Anasyrma performance at Netherworlds curated by Amy-Clare McCarthy & Kieran Swann | 2018 | Spring Hill Reservoir, Brisbane
NETHERWORLDS brings together the work of six artists, exploring the relationship between magic, mysticism, and artmaking. Drawing on ideas of communitas and of perceived and actual power, NETHERWORLDS presents overlapping and intersecting spaces for queer spiritualities, feminist mythologies, personalised cultural ritual, and new ways to imagine the world. Anasyrma was a ritual performance that explored erotic jest; the anasyrma gesture as a subversive feminist tactic, through the conventions of Dionysian theatre and fetishism by using handmade arse-less chaps and terracotta masks made by her father in the 80's.
NETHERWORLDS brings together the work of six artists, exploring the relationship between magic, mysticism, and artmaking. Drawing on ideas of communitas and of perceived and actual power, NETHERWORLDS presents overlapping and intersecting spaces for queer spiritualities, feminist mythologies, personalised cultural ritual, and new ways to imagine the world. Anasyrma was a ritual performance that explored erotic jest; the anasyrma gesture as a subversive feminist tactic, through the conventions of Dionysian theatre and fetishism by using handmade arse-less chaps and terracotta masks made by her father in the 80's.
Performance documentation | Louis Lim
