Pippi Zornoza

Art and Obsolescence

A very special episode! Today we are chatting with Pippi Zornoza, co-founder of the Dirt Palace, a feminist artist-run collective/residency program/space that has been a pivotal part of the artistic community in Providence for over 20 years, and this interview is part two of a three part series focused on the Dirt Palace and its two co-founders: Xander Marro and Pippi Zornoza.

Pippi’s art and music defy boundaries of media, genre, and context, embodying an intensity and a meticulous approach to detail, often exploring the intricate, macabre, and the obsessive. Pippi’s work spans textiles, embroidery, lace-making, knitting, sculpture, electronics, and performance — be it within an exhibition context, on stage, or, or in a dark and cavernous warehouse. Pippi’s musical projects are almost too numerous to name: Throne of Blood, Sawzall, Vulture, Bonedust, RETRIX, and currently HARPY.
This series was made in collaboration with Voices in Contemporary Art (VoCA), and was recorded in December 2022 in Pippi’s studio. In a first for the pod, you can *watch* the interview, including clips of Pippi’s work here. In our chat we delve into Pippi’s origins as an artist, her early years in Providence, and how her creative practice has evolved to its current interdisciplinary state that refreshingly blurs the boundaries between contemporary art, performance, and music
Stay tuned for the final episode in the series where we sit down with both artists to discuss their decades long collaboration.

Links from the conversation with Pippi
> Pippi’s Bandcamp: https://bonedustprov.bandcamp.com/
> HARPY: https://harpyprovidence.bandcamp.com/album/a-sacrifice
> A SACRIFICE (music video): https://youtu.be/kpo_PRLyuYI?si=8ZkNzf8Rni3QVXP4
> https://www.dirtpalace.org
> https://www.dirtpalace.org/wchbnb

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