Arts Thread

Jessica Tipper’s work uses the language of occult spirituality within the transcendental digital realm to reimagine queer narratives and being. With a multisensory approach to presenting the work, her digital beings and physical objects invite the audience to re-consider the traditional relationship between body and mind and disrupt ideas around gender and sex. Tipper references her practice as a technopagan witch, early 2000’s women computer graphic artists and game spaces. A time where games and the internet offered boundaryless possibilities, avatars separated from a binary patriarchal reality and a new plane of existence for new myth and magic. The figures that immerge in the work– wombless goddesses and cyborgs, exist in this space and ask the viewer why they have an assigned gender, why they accept or revere their sexual organs and what would happen if this was all scattered into a new space with no binaries? In the latest work, Tipper brings to life a pregnant Green Man, and a mournful angel baby and seeks to reinvent ideas around the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine, an ancient phenomenon that is still steeped into contemporary esoteric practices that should be subverted and challenged.