Projects / Mia Zabelka and Lydia Lunch

A SCAR AS A SCAR IS A SCAR
BATTLE SCARS

A multimedia performance utilizing video, voice and psycho ambient sound experiments as a survival guide to live in the traumazone.

Terryfing. Seductive. Urgent.

Lydia Lunch and Mia Zabelka are two intensely physical performers joining forces in a collective battle cry to give voice to those who feel wounded, weary and traumatized by a world at war with itself.

Haunting images
Psycho acoustic sound experiments
The poetry of sex, sorrow and rage

Objects of investigation:
scar (skahr) cicatrix; a mark remaining after the healing of a wound or other morbid process. By extension, any visible manifestation of an earlier event.
skin the outer protective covering of the body, consisting of the dermis (or corium) and the epidermis.
surface the outer part or external aspect of a body. territories - spheres of action or interest.

... That unchartered territory where a part of him still lives, the part that cowers in the far corner late at night, scared of shadows and holy ghosts, scared of losing life before figuring out exactly what it means to fucking live, and his life is an endless barrage of bullshit and petty disasters, where losing whatever it is you're desperately trying to hold on to is not only natural but almost genetically preprogrammed, and Jesus Christ, I want to save him from himself, want to take care of him, mother him, love him get him to love himself, be saint, savior, and favorite sin, but we're both stick with need, sick on each other, and not a single day goes by that I don't whisper a stupid prayer that smears God's name to keep him safe.... Lydia Lunch: Will work for drugs, 85

... I went out to L.A. with a dream on my sleeve too. A dream of escaping the asshole who was obsessing my life back in New York. Just a small vacation, three or four days to clear my head. I put a call into Pleasant, a hot Hollywood fixture. Part belly dancer, all ghost of Jane Mansfield. A luscious redhead who knew where to score what from who, whenever.... Lydia Lunch: Paradoxia, A Predator's diary, 100