Voile Levée : A Hallowtide’s Dance for the Living & Lived
Ian Babylon is this night’s MC for this A\V experience where you are liberated to feel and move as called within a circle of art, hemmed by gauzy, lifted veils. This is a music, dancing, projection-based participatory celebration of lives living and lived. And/Or: a pagan(ish)-adjacent Dumb Supper at Studio 54; mixing songs sombre, sacred, joyous; forever + always: animating.
Ian Hermès Babylon (he/they) is an artist whose home is on the lands of the Neponset band of the Indigenous Massachusett peoples. He creates historic, mythic, archetypically Jungian surrealist collage from any and every thing. Source materials from the late 20th century address the ills of Late/Terminal Stage Capitalism; cut and dismantled, individuated, these pieces are reorganized new wholes, renewed places for reflection. His collage are intentioned-meditations for more just and loving ways of being. My childhood was spent among the hilltowns of the Pioneer Valley before coming of age in Chicopee, MA. Due to a series of systemic oversights I sought my fortunes elsewhere, so off to the Boston area I landed some 15 years ago. The friends along the way have made all the difference. :] I am active in the Reclaiming Tradition and the Nor’East Web community. Gardening and all music are additional passions. My partner Greg and I love our cat-friend whom we call Stella, though we would very much like to know how it is that they call themselves. My preferred scholarly readings include: Pyramid Collection, derelict auction catalogues, Time-Life’s Mysteries of the Unknown series, and the works of Patti Smith, Carl Sagan, Robert A. Heinlein, John Waters, Helen Molesworth, Susan Sontag, and Joseph Campbell.
The raw art image used for this poster was created by Ian Babylon, called “Seraph Walk With Me”.