This coming weekend, March 15 and 16, the third Conjuring Creativity conference will be held in London at MKII, Lower Clapton, 71-75 Powerscroft Rd. This year’s theme is Inhabiting Esoteric Ecologies. The full schedule is:
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
Animism, Memory and Art as Magic: Empathy, Articulation and Effect
Being Present with Stone – pointers for a relational practice
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
Tales From Ghost-Wood
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
Invasion of the Energy Spectres
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
Ecologies of Analysis
The Mantle
5-6 pm DUSK TALK
Abyssus abyssum invocat: Towards a Kosmic Gnosis
6-7pm DUSK BREAK
7-8:30 pmCommuning With The Other Than Human
Crafting a WXTCH Treasure: A DIY Ecological Portal to Connect with Sacred Landscapes
Mantik Visioning: through the Wisdom of the Spectral Serpent
8:30-10 pm Performance – Terrains of the Terrestrial and Telluric
The Underworld Service
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)
Ecology of Grief: Embodied Practice and Astral Projection
Elemental Animism as Art Praxis
11:30-12pm MORNING BREAK
12-1 pm NOON WORKSHOP
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)
Borrowed Verticality
Yggdrasil: The World Tree as the nervous system
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
Voicing the Voiceless: Tracing Speech and Silence Across History,
Literature and Contemporary Art
5:30-7pm DUSK WORKSHOP
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 Language
Gong Bath
FINI
purchase tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/conjuringcreativity.
