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Spellbound (volumen 42 Nº 1/2, 2021) fue una publicación de Kunstlicht Journal for Visual Culture. En colaboración con la artista e intérprete Naomi Collier Broms, creamos una serie de “hechizos poéticos” enfocados en la temática de la magia, los rituales y las prácticas espirituales:
HECHIZOS PARA SERENATAS DEL CIELO Y ADORADORES DEL AGUA: ENCUENTROS CON LA LUNA, EL MAR Y VOCES QUE CAMBIAN DE FORMA
I. Magia Olvidada: rituales cotidianos de la infancia.
II. Hechizo para la Liminalidad.
III. Hechizos Sexuales.
IV. La bruja y la Sirena: Capítulo 2.
V. Bocas-látigo y maldicientes de la luna.
Estas intervenciones experimentales, dispersas a lo largo de la revista, resonaban y reverberaban con los ensayos académicos que componían la mayor parte de la publicación. Los hechizos invocaban liminalidad, recuerdo y alegría, deseo y liberación sexual, desprecio académico y monstruos mitológicos contemporáneos que esgrimían su voz como arma.
Puedes encontrar el número aquí.
Spellbound se lanzó en una transmisión en vivo organizada por la casa cultural Felix Meritis, con sede en Ámsterdam. Para esta ocasión, realizamos un Ritual de Despedida, que transformó nuestro espacio de oficina en un sitio ritual donde nos movimos, cantamos, susurramos, murmuramos, bailamos, temblamos y despotricamos. Esta segunda pieza fue una invocación performativa de una hora que representó la idea del "final" como un cambio de forma. De anfitrión a anfitrión, de visitante a fantasma, de cuerpo aislado a espacios intermedios. Durante este ritual se reproduce una conversación grabada entre la Bruja y la Sirena sobre finales y hospitalidad.
1. Ask yourself how old you are in mountain years.
2. Make a wand from a tree branch. Ask the tree for permission first.
3. Keep a pebble in your pocket.
4. Know that stuttering is an ideology.
5. Tell the future through a yoyo.
6. Tell a story through a compass.
7. Make a wish on a white butterfly, holding the wish until it disappears from your
vision.
8. Acknowledge the moon as something that sits with you, touches you, is near
you, follows you everywhere, an indelible friend.
9. Collect soil, rocks, earth, stone from the landscapes you find yourself in (You
keep mountains in your pocket.)
1. Smell rosemary and keep it in the folds of your clothes – for a bit of luck.
2. Talk to crows, talk to dogs, talk to plants.
3. Trace your sigils by the sea.
4. Draw spirals where you can, or even better, perform the spiral dance.
5. Find a public space to store your whispered secrets. (Mine is a park swing).
6. Keep flowers that open at night as guardians – a conversation that can only happen after sunset.
7. Caress your plants.
8. Know that cosmological entities guard your thoughts and memories – have a conversation across time with the night sky.
9. Build a portal into the ghost world.
10. Feel empathy for blueberries.
11. Attend to the kinship between women, animals and fruit.
12. Make a poem from the bits of language you’ve picked up from past encounters.
13. Rubbing the right textured hand of a stuffed bear.
14. Feeling enchanted by numerical synchronicities and coincidences.
15. Tapping glasses on the table for the people you wish were present.
16. Feeling that God can see me through every camera.
17. Emulating pigeons.
18. Wondering if fish worship is wrong.
Erotic Fortune Telling In A Sublime Parallel To Medusa Squirting At Death Through a Ludicrous Yet Superficial Descent of Womanhood Into Enraged Sexual Magic From The Ancient Coordinates From A Top Secret Location Only Seen Only Known By The One On The Margins The Wolf Woman Who Howls In A State Of Ekstasis Who Declares Orgasm As Monument To
Oblivion And Divine Excess And All That Is In Between But Make No Apologies Your Warfare Is My Weapon My Sex the Truth At The End of All Chronologies.
