visitation

Visitation arose from the desire to experience Venus, the heavenly body that rules erotic love and the occult sex of women. Initially intrigued by photographs and imagings of the topography of the mysterious, cloud-veiled planet from the Soviet Venera missions and NASA’s Magellan spacecraft, contemplation of these images fused with my investigations on the enigmatic terrain of the female sex and the erotic imaginary.

Conceived as a dance of process and performance, the first and second movements – ilinx and furcula –embody a psychophysical dynamic and inner choreography which engender the subjective, energetic and affective shifts that bring about the visitation.

The choreography was created through invocatory workings. The mantic or visionary states I experience are accompanied by a strikingly vivid tactile-kinaesthetic consciousness, a deepening and transformation of interoceptive awareness, which I captured and preserved through gestures, postures and movements. The dance embodies a union of ecstatic and enstatic rapture: the vertiginous flight of desire is also a descent to the caves within.

The third part of the dance – Ishtar terra – is a chorography of this landscape, a topography at once of the impenetrable, transforming, luminous planet and of female desire – the heavenly body behind the veil, beyond all names and forms.