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SVETLANA ZWETKOF

ART | LANGUAGE | SOUND
SAN ANTONIO, TX 78201 SCHEDULE

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Slugger Witch debut album coming fall 2024.

CURRENT PROJECTS

bottled power and paper adornment.

ACCOLADES

The University of Texas at San Antonio - MA Reading & Literacy (incomplete) -
2021-2022

Mount Holyoke College -  BA Linguistics & Studio Art - 2013-2017
   cum laude, high honors in art thesis

Svet @ Texas Noise and Ambience 2018 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Rousay/Zwetkof Tour - midwest United States - summer 2017 PAST PROJECTS

Shouter Whisperer - synthesizer, electric ukulele, vocals - art rock
   one released album

Svet -  vocals, synthesizer - experimental/ambient music
   seven released albums

Jejune Stars - synthesizer, vocals -  indie

Ston the Band - synthesizer - wonky tonk

Rousay/Zwetkof Duo - vocals - experimental improvisational drum/vocal duo

Gloomy Swamp, Breathless Mud -  wax sculptures and video/sound installations

“gave into this lonely state” (2024). video collage, voice, synthesizer.

Serendipity
Might be the thing you care about the most

What is serendipitous
About taking a human life and being let off the hook?
“I Wore Her” (2024). Cotton rag paper made from recycled clothes + overbeaten in
Hollander beater, sterling silver plated wire.
“Form in Darkness” (2024). Cotton rag paper made from recycled clothes +
overbeaten in Hollander beater.“My Grandmothers Buried My Abuser” (2023). Earth,
tea, cloves, miscellany, antique spice tin. “THOU ART” (2017). video/sound
installation, voice, abstracted field recordings

woman thou art god.
woman thou art god.
woman thou art god.
woman thou art god.

i will give you everything you need to know.
i will tell you how to make the flowers grow.

    Untitled (2016). Amherst, MA and Fairbanks, AK. Graphite and ink.
“Gross” (2016). South Hadley, MA. Hollander-beaten abaca paper with embedded
trash.




“Endless” (2018). Digital photography. Don’t talk to me I will harm you

Don’t talk to me

Don’t talk to me I will disarm you

Weaponless and naked, entrails on floor, you’ll be


I will harm you like a ghost

The ghost that lives in your house

Creaking above and below floorboards simultaneously

I knock all of your things down


An arrow pierces a sword

I pierced my own earlobe

With a thumbtack in the dark

Bloody cheeks I scuff my knee

Like Saturn I devour everything


And when you’re sleeping

I am a creature in the corner licking its wounds

And when you’re sleeping

I am the incubus, night paralysis demon making dreams for you


Don’t talk to me I will harm you

Don’t talk to me

Don’t talk to me I will disarm you

Weaponless and naked, entrails on floor, you’ll be

Bare

You’ll be laid bare

All your weaknesses, successes, failures, creations

You’ll be laid bare

And I, I will have job be done

Oh I, I will have job be done

Oh I, the victor of this squabble

I will explode like the sun


I will sift through the hot coals, I will walk into the fire

My toenails blacken and curl

I wear my wizard’s robes

I will rake through the field how you drag me through the mud


And I, I will have job be done

Oh I, I will have job be done

Oh I, the victor of this squabble

I will explode like the sun


Don’t talk to me, I will harm you


from “Harmful Creature (Creature of Harm)” (2023) by Shouter Whisperer







“Devil’s Crook” (2017). Wax, clay, acrylic + wood plinth. Made myself a wet hot
little fucker writhing in the Colorado summer

I stopped cutting up worms

And you, you had a june bug in your hair

And you, you had a june bug in your hair

And I smashed it up without a care


from “Colorado Summer” (2023) by Shouter Whisperer





“Krokodil” (2016). Cotton rag paper made from recycled clothes“puppy dog” (2023)
by Shouter Whisperer
I added it up

The sum of our parts

I thought I was pregnant

But I was not


I conceived of a child in my mind’s eye

Neglected by everyone who I ever loved

A child called puppy dog

You forgot you ever named it that

You forgot, you forgot.


And when the winter came I swam in menses and I thought

Oh how terrible to be a neglected child, a puppy dog


“Fan” (2017). Wax, clay, land









“Crusty Thing” (2017). Wax and clay “Sleeper” (2022) by Svet

I took a xanax and it didn’t work

I took an anti depressant and it didnt work

I took a day of rest and it didn’t work

I took a day off work and it didn’t work


One day the sleeper will wake

One day the sleeper will wake

But until that day I will be resting in my grave


“my neighbor steps out late one night” (2016). Wire, cotton rag paper, abaca,
natural plant dye



“Protection” (2023). Glass spice jar, ink, cotton rag paper, rocks, salt,
lavender, seed pods “Parable of the Sower” (2023) by Shouter Whisperer

I don’t ever want to work this hard again

I keep tending to my dying garden

And she’s molten in the hot sun and I’m a placid lagoon

And we will absolutely kill each other 


I’m a sower not a reaper, I’m a sower not a reaper, I’m a sower not a reaper

I’m a lightning bug not a signal repeater


There’s a space between the sign and the signifier I’ve been struggling to fill

Packing my cheeks with newsprint with smiles I’m struggling to fill

And I don’t have the patience for it

I am so fucking exhausted


I’ve been moving like a metal, I’ve been moving like a lightning rod, I’ve been
moving like a dowsing rod

Whatever a spirit will latch on

I’ve been moving like a phantom taking ketamine

Eyes half open I’m crouching beneath my own window


And I’m searching for that something in the nothingness of this

And thus it is I fulfill and unfulfill gym membership

If I saw your fleshy spine running three paces before mine maybe I maybe I maybe
I maybe I


I’m a sower not a reaper


“I bury your harm” (2023). Glass spice jar, essential oils of clove, lavender
and rose petal, collected objects embalmed in soy wax.
“oily” (2023). video collage, voice, synthesizers, drum machine.

you came in too hard
broke all the vases
the bricks left their mortar
i saw your face
oily under your wool scarf
and you said, “fuck you
don’t look at me
don’t look at what i’ve done”
Untitled (2024). Cotton rag paper made from recycled clothes, acrylic paint,
chain.

“grass paper” (2018). Tall grass fibers cooked and beaten into sheets of paper.
“Skin Rug” (2016), detail. Cotton rag paper made with recycled clothes,
Hollander-beaten abaca paper, embedded trash.







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