. He was filmed by Andy Warhol’s chief associate Gerard Malanga and later portrayed the leatherman in Derek Jarman’s ‘The Garden’ 1980.

Two serious road accidents drastically altered Drako’s hitherto bohemian lifestyle, leaving him with brain injuries that impeded access to his short-term memory and also removed many behavioural inhibitions. Drako counteracted these changes by creating an ‘info-blizzard’ within his flat, which, after his death, was collected into an archive that forms the basis of the installation.

Thousands of cards, letters and ephemera from friends and family, alongside his stencilled declarations of physical desire and queer erotic images, competed for space on the walls, ceilings and much of the furniture, describing his own identity back to him. Christian mysticism and Eastern spirituality jostle with sex-fantasy directives and repeated phrases, often in fluent French. Over the years, the info-blizzard became infused with humour, a love of life, and a vivid enthusiasm for love itself.

The display also included insights and memories from Drako’s close friends and creative collaborators to add further illuminative detail.

WARNING! EXPLICIT CONTENT!

Extensive images gleaned from male pornography are displayed throughout the exhibition.