https://conjuringcreativity.org MARE Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:50:27 +0000 https://conjuringcreativity.org en https://conjuringcreativity.org/CALL-OUT-3 Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:50:27 +0000 MARE https://conjuringcreativity.org/CALL-OUT-3 CALL OUT CONJURING CREATIVITY .&nbsp; ART &amp; THE ESOTERIC #3 INHABITING ESOTERIC ECOLOGIES We are thrilled to announce that Conjuring Creativity: Art &amp; the Esoteric #3 ‘Inhabiting Esoteric Ecologies’ will take place in London on the 15th &amp; 16th of March 2025 venue -&nbsp;https://www.markandmarko.com/space <img width="3686" height="3408" width_o="3686" height_o="3408" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6bcd904af8d41781361c2b7f3625558ff4a3f862a7809d684e249c1a150aaf1/410C9C19-0576-47A1-B3B2-E02EA66F6810.jpeg" data-mid="214875028" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d6bcd904af8d41781361c2b7f3625558ff4a3f862a7809d684e249c1a150aaf1/410C9C19-0576-47A1-B3B2-E02EA66F6810.jpeg" /> For this, the final edition of the conference, we would like to reach out to any artists, astrologers, musicians, researchers, practitioners, scholars and writers who have an invested interest in the overlapping worlds of Esotericism,&nbsp; Art and Ecology. Previously during Conjuring Creativity #2 We invited you to consider esoteric and occult practices in relation to and beyond the anthropocene. This time we are now turning our attention fully to the entangled relationship between magick and the more-than-human. We wish to specifically explore how esoteric, occult and mystical strategies are being utilised within and alongside contemporary art, to recognise, repair and re-member our innate relationships; to the stars, planets, spirits, pan-species kin and unseen companions who inform and inhabit our terrestriality. How do we recognise, acknowledge and creatively cultivate our relationship with the many more-than-human persons whose dimensional ecologies we also inhabit and embody?And, what can we do, as embodied persons in a living cosmos, to creatively celebrate, recognise, re-member or repair these vital connections? Our use of the term esoteric ecologies here, intends to both recognise and invite the exploration of praxis and perspectives on art, animism, botany, psychogeography, astrology, cosmogony, ritual, worship, creativity and healing. We also gladly welcome proposals that address the conference's themes beyond the topics stated. ~ We look forward to receiving proposals from any scholar, artist or esoteric practitioner who would like to explore these ideas with us.&nbsp; As Conjuring Creativity is an interdisciplinary event, we are inviting proposals for papers, workshops, performances, artists talks, film screenings and other creative interventions. We intend to nurture a healthy horizontal cross pollination, through panels and individual themed discussions rather than having a hierarchical speaker line-up. You* are warmly invited to send an abstract of no more than 300 words for a 20 or 40 minute talk,&nbsp; and or a workshop or performance up to 60 minutes to us at conjuringcreativity@gmail.com&nbsp; Please include a bio of no more than 111 words and a photo which represents yourself or your practice, which you are hapy to be included in our publicity.&nbsp; This call out will close on Thursday 31st October midnight uk time. Please feel free to contact us through the email (no DM's) if you have an idea you would like to discuss prior to proposal. Geraldine Hudson and Ben Jeans Houghton xx * All who are sufficiently knowledgeable in their field are free to apply. Conjuring Creativity is a not for profit event, but we can offer some contribution towards expenses for independent scholars and provide letters of invite if needed for external funding. https://conjuringcreativity.org/Personal-navigations Fri, 08 Mar 2024 12:37:45 +0000 MARE https://conjuringcreativity.org/Personal-navigations Personal Navigations online workshop&nbsp;Practical Magick for Interpersonal Navigations Friday 2nd December 6:30 - 10pm ONLINE 3 workshops and embodied presentations open to all genders Xanthe E Horner (she/her), Rosa Ray (she/her) Lottie Randomly (they/them) <img width="1076" height="1522" width_o="1076" height_o="1522" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c01af9b4670421c909bc50c3db1c09d7a8e1eaac109e925a0dc19fa727a1e0b7/xanthe.jpg" data-mid="206445877" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c01af9b4670421c909bc50c3db1c09d7a8e1eaac109e925a0dc19fa727a1e0b7/xanthe.jpg" /> Participants must be ready to take part and have paper/sketchbook, coloured pens or pencils, and any other materials they feel drawn to using. Xanthe E. Horner&nbsp; (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, witch