If the solutions in the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself. We need to keep fossil fuels in the ground and we need to focus on equity. Towards the end of the concert, a video of 20-year-old Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg looms before us: They pay tribute to her mother, the Icelandic environmental activist Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir, who died in 2018. Two songs, Ovule and Atopos from her new album Fossora have their live global premiere at the concerts. The flautists play a circular flute surrounding Björk. A hula-hoop-like circular flute descends over Björk and down to the flautists, requiring four of them to play it.
Björk is also joined on stage by harpist Katie Buckley and the multi-talented Manu Delago on the Aluphone percussion instrument, keyboards, other electronics and water drums.įor Body Memory, the seven female flautists of Viibra are dressed in fairy costumes, circling Björk. In Perth, we have IMAX-sized visuals and a 54-channel surround system to garner an immersive multimedia experience in an Eden of bird sounds.Īrgentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel directs the futuristic screens of lush green plants, live organisms, expanding fungus and blooming blood red and pink-tinged flowers.Īn 18-person Australian choir, Voyces, opens and closes the concerts. Based on her 2017 album Utopia, she has described the show as “about females supporting each other”, our connection to Earth, and a plea to act on climate change. Presented only a few times globally, Cornucopia is Björk’s most elaborate performance to date. Her encore Fuck the Pain Away, with Melbourne feminist punk singer Amy Taylor, has the floorboards of the colonial theatre thumping.įor Perth Festival, Björk is performing her sci-fi pop extravaganza Cornucopia in a purpose-built 5,000-seat stadium. Leaning towards us, Peaches asks what The Teaches of Peaches meant to everyone when it was released, “and what does it mean collectively together now?” The crowd cheers louder as if their favourite footy team has won the grand final. Photo Credit: Mona/Jesse Hunniford Image courtesy of the artist and Mona Foma Peaches, Mona Sessions at Mona, Mona Foma 2023. Her solo electro-pop album The Teaches of Peaches became a feminist classic, with singles like Lovertits. Do-it-yourself ethosĪs Gen X, third-wave feminist icons, Peaches (Merrill Nisker), Bikini Kill and Björk grew up during the punk movements of the 1970s and ‘80s.īased in Olympia in Washington State, Bikini Kill was part of the Riot Grrrl movement in the early 1990s, funnelling the do-it-yourself punk ethos into zines, songs like Rebel Girl, and confrontational live shows.īikini Kill encouraged women and girls to start bands as a form of “ cultural resistance”, challenging masculine toxicity long before #MeToo.ĭuring the 1990s in Canada, Nisker formed a Riot Grrrl band, Fancypants Hoodlum.īy 2000, aged 33 and recovering from cancer and a heartbreak, she renamed herself Peaches. Feminism, ageism, sexism, transphobia, racism, capitalism and environmentalism are their musical agenda. These artists, all now aged in their 50s, are popular provocateurs, pulsating with rage.
In Perth, a few days later, Björk’s echo-filled, childlike voice is as harrowing and powerful as ever.
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