Story: Venus Christ

On Friday the 13th of June 2008 I found myself at 1015 in SF earlier than usual. It was about 7pm and the setting up crew was getting ready for a show called Venus Christ. Projecting the lights that created an illusion of another dimension, the rays merged into an image of a woman hanging on the infamous cross.

“Wow, how daring…” I thought….”and interesting”…

A woman came up on the stage and said into the microphone that we are reclaiming the sacred feminine on Friday the 13th, pointing out the number to be symbolic. Considered “unlucky” in our culture, it can be “very lucky” and is part of our lives like 13 lunar months in a year. She read the passage about “she, the universe” and dissolved into the space.

“ I came here to worship you,” screamed Jesus to Marry in one of the biblical scenes of the show. Yes, you heard it right. The show is full of this kind of “revelations”. Told by Dr Andromeda, the story takes you through time where she follows her heart, literarily. Her heart being this “hideous” creature painted in red.

Traveling through time, you get to see the future (very close to home future), where Venus, the goddess of love, is crucified and sexual energy is trapped by techno-logic, where the fruit grows rotten on the tree and there are no plants and no animals…
The show tells the story of the human kind, love and compassion.

Combined with live band, visual and sound effects it really does the trick. It opens a portal of thought, which, perhaps, gives birth to different point of view, stimulating the ever thriving force of creation.

PS. This show is produced by Anon Salon & the Burning Man people