Jenny Hval has shared a new video from her album Blood Bitch, out September 30 on Sacred Bones. The “Conceptual Romance” clip sees several women, often in skin suits, cavorting, play-fighting, and spewing blood in the fields surrounding a graveyard. The video ends with a big, fleshy congregation on a plastic sheet. Watch it below.
In a press release, Hval said:
To be reborn in a womb of dirt that once was a grave of death. When I was a tiny child I saw my mother do a performance piece where she wore a skin suit just like the ones in the video. It really disturbed me, to have others see my mother 'naked.'
We've moved from complete and total censorship to a world where you can commodify your body if you resemble a certain ideal. Some people have a choice in this, others do not.
We found toy versions of some of the most oppressive, exclusive, phallic equipment there is (a drone and a steady cam) and decided to see what we could make with them.
Let's unchain ourselves from our Instagram, our carefully curated images and self-commodification, trendy record labels, and fancy cameras.
Watch Hval perform “Kingsize” at this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival:
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