โAnointmentโ
A collaboration between hooz and Cen Freedan O. hosted at Murmurs, ๐๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต is an immersive performance that brings together garment presentation, sculptural installation, performance, and experimental sound. Through captivating set design, symbols, and sensory elements, this performance explores the meeting of two powerful kingdoms, symbolizing the birth of a joint entity and the emergence of a sacred and essential life.
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Production, Creative Direction, Artworks: hooz & Cen Freedan O.
Movement Direction: Jas Lin
Fashion: Xethreal & hooz atelier
Makeup: Denesse Rodriguez & Andrew Nunez
Hair: hooz & Cen Freedan O.
Sound: hooz
Cast: Priscilla Robinson, Tatianna Hechavarria, Yvana Han, Pyro Xolo, Leeanna Williams
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Production, Creative Dir: hooz & Cen Freedan O.
Photography: Euree Hong
Lighting Assist: Hunter Pao
Makeup: Kayli Rachelle
Hair: hooz & Cen Freedan O.
Fashion: Xethreal & hooz atelier
Styling: hooz & Cen Freedan O.
Talent: Ayi Cheng, Mia Oneal, Tatianna Hechavarria, Yvana Han
the gallery is transformed into a site of ritual
hooz
Dancer
The Dancer is the Light. Guiding the path forward into the expansive unknown with an undying energy. They operate in repetitive rhythms that create a trance state in order to conjure magic that determines the reality of the pair.
Fostering values of discipline, composure and fluidity, the Dancer is a shapeshifter, subject to morph from one embodied state to the next. Their energy is uplifting as the connection to the astral expanse rules their way of navigating their embodied state.
Reaper
The Reaper rules the shadows and comes from the dark place (non derogatory). They protect by any means, enacting violence when absolutely necessary and fostering a distaste for the pitfalls of humanity ruled by the ego.
The Reaper conjures a feral, wild, fraught energy while remaining grounded in its necessity to be such a way. They balance the composure of the Dancer with a personal grace that challenges ideas of gracefulness itself. They are fierce and unafraid, ready to spill blood, easy to spark the flame, difficult to pin down. Creation of reality enacted through acts of destruction. An initiator, trickster, bloodthirsty lover at the core.
Xethreal
Derelict
The Derelict is the concept of โHumanity through monstrosityโ. E.g [stripped of one's humanity by external bodies due to the way you exist/function and finding new ways to define the human experience. Creating a โdemi-humanโ existence]
Moments with others are fleeting, in a constant mercurial state knowing there will always be more challenges faced and at risk of being stuck in time loops. The anger, shame and guilt that breeds from this type of existence can lead one to self exile. Finding comfort in things that are self made. Observing projected human traits in oneself or others as distasteful.
Vex
Vex is the personification of knowledge and truth. Since there is no objective truth Vex presents stoic [never taking sides, presents all versions of the truth with no agenda]. Since there's countless channels in which knowledge can be shared, Vex is omnipresent. Vex is the concept of no objective morality [good and evil] but instead action and consequence. An observing force.
The correlation between Vex/Shiva/Nevena is the multiple realities it can exist in simultaneously. Vex also personifies the Multiverse theory. There is no main body, only conduits relaying information physically and metaphysically. Vex is not limited to being present through a human body. Vex is the plants, water, smoke. Throughout the body Vex can be the host, the lungs, the bones.a
Photos courtesy of Bibs Moreno, Cat Marchenko & Ocean Ortiz
Shot by Euree Hong, the Anointment editorial showcases the four conduits developed for the ritual performance piece hosted at Murmurs.
