Cut Tag

Tilda Mace performanceGallery / 12 images You’re standing in the audience at London’s coOc on a Saturday night. DJ Daniel Fabari is on the decks, playing a psychedelic soundscape of humming, shamanic chanting, drumming, breathwork, animal noises, poems, and the thud of a punching bag being struck again and again. The lights around you glitch. On stage, make-up and SFX artist Tilda Mace stands beside a bare-chested model wrapped in furs. There’s something uncanny about him, though you can’t quite place it – until Tilda begins cutting him open. The music grows heavier, hyena cries filling the room. And then a figure emerges from the ruins of the skin, which you now realise was prosthetic: a second head, another pair of...