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welcome to my #DIY #lofi #cute personal blog, a space where i loyally archive my body of artwork, as well as interviews with artists n more. what u will experience below is a presentation of new/mind/ritualz (movement 11,) a performance art project i continue to unfold. ~kelly~
foto: Jen Brown
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kelly shaw willman's, new/mind/ritualz, is a 56-movement performance art piece released one movement at a time until complete. some movements are open to the public, while others are documented in a more private setting by a single collaborator or altogether solo. as is true of performance art, the artist herself is the primary medium.
the project's title alludes to a new mind space coming forth for the artist, a rebirth (rebirthing) of sorts, but before the wholeness of this rebirth is embodied again & again & again & again & again & again, a little storytelling (from/of the past) weaves thru sometimes.
new/mind/ritualz ultimately explores memories, demonstrates moments of growth in the present, and invokes rituals of healing + action for now n in the future.
new/mind/ritualz ultimately explores memories, demonstrates moments of growth in the present, and invokes rituals of healing + action for now n in the future.
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~ excerpt from the full article, written by Katie Cerone ~ (link above) ~ "Kelly Shaw Willman, self-proclaimed Alien-bruja, shamaness, mental-health advocate and Goddess in the flesh, oiled the stages for her equally pearlescent-fluorescent art comrades ULTRACULTURAL OTHERS with a piece from her ongoing series ongoing new/mind/ritualiz. Shaw birthed '111 therapies: phase 2, Movement 11' somewhat quietly four months ago while living in Nicaragua before showcasing the durational piece at our Tuesday night salon (and a short version during EMINENT DOMAIN in July). Part of the development of her own personal feminism, her piece is a response to the artist’s recent spell living in Costa Rica, a vocal witness to the effect of 'machismo’s rampant dysfunction' and sex tourism. Her piece is inspired partially by Maureen Murdock’s book, The Heroine’s Journey, and mines her own shadow side in a symbolic 'descent' into the dark wilderness of her ancestral pain and trauma.
Where 'honey-laced confidence-meets-vulnerability,' her piece involved ample amounts of gold glitter and honey in the raw, poured liberally on her naked body in a quiet ritual that felt necessarily somber, angelic and otherworldly. An invocation to 'childhood/inner-child juju,' says Kelly, and the artist waxes poetic about the plasticine castle aesthetics of 80s and 90s consumer culture. As a feeling, an aesthetic, or milieu — into adulthood, for Shaw it doubles as an aura of protection. 'I have a personalized spiritual practice (of protection) in which I fiercely visualize myself surrounded by cocoon-shaped energy that is always pastel-hued; it is immensely soothing to me.' Kelly’s performance floor, surrounded by a floor-installation comprised of a collection of handmade beaded pieces, art-items-as-talismans, unframed photographs of prior performance work and creamy, dreamy childhood baubles.
Movement 11, which extended in length as it shifted from the energetic raucous of EMINENT DOMAIN’s huge crowds to the intimacy of the Pankhurst Salon, was a live ritual performed with a cutting board, knife, oranges, garlic bulbs, glitter, small tinctures of colored water, honey, feathers, corn kernels, bubbles, and ribbon for a cord-cutting spell. Kelly rebirthed herself as a glittering gold, naked, bootylicious Goddess with statuesque presence, her round lady lumps glistening with honey and gold to surely conjure about two of Shaw’s primary Saints — Yemaya and Ochun, Yoruban Goddesses of the Sacred Waters, the pleasures of the flesh, sweet honey and the Source. Ocean and Rivers are the dominion of Yemaya and Ochun as well as the beds of lovers and the eternal dance of soulmates and twin flames."
PERFORMANCE DATE:
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
LOCATION:
MOTHERSHIP NYC'S SALON in BROOKLYN, NY
video footage/credit: Lotte Karlsen
video footage/credit: Lotte Karlsen
foto: Jen Brown
foto: Lotte Karlsen
foto: Lotte Karlsen
foto: Lotte Karlsen
foto: Lotte Karlsen
foto: Jen Brown
foto: Lotte Karlsen
foto: Lotte Karlsen
post-performance foto: Lotte Karlsen
post-performance foto: Jen Brown
bb boi Kali n his Mama, Katie Cercone
foto: Jen Brown
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+ mi$c ~ p.s. ~ vibez +
... "i yield my sword of light ... i send love 2 my enemies & hope that they prosper. you cannot hurt me, i can only be healed." ~Princess Nokia
foto: Jen Brown
foto: Jen Brown
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