her work focuses a lot on capturing rituals and masquerades around the world. the pics below are from ppl in Ayiti 🇭🇹 doing ritual baths to engage with Vodou deities. haven’t been able to get the first photo out of my mind, there’s just something about it. i highly recommend listening to vast comforts of sorrow on repeat as you engage with it.
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As we embark on this new era of American apocalypse, I have found it helpful to look back at how artists have navigated the bowels of hell before. I find enduring inspiration in Diamanda Galás, especially her album Plague Mass (1991), a live recording of her performance at Cathedral of St. John the Divine, a howl of anguish and rage at the indifference and hypocrisy of the church in the face of AIDS. Galás lost her brother, the experimental playwright Philip-Dimitri Galás, to AIDS in 1986, and was herself a member of ACT-UP. In Plague Mass, while covered in blood, screeching, ululating, and speaking in tongues, Galás becomes a conduit for the voices of the dead, who in their suffering at the hands of their moralist torturers, remain defiant - “Give me sodomy, or give me death!”
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She may present herself in this really connect and mystical way, but she is very human. Her artisrtic practice centers in performance, which dives and explores ritualistic aspects of living, so I undertand why she come of as a witch type. I reccomend you watching the documentary she did in Brazil, The Space In Between, in which she explores a variety of local spiritual practices, including João de Deus/John of God, who is now a convicted sex offender and criminal, and can be actually compared to Rasputin as he held such local political and economical power (i reccomend the maintenance phase episode on him, they do a good job debunking his techniques - https://open.spotify.com/episode/3t1hjrqB7cXs9HTWxPqVgU?si=712bb5f30ce54bbf). Though when she recorded the documentary he was still very respcted and the accusations hadn't come out yet, there was already many people exposing him as a con artist. You can see that her enchantment with such things come from the same naivity and somewhat fetishistic views many Europeans, and North Americans have with South American, African and Asian countries and their cultures. For me, this makes it very clear that she is just like anyone who is a little interested in spirituality, someone who is open to exploration but can also be swayed by her biases in this process. Anyway, I also really like most of her work, but I find it important to dismistify her artistic persona, which is now a clear part of a succesufull brand.
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Impossible to pithily summarize the force of this artist (in which any isolated "scream" is merely another register of space across a VERY complex vocalic spectrum), but I like this one-liner from RYM: "The world isn't a pretty place and sometimes people don't want to hear the truth." Also, if you live in NYC and have *read* about the 80s/90s AIDS crisis but aren't sure you can *feel* it, listen to her work.
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