RED DOOR #27

RED DOOR 27
THE OCCULT ISSUE
SUMMER 2021
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HENRY THE
RABBIT
RED
ØRNBØLL
GERT
ESTHER
LIMONES
BARRY
WILLIAM
HALE
LUCIANA LUPE
VASCONCELOS
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IN THE EYES OF THE
BEHOLDER
BY MARTIN ANDERSEN
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FEATURING
THE ART OF
DOOR
ALEJANDRO PASQUALE
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18-25
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
32-33
FEATURED Artist:
Alejandro Pasquale
EYES OF THE BEHOLDER:
Illustration by Martin
Andersen
Poem by Petra F.Bagnardi
ART BY: Luciana Lupe
Vasconcelos pg.44-47
Gert Ørnbøll pg.38-43
Henry the Rabbit pg.58-59
Esther Limones pg.14-17
POETRY BY:
Petra F. Bagnardi
James Barrett
Mirek Bodnar
Elizabeth Torres
Lottie Williams
Janice D.Soderling
Alejandro Moreno
Rana Zaman
(pages 48 -51).
26-31
PHOTOGRAPHY by
Felipe Urrego:
ContraMarcha
NEON REBEL:
The magick art of Barry
William Hale .... pg.10-13
RED DOOR FEATURE:
Jon Read pg. 08-09
RED TRANSMISSIONS
presents:
The Art of the Occult
an interview with
S.Elizabeth
KVU presents:
Lifting the Veil
pg.36-37
Special thanks
to the Red Door
correspondents,
partners,
collaborators
and patrons
for making this issue
a reality,
resilient, voluntary and
loving,
pure poetry.
Onward we go!
NEVERSTOP!
60-61
THE POETIC
PHONOTHEQUE presents:
Nature & Culture
International Poetry Film
Festival pg.54-55
Tranås
At the Fringe
pg.56-57
TANYA COSIO:
Sailing into exile pg.52-53
Editor in Chief,
Designer and Art Director:
ELIZABETH TORRES
M A D A M N E V E R S T O P
madamneverstop.com
54-57
Cover: La Hora Dorada - Alejandro Pasquale
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Tell me, what else do you see?
Aside from the tendencies of radicalization that
have pushed our society towards division in recent
years, it is time we mention the positive surge
of energy from young artists, liberated women,
empowered people of color and the LGBTQI+
community, the disabled and neurodivergent
community and those not interested to be put in
descriptive boxes, who have been using the new
technologies at hand to share their stories, raise
their voices and manifest a more colorful, inclusive,
caring, promising and compassionate present.
This has resulted in everything from environmental
collectives and new styles of art, to trending
fashions of people representing themselves as
healers, witches and shamans, using TikTok and
Youtube to connect with others who otherwise
would’ve remained outside visibility, practicing
vegetarian and vegan lifestyles from an early age
with the planet’s survival in mind (that is arguably,
the survival of our own species in it), and combining
yoga and meditation, lucid dreaming and other
practices with their art creations. More importantly,
anti-colonial philosophies, a reconnection to our
origins and a crucial support to the individual’s
beauty from within which involves previously
ignored parts of our communities finally beginning
to receive the acknowledgement and support
needed to thrive.
Occult art is no longer a hidden concept but a
radical set of tools that combine illumination and
immediate gratification for the sake of art and
culture – self expression and documentation – at
times when immediateness is the only way to
narrate, as if in an emergency or vision, all that is
happening around us. So I invite you to enjoy these
pages, their work, concepts and philosophies,
even if they’re not along the lines of your own
beliefs (or lack thereof, for those of us firmly
comfortable in the rejection of religious beliefs for
a free mind and world), because knowledge, my
friends, is power... and there’s plenty to decipher
along the lines of this issue. In great contrast
comes the fully charged collective ContraMarcha,
from Colombia, reminding us to be present in our
current reality and take use of our performing and
artistic abilities to represent, through ritual or direct
action, the voices of the vulnerable communities
who most need us. There’s injustice all around
us and we cannot remain silent in meditation
while it happens. Let us use all these talents,
all this energy, to bring forth a more just world.
