V4Zine:

Underground Magazine. Performance Research.

"When I speak of the erotic, then, I speak of it as an assertion of the lifeforce of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.”

— Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

“Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is."

— Carl Jung, Psychology and Religion

About.

A snapshot of contemporary Womxn;

The modern myth of Feminine Desire addressed in rituals of creative rebellion, steeped in low brow protocol;

a dreamlike array of human hope and grief splattered on the walls of a windowless purgatory with a single door.

The Erotic Shadow is not a private experience, it is informed by and the extension of an existing Social Order.

Who we are in the bedroom is part of an ascribed status assigned based on established hierarchies of class, race, gender, and labor. V4Zine explores the relationship between the Erotic Shadow and Economic Identity in an ‘Open World’ Magazine, surveying the analog-digital and psychosomatic game mechanics shaping the Erotic Shadow and Economic Identity of modern Womxn.

Game Mechanics.

The Erotic Shadow is not a private experience, it is informed by, and the extension of, an existing social order.

Who we are in the bedroom is part of an ascribed status assigned based on the established hierarchies of class, race, gender, and labor. 

V4Zine explores the relationship between the Erotic Shadow and Economic Identity, utilizing Performance Research and Somatic Painting to document manifestations of the Erotic Shadow in relation to Economic Identity.

Cyborg.

In the age of the internet, “to be” is to be constantly optimizing, catering to a market, and prioritizing a consumer:

The exploration of feminine psychology calls for a decentering of the Optimized Womxn and a nuanced dismantling of the dichotomies surrounding her. Erotic Identity and Branded Identity, Empowerment and Power Exchange, and the Role of Consumer in Intimate Partner Dynamics, are not opposite but interdependent social, economic, political, and psychosomatic variables that shape the space between Desire and Grief.