MARE
A NOMADIC ART SCHOOL
MARE is an experiment, a leap of faith, of an idea first seeded in Stockholm nearly 10 years ago after I had been running an experimental art space - Konstapoteket. This seed was germinated during the last Conjuring Creativity conference in London when I was considering what I could really bring to the table regarding a conversation around Art, Esotericism and Ecology.
This is an experiment in forging a forked path, encouraged by initiatives such as TOMA (The Other MA) and Open School East, sourcing deep inspiration from Dartington and Schumacher College
It might not work, but it feels like, considering the time we are living through, that this idea has to come into being now, and is a way of putting the words into action.
Birthed out of over 25 years experience of teaching and facilitating art, working with all ages and backgrounds, often outside of the academy. With an inherent desire to foster space for post colonial, post capitalist learning, one which incorporates a combination of contemporary methodology and discourse in equal reverance with
esoteric and magical wisdom.
I want to create a space where as artists we can re-concile lost knowledges supressed during the suposed time of Dis-enchantment.
M.AR.E has at it’s core an intention to recognise, honour and work with the entanglements of Magick, Art & Ecology through a serious of seminars and workshops, and eventual longer course.
There is no academic goal or product outcome, rather a hope to activate and facilitate individuals to realise the potential they are capable of through their art making, and how this in turn has the potential to facilitate re-alignment, re-conciliation and co-creativity with our other than human beings and the planet.
Recognising the strength in authoring our own narrative, alongside the inherent truth in Myth when HIStory has failed us, this school strives to practice a non patriachal, non cartesian hegemony of radical pedagogy and interspirit connectivity.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Geraldine Hudson
With a vocational background in socially engaged and therapeutic arts practice (working often with those on the margins of society) alongside early environmental activist work and my own involvement in ‘counter culture’ it was during my printmaking M.A (20 years ago) when I started looking at states/philosophy of the wild, transgressions and individual freedoms in relation to this human separation from ‘nature’ ... after a series of small exhibitions in Sweden from 2013 called ‘human nature’ which examined certain European cultural history in line with contemporary alienation. I soon began researching the land enclosures and witch trials alongside being more open about my own esoteric practice.
Living in Stockholm at the time enabled me to finally weave together these 3 strands of my self together. I was lucky enough to meet some amazingly dedicated and inspirational artists working with magic/k, esotericism and spirituality, which gave me the courage to start Conjuring Creativity (a series of conference events addressing art and esotericism)
It was after holding the last Conjuring Creativity in London and being asked by attendees what was coming next, that I decided now is the time to take a leap of faith and assimilate my own practice into my role as an artist educator.
If you’d like to know more abut my own art practice then please visit
https://linktr.ee/enidlareg
I welcome all dialogue and possible collaboration from any interested minds, artists, esotericists, ecologists, psychologists .... anyone else interested in this path, and can be contacted via ghuds004@gold.ac.uk or conjuringcreativity@gmail.com
M.AR.E workshops are either taught/facilitated by myself, at times with other practitioners who are all exerts in their individual field.
The longer school course includes different guest tutors/practitioners