Telluric Atavisms
An expression in live music, movement and body-morphing of the human connection with (and as) other life-forms. First music will be established -a juxtaposition of human ‘civilised’ sounds such as neoclassical violin, with more primal harmonic chanting and throat singing. Loops will be created from the live sounds, so these can continue as a background soundscape while the artist moves into a more physical space of transformation. Clay, the primal elements of earth and water, will be employed to shape and reshape the face and body of the artist. Various animal atavisms will be explored and expressed, and the
movement of these continuing re-creations will echo their forms, as the artist dances an evolving mask. Voice will also continue to be overlaid on the music -singing but also various animal sounds, bestial and celestial expressions of the various forms taken. Various appendages -bones, horns, tusks, fur, wood -are added using the built up layers of clay as a base for them to be firmly attached. Part of the beauty and strangeness of this kind of ritualistic play is that the artist does not fully know what forms will emerge (not using a mirror and sight, sound and even breath being sometimes impaired temporarily during the process). Rather one must continue to move with the clay, reshaping it continuously into new forms as earlier ones begin to fall apart. Thus a continuum of metamorphic ‘scrying’ in earth and water allows spirit to have its way with the invoking artist-magician in the moment. Expressions may thus transform through the known
(invoked with talismanic parts of the animals employed) and beyond into mythic, hybrid and even alien expressions of the Other fused with the Self in an Ecology of interspecies and even inter-dimensional magical ecology.
Bio
Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule (that/what) is an esoteric artist in many media, including painting, writing, sculpture, sound, film and performance. He is the writer-director of Metamorphic Ritual Theatre Company who have presented major original productions based in ancient mythos. Creator of the Tela Quadrivium Alchymic bookweb from Fulgur Press and 'Esezezus' (Grayle Press 2023) a book on and of the Magic of Language. He is currently growing an esoteric sculpture garden in the Ardennes forest, Belgium.
Orryelle is interested in the ensoulment of objects through aesthetic obsession; the merging of mental, spiritual and emotional relationships with creativity, in the vanguard of the current resurgence of the esoteric in art with its processes of re-enchantment.
movement of these continuing re-creations will echo their forms, as the artist dances an evolving mask. Voice will also continue to be overlaid on the music -singing but also various animal sounds, bestial and celestial expressions of the various forms taken. Various appendages -bones, horns, tusks, fur, wood -are added using the built up layers of clay as a base for them to be firmly attached. Part of the beauty and strangeness of this kind of ritualistic play is that the artist does not fully know what forms will emerge (not using a mirror and sight, sound and even breath being sometimes impaired temporarily during the process). Rather one must continue to move with the clay, reshaping it continuously into new forms as earlier ones begin to fall apart. Thus a continuum of metamorphic ‘scrying’ in earth and water allows spirit to have its way with the invoking artist-magician in the moment. Expressions may thus transform through the known
(invoked with talismanic parts of the animals employed) and beyond into mythic, hybrid and even alien expressions of the Other fused with the Self in an Ecology of interspecies and even inter-dimensional magical ecology.
Bio
Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule (that/what) is an esoteric artist in many media, including painting, writing, sculpture, sound, film and performance. He is the writer-director of Metamorphic Ritual Theatre Company who have presented major original productions based in ancient mythos. Creator of the Tela Quadrivium Alchymic bookweb from Fulgur Press and 'Esezezus' (Grayle Press 2023) a book on and of the Magic of Language. He is currently growing an esoteric sculpture garden in the Ardennes forest, Belgium.
Orryelle is interested in the ensoulment of objects through aesthetic obsession; the merging of mental, spiritual and emotional relationships with creativity, in the vanguard of the current resurgence of the esoteric in art with its processes of re-enchantment.