Lali Wilde is a performance artist from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her works span many mediums including experimental music, video art, clowning, poetry, and cartooning.

artist statement (personal values):

  • List making

  • dIRT

  • Don't tell people what to do, remind them they can do anything.

  • ALSO REMEMBER you’re always existing in a collaborative partnership with the rest of consciousness.

  • Autonomy With Consent

  • Chaos

  • Contradictions, Paradoxes, Alignments, and Synchronicities

  • kindness

  • criminal rebellion

  • Poetry (as a way of life)

  • BECOMING CONSCIOUS OF AND COMBATING (individual and collective) BRAINWASHING 

  • Expressiveness (!b urself! XD)

  • INTENSITY

  • Foolishness & Hooliganary

  • Acceptance & Surrender

  • God

  • Self awareness — i.e. giving attention to the relationship between one’s interior & exterior and the effect of both on everything else’s interior & exterior & beyond

  • self-reliance

  • Interconnectivity

  • death 

  • Dirt again

  • We are made of dirt

  • We come from dirt

  • We all go back to dirt

  • sensations

  • sensationalism

  • Listening

  • Eroticism

  • Falling in love with everything all the time

  • witchcraft

  • Conscious & Responsible Anarchy

  • If you have, give to those who don’t.

  • Radical Inclusion 

  • Know that you are not at fault for what has been inflicted upon you, but you are responsible for what you do with it.

  • Singing and dancing all the time.

  • Actions which cause shock and surprise, pull people out of the mundanity, expectedness, and blind reactivity of everyday reality, and result in newfound perspectives & understandings which ultimately lead to more intentional and active participation in the cosmic mess of existence. 

  • Intentionality 

  • Pain

  • ghosts 

  • Decorations & lavish adornment because why not

  • Many things because why not

  • You are alive, why not?

  • You are alive.

  • Every time you take a step, you are killing millions of tiny things.

  • tiny things.

  • The speech act that is the word “No”.

  • The full-body experience of “Yes”. 

  • Everything is fake and constantly mutating and so saying I value anything in particular is against my values because they are fake and constantly mutating.

  • There is only language and philosophy.

  • Absolutes eat at our soul.

  • Our souls are absolute.

  • Eat.

  • Dirt.

  • blessings. 

  • Thank you.

BIO

Lali Wilde was raised in the circus. From a very young age, she performed with her mother as a clown and aerialist in the San Francisco Bay Area’s Mystic Family Circus. At the time, her father performed with Les Claypool’s Frog Brigade, and then the Yard Dogs Road Show. As a result, she spent lots of time backstage and on tour busses, getting to know the life of a touring artist. She also spent all of her childhood in a constant fit of creation — making everything from visual art to songs to spontaneous theatrical performances and short films. She spent her childhood at music festivals such as Burning Man, Symbiosis, Lightning in a Bottle, etc, and has performed in venues all over the world.

Throughout middle school, she studied music and played jazz trombone, as well as attended after school theater programs where she learned acting skills. In eighth grade, she enrolled in Oakland School for the Arts where she studied Vocal Music for two years before transferring to the Literary Arts emphasis. She released her first album at the age of 15, and she published her first novel at age 17. She graduated from Oakland School for the Arts with a degree in Literary Arts in 2017.

In college, Lali studied the psychology of social groups and social movements, focusing primarily on the concept of brainwashing. Her thesis project cross referenced political propaganda, religious doctrine, advertising tactics, and the language of abusive relationships to show the consistencies in how humans are influenced and controlled.

Lali was an integral piece of her college’s student organized sleep in protest which lasted a record breaking 75 days and resulted in the school staying open despite a financial crisis. Lali took on many roles throughout, but worked most prominently as the co-director of the documentation (photo/video) team. During this time, Lali also dove deeper into character studies and immersive performance. She performed regularly as various characters and alter egos, and created an album of all original music. She graduated from Hampshire College in 2021 with a Bachelor's of Arts degree.

Overall, Lali Wilde is a daring soul who seeks to help others connect through participatory art, storytelling, and other creative methods of outreach. Lali is currently living in Oakland, CA with her sweetheart. She makes music, movies, books, characters, cartoons, sculptures, paintings, performances, and more, along with working on her online business. Her current artistic focus is “Captain Earthquake”, a mixed media musical cartoon about a magical pirate.

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