January 2021

Abolition Is…

mirrored fatality

✧༺ Mango & Samar ༓☾༄
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[image description: photograph by ricky silva taken at a sculpture in tongva land/westwood, ca. The photograph includes mirrored fatality staring hauntingly at the screen from within a hole where they are wearing an iridescent cape, ornamental chains and sparkly jewelry, black and white clothing, and eyeliner tracings. Mirrored fatality’s hair is partly shaved with gelled spirals on their foreheads and sides.]

 

[image description: mirrored fatality, photo by princess amugo of them in their cocoon webs garment on top of a salton sea rock.

mirrored fatality is a nonbinary Kapampangan-Pilipinx and Pakistani-Muslim performance art duo Mango and Samar, sharing their rituals, altars, and medicine through DIT (Do It Together) experimental and healing noise punk. mirrored fatality creates their self-proclaimed “cocoon webs” combining performance art, music, spoken word, film, photography, painting, drawing, upcycled garments, anti-imperialist education, healing justice practice spaces; mobilizing and bridging a transnational warrior community who responds urgently to transnational calls-to-action between Turtle Island, Kashmir, and Mindanao.

mirrored fatality’s performance activism allows them a safe space to release their bubbling, fermenting primal rage rooted in the settler colonialism, transphobia, racism, xenophobia, and intergenerational ancestral trauma they experience daily as nonbinary people of color. mirrored fatality’s intentions for their art is for Queer Trans Black Indigenous People of Color to embody their rage, disrupt the silence and isolation from existing in a white supremacist capitalistic apocalyptic world, and harness collective care, catharsis, and holistic healing. Join them in imagining the future we’ve been fighting for and experience mirrored fatality’s reflections to witness our highest, truest selves. 

mirrored fatality morphed their cocoon webs to digital machines by co-creating and co-releasing their first-ever EP with their songs: BLOOM, INVALIDATION, UTOPIA, and EARTHBODY(S) and BLOOM music video on 12/12/20 during their farm internship and artist residency at Philadelphia Community Farm on Anishinabek Nations land renamed Osceola, Wisconsin. At the Buttermilk Falls artist residency, mirrored fatality hosted an auction of handmade upcycled warrior ware with four pieces whose proceeds went directly to QTBIPOC grassroots organizations: Flora Y Tierra, Earth Lodge Center for Transformation, Liyang Network, and arwah collective and raised $368. 

mirrored fatality is transitioning out of Buttermilk Falls into their stewarding apprenticeship at Earth Lodge Center for Transformation in Tongva Land at Long Beach, California from February - July 2021. mirrored fatality is currently searching for a residency on the East Coast, starting July and in the summer to co-release their short film for EARTHBODY(S) and expand their regenerative farming skills. If you have any leads for them please email mirroredfatality@gmail.com.

 

[image description: mirrored fatality written in their signature cosmic creature font in black, maroon, red, and green is on top of collaged photos of mirrored fatality screaming in a gray glowing light, mirrored fatality in a bioluminescent cocoon, and side by side with their faces filled with flames. the background is mirrored fatality in warrixr stances with their bass and guitar next to a joshua tree at the mojave desert on with their protest stances in the sky with a glowing cocoon web on the sides. cocoon webs, the title of their EP is written in their signature webbed font in gray and black that is written on the top and bottom of the EP.]

#MirroredFatality #QTPOC #Punk #PerformanceArt

 
 

mirrored fatality weaponizes COCOON WEBS as a sonic metamorphosis container to a world numbing us with toxic forces.

COCOON WEBS is a ferocious affirmation of chaos to harness our ancestral power, primal spirit, collective fury, and interconnectedness to our multiverse. BLOOM, UTOPIA, INVALIDATION, and EARTHBODY(S) are restorative anthems to sustain us through the revolution.

image description: photography by ricky silva taken on tongva land in front of a chick-fil-a restaurant in westwood, ca. mirrored fatality adorns themselves in leather, chains, white silk, butterflies, and crow feathers, transforming the limitations of compulsory heterosexuality as they rage in defiance, self-fashioning themselves in flared nostrils, pursed lips, serious brows, and a clenched jaw. Surrounding them are white cis-male bodies, to their left is a shirtless tanned man walking his son in a stroller with his other child startled staring at them. the other men in the photo are shocked and confused and staring at the duo screaming.

 
 

image description: triple exposed photograph by em butler of mirrored fatality performing at radio axiom in chumash land/ san diego, ca. the photograph includes mirrored fatality’s shadow kneeling on the ground, yelling in pain and rage standing up, and silhouettes of them playing their instruments behind a dystopian building visual effect backdrop.

image description: photograph by ricky silva taken at a sculpture in tongva land/ westwood, ca. The photograph includes mirrored fatality staring hauntingly at the screen from within a hole where they are wearing an iridescent cape, ornamental chains

BLOOM (2020)

 

BLOOM from our EP cocoon webs: mirroredfatality.bandcamp.com ...The BLOOM music video features soundscapes and footage from immersing ourselves in nature as ...

“the BLOOM music video features soundscapes and footage from immersing ourselves in nature as we ground in our souls as bodies existing outside of isolation, capitalism, gender dysphoria, and the prison state. BLOOM was written together at the top of a mountain in Happy Valley in Tongva Land, so-called East Los Angeles at Sarita Doe and Champoy yurt dwelling ceremony. BLOOM unearths diasporic queer spirituality and harnesses our ancestral languages- Urdu and Kapampangan. BLOOM is a prayer to honor the bonds of our love that expands and brings regeneration into our multiverse. BLOOM is a spell to inspire deeper connections to our Earth and welcome in freedom and joy for ourselves and kin.”

Directed, produced, and edited by mirrored fatality | Filmed by princess amugo, alea skye, and mirrored fatality | Make-up and Costumes by mirrored fatality

For mirrored fatality, Abolition is…

“a commitment to creating a multiverse where creatures are no longer policed, caged, or killed by the war of incarceration and police violence.  Abolition is unapologetically supporting each other as we constantly live in a police state attempting to rip us apart and instead fighting harder to keep each other alive, resilient, and sustained. Abolition is releasing chains in your mind, heart, and soul to relearn every creature's capacity to regenerate from harm caused by the prison industrial complex’s poisons seeping into our relationships, habitats, and access to basic needs. Abolition is choosing to experience pleasure and joy with Queer Trans Black Indigenous People of Color kin despite police haunting us everywhere and cleansing their violence through our laughter, affinity, love, and resistance with one another.” 

— mirrored fatality