The Bag Lady

is a living Sankofa

an altar for the abandoned

an archive of ancestors

the keeper of the discarded

the uncomfortable truth you’d prefer to forget

wreaking havoc on the amnesia

the forgetting

the erasure

the silencing

she ain’t no 21st century mammy

memory is labor

do your work

These are the opening words in the limited edition print of The Bag Lady Manifesta monograph that was published in 2017 and accompanied Taja Lindley’s performance ritual by the same name.

In this episode, Taja maps the parallels and intersections of The Bag Lady (process, performance ritual, and installation) and the High Priestess in the tarot.  

00:00:50 Bag Lady Origin Stories
00:23:47 Brief Intro to II The High Priestess Card
00:27:03 Bag Lady x High Priestess: Journeys
00:56:15 Bag Lady x High Priestess: Duality
01:21:35 Bag Lady x High Priestess: Memory

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