Witchnation, Directive from the Ministry of Information
Witchcraft is an old resistance and liberation theology, an ancient cultural nation that shares with the modern hip hop nation a creative “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop” compulsion to exceed boundaries and limitations, to move beyond the narrow constraints of nation, race, etc., towards the diverse, plural, and hybrid, the bountiful and beautiful, polymorphous and polycultural Avalon. The Witch national anthem is a song about individual freedom and the price of universal liberty: “Do what you will, harm unto none.” In Witch culture personal freedom is a participation and positivity economy, enhance the liberty of others and you prosper, constrain free will and you suffer. In the Witch world ‘others’ are understood to include all people, animals, plants, the vast web of life, the universe.
FASTWURMS, Donkey@Ninja@Witch, 2006
Artists' Bio:
FASTWURMS (project formed in 1979) in practice looks closely at the things we cannot see — or refuse to see. Artists Kim Kozzi and Dai Skuse creates a panoply of camp performance, costumes, ceremony, Wiccan ritual, collage, installation, cats, dance music, and cheap video production to make visible commonly held taboos around sexuality, desire, cosmology, nature, power, and the occult. FASTWURMS cultural practice is predicated on the free exchange and circulation of aesthetic knowledge as a public and performative narrative.