"My eyes... were sightless, gazing on eternity, fixed on ultimacy, and when that is the case there is no reason to do anything, even to change the focus of one's eyes... It is the malady cosmopsis, the cosmic view, that afflicted me. When one has it, one is frozen like the bullfrog when the hunter's light strikes him full in the eyes, only with cosmopsis there is no hunter, and no quick hand to terminate the moment - there's only the light" 
(John Barth)

LIGHT ASYLUM is the reverential EBM, darkwave, techno project of self-taught, multidisciplinary performance artist, founder, vocalist and producer Shannon Funchess. Founded in Brooklyn, New York in 2007, the project has toured extensively through Europe, Eastern Europe, North America and Scandinavia performing at nightclubs and festivals. Funchess has collaborated with Sweden's The Knife and Detroit's ADULT. as a featured vocalist and credited producer on their respective studio albums and was featured on TV On the Radio’s debut EP ‘Young Liar’s’ as well as !!!’s (chk chk chk) “Heart Of Hearts” single. Funchess has also been DJing nightclubs, renegade raves and art events since the mid 90's with her first DJ gig as a resident at a pirate radio station in downtown Seattle, Washington and resident at the HotBox party at Aerospace Club. A guest at Discwoman, BOUND NYC, The Lot Radio, Ficken 3000, Coffin Club, dublab, Dream House, Synthicide, Elsewhere, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston and Portland Institute For Contemporary Art, she continues to DJ regularly and produce, perform and release music under the LIGHT ASYLUM moniker in 2022.

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