and intuitive tarot reader based in East London, UK. Her creative practice perches playfully on the intersection between art-making, visionary experience and mythopoesis. She draws on the archetypes of contemporary culture and historical narratives alike to spin new spells towards collective healing, reversing the hex of disenchantment by reimagining and reinventing the myths we live by. <img width="842" height="799" width_o="842" height_o="799" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/56777da18f25ec4c7ad57eac204d34a75e49d522eda42eab5e5890a9878fd3fd/Xan2.jpg" data-mid="206449426" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/842/i/56777da18f25ec4c7ad57eac204d34a75e49d522eda42eab5e5890a9878fd3fd/Xan2.jpg" />---------------------- Rosa Ray&nbsp; (she/her)&nbsp; From Hex Positive to Sex Positive: A Queer Wxtch’s Journey with the Holy Whore of Love &amp; War Recovering Wyddershins Wxtch &amp; devotee of Babalon, Rosa Ray critically reflects upon her former hex-positive, anti-capitalist Workings and considers the ways our magickal praxis can be used in service of struggles for healing justice. Raising the questions: How can we practice a Radical Witchcraft that’s accountable &amp; effective, without unintentionally reproducing the violent structures of oppression and supremacy we wish to dismantle? How can we infuse our magick with self compassion, centered around pleasure &amp; healing justice, without drifting into the toxic territory of Love and Light? Rather than boldly claiming to have all the answers, after sharing my experiences, I enthusiastically welcome and invite participants to share their own ideas and thoughts. Because surely, you must have considered hexing someone or something at least once in your life? And if you haven’t, why not? :) Bio Rosa Ray is a green fingered Wxtch, Anthropologist, Affectional Alchemist &amp; Anarchist, channeling the spirits of queer pioneer Anita Berber, radical revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, in conversation with Black, warrior poet Audre Lorde and guided by the Holy Whore of Love &amp; War Babalon. By harnessing the power of the Radical Imagination, Rosa’s eclectic, trauma-informed practice aims to cultivate inclusive safer spaces of divine pleasure, where those adversely affected by capitalism, colonialism, racism, sexism, ableism (and other forms of structural injustices) can come together to vent, <img width="1532" height="2167" width_o="1532" height_o="2167" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f763f437b175c143d52aacac55eab39c8b23b412c032347ab1e0c83300dc73be/Rosa-Ray.jpg" data-mid="206446352" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f763f437b175c143d52aacac55eab39c8b23b412c032347ab1e0c83300dc73be/Rosa-Ray.jpg" />------------------------------- Lottie Randomly (they/them) Embodied Resistance: Working with the menstrual cycle for personal and collective change. We are living through urgent times that beckon to us with a calling for our commitment to change on both an individual and collective level. In this session Lottie will present their on-going explorations into working with their menstrual cycle, first as a path of personal change and then towards a path that holds and invites possibility for change on a broader scale. Lottie’s work has led them to ask - what if we reimagined the menstrual cycle; expanding beyond, whilst never forgetting, its gynocentric, reproductive roots and approached it as a tool for resistance to the systems of harm that so many of us live through and under? Using menstrual and lunar cycles as our starting point, we will explore this new cyclical terrain. Finally, we will dream into the ways in which we might do this work of resistance together. The session will feature a few invitations to quietly reflect and jot things down along the way and a Q&amp;A at the end for any questions and/or discussion that wants to emerge. All bodies are welcome to this session whether they menstruate or not, though this session will obviously be particularly relevant for people who currently have a menstrual cycle. . . . Lottie is a folk practitioner/ceremonialist, menstrual health activist and educator, facilitator, writer, dj and funeral celebrant with 16 years of experience working in voluntary and public sector health/arts/education spaces. Their work over this time has primarily focused on supporting people to navigate adversity, change, endings and transitions. Applying queer, intersectional and animist lenses, they delve into the embodied states that people often fear passing through. Poor mental health, menstruation, peri/menopause, death and grief are all terrains that Lottie fervently investigates through writing, workshops