Johanna Hedva is a Korean-American writer, artist, musician, and astrologer, who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches, and now lives in LA and Berlin. Hedva’s practice cooks magic, necromancy, and divination together with mystical states of fury and ecstasy. They make mystical doom; hag blues; intimate metal. They are devoted to doom as a liberatory condition, deviant forms of knowledge, and the ways in which a voice can unmake the world. Their approach to sound is informed by Korean shamanist ritual and the Korean tradition of P’ansori singing (which demands rehearsal next to waterfalls, in order to ravage the vocal cords), Keiji Haino, Sainkho Namtchylak, Diamanda Galás, and Jeff Buckley, among others. Hedva’s work, no matter the genre, is different kinds of writing, whether it’s words on a page, screaming in a room, or dragging a hand through water. Their latest album, Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House, was released on crystalline morphologies and Sming Sming on January 1, 2021. Their work has been shown in Berlin at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Klosterruine, and Institute of Cultural Inquiry; The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London; Performance Space New York; Gyeongnam Art Museum in South Korea; and the LA Architecture and Design Museum; and the Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon. Hedva is also the author of two books, the novel On Hell (2018) and a collection of poems, performances, and essays, Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain (2020). Their essay, “Sick Woman Theory,” first published in Mask Magazine in 2016, has been translated into ten languages.