Detail. General Feeling, 2021. Publication and sound piece.
General Feeling is performance and sound piece as a love letter to ‘Xeny’, the alien Xenomorph from Ridley Scott’s Alien, 1979. Weaving autobiographical diary entries and medical accounts of trans* individuals from Richard von Kraft-Ebbing’s medical journal Psychopathia Sexualis (1887), General Feeling carries voices of trans-ancestry and sensually speaks towards the sonic, fluid, overflowing capacities of an alien inside. Somewhere way out in the cosmos, another wor(l)d is recieving a signal, the voice seeping from the holes and pores of a speaker; an impossible womb for the words that make, morph and unbuild flesh. Ingest this transmission. Seep. Seep. Seep. Seep.
The work was further expanded within Xeny Meets Mr. Peonies, a collaborative performance with Kari Rosenfeld. Commissioned by Gasworks, the performance combines two different cinematic worlds: Xeny the Xenomorph from Alien, and Mr. Peonies, a drag persona based on characters played by Philip Seymour Hoffman from Rosenfeld’s “Mr. Peonies Grief Diary”. Whilst dually exploring fantasies of being cracked open and diaristically reflecting on green as the color of life, death, and empire dissolution, the performance creates a sonic universe where poetic worlds meet in clashes of cymbals and song.
The publication of General Feeling was designed by Toni Brell.
Commissioned by Gasworks, with support from Nieuwe Vide and the Freelands Foundation.