Department of Transdimensional Musicology and New Religious Practices; Workers Union

L. Autumn Gnadinger, MFA 2022, Ceramics

This body of work, which centers on the fictional Department of Transdimensional Musicology and New Religious Practices; Workers’ Union, is a chance for me to take the raw material of “real” metaphysical exploration (spirituality, western tertian harmony, scientific inquiry, etc.), and reassemble these parts into a new, playful, and queered exploration of the divine. Caught somewhere between the movies Arrival and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, I synthesize alien ceramics, hacked together hardware and software, and cheeky semi-autobiographical performances to present a fully-embodied and applied system of myth-making that feels untamed, open source, and continuously unfolding.