Meanwhile, Red Door’s own manifestations
continue occurring rapidly and steadily, through
the divine intervention of poetry, which is in every
particle around and within you and me, threading
the world, together. From the Red Transmissions
Podcast paving the way to a new literary community
radio in Scandinavia called Tremella Radio, to the
initiation of an international poetry film festival that
honors climate conversations, the environment
and nature, documented through poetic language,
which has now received more than 150 films from
more than 40 countries. The festival, done under the
umbrella of the Poetic Phonotheque, also includes
a physical publication, a limited series of posters
and an exhibition, taking place in Copenhagen
but ideally becoming a rotational show in other
cities - which, the way I envision it - could become
the local homes of the Poetic Phonotheque so as
to build a steady, permanent home of free access
to poetry wherever we are. And now, this issue,
which will ideally earn a memorable place in your
bookshelf, but most importantly, make your third
eye blink in joy and ooze out creativity and ideas
for new connections and creations.
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all around us.... including you, your story, and all
you choose to say and see.
Love is the law,
Madam Neverstop.
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RED DOOR - Currently
on exhibit:
American artist Jonathan Read
has built an entire universe inspired
by mythology, religion, fiction
and dreams, using a tableaux
style to present quasi-historical
and quasi autobiographical narratives.
Originally from Cleveland,
Jonathan Read spoke to the
Red Transmissions podcast and
shared that he started creating at
a young age, inspired by comics,
the streets, and later the influences
acquired while majoring in Art,
not so much because of what he
saw but what he didn’t see.
Although at the beginning he felt
he couldn’t define the subjects of
his creation, later his work became
a self-narration of everything he
sees around him translated by his
craving for the extrange, the occult,
the weird... He mentions, for
example, Henry Darger as one of
his influences.
“It was secret appropriation, sort
of. Everything from pin-up to a
monster in the background, tracing
and altering comics, something
that now comes up a lot. My
most recent work is taking toys
and appropriating their movements,
so whatever they do, they
still do, but now they become
mine. The focus of appropriation
is more open now, I guess, and i
am looking for inspiration everywhere”.
Jon Read also plays music ever
since high school, and some of
his music has brought him a wider
audience due to it appearing
on TV series in the United States.
For inspiration Jon read also
mentions haunted houses, Halloween,
the darker carnival rides,
and even darker TV shows, which
he also combines with dreams,
visions, things with weird motors
and which follow a DIY aesthetic.
Regarding the ritual of creation,
he says he likes to build worlds
and characters which he then
brings through life through his
paintings and sculptures. Escapism,
drugs and religions are common
themes in his work. “Somehow
this world on its own is not
interesting enough”.
Now residing in Texas and
focusing on a series of moving art,
he says that art is a very personal
choice and making what we want
and having the ability to do it. Learn
more about his work by visiting:
http://jonreadsart.squarespace.com/
Two of his pieces are currently
on exhibit at Red Door Gallery in
Copenhagen:
www.reddoormagazine.com
OUT OF LIMBO AND INTO HEAVEN - JONATHAN READ.
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PHOTOS:
Top: Art on exhibit at Red Door
in Copenhagen.
Bottom: Tableaus submitted
for this article.
All art by Jon Read.
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THE MagickAL ART
of Barry William Hale
“Rolling on from my recent series
of posts about NOKO210’s latest
release and the question of
what happens when Art and the
Occult collide … and thinking
about the current Great mutation
or conjunction of Jupiter and
Saturn in Aquarius announcing
a New Age, gave me pause to
think about my own artistic praxis
and occult process which are
inextricably bound. A magical
inspiration becomes an artwork,
a series.of artworks conspire
to make a book called LEGION
49, its cover inspires a jeweller,
its papercuts incite a post-punk
industrial music pioneer, the
research parallels an eleven
month magical operation, the
residue and documentation of
the ritual process condenses into
a sound composition.and video
work, this congeals into an audiovisual
ritual which is performed
at the 17th Australian Biennale
and the Equinox festival London,
the 49 papercuts of the servitors
of Beelzebub become an
installation, Beelzebub becomes
a Sculpture and together they tour
three states of Australia, Video
work premieres in London, its
circles.of conjuration is exhibited.
in NYC and a Witchcraft museum.
