How does someone give birth to courage?


This piece forms a part of the performative series "A Skin of Soil [ Live A/V ]" a collaboration between Akyute (Magdalena Hart and Natalia Gima) and Alice Sparkly Kat. Together they share a navigation of the year of the snake to embody new skins: a series of narrative stories and speculations that play with the concept of resurrection by fire.

Exhibition:
2025: Beyond Craft, 080 Barcelona Fashion Week, Barcelona, ES.



This crown materializes a forecast written by Alice, which speaks to migration through the Snakehead Queen, genocide through Ursula K. Le Guin’s ant´s language Queen, and exile through Eve, figures that raise urgent questions: Do you know how to do the right thing? and How does someone give birth to courage?

As Alice reminds us: If 2025 is Snake year, then it’s time to burn.