I am Kiki Mora. A newcomer nightmare bitch. Walking in the category: your greatest fear realness.
Cool to be at my first ball, thought there’d be a demand for me in this day and age.
I can shapeshift, you see. No shit, here, take a look. Hold your breath. Count to ten.
Now I look like your mother. Mommy issues, babe?
And now I am a woman they wanted you to be. The scariest one: perfect in cooking, in cleaning, in raising children, in obeying her man, in shutting up, in erasing herself. You could never, babe. Shhh – shivers.
And now I am rocking homeless person chic. Aww honey, you don’t believe you’ll be able to ever pay those student loans, huh?
Well, sorry, but I can’t look like all these current wars at the same time – you’ll have to choose whose attack you’re afraid of more. But I guess, I can always bring up some nice atomic blast accessories. In-fashion every season. Wanna try them on?
Hey hey, hold your breath. Count to ten. Count to twenty. Count to a hundred. Look at me. What do you see?
Come to my swamp, honey. Don’t breathe. Feels like a drug, all that fear. Feels like you’re drowning. Liberating. Come come come to the swamp with me.
Come on, look at me. What do you see?
What do you see?
What do you see?
Trees.
Trees.
Birds – chirp, whoosh.
River shhhhh. Somewhere inside.
Clouds. Outside.
Shhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Trees.
Trees.
Mushrooms. Slow.
Berries. Slow.
River. Shhh. Fast. Inside.
Crack.
Branch. Crack. Crack.
Sounds-words.
Alarm.
"леший предстаёт в виде растительного, животного или антропоморфного существа"
LESHY
The Forest (brainstorm)
Dark
Unknown
Unpredictable
We are guests in the forest
Forest is a an ecosystem that it self sufficient
Forestt doesnt need us
Peaceful
Space of imagination
Space of unkown
Dangerous but beautiful
Forest speaks to me if I listen
Being a bad guest in a forest- what does it mean?
A bad guest i general as an archetype
What pathways do you take in a forest? The roads that are walked?
Why is it scary to meet another loner in a forest?
IS forest safer than the city?
Who is scared of who in the forest?
What is visible and waat is invisible? What remains invisible to the human eye?
The human I
The non human I
The non human in the eye
The eye of the human
What remains invisible to the eye of the I?
Is I stading on the way of my eye?
"It's something alive that pretends to be dead just to reveal itself as alive"
Why are you pretenfing to be dead?
To scare you
Its not funny
I wanted to see how you would react if I was dead
I would be sad
But I knew you were not dead
How did you know it?
You looked very much alive
You were breathing
Ah shit
What
Next time I willl try to be better
Better at pretending to be dead?
No, better at not breathing
Why do you want me to find you dead?
I want to surprise you with being alive
I waan to see how you react when you find out that I am not dead
CAMOUFLAGE
Leshy's attitude towards humans can vary, depending on how they interact with the forest and their overall behavior.
ikiki - newcomer/ drag culture
THE 'IDEA' of femininity
Kikimora- what can you be afraid of in a woman
A warped idea of feminiinty.
Kikimora punishes women who are not perfect in their housework.
Kikimora/ siren- they lure people into swamps
She is shapeshifting
Transformable idea of fear - she is shapeshifting
KIKIMORA- the idea of fear and the idea of femininity
Leshy - absence that is shaped by something else. In this case, the environment.
Conceptual creature- through it we can think of something else.
Meeting 10-05
Femininity + fear
Fear of disobedient woman- pussy riot
PINK and BLACK colours
Subvertion of expectation
Kikimora is supposed to be a wife, but she is not doing that.
BABA JAGA- welcomes/ feeds and puts to sleep -> dramaturgy?
SUbvertion of hospitality
Welcoming/ hostitng as a performance procedure
10-05
Camouflage extravaganza!!
Ritual of dressing
Camouflage - how do you deceive the eye of the other
Is i about hiding or appearing?
Animal camouflace
PRESS HERE
FEIGNING DEAD
On the back
Dead stare
No blinking
Teeth out
velcro suit
Really like the outfit of this boy, especially the sword
GUSLI - LINK
Death theme through Koshej
my death is in the needle
the needle is in the egg
the egg is in the duck
the duck is in the rabbit
the rabbit is in the box
the box is under the oak tree
the oak tree is on an island
the island is overseas
where is my death?
My death is in the rose petal
The petal is in the locket
The locket is in the box
The box is under the bed
The bed is in my parent’s house
My parent’s house is in the country
Where I can’t return
KOSHCHEI'S DEATH
WHEREABOUTS
a soup recipe for dear guests:
large beets - 2 pcs.
medium-sized carrots - 2 pcs.
medium sized potatoes - 2 pcs.
onions - 2-3 pcs.
white cabbage - 600 g
meat (any kind) - 400 g
sugar - 1/2 tsp
children’s hair – 2 tsp
medium-sized tomatoes - 4 pcs.
tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l.
human blood – 1 litre
garlic - 4-5 cloves
parsley - 3 sprigs
salt, freshly ground black pepper - to taste
how to greet dear guests:
1. Wait for the guests to knock on the door
2. Open the door
3. Smile
4. Say ‘Please come in”
5. Stop smiling
6. Wait until the guests come in
7. Close the door
8. Smile
9. Walk three circles around the guests clockwise
10. Stop smiling
11. Offer refreshments
GOOD HOSPITALITY TIPS
Club like in Twin Peaks: you get served from a cauldron, there is a dj, a host, etc
Or Slavic black lodge: you get into a liminal space (izbushka), somewhere in-between, there are ‘entities’, you don’t know if the place where you entered will be the same when you exit
FORM
Two bodies camouflage- inspiratioin from Zebra. colour on white- squares, dots etc
Cutting wood
What is happening in the space?:
also with modern touch- like can we have siri or dyson?
Not understanding what is going on- the guest into hostage
Fear and discomfort
DRAMATURGY OF HOSTING
guest- hostage
unstable
Thematics 22-05
-Slavic horror hospitality
-Violence is hidden behind a good intention!
-Violence camoiflaged as kindness
VISUALS
HEADPIECE
CAMOUFLAGE MAKE UP
CAMOUFLAGE MASKS
Hosting rituals
making our own slippers from paper. something that can also be extremely uncomfortable but they need to take their shoes off
Bread and salt but something weird can be done to it. l
Help yourself // Угощайтесь
"Please guest"
"Guest yourself"
What are the unwritten scripts in the host/ guest langauge commnication?
-take some more
-no thank you
-would you like some
-oh thanks,but I am full
-I think we are gonna head
-no, please stay
-no, really, its late
-you can sleap the night here
-take our bed
-we will sleep on the couch
-oh, no we were hoping you would stay
-sorry, we really need to go
-really, we can make you a bed in no time
-really, thanks, but I dont sleep well in other homes
-everyone sleeps great here
-you are so kind, but maybe neext time. I didnt even bing a toothbush
-oh, no worries, I have extra one, precisely for this occasion
-let me help you with the dishes
-please dont
-dont
-DONT
-RELAX!
CONTRADICTION something to play with
velcro aprin
HIDING
FUNCTIONAL to stick the stuff on it
INTIMIDATING
BEETROOT CHEEKS as a ritual