This paper builds on Isabelle Stengers' suggestion that we need to reclaim magic, sorcery and witchcraft as a means of refuting the stable rational subject. Working with current philosophical and critical ideas around 'new materialisms', it emerges from a longstanding set of research preoccupations related to the affective, disruptive and provocative properties of things. The episodic text ruminates on these ideas through a series of 'site-written' narratives on the traces of sorcery and radical political histories in the villes and forests of Limousin, France, intercepted by passages of analysis of the author's involvement (2009 - 2015) in the live art multimedia performance group, Alchemy/Schmalchemy. Adding the pre-fix 'schm' to alchemy,...
Bizarre magick is a form of performance magic that favours theatrical character, storytelling, overt...
As medieval alchemists did not distinguish between psyche and matter, so too the artist, the images,...
This thesis comprises a creative work; a play entitled Soph and the real world, and an exegesis whic...
This paper builds on Isabelle Stengers’ suggestion that we need to reclaim magic, sorcery and witchc...
This paper treats of early modern alchemy and theatricality. I focus on the theatrical characteristi...
Until recently, the function of magic within medieval literature was seen as little more than a conv...
This thesis is centred on an analysis of collage and détournement as artistic and hermeneutic method...
This bespoke alchemy/schmalchemy manifestation put a section of text from Karen Barad’s Meeting the ...
The Uncanny Residues of Invention and Alchemy proposes the concepts of Nontelic Invention and Percep...
Magic held a special fascination for the post-war counterculture, a movement that valued music and a...
The trope of the fraudulent or occult alchemist, prevalent since the mediaeval period of alchemy’s i...
This paper argues that through the theatrical application of defamiliarization (ostranenie) the perf...
From surrealism’s beginnings around a Parisian séance table, it oscillated between the occult and th...
This temporary exhibition at Kulturforum, part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, presented a selec...
Conceived in the wake of a global pandemic and the unanticipated need to create digital theatre, COV...
Bizarre magick is a form of performance magic that favours theatrical character, storytelling, overt...
As medieval alchemists did not distinguish between psyche and matter, so too the artist, the images,...
This thesis comprises a creative work; a play entitled Soph and the real world, and an exegesis whic...
This paper builds on Isabelle Stengers’ suggestion that we need to reclaim magic, sorcery and witchc...
This paper treats of early modern alchemy and theatricality. I focus on the theatrical characteristi...
Until recently, the function of magic within medieval literature was seen as little more than a conv...
This thesis is centred on an analysis of collage and détournement as artistic and hermeneutic method...
This bespoke alchemy/schmalchemy manifestation put a section of text from Karen Barad’s Meeting the ...
The Uncanny Residues of Invention and Alchemy proposes the concepts of Nontelic Invention and Percep...
Magic held a special fascination for the post-war counterculture, a movement that valued music and a...
The trope of the fraudulent or occult alchemist, prevalent since the mediaeval period of alchemy’s i...
This paper argues that through the theatrical application of defamiliarization (ostranenie) the perf...
From surrealism’s beginnings around a Parisian séance table, it oscillated between the occult and th...
This temporary exhibition at Kulturforum, part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, presented a selec...
Conceived in the wake of a global pandemic and the unanticipated need to create digital theatre, COV...
Bizarre magick is a form of performance magic that favours theatrical character, storytelling, overt...
As medieval alchemists did not distinguish between psyche and matter, so too the artist, the images,...
This thesis comprises a creative work; a play entitled Soph and the real world, and an exegesis whic...