I suppose this is what a collision
of Art and the Occult might looks
like in a New Age.”
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-Barry William Hale.
Where are the lines between
ritual magick + art? Are there
any? Or is the art a visual
representation of ritual + the
energy + intention within it? A
physical manifestation of the
creative force that comes from
stepping into The Liminal Space,
where One draws from One’s
inner vision to bring manifest an
outer vision...?
This is the crux of enquiry at
the heart of my conversation
with Barry William Hale. A
multidisciplinary occult artist
with a following around the
planet for his particular style
of incredible art + the shroud
of magick that encompasses it
... He has said his practice “can
be seen as a series of different
ongoing magickal explorations.”
I have not spoken to BWH in
almost 20 years. We have a long
phone conversation, recounting
some memories from when we
met as young punks living in
Sydney. I remember Barry going
through the OTO while living in
a warehouse squat. I recall how
I remember he turned up at gig
covered head to toe in ochre
looking like a mud man + sang a
show with his then band. It was
always one of those moments
that stuck in my memory like a
polaroid!
Of course he was in the middle
of a ritual while going through
the levels of the OTO, as was the
nature of things in those days.
* The Ordo Templi Orientis is an
occult initiation order founded
by mystic, writer + ceremonial
magician, Aleister Crowley,
based on his esoteric + occult
social philosophy, Thelema,
founded at the beginning of the
1900s.
“It was Chi Gong in the morning,
art school in the afternoon +
ritual magick at night.”
We talk about Ritual, the nature
of it.
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Ritual: a ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order.
BWH has done martial arts from
a very young age, (is a long time
teacher + advanced practitioner,
a Golden Dragon Disciple of
Choy Lee Fut.) He says learning
these systems sets you up with
discipline and structure + a
focus having to push through
physical obstacles, along with
an awareness of eastern + all be
it esoteric concepts as well. The
Initiation Ritual into the OTO was
a turning point:
“There is a structure, a
sequence of initiations ...
they give you a tool set +
they expedite your spiritual
evolution for want of words …
it speeds things up + activates
certain things”
In the early degrees (levels)
they are structured around the
unfolding of the kundalini +
activation in a system specific to
itself.
Mastering energetic systems
of the body + the opening +
alignment of those centres that
then allows for commune with the
spirits, is at the core of Crowley’s
work + all magickal systems.
Disciplines like any, give one the
grounding to then create greater
things in their chosen field.We
talk about this grounding that
then allows creation + freedom.
Like in free jazz.
The tools + the framework are
necessary for the ritual + the
learning, the practice is its
own ritual unto itself. Given
that BWH was going to art
school + “crashed into the
OTO, “the art that gave rise
with the whole system running,
“was like an explosion.” BWH’s
art mediums take on many forms.
From illustrations + painting to
sculpture. Ritual Performance
+ sonic audio work. Digital
interaction.
The art itself has come through a
rigorous practice.
Through self-interrogation,
discipline, structure, deep
research + rituals + drawing
from an opus of knowledge to
create, summon + bring forth
THAT which is the essence
of the artform that will be
captured within the physical
representations.
“The artwork is really the artistic
residue of an occult process.”
Left page: Beelzebub Sculptures
Legion 49 and XXX by BWH.
Right Page: Front hall Arcanorum 231,
and Legion 49 … Papercuts
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What I found interacting with
BWH’s art, that made with
intention + spell casting if
you will, like his sigils, that I
particularly resonate with, is that
it is not just experienced with 1
or 2 of the senses but with the
whole beingness, to experience
it fully, as I would a great piece
of music that encompasses more
multi dimensional properties.
The practice of bringing through
the sigils is one BWH enjoys
as much for the aesthetics as
the process. He’s always been
interested in calligraphy + letters
+ the functionality of sigilisation.
Also a high interest in illuminated
manuscripts + Enochian script,
found throughout his work.
The sigils + Enochian Magickal
System feature strongly in the
performances he is doing with
NOKO. A sonic textural space
+ interdisciplinary research
project he shares with long
time collaborator, Scott Barnes.
