Khimaira

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Feeling disconnected? Khimaira is for those grappling with being out of relation and the systemic forces that sever our ties to self, others, and the Earth. Through essays, intimate dialogues, and curated stories, we unpack the "unhealable wound" of alienation. This podcast focuses on collectively transforming, rather than erasing, this deep pain. Each episode acts as a container for shared grief, fostering understanding and radical rewilding of what we can imagine we are allowed to dream. If you crave communion, find vital sustenance here.

Episodes

  1. Painting Tensions - On Speaking the Libidinal Economy with guest Noah Trapolino

    12/22/2025

    Painting Tensions - On Speaking the Libidinal Economy with guest Noah Trapolino

    In this episode, Noah and I speak from inside desire as it moves across fraternity, finance, philosophy, and painting—without attempting to reconcile or redeem the worlds it passes through. The conversation unfolds through Noah’s experience of hazing as formative conditions of belonging, where masochism functions not as pathology but as a mechanism through which coherence, loyalty, and libidinal circulation are produced. As these structures are named, art and philosophy enter as parallel economies—fields that carry their own disciplines, devotions, and sacrifices, even as they often refuse to acknowledge the violence implicit in their formation. Drawing on Bataille and Deleuze we attempt to allow theory to act as pressure within the speaking itself, expanding the limits on what kinds of communication are possible across language games and communal worlds.  This episode holds tension as something that acts—allowing incompatible economies of desire to brush up against one another without purification, refusal, or narrative closure. --- Noah Louis Trapolino (b. 1998) is a self taught artist with an emphasis in erotic figuration based in Brooklyn, NY. Noah was born and raised in Houston, Texas, and is the eldest of eight siblings. Studying finance and philosophy at the University of Texas in Austin, Trapolino pursued art as a way to bridge the gap between two seemingly distinct fields of academia; desire as an absent center for each would manifest in his art. He has continued to study the overlap of such worlds through a part time research program in political-theology, which informs his works. -- This episode features sonic art produced by V 0:00-1:30 a reading from "In the Slaughterhouse of Love" by Ken Hollings, essays on George Bataille in the Penguin Edition of a compilation of My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man 16:25-17:21 a reading from "In the Slaughterhouse of Love" by Ken Hollings, essays on George Bataille in the Penguin Edition of a compilation of short stories; My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man by George Bataille32:34-33:34 a reading from Story of the Eye by George Bataille1:16:10-1:16:37 a reading from Story of the Eye by George Bataille1:28:35-1:30:48 a reading from Variations on the Right to Remain Silent by Anne Carson 1:53:19-fin a reading from Story of the Eye by George Bataille All readings accompanied by manipulated fragments of Sound made by V: Againstfixedrep -------------------- Support Noah --> www.pen-keeper.com Mimbres School for Humanities --> www.mimbres.org Acid Horizons --> acidhorizonpodcast.com Support V --> https://saturnvox.com Support the Show --> https://ko-fi.com/saturnvox156

    1h 54m
  2. Performing the Strong Self - On the Illusion of Being Separate from the Body with guest Cara Claymore

    09/29/2025

    Performing the Strong Self - On the Illusion of Being Separate from the Body with guest Cara Claymore

    In today’s episode, Cara and I begin by asking: How does the body teach us to listen when sensation overwhelms, when it surprises, when it transforms? Through our conversation Cara shares how past struggles with sensory stimulation and neurodivergence became doorways into practices of embodiment. By attending to sensation in all its intensities, she has learned to inhabit states of power—moving through a variety of selves, performing with and through the body’s shifting voices. We explore how listening deeply to the body turns discipline and devotion into art, how sensitivity becomes a site of strength, and how embodiment itself opens pathways into metamorphosis. This episode is a call to action for those navigating the thresholds of sensation, seeking to travel lightly yet powerfully with the many selves the body carries. -------------------- Cara is a holy rascal, ecstatic seer, and body nerd who performs many different selves; calling herself an artist, filmmaker, actor and occultist who shares their strength practice, film & storytelling, myth & magick, & their ongoing spiritual art quest on the frontier of personal development with those willing to walk beside them. -------------------- This episode features sonic objects collected by Cara, as well as a poem she has written and performed titled Manifesto. All other sounds and modulations produced by V -------------------- Support Cara --> linktr.ee/caraclaymore Support V --> https://saturnvox.com Support the Show --> https://ko-fi.com/saturnvox156

