As an offering to the temple & the night, I prepared a Phoenix themed flower essence vibrational remedy, from the pharmacopeia at Olala Farms in Nevada City. I ritually adorned the lotus seat & myself to perform death/rebirth, rising from the ashes themed psychic readings and to administer the flower essence remedy. (First 6 images). This supported individual’s internal processes, complimenting the rituals being performed in the main hall. This included Slinger’s Phoenix ritual (last 5 images) where the entire gathering burned intentions for death and rebirth in the temple hearth…
Out now, full feature Dangerous Dakini: Monet Clark’s Bunny Girl and Other Precarious Performance Videos for AFTERIMAGE
“…Clark’s healing rituals stand in a class of their own…”
“a feminist counterattack.”
“Performance art often cultivates risk to draw its audience into the collective empathy/concern for the precarious position of its maker
and in this regard Bunny Girl is no exception.”
“In the performance/video DAKINI (2011)…her ritualistic gestures place her in a place of vulnerability once more….because she is dealing in spirituality, that most conflicted of stances, regarded with skepticism in artistic and intellectual circles…As I have argued, an aesthetic of risk runs high throughout Clark’s oeuvre, and, when combined with acts of spiritualism, her pieces become a sort of spiritual wager, acts of faith that testify to the potential of unverifiable powers to alter or shift our rational, visible, material order….”
“…some of her most riveting early works…Poisoning/Phoenix features the artist as our gentle guide into the world of the abject discourse.”
“…there is more to Bunny Girl’s story than a surreal character in an arbitrary landscape… [with] the flanking element of danger implicit in every frame…namely, her relationship to the dystopic events in the found footage… The more I look at Bunny Girl the more I am struck by the character’s resilience. She may look vulnerable…but I realize Bunny Girl is stronger than me… Bunny Girl and I stand in discourse [at] the turnstile of abjection where the disavowed Other, who has been positioned as somehow lesser, weaker, repellant, rotates the gaze of the Otherizer back on itself, insinuating through its enigmatic return glance that the objectifier is, in fact, in danger of being alienated by the cultural symbolic.”
“There is something heroic about Bunny Girl [and] …something that reminds me of the lady in the radiator in David Lynch’s Eraserhead.”
Dangerous Dakini: Monet Clark’s Bunny Girl and Other Precarious Performance Videos, Afterimage Vol. 44 #4, Jillian St. Jacques
“There is something heroic about Bunny Girl [and] …something that reminds me of the lady in the radiator in David Lynch’s Eraserhead.”
“…there is more to Bunny Girl’s story than a surreal character in an arbitrary landscape… [with] the flanking element of danger implicit in every frame…namely, her relationship to the dystopic events in the found footage… The more I look at Bunny Girl the more I am struck by the character’s resilience. She may look vulnerable…but I realize Bunny Girl is stronger than me…”
“…an aesthetic of risk runs high throughout Clark’s oeuvre…”
“…Clark’s healing rituals stand in a class of their own…”
“…a feminist counterattack.”
ARTISTS & CLIMATE CHANGE, “PERFORMANCE, VIDEO & RITUAL IN THE ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE” with guest blogger Monet Clark
“…our hope for the future lies within the rising of the feminine.”