and ceremony. An edge-dweller and a daydreamer, with a life-long apprenticeship to the unseen and the liminal, they are delighted to be spinning some threads of their practice into the warp and weft of this year’s Conjuring Creativity. <img width="3276" height="2316" width_o="3276" height_o="2316" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fbe71c390f857cad9261b87e953b50e0dc7e2172ca8c10b2c32e46ba3c15bd89/Lottie-2.jpg" data-mid="206449409" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fbe71c390f857cad9261b87e953b50e0dc7e2172ca8c10b2c32e46ba3c15bd89/Lottie-2.jpg" /> https://conjuringcreativity.org/Page-Nav Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:38:10 +0000 MARE https://conjuringcreativity.org/Page-Nav ︎ Index &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Next Project ︎ https://conjuringcreativity.org/Homepage Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:38:10 +0000 MARE https://conjuringcreativity.org/Homepage ‘‘‘‘‘‘ MARE A NOMADIC ART SCHOOL&nbsp; CURRENT WORKSHOPS&nbsp; ANIMISM IN THE CONTEMPORARY REALM&nbsp; #1&nbsp; &nbsp; RE-COGNITION AND CO-CREATION#2&nbsp; &nbsp;TENTATIVE ENTANGLEMENTS WITH ODDKIN&nbsp;‘ ‘‘‘‘ Conjuring Creativity CONJURING CREATIVITY: ART &amp; THE ESOTERIC&nbsp; INHABITING ESOTERIC ECOLOGIES&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; took place in London March 15/16th 2025&nbsp; This was the 3rd and final chapter of Conjuring Creativity&nbsp; go here&nbsp;to read a peer review of the event&nbsp; &nbsp;the artists films shown are viewable here&nbsp; CONJURING CREATIVITY #3 London&nbsp; &nbsp;2025 Interpersonal Navigations Workshop&nbsp; &nbsp; 2023 Conjuring Creativity #2 Stockholm&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2022 Conjuring Creativity #1 Stockholm&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;2018 * This page, all events and gatherings associated with,&nbsp; is dedicated to intersectional humanism and our entanglements with other. We do not knowingly align with any specist, racist, fascist, sexist or misogynist behaviour/ideology, We do promote cross pollination of research and practice, within an open minded framework for ideas and connections to grow and evolve &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; https://conjuringcreativity.org/About Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:38:10 +0000 MARE https://conjuringcreativity.org/About Concerning research, practice and discussion within the fields of contemporary art, magickal praxis and esoteric enquiry Conjuring Creativity: Art &amp; the Esoteric #3 ‘Inhabiting Esoteric Ecologies’ MKII, 71 - 75 Powerscroft rd., Lower Clapton, London, E5 0PT 15-16/3/2025 Full line-up of participants HERE&nbsp; <img width="1134" height="1134" width_o="1134" height_o="1134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c90d48fb59fd1ff4083b65ee81dc1447a40f6ce744b8e7b966ede11f96b67ff6/cc3forticketpale.jpg" data-mid="227640479" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c90d48fb59fd1ff4083b65ee81dc1447a40f6ce744b8e7b966ede11f96b67ff6/cc3forticketpale.jpg" /> Conjuring Creativity, co-founded in 2018 in Sweden by Artist Geraldine Hudson and Associate Professor Dr. Per Faxneld, manifested as two weekend conferences which previously took place in Stockholm, for this final London iteration Artist and Astrologer Ben Jeans Houghton has joined Geraldine as co-curator and producer. This upcoming edition intentionally focuses on the entangled relationships between magick and the more-than-human, exploring how esoteric, occult and mystical strategies are being utilised within and alongside contemporary art to recognise, repair and re-member our innate relationships,&nbsp; to our earthly ecologies, spirits, pan-species kin and the unseen companions who inform and inhabit our terestriality. Alongside established speakers, the gathering brings emerging artist&nbsp; voices to the fore, whilst allowing space for participatory experiential workshops, evening performances and a curated reel of artists’ short film. Taking place beyond the academy, we intend to foster an atmosphere of open sharing, mutuality and cross pollination as a catalyst towards nurturing community and future world building. Anyone with an interest in contemporary art, esotericism and other knowledges&nbsp; in relation to ecology and the more than human is encouraged to attend. TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE ON A SLIDING SCALE FROM: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/conjuringcreativity https://conjuringcreativity.org/CONJURING-CREATIVITY-2018 Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:38:18 +0000 MARE https://conjuringcreativity.org/CONJURING-CREATIVITY-2018 Conjuring Creativity . Art &amp; the