Papaphillia x Mossy 333
Mossy 333 is a multi-disciplinary artist focused on painting, music, and performance. Her stage work evokes insight to the subjectivity of her trans feminine experiences regarding body and movement, casting a critical gaze on heteronormative cis-gendered conditioning. Her performances demystify the often essentialised idea of a trans woman, to remind people that “trans women are women with autonomy and complexities”.
Papaphilia aurally interrogates the aesthetics of political representation, exploring how sensorial disorientation informs collective belonging. She blends the poetics of exaltation and sorrow from 90s dance music, RnB, disco, pop and traditional pop standards, into an electronic palette drawn from the dystopian poetics of contemporary technological disposability. Slopped pop samples morph into the stoned rhythms of backwashed synths that ebb from the rhythmic flow of acid techno to deep house.
Together Papaphilia x Mossy 333 explore gendered subjectivity, and the force of contemporary settler-colonial governance on bodies and collective spirit. Their cross-disciplinary performances fuse together electronically produced sound, with narrativised movement and costume; their bodies respond to the oscillating aural chaos of their soundtracks by finding and trusting the flow of rhythms to guide them. They create motion that exposes and calls to the liminal spaces between music and poetics, social constructs of space and permission to be present in them, and the violence of translating the body’s sensorial experience into heteronormative constructs.