Psalms of Planetary Devotion

Art in Odd Places, October 2024
Governor’s Island Climate Imaginarium, September 2024
601 Artspace, July 2024
El Jardin del Paraíso, June 2024

‘Psalms of Planetary Devotion’ is an interactive performance that invites individuals to gather together and worship the earth. Through absurd songs and queer eco-amorous rituals, the performance summons a matriarchal paradigm based on sensory pleasure, mutual flourishing, and unconditional love for the planet. Inspired by the form of a religious service, each participant is provided with an original printed booklet which serves as the liturgy of a speculative matriarchal religion. This booklet includes praise to our orifices for allowing us to exchange matter with our ecologies, questions for living with integrity, rituals for engaging in group dialogue, affirmations for engaging in perpetual transformation, a chant for extending an offer of friendship to the archetype of death, and a spell for sanctifying the process of abortion. This circle of earth worship churns up the ecstatic group energy that is required to create new worlds. The service begins and ends with the collective pronouncement “I am earth.”