Esoteric in Theory and Practice 2018 <img src="https://concavesdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/cclogo-1.jpg?w=984" width="432" height="434" style="width: 432px; height: 434px;"> CONJURING CREATIVITY March 2018Art &amp; the Esoteric in theory and practiceAcademic symposium and artistic event A two-day conference comprising lectures, workshops, sound/music performance, film and other artworks. The main aims of the conference were to both highlight and introduce a contemporary discourse around the disciplines of esoteric/magic related art throughout history and to bring into the frame contemporary artistic practice which either encompasses the esoteric or uses art as a vehicle within magical practice. Participants/Speakers Dr. Victoria Ferentinou (University of Ioannina, Greece) on women surrealists and magicDr. Tessel Bauduin (University of Amsterdam) on Hilma af Klint as mediumistic artist – and womanDr. Christian Giudice (London, UK/University of Gothenburg) on Kenneth Anger and film as magical ritualDr. Henrik Johnsson (University of Tromsø, Norway) on August Strindberg’s occult art practiceDr. Per Faxneld (Södertörn University, Stockholm) on Scandinavian fin-de-siècle art and occultismDr. Kasper Opstrup (University of Copenhagen) on the occult imaginary in times of crisis.Dr. Per Johansson – The Cloud of Unknowing, conversation with artist Madeleine Hatz on the medieval esoteric text. Artists and PerformersCarl Abrahamsson http://www.carlabrahamsson.com/Madeleine Aleman ‘Giving Voice to the Hall’http://www.aleman.se/Christine Ödlund http://www.christineodlund.se/Den Arkaiska Röstenhttps://soundcloud.com/den-arkaiska-rostenEctoplasm Girls (Tanya &amp; Nadine Byrne)https://soundcloud.com/ectoplasmgirlsKristian Olsson http://www.alfarmania.se/kristianolsson/Leif Elggren http://leifelggren.org/Marja Leena Sillanpää http://www.marjaleenasillanpaa.se/Madeleine Hatz: The cloud of Unknowing with Per Johanssonhttp://www.madeleinehatz.com/Dr. Vanessa Sinclairhttp://www.drvanessasinclair.netRoberto.N.Peyre http://robertonpeyre.com/Antti Litmanen – HYPOGEUM This event was held at FYLKINGEN in Stockholm https://fylkingen.se About the venue: Fylkingen, a venue and forum for avantgarde art, electro-acoustic and experimental music since 1933 (making it the world’s oldest forum of its kind), is located in an old 19th-century brewery in the hip Stockholm neighbourhood Södermalm. Earlier Fylkingen events have included performances by greats like John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Brian Eno, Genesis P-Orridge, and many more. https://conjuringcreativity.org/CONJURING-CREATIVITY-2022 Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:35:01 +0000 MARE https://conjuringcreativity.org/CONJURING-CREATIVITY-2022 .CONJURING CREATIVITY, ART &amp; THE ESOTERIC #2 &nbsp; NAVIGATING THE ANTHROPOCENE W E E K E N D S C H E D U L E Friday – Opening Reception 6 -10pm Viviana Druga –&nbsp;Return, Return, Return Julia Adzuki – Ashes to Ashes bar mingle till 10pm Saturday 10 am -1pm The future is the past is the future Dr Jenny Butler – Confluences and Divergences: Where Folklore Meets Esotericism in the Work of WB Yeats and Æ Helen Bremm – Leonora Carrington, Alchemy and an Ecocentric Model of Art Making Dr Nina Kokkinen – Questioning the Seekers. Reflecting the Esoteric in Art from the late 19th Century to the Present lunch 1-2 pm 2:30 – 4:30pm Contemporary Currents – practices for individual navigation David Beth – Restoring Balance: Initiation and the Modern World Jens Nässtrom – Paving the Road to Enlightenment with Your Own Corpse 30 min break 5 – 7 pm Magickal Topography Dr Chris Giudice – The Battle Against Leviathan: Anarcho-Primitivist Dialectics and Klagesian Biocentrism as a Basis for a 21st Century Rewilding of Occultism Dr John Cussans –&nbsp;Veve Kunigundis/Ponto for Banbha Mooira 8 – 11pm Dr Per Faxneld (with Myling Ensemble) Orryelle Defenestrate – Coagula The Wooden Body Kristian Olsson Sunday open from 12pm 2pm Dr Cavan McLaughlin – Ecologies of Otherness Dr Moira Jean Sullivan – Maya Deren – The Artist as Magician: The Logic of Magic break 5pm The Artist as Medium – workshops Aron Birtalan – A Tear for the Devout to Fondle and Kiss Freyja Eilíf Draumland – The Artist as a medium: Clairvoyant timeline drawings break 7pm short film screenings Maria Joranko –&nbsp;Benevolent Bentonite Patricia Brien/Su Fahy – Performing resistance:&nbsp;Magnoxia’s&nbsp;waters Rieko Whitfield – Regenesis: An Opera Tentacular Tom Bogaert – Pepsi, Cola, Water? (2015) Sun Ra in Egypt 1971 Una Hamilton Helle/Verity Birt – Deep England NKK – The Cleansing Ceremony break 9pm closing …. Shamanic drum meditation journey – with Sander C. Neant Falk &amp; Orryelle Defenestrate X