Too Much! provided a platform for investigation and negotiation – through live performance and video art – of queer as an aesthetic and tactic. Working the margins of both mainstream and LGBT cultures, Too Much! offered a temporal community in the borderlands of artistic contagion, exchange, friction, and tourism.

Too Much!, Phelps’ first curatorial and creative production, launched in 2010 and was brought back by popular demand in 2011. Each year presented work from over 60 artists over the course of a single day. Ten hours long and presenting 30 simultaneous hours of non-stop performance and video in three simultaneous venues, Too Much! took over Mama Calizo’s in year one and Dance Mission in year two.

Too Much! explicitly attempted to complicate the design of bringing people together on the simple basis of a shared identity. The marathon format intended as a community experiment or an experiment in community, asking what happens when physical and cultural space is condensed, and individuals are confronted with their own limits or borders, whether aesthetic or cultural, historic or political?

Queer is a central theme of Phelps’ work, in some way everything Phelps creates or produces aims to question, articulate, critique and complicate notions of queerness as a lens and tactic.

“Too Much! was a  lovely crossover of dance world, freak art world, and nightlife world. There was a sense of community that transcended scene or predetermined aesthetic affiliation.” -Mica Sigourney, artist/drag queen

“The day was marked with a buoyant energy, representing and connecting many different but related facets of queer art making in the Bay Area.” -Maryam Rostami, performer/choreographer

“Too Much! spurred me to make the most risky performance piece I've ever made. It was curated fearlessly, with deep respect for artists. I met people with whom I've since made work.”-Kirk Read, author/performer/curator