    1h 12m
  3. Scarlet Women - On Babalon and Birthing Beauty with guest Jessica Christine

    08/13/2025

    Scarlet Women - On Babalon and Birthing Beauty with guest Jessica Christine

    In this episode, Jessica and I begin with a question: How does one stay rooted in beauty without being consumed by it? Our conversation traces the slow emergence of Babalon—the archetypal force of erotic creativity, sovereignty, and sacred presence—as she rises from beneath perception and into felt experience. We explore how this creative power nourishes when embodied, but also how it can distort when separated from feeling. We draw on priestess and magician lineages to consider what it means to grow in relation to beauty—to open without losing oneself, to feel deeply without flooding, and to hold the creative current with integrity. This is an episode for those navigating the subtle path between inspiration and fragmentation, and seeking to rise gently, steadily, into the sacred power of presence. -------------------- Jessica Christine is the creator of DeerWomen. Her work has been featured internationally. As a Creative Director, she has brought together worlds and traveled worldwide with event management, welcoming and taking care of all needs of visiting high-profile ambassadors, including royals of Belgium. As a STEM teacher, she has taught coding and 3D printing through gaming and robotics. Mentored by Francesca Lia Block, Maja D'Aoust and attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium amongst others.  At an early age, she cultivated a strong interest in mythology, evolution, travel, and esoteric sciences and applied those interests to the several facets of visual arts. In 2006 she began traveling to the Middle East, where she lived and worked for a number of years. In 2010, she launched DeerWomen, a world to combine her fascination with the art of travel, tea and folklore's long and wonderful history of ritual objects with intent. In 2022, we welcome DeerWomen’s reopening in the heart of Belgium, Antwerpen. Jessica strives to join the quiet intimacy and elegance of herbs with the magic of storytelling: narratives that emerge from myths, cultures, and stories, both new and old; universal and personal. Moreover, every work of art holds beauty and strength over time while imbuing the atmosphere of unique traditions and histories. Pieces are sourced from around the globe, made from nature and crafted with intention. -------------------- Songs for the Witch Woman by Jack Parsons & Marjorie Cameron Poems written and read by Marjorie Cameron from An Evening with Cameron - MOCA U - MOCAtvAn interview with Kenneth Anger on Cameron, Jack Parsons etc - Düsseldorf 18.II.2013 -------------------- Support Jessica --> https://deerwomen.com Support V --> https://saturnvox.com Support the Show --> https://ko-fi.com/saturnvox156

    1h 37m
  4. What's in a Name? - On the Language of Birds with guest Yīxiāo

    07/21/2025

    What's in a Name? - On the Language of Birds with guest Yīxiāo

    In Khimaira’s premiere episode, Nancy joins V to talk about names, birds, friendship, and the quiet ways we learn from each other. It’s a conversation about staying open — to language, to love, and to the surprising knowledge that comes from other people when we allow ourselves to be vulnerable. This episode is an offering, a shared moment of reflection on how we learn from those we love and what it means to listen with when seated in care. This episode features original sound art by Yīxiāo, titled Bird Seeds, as well as field recordings of birds captured by Nancy and V -------------------- Yīxiāo Yao is a Chinese interdisciplinary artist/researcher. They utilize texts, sound, images, paint, clay, letters, common substances, and their own body in work. Using real, constructed, mediated materials in and out of archives they are able to compose, curate intra-actional exchanges, and invite the participation of active viewership, readership and thinkership. They have curated/participated/published work in Ohklahomo, Mayfield, Open Art Studio, SITE Gallery, The LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogue Project, Friends Gallery, and No Nation Art Lab.  Yīxiāo received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with honours from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Visual Critical Studies. They received their Master of Arts degree from Rice University, Department of Religion.  They are currently based in Chicago. -------------------- Support Nancy --> https://yaoyixiao.com Support V --> https://saturnvox.com Support the Show --> https://ko-fi.com/saturnvox156

    1h 55m
  • 4 Episodes

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About

Feeling disconnected? Khimaira is for those grappling with being out of relation and the systemic forces that sever our ties to self, others, and the Earth. Through essays, intimate dialogues, and curated stories, we unpack the "unhealable wound" of alienation. This podcast focuses on collectively transforming, rather than erasing, this deep pain. Each episode acts as a container for shared grief, fostering understanding and radical rewilding of what we can imagine we are allowed to dream. If you crave communion, find vital sustenance here.

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  • Creator
    V
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © V
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