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CONJURING CREATIVITY, Art & the Esoteric 3;  INHABITING ESOTERIC ECOLOGIES

Venue.         MKII -  Lower Clapton at 71 - 75 Powerscroft rd. E5 0PT               15-16/3./2025
SATURDAY

9:00   Doors open
9:30   Conference Intro and Opening Ritual.

10-11:30 am MORNING TALKS (1.5hrs)
Esoteric Ecologies in Contemporary Art - Panel 1
    Charlotte Rodgers (TALK 40)
               Animism, Memory and Art as Magic: Empathy, Articulation and Effect
    Una Hamilton Helle (TALK 20)
               Being Present with Stone – pointers for a relational practice
    Sophie Craven (TALK 20)
              Working with the understory, the magick of the below

11:30am-12pm   MORNING BREAK

12 - 1 pm NOON TALKS 
Esoteric Ecologies in Contemporary Art - Panel 2
    Natasha Moody  (TALK 20)
               Tales From Ghost-Wood
    Lila Moore (TALK 40)
        Fields of Origin: Serpentine Transmutations in Next Nature and Culture (40 minutes)

1pm-2pm               NOON BREAK

2-3:30 pm  AFTERNOON TALKS   
Historical and Contemporary Occulture 
    Andy Sharp (TALK 40)
              Invasion of the Energy Spectres
    Cavan Mclaughlin (TALK 40)
              The Art of Response-Able Collaborative Survival with Other-Than-Humans

3:30-3:45 pm  AFTERNOON BREAK

3:45-4:45 pm
Esoteric Ecologies, Healing People and Peoples 
    Rebecca Lasharp (TALK 20)
               Ecologies of Analysis
    Emily Fitzell & Amano Miura (WORKSHOP 40)
                The Mantle

5-6 pm  DUSK TALK 
Abyssus abyssum invocat: Towards a Kosmic Gnosis
    David Beth


6-7pm  DUSK BREAK 

7-8:30 pm Communing With The Other Than Human  


    Melissa Shemanna (WORKSHOP) 
               Mantik Visioning: through the Wisdom of the Spectral Serpent


8:30-10 pm  Performance - Terrains of the Terrestrial and Telluric 

    Andy Sharp 
The Underworld Service
    Orryelle
Telluric Atavisms

                                                                                 END OF DAY



Films reels will be running in a seperate room upstairs, workshops are to take place in both the main room and the one upstairs as the films will be turned off during these times. All performances are to take place downstairs.

We have timed all panels to allow for 10 min of questions which lead into the breaks periods - so the audience can choose to stay or quietly leave depending on their interests.


SUNDAY 

10:00 am Doors Open

10:30 MORNING TALKS

Esoteric Ecologies in Contemporary Art - Panel 3 (1hr)
    Annabel Pettigrew (20)
              Ecology of Grief: Embodied Practice and Astral Projection
    Judith Noble (40)
              Elemental Animism as Art Praxis 

11:30-12pm MORNING BREAK

12-1 pm        NOON WORKSHOP

            Nicole Frobusch 
Collaborative Devotional Praxis; Painting With Foraged Earth Pigments

1-2pm           NOON BREAK       

2-3:30 pm AFTERNOON TALKS

Esoteric Ecologies in Contemporary Art - Panel 4  (1.5hr)
    Daisy Krebs/JFK (TALK 20)
              Borrowed Verticality
    Will Wright (TALK 20)
             Yggdrasil: The World Tree as the nervous system
    Rebecca Jackson & David Luke (TALK 40)
The cabbage is.. the blue deer: Leonora Carrington’s aromatic kitchen of secret psychedelic plants

3:30-4pm   AFTERNOON BREAK


4-5pm DUSK TALKS  
Esoteric Ecologies in Contemporary Art - Panel 5  
    Rosie Dahlstrom (TALK 20)
               Voicing the Voiceless: Tracing Speech and Silence Across History,
              Literature and  Contemporary Art
    Amy Hale (TALK 40) 
    Feminist Ecologies and Emergent Magics in Contemporary Art

5:30-7pm DUSK WORKSHOP  
    Julia Adzuki and Marianne Skjeldal (WORKSHOP (1hr 30 mins)
               Eco-Grief Clinic with MEG (Ministry for Environmental Grief)

7-8pm DUSK BREAK 


EVENING FINALE 

Evensongs - performative storytelling and closing rites

Mikael Öberg & Jo Blake 
Flowers-become-flesh-become-bird – Mythic Narrative as Relation-making Langu

                    

FINI