BIO

Portland’s Blackened Doomsayers ERGI perform emptiness. Nameless and cloaked, their rites carve an altar of space and time for attendants to offer their grief and struggles as sacrifice to the void. They are priests of emptiness, inviting us to consider our prayers are ours to answer with our own hands. What little light we cast alone grows stronger as we come together. Art is a rehearsal for life, and belief in something greater than the self is the first step. So long as there have been villages with witches, there have been Ergi. So long as there have been Gods defining their holiness against devils of their creation, we have been their scapegoat. They draw a circle of exclusion, creating heretics. We draw a circle that encompasses all; A circle with an infinite perimeter has no borders.