Ep. 7 | The Bag Lady Manifesta & The High Priestess
II XI XX (two | eleven | twenty)
English - October 02, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 63.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSpirituality Religion & Spirituality Society & Culture Personal Journals performance art biomythography tarot tarot constellations autobiography memoir memory myth self portraiture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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