Performances are based around
actual rituals, “building up the
sonic menstruum,” born from
particular magickal investigation
+ research.
“My art is a bit like
postcards from esoteric
excursions …It is generally
centered around a line of
inquiry or a body of work ”
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>>Bottom Left: Ring of Enok.
Sigil ... Barry William Hale
>>Top Right: Sono Tropic Talisman
of NOKO ORDER 41 Conjuration
Of Beelzebub … by BWH.
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And so what is it that draws us to
the occult + esoterica?
Barry + I talk about the
popularisation of the
supernatural + the archetype
“witch,” seen so prevalently in
films + tv shows nowadays +
seen in fashion trends for a few
years.
There is an undeniable interest
in “spiritual” concepts in
mainstream popular culture +
yet are they just dabbling in the
idea of magic + posturing ..? Or
are they ready for delving into a
darker magickal business that
feels like it has a more dangerous
edge because it asks you to look
deep within yourself + “the ego
might not like it.”
BWH mentions The true will.
Crowley’s Thelemic concept.
It is defined either as a person’s
grand destiny in life or as a
moment-to-moment path of
action that operates in perfect
harmony with Nature. True Will
does not spring from conscious
intent, but from the interplay
between the deepest Self and
the entire Universe.
“Your secret self is always trying
to talk to you.”
BWH offers up a pathway
through his art that activates
through interaction. One may
glimpse that interplay + hear a
voice.
“Your
secret self
is always
trying to
talk to
you.”
You can find that path here : www.barrywilliamhale.art/
www.patreon.com/arcanorum231
On this page: Legion 49 Papercuts and Roundhouse Arcanorum 231
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ESTHER
LIMONES
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-What rituals / non-traditional
practices do you apply to
your creative process along
with traditional art-making
techniques?
LLV: Well, I don’t do anything
particularly elaborate in terms of
ritual or non-traditional practices,
either in preparation or during
the art making process. Rather,
I prefer to keep it simple. What I
do is to arouse the appropriate
mindset with music or by fixing
my look on a single point until
the desired state of creative
receptiveness is reached.
How has the pandemic affected
or benefited your work?
LLV: The pandemic has definitely
been a challenge in every way.
The amount of commissioned
work decreased considerably,
gallery shows in which I would
be participating were cancelled,
the standstill of postal services
last left me unable to sell artwork
for almost 5 months… fortunately
things are starting to get back
on track somewhat (although I
don’t believe we’ll ever get back
to the “normal” we had before).
And of course, the anxiety and
stress did affect to some degree
my ability to create. It’s been a
struggle, as with most people,
artist or not.
-How do you develop
your language / imagery /
concepts, and what do you
recommend to artists looking
to build their own style?
LLV: It’s essential for those with
artistic ambition to understand
that the development of a
personal style is an ongoing
lifelong process. The first
important thing to do is to
cultivate one’s own taste. To
know yourself and what you like
so you’ll have a set of references
to build from. Secondly, a basic
understanding of drawing is
imperative. Nothing fancy, just
knowing how to properly draw an
object, a person, etc. And don’t be
ashamed of making copies of art
you like (although I recommend
refraining from posting this kind
of study online). With time and
attentive practice a style will
emerge. My own came about in
this exact manner.
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ABOUT the artist:
Originally from Spain, Esther Limones’ work in the realm
of figurative art is always centered around the subjects
of macabre art, dark art and occult subjects, and made
as photocollages which result in magical imagery with
surrealistic and sensual notes. To see more of her work,
follow @estherlimonesart on social media.
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ALEJANDRO
PASQUALE
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Born in Buenos Aires in 1984. He started to study fine
Arts in 2002 at the National Institute of Art (IUNA). In
2004 he decided to quit and continue as a self-taught
artist, reinforcing his knowledge with courses given
by local artists.
He has been working with Quimera Gallery (BsAs)
since the year 2011, with Stone Sparrow since 2019
(New York) and Daniel Raphael Gallery (London)
since 2020.
