The Powers is a creative collaboration between Emily Pelstring, Katherine Kline and Jessica Mensch. Our work spans experimental electronic music, performance, video, episodic livestream television, and installation. Our projects are research-oriented, world-making efforts in which we build an alternate cosmology by reclaiming and rewriting myths and archetypes handed down to us by white mainstream North American patriarchal culture. We often work with characters from antiquity (Medusa, Sirens, Gorgons, Fates) and popular quasi-religious iconographies (Santa, Easter Bunny, Witches). Our recent work includes our episodic livestream collaboration with 20-plus artists, Sistership TV (2018-2020), and our full-length LP, Tentacles (2023, put out on Personal Records from Montreal, QC. Our DIY aesthetic and self-determined production methodology are intentional, political aspects of our practice that draw on a tradition of queer-feminist performance art that undermines commercial aesthetic values.
THE POWERS’ bandcamp: https://thepowers.bandcamp.com/
SISTERSHIP TV: Our 4-episode web series that explores various topics, including the cyborg, telepresence, hysteria, the seance, witchcraft, and animal communication
https://vimeo.com/sistershiptv
Music video - Tranquility Base
Trailer for "Crone Island" by The Powers, episode 2 of the web series Masterpeace Theatre. All performances shot and performed by The Powers on Pender Island, BC, 2017. Music composed and performed by The Powers. Audio recording by Josh Stevenson.