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    DAMCHO

    artist - researcher

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    Silhouettes of the Soul

    Silhouettes of the Soul

    Speaking to BBC 'Sunday' for their in-depth investigation into abuses by Sogyal Rinpoche.

    Speaking to BBC 'Sunday' for their in-depth investigation into abuses by Sogyal Rinpoche.

    Speaking at Inform Seminar: Sexual abuse framed by faith or belief

    Speaking at Inform Seminar: Sexual abuse framed by faith or belief

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    'I Was A Nun - Now I Love Latex And The Fetish World'

    'I Was A Nun - Now I Love Latex And The Fetish World'

    Meet the Australian woman who has dramatically re-invented herself - twice. (links to whimn.com.au) Meet Damcho, an Australian woman who, by her count, has already led three lives. First as an artist in Melbourne; then as a Buddhist nun in France; and currently, a fetish clubber in London. In her first life, Damcho was born Michelle Tonkin and grew up to be a spiritual child. By her own admission, she “went off the rails” as a teenager, but by the time she went to study at th
    The Buddhist Nun Turned Fetish Fanatic.

    The Buddhist Nun Turned Fetish Fanatic.

    TV interview on The Morning Show, Channel 7, Australia Damcho Dyson spent ten years living with Buddhist monks before turning her life upside-down to indulge in a new-found latex fetish! Click here to link to video. (opens in a new page)
     
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    As the activity of the mystic must end in the via negative, a theology of God’s absence, a craving for the cloud of unknowingness beyond knowledge and for the silence beyond speech, so art must tend towards anti-art, the elimination of the “subject”  (the “object”, the “image”), the substitution of chance for intention,

    and the pursuit of silence.

    […] Therefore, art becomes estimated as something to be overthrown. A new element enters the art-work and becomes  constitute of it:

    the appeal (tacit or overt) for its own abolition

    – and, ultimately, for the abolition of art itself. 

     

    Susan Sontag,  from ‘The Aesthetics of Silence’, 1966.

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