Without those, you can do anything you want, no matter the consequences.’

They really cut off two of our three legs when they allocated all reasonable decisions to rationalists. There are all these modalities of feeling and receiving beyond the patriarchal method.

‘I told him that my role as an artist is to hold space for the emotional, spiritual and psychic ramifications of what he’d just said. After performing at a TED conference in 2011, a scientist told her that, although her songs were nice, 50 per cent of the world’s species would be extinct by the end of the century, and really, there was ‘no use in crying over spilt milk’. With her solicitous, spectral animism, ANOHNI hopes to determine a new strategy, an emerging ‘metabolisation’ for the troubles of our times. Her lyrical programme included an orchestral performance of William Basinski’s contemplative masterpiece The Disintegration Loops, as well as the exhibition ‘She Who Saw Beautiful Things’, honouring ANOHNI’s former collaborator Julia Yasuda, and offering what she describes as ‘a vision of enlightened femininity and luxuriant androgyny persevering in memory despite existential threat’. Earlier in 2023, ANOHNI announced the launch of her fifth album under the name ANOHNI and the Johnsons, and she was also invited to be associate artist at the Holland Festival. After touring the world, her second album, I Am a Bird Now, released in 2005, was both a commercial and critical success, earning ANOHNI that year’s Mercury Music Prize. In 1998, she assembled a group of musicians and performed her first concert as ‘Antony and the Johnsons’ at The Kitchen in NYC. In 1995, ANOHNI began staging trans-surrealist theatre as The Johnsons. On moving to New York to study experimental theatre at NYU, she became involved in the city’s performance scene, starting her career as founder of a nightclub collective called Blacklips Performance Cult. By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.īorn in Chichester, in the UK, musician and visual artist ANOHNI relocated with her family to Amsterdam for a year when she was seven, and later moved to California when she was ten.

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