“In 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson gave me syphilis!” roars ONO lead vocalist and performance artist Travis as he stands, commanding and statuesque, in a white wedding dress atop an amplifier at The Burlington in Chicago, before snaking his way downstage and into the masses below.

Colleen Green is magenta, lit up under the lights, a tangle of cotton-pull spiderweb splayed on the wall behind her.