Damsel Elysium

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Damsel Elysium

Damsel Elysium (they/them) is the solo project of UK based multidisciplinary artist, multi-instrumentalist and composer Djenaba Davis-Eyo.

An alchemist of body, space, object and the metaphysical, Damsel is a holistic world builder using sound, video, performance and other artistic mediums whose deeply intuitive practice crosses the boundary between experimental sound art, avant-pop, performance art, contemporary classical, analog and electronics, blurring the lines of genre, discipline and expectation. Their work explores anticolonial and neurodivergent practice, paradoxes of the manmade and natural world. Working almost entirely with improvisation somatic techniques, subtle energy, ancestral knowledge and the subconscious, They are an architect of hypnagogic activation to draw attention to quantum details and initiate alternative realities. Their multi-medium approach explores site-specific non-performance spaces of history and sacredness. Inspired by contemporary and Fluxus movements, performance becomes ritual and the stage an altar. Damsel’s work has appeared in Tate Modern, Southbank centre, V&A museum and Fondation Beyeler to name a few. Their first record released on AD 93, earning them recognition across a multitude of creative spaces; music, fashion, art, design and even film scoring, they are an avant garde artist on the rise collaborating with FKA twigs, Celeste, CKTRL and working with brands and art spaces such as Gucci, IITTALA and Simone Rocha.