Worm Charmer is a performance that utilizes sensory memories to create a path of resistance. It activates the body as an instrument, summoning writhing, wetness, and the tremors of subterranean sense. Eroticism emerges as language, as escape, as rhythm in contact with the earth. Through sound, scent, sweat, and salt, artists channel a sacred, feral intelligence of the flesh within the audience. The performance carves open the gaze, casting writhing as resistance, charm as action. From throat to soil, the ritual is a seepage to unnamed desire and reclaims the body as an extension of the land.

It is a bodily ritual of leakage, trembling, texture, and sound. It opens a porous zone to be entered through the skin, the breath, the heat beneath the surface. Performed by Hui and Merik, this piece conjures an inconsumable eroticism that is feral, sacred, and ungovernable.

The piece celebrates the unspeakable. For dampness. For writhing. For what lives in the soil and under the skin. An ecosexual spell. A sensory escape. A call to remember that our bodies are the Earth’s open wounds, its feelers, its forgotten mouths.

Music and performance collaborator: Merik Goma

Videographer: Chyan Lo

Editor: Nebula Creative LLC

Year: 2025

This work is made with the support of Sculpture Space Inc. and Tiger Strikes Astroid NYC