THE GARDEN
ritual technologies for bodies under pressure
KRÓLOWA is the sound of entering the Garden: a bilingual Polish/English ritual rap project rooted in queenhood, femininity, sovereignty, devotion, play, and bloom.
The Garden is Pythagoras' current performance world: a sacred, sensual, hyper-feminine space where music, poetry, ritual, and electronic sound become tools for transformation.
Enter the Garden. Dream of new possibilities.
1. What is The Garden?
The Garden is a live performance world for queer, trans, feminine, migrant, mystical, and otherwise threatened bodies.
Through rap, chant, poetry, costume, gesture, electronic sound, and ritual presence, it asks:
What worlds do threatened bodies build in order to survive?
What if softness is not fragility, but power?
What if performance can become a technology of freedom?
2. KRÓLOWA
KRÓLOWA ("queen" in Polish) is a bilingual ritual rap project exploring femininity, sovereignty, mysticism, sexuality, devotion, and self-possession.
Part queen, part priestess, part popstar, part mystic, KRÓLOWA is the voice of the Garden speaking.
3. Hyper-Femininity as Resistance
The Garden uses flowers, braids, skirts, glamour, sweetness, and beauty not as submission, but as sacred exaggeration.
Hyper-femininity becomes a language of survival.
Beauty becomes a refusal of shame.
A queen becomes a method.
Available Forms
Ritual rap performance
A live vocal set combining rap, chant, electronic production, costume, gesture, and invocation.
Sacred electronic performance
A site-responsive or long-form sound work built from drone, field recordings, chant, live sampling, and architectural resonance.
Installation environment
A room-based listening world with soundscapes, visual material, text, flowers, fabric, candles, and archival objects.
Poetry / spoken word performance
Long-form lyrical texts performed with drone, ambience, or live electronic sound.
Artist-scholar workshop
A participatory gathering combining listening, philosophical dialogue, embodiment, and reflection.
Collaborative sound work
A site-specific or interdisciplinary piece made with artists, writers, scholars, architects, publishers, or community spaces
Recent Presentation: Sacred Gazes
The Garden recently unfolded through an open studios collaboration pairing sacred electronic soundscapes with an exploration of the female gaze through photographs taken by Italian women in the 1970s.
Presented in collaboration with publisher and creator Michela Palermo, the installation placed the Sacred Music Series in dialogue with feminist visual memory. The sound created a ritual counterpoint to the images, opening questions of femininity, queerness, sacred space, and who is allowed to look, witness, and belong.
The collaboration expanded The Garden into an immersive public environment: a space where sacred sound, visual culture, and transfeminine presence could meet.
Booking
Available as:
ritual rap performance · sacred electronic set · poetry/performance · installation environment · artist-scholar workshop · collaborative sound work
For bookings, collaborations, festivals, workshops, and commissions:
pythagorasthesage@gmail.com
@pythagorasthesage