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plus44Kaligula (+FourFour Kali-gula) is the project of English composer, producer, and performance artist Cally Statham, hailing from post-industrial northern town, Oldham, UK.
For those who now recognise themselves in plus44Kaligula, Statham's long awaited release will be like opening a well established chat thread; full of philosophical musings and anthropological anecdotes about where we come from, the simplification of historical context in societal discourse, the fact this isn't new, and whether we are still doomed to repeat ourselves, even with the advent of AI.
Raised between the rock and hard place of British icons David Bowie and Annie Lennox, and on screen legends such as Daniel Day Lewis, plus44Kaligulas creation is a deadpan, surrealist landscape where ego and identity collapse evoking scenes of Rene Magritte and Yorgos Lanthimos - crafting a modern myth for fractured times.
On "HOME", Statham says "I offer a dirge for us caught trapped by the machinery of unregulated Capitalism— the current name for an ancient morbid beast through time which actively prevents solidarity and change. We are not new, but one of myriad iterations of the same pyramid cloaked in 'Progress'. We wander confused, asking not whether AI might save us, but whether we deserve saving at all.
The video for "Home" unfolds as parable: Lilith, exiled and unrepentant, turns her gaze backward—not in longing, but with a grim sense of duty—to retrieve Eve from paradise lost. Yet what if Eve, content in her chains, 'refuses liberation'? To quote Fisher and Žižek, "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism."
For those who now recognise themselves in plus44Kaligula, Statham's long awaited release will be like opening a well established chat thread; full of philosophical musings and anthropological anecdotes about where we come from, the simplification of historical context in societal discourse, the fact this isn't new, and whether we are still doomed to repeat ourselves, even with the advent of AI.
Raised between the rock and hard place of British icons David Bowie and Annie Lennox, and on screen legends such as Daniel Day Lewis, plus44Kaligulas creation is a deadpan, surrealist landscape where ego and identity collapse evoking scenes of Rene Magritte and Yorgos Lanthimos - crafting a modern myth for fractured times.
On "HOME", Statham says "I offer a dirge for us caught trapped by the machinery of unregulated Capitalism— the current name for an ancient morbid beast through time which actively prevents solidarity and change. We are not new, but one of myriad iterations of the same pyramid cloaked in 'Progress'. We wander confused, asking not whether AI might save us, but whether we deserve saving at all.
The video for "Home" unfolds as parable: Lilith, exiled and unrepentant, turns her gaze backward—not in longing, but with a grim sense of duty—to retrieve Eve from paradise lost. Yet what if Eve, content in her chains, 'refuses liberation'? To quote Fisher and Žižek, "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism."
