Feted by what she calls the “daylight culture” winner of the Mercury Prize in 2005, Oscar nominee eleven years later Anohni is doubling back to her days (nights, really) as a performance artist in early-’90s New York. Anohni’s quarantine project was culling from her “threadbare” archive, making thousands of stills from videos of her theater collective, the Blacklips Performance Cult, which rose from Manhattan’s queer underground between the summer of ’92 and spring of ’95. The results are presented in the book Blacklips: Her Life and Her Many, Many Deaths (Anthology Editions), coedited by Marti
ANOHNI and photographer Marti Wilkerson walk us through a visual history of their Blacklips Performance Cult, a hotbed of punk theatricality, apocalyptic aesthetics, and queer history.