AñA Wojak
Fiona McGregor

senVoodoo is a performance collective founded in Sydney by AñA Wojak, visual artist, and Fiona McGregor, writer. senVoodoo were active from 1999-2006, reforming briefly in 2008 to present a final work at the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide. Their work is almost always site specific with installation a crucial element. They performed in galleries, theatres, cabarets and parties across Australia, both solo as well as in larger interactive pieces with other artists. They performed live in Poland, and their video and installation work has been shown internationally.

Spawned in the fertile ground of Sydney’s alternative party and cabaret culture, senVoodoo evolved an idiosyncratic body based live art practise within a highly theatrical aesthetic. Their work draws from diverse sources both within and without the artistic realm, and cross-cultural ritual and spiritual signifiers form a strong part of their vocabulary.

For millenia iconography of the wounded, bleeding or adorned body has been the location of drama, passion, sacrifice and redemption. It continues to have relevance in these times of plague, war and advanced technologies, which both enhance and deny the primal body. The inherent violence of breached skin can be seen as liberating, transcendental, beautiful or brutal; sometimes even comical. senVoodoo create rich theatrical statements using the visceral power of pain: the emotional is physical.

Wojak and McGregor are now working solo and links to their other sites are found herein. Some of their recent performances can be seen on this website, which otherwise remains as an archive of senVoodoo.

This project was supported by the National Association for the Visual Arts
with financial assistance from the NSW Government Ministry for the Arts.