“The poor bodies of prima donnas - destined for desecration!” Catherine Clément, Opera, or The Undoing of Women

A collection of notes made during my research in preparation for the Darkness Visible II performance workshop. These notes would then become the basis for my new work, "The Hysterical Fit (In Four Stages)". Correction: The aforementioned instrument is called the Glass Armonica, not the Glass Harmonica. I misheard a podcast I was listening to, The Metropolitan Opera Guild's "Lucia and Madness Study Day". Correction: Charcot did not name the Hysteria diagnosis. It was a conditi

This zine was made to represent a collection of songs that would become the "Sacrificator / Scarificator" tape, with the exception of one set of lyrics which did not make the cut. These zines are sold out now and I likely won't be making more, though you are welcome to print this image and cut/ fold the zine yourself.

“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.” Friedrich Nietzsche