Misia-O’

Misia-O' is a multidisciplinary storyteller creating immersive art experiences. With a background as an interior architect and perfumer, photographer and film director, she creates online and offline immersive experiences with various media, including photography, film, spoken word, perfume, sculpture and experiential design. Her art practice, accessible to sighted and visually impaired people, celebrates the cosmogony of ancient civilisations, bringing back to light ancestral wisdom combined with ancient and future technologies, thus towards a more sustainable future.

Misia-O' holds several awards in interior design and photography. Her MA thesis titled “Muse/Abuse” is part of the RCA’s permanent library collection.

Upcoming exhibitions

'Light Being', Lychee One, London (28-30th June 2023)

'Off-RCA', Atelier Alonso, Arles, France (3-9th July 2023)

'RCA2023: Graduate Show', Truman Brewery, London (13-16 July 2023)

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Degree Details

Dogon: The Cosmological Myth

This is the first chapter of a larger project titled ‘Sirius’.

Photography, art film, spoken word, binaural sounds and scented sculptures are part of this immersive art's project conceived with and for my Dad, at the onset of his passing to the otherworld.

A transitional collaboration for us both, linking the physical world to the otherworld, bringing back to light the wisdom and magic of the Dogon and their ancestral knowledge.The Dogon are a tribe in Mali, West Africa, whose mythology and quantum knowledge defy western understanding of time and death with its cosmogony.

Dogon: The Cosmological Myth-by Misia-O' — "Dogon: The Cosmological Myth" is a short art's film, photo series and scented sculptures by Misia-O', conceptualising the story of creation of life by the God Amma in Dogon mythology. It draws on post-humanist and new materialist ideas of co-existence with not only with the non-human but also with the non-material or spiritual.

Launch Project

Dogon: The Cosmological Myth- by Misia-O'

"Dogon:The Cosmological Myth" is a short art film by Misia-O', conceptualising the story of creation of life by the God Amma in Dogon mythology. Amma's twins, "Nommos" are born from a successful union with Mother Earth. The twins are representative of the world's equilibrium.The Dogon, a tribe from Mali in West Africa, are believed to be descendants of ancient Egyptians and to hold secret and sacred knowledge of the mystery schools and of quantum theory.The Dogon discovered the star "Sirius" (a star shining 20 times brighter than the sun) 400 years before the invention of the telescope. Sirius, located in the constellation of the Dog, is celebrated in the animist rituals and Dogon dances. "Dama", one of the Dogon dance, celebrates the link between the physical world and the otherworld (since Life and Death are one). According to the Dogon complex mythology, the origins of the creation of life are linked to universal beliefs-where the universe is a living organised body, with mankind as a microcosmic image of this world. Those beliefs are translated in Dogon's architecture bearing sacred symbols imprinted in clay, in Dogon's attics-designed as vortexes applying sacred geometry principles, in their dance rituals and in their daily life.

Medium: Film, Choreography, Dance, Spoken Word Performance, Creative Writing