MY KA BY LILA MOORE

Experimental digital art film & Performed photography © Lila Moore _cybernetic entities

Happy birthday to MY KA, who was born long ago and first manifested in my performed photography and multimedia work in my early twenties. She slumbered in slides and forgotten files, awaiting the immortal summons of performance. Now she rises again, performing her KA photographic magick in digital art film, resurrected by technoetic technologies.

MY KA is inspired by the theme of the double and Maya Deren’s poem Death by Amnesia (1942). Yet she emerges from the earliest strata of my work—footage and visions that remained unfinished, veiled by the adversities and ordeals that haunt the path of artists. Only now, through this reawakening, does her form complete itself.

The concept of Performed Photography was articulated in my PhD thesis (2001). Performed Photography was always the vessel of her becoming, where body and camera entwine in acts of presence and apparition. Though conceived in the past, these ideas are both neoteric and timeless, reflecting the KA’s eternal return.

I wrote about MY KA in my 2024 peer-reviewed article Technoetic Magick: Explorations of the Uncanny Double as a Noetic and Magickal System through the Complementary Lenses of AI Image-Generation and AR, published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. in the Proceedings of EVA London 2024, UK (DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2024.42).

My Ka, Promo by Lila Moore