Mythologie: Introduction

Mythology is seeking to collect a sort of celestial vernacular. I’m interested in the idea of being tied to ancestors (the cultural, geographical, historical, and familial ties) and the weight of that tie on the post-modern life (caused by the creation of the city where we walk away from the country and enter into a globalized, fast paced, insatiable urban jungle.)

 

I Like America and America Likes me

 

 

Inspired by my studies of Joseph Beuys and his connections to Nordic “Gods System” in opposition to the influence of Greek myth on culture, a close friend in the theatre world who has deep tie to eastern European myth, and a comment by Sierra Cassady from the band CocoRosie who acknowledged in the documentary – The eternal Children – her and her sister’s quest to create their own mythology.

Coming from a highly industrialised global mugal i.e. America there is no ancestral myth (excluding the Native American Indian myth because it is just a small part of collective myth) due to the historical fact of the age of the country, the bulk of the American Myth come in the from Pop Culture. The experience of the typical American is that we have this collective Pop Culture Myth, and then back home we have the myths of our ancestors – which are from other countries. Therefore ALL “Americans” do not share the same ancestral myth, and are dependant on Pop Culture as a point of reference. I think this was one of the marvelous things about Andy Warhol, don’t you?

Some other connections for now: Matthew Barney, David Bowie, Bjork, Tori Amos, Bat For Lashes, andLabrynth.

Mythology Outline:

1. culutral connections (to be expanded)

2. artists
a. “visual artists”
b. theatre
c. musicians 

3. Pop Culture

4. Mysticism, Escape, and Fantasy