The second Trans State Conference was held this Fall at University of Northampton in England. The theme of the second iteration of this conference was The Art of Revelation. The conference’s site explains:
“This…Trans- States conference, The Art of Revelation, themes itself upon The Tower. As such, it seeks to broaden its scope to include the shock and awe of revelatory and paradigm-shifting occultural experiences; the impact and implications of anti-structure, of alterations in consciousness and of the revolutionary aspects of paranormality.”
The keynote speakers were:
WOUTER HANEGRAAFF, PHD
PROFESSOR OF HISTORY OF HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY – Hanegraaff is Professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
JEFFREY KRIPAL, PHD
PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS THOUGHT – Professor Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, Houston, Texas.
DAISY CAMPBELL
WRITER, ACTOR AND DIRECTOR – Campbell recently adapted Robert Anton Wilson’s cult autobiographical book Cosmic Trigger for the stage.
The rest of the speakers, artists, and other contributors and their presentations included:
TIMOTHY GRIEVE-CARLSON
PHD STUDENT, RICE UNIVERSITY
“The Great in the Small: Comparative Ecologies of Revelation:
GERALDINE HUDSON
ARTIST / CURATOR / EXPERIENTIAL RESEARCHER
“Ritual as Resistance: On the Performative Hierophanies of Revelation”
GEORGIA VAN RAALTE
PHD CANDIDATE, UNIVERSITY OF KENT
“Ritual and Revelation”
JADRANKA RYLE
PHD CANDIDATE, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
“Automatic Drawing and Transgendered Abstraction”
JENNY BUTLER, PHD
STUDY OF RELIGIONS DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK
“Extra-terrestrials, Revelation and Planetary Consciousness: From Zecharia Sitchin to Raëlism”
A6RAX1S (PETER DUCHEMIN, PHD)
ARTIST / PHILOSOPHER / PERFORMER
“The Castle of Birds” (performative presentation/storytelling/poetry)
CHRISTIAN GIUDICE, PHD
RESEARCHER, UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG
“Dreaming of a White America: Atomwaffen Division, Satanism and the Alt Right”
GEMMA RABIONET BOADELLA
ARTIST / SPEAKER / TEACHER / AUTHOR / ASTROLOGY CONSULTANT
“Finding Rebis: Using Collaborative Practice to Gestate a ‘Third Mind'”
HEDVIG MARTIN
RESEARCHER, SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY
“Hilma af Klint and the 4th Dimension/Astral Plane”
SCOTT JEFFERY, PHD
LECTURER IN SOCIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS
“A ‘Memeplex’ or ‘Just an Inch’?: Competing Visions of Anarchism, Magick and the Self in the Comics of Alan Moore and Grant Morrison”
KASPER OPSTRUP, PHD
WRITER / RESEARCHER
“News from the Sun: On the Search for a Politics of Revelation”
JOHN CONSTABLE (AKA JOHN CROW)
WRITER / PERFORMER / ‘SHAMAN OF CROSSBONES GRAVEYARD’
“Acid Mediumship: Goose and Crow”
RANDALL HALL, PHD
MUSICIAN / PROFESSOR OF MUSIC, AUGUSTANA COLLEGE
“Contemporary Theurgic Music: Possibilities and Practices” (presentation) & “Contemporary Theurgic Music” (performance) (more…)
NIKKI WYRD
INDEPENDENT RESEARCHER
“Hearing the Voices of God: The Importance of Mystical Experience in Personal Transformation”
ANNE CROSSEY
ARTIST / INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR
“From Tragic to Magic: Trauma as an Encounter With the Real”
SIMON MAGUS, PHD
PSYCHIATRIST / UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
“The Eye of the Heart: Mysticism, Sacred and Profane, in Literary and Clinical Intersections”
ALKISTIS DIMECH
DANCER / CHOREOGRAPHER / PUBLISHER
“Mantic Visions and the Subtle Eye of Matter” (Presentation) & “Visitation” (Performance)
JASMINE SHADRACK, PHD
SENIOR LECTURER IN POPULAR MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON
“The Howl of the Wolf Tone: Void Harmonics and Occultizing Entropy”
REVEREND DANNY NEMU
WRITER / RESEARCHER / ACTIVIST
“Kata-chaos, Aya-Animism and Straight Up, Straight Edge Demonology”
ANNE O. PARKER-PERKOLA
PHD CANDIDATE, RICE UNIVERSITY
“Reading the Akashic Records, Intermodal Exchange, and Practices of Energetic and Emotional Transformation”
CARLOS RUIZ BRUSSAIN, PHD
ARTIST / LECTURER
“Embracing the Dark Twin: Using Shadow-Work in Self-Transformative Creative Practice”
LUCY A. SAMES
PHD CANDIDATE / ASSOCIATE LECTURER, GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
“Wet Rest: Speculative Ontologies of Floatation”
JULIAN VAYNE
INDEPENDENT RESEARCHER / OCCULTIST / AUTHOR
“Manifesting Metaphorical Minds: Towards a Psychological Theory of Psychedelic Therapy”
PETER GREY
WRITER / PUBLISHER
“The Blood of the Saints”
PER FAXNELD, PHD
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR/SENIOR LECTURER SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
“Leonardo the Magus, Mona Lisa’s Mysterious Smile, and the Artist Initiate”
ORRYELLE DEFENESTRATE-BASCULE
ARTIST / OCCULTIST
“The Tower Crashes: Esezuzus” (performative presentation)
JOANNA GILAR, PHD
STORYTELLER / RESEARCHER / TEACHER
“The Unravelling Tale”
PETRA SZILAGYI & UMICO NIWA
ARTISTS
“Living in a Space that Lives Within Us”
SASHA CHAITOW, PHD
CULTURAL HISTORIAN / ARTIST / AUTHOR / PHD, UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX
“Image and Logos: Symbolic Vocabularies and Inspired Revelations Through the Eyes of Joséphin Péladan”
DEJA WHITEHOUSE
PHD CANDIDATE, UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
“Frieda Harris and the Divine Giraffe: Frieda Harris’s Esoteric Journey and its Influence on Her Artwork”
CAVAN MCLAUGHLIN
SENIOR LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON | ARTIST
“Re-visionary Mythmaking: The antidote to codified structural oppression”
ANNA WALKER, PHD
ARTIST / WRITER / RESEARCHER, PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY
“When Things Fall Apart and the Centre Cannot Hold” (Presentation & Exhibiting)
for more info visit: https://trans-states.org/.