In 2018 he was selected in the UADE contemporary art
prize and made his 3rd solo show at Quimera Gallery. In
2017 he won a scholarship to participate in Encontro
de artistas Novos in Santiago de Compostela, Spain
and was selected in the national prize ITAU cultural. In
2016 Alejandro was selected in the national prize ITAU
cultural and made his second solo show in Quimera
Gallery “Universos paralelos”.
Alejandro has also participated in several art fairs
around the world, some of them are France, Perú,
Canada, Pakistan, Barcelona, Uruguay, USA, Russia
and Germany. His work is included in private
collections around the world.
I have been walking
a path of knowledge,
discovery and personal
understanding
with the help of
entheogenic plants
and ancestral medicine.
This gives off
a lot of information
which often takes me
weeks or months to
decipher...”
Left. La magia entre nosotros - A.Pasquale
-Tell us about your artistic process / ritual.
Where do you find the objects / images / metaphors
that inspire you, or what practices do
you apply to invoke the images in your work:
AP: For about 18 years I have been walking
a path of knowledge, discovery and personal
understanding with the help of entheogenic
plants and ancestral medicine. This gives
off a lot of information which often takes me
weeks or months to decipher, and my way of
understanding these messages is by developing
the work on the canvas.
My creative process is basically the assimilation
of these experiences and the translation
into a pictorial composition. It has taken me
some years to find my tool to process and materialize
all these experiences, and with painting
I feel that the material possibilities do not
limit me in terms of expression and expansion.
-Tell us about your current projects,
exhibitions, publications, goals:
AP: Regarding exhibitions, at the moment I
am participating with some paintings in an
exhibition that takes place in the Victor Lope
gallery in the city of Barcelona. Recently a
book has been published by the Argentine
publishing house Jellyfish where 10 of my
works are published among 12 other artists.
For the moment I don’t have many plans for
the future, although things are coming up all
the time.
- What lessons have you learned from art as
an autodidact?
AP: The benefit I see in my way of being selftaught
is mainly that I have not wasted time
with topics or subjects that do not interest
me, at least in Argentina the career at the time
I tried to do it, I did not find anything attractive
to what were my expectations, I clarify
that this was in 2002 ... I hope it has changed
for the better.
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Is your art affected by the current environment
of the world? And does it have a specific
message for a specific audience?
Other than making observations based on my
own working knowledge, I don’t know that I have
a cogent, singular message to impart. Certainly,
I have concerns about the direction the world is
going, that are the backdrop to my work.
I’d be entirely lying if I said that the last four years,
haven’t been the dark fertilizer which formed the
seeds of the last two series.
Except, it’s rather like pasting together a collage
that might include Durkheim’s Anomie, Manly
P Hall’s philosophies on the Golden Ratio,
Leonardo’s the Vitruvian man, Oppenheimer’s
infamous quote and the chain reaction that
triggers nuclear fission. It’s all contained beneath
the surface tension of a work like “Origins of
Death”, but decoding a specific message only
works by someone’s own willingness to dig
deeper, and draw the same conclusions.
How has your artistic practice and aspirations
changed during lockdown / pandemic?
Since I live in quite a remote area (Julian, CA)-
hardly, if at all. At the beginning, getting materials
like brushes was a bit of a challenge, which did
force me to be a little more experimental with
textures. So rather than being as precise as I might
have, depicting something such as gravel on a
landscape or cloud formations, I’d use plastic
bags, crumpled paper, sponges, clogged brushes,
scalpel blades- anything to hand that might be
more impressionistic than meticulous.
Artists are a solitary lot by virtue of what we do,
only ever venturing out of our caves at showtime. If
there’s been any change, other than existential, I’d
have to say it’s the gallery as a virtual experience.
Attending openings in one’s pajamas.
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The Voyage of 021 Elan
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So lie there my art, David Van Gough 023
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Agony in Stony Places, David Van Gough
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Ravaged by the COVID pandemic and facing the self-righteous, right-winged government
of Ivan Duque, the Colombian people have been facing a time of systematic poverty,
violence and challenges in every aspect simultaneously, from economic to educational,
access to health care among others, as well as the defense of their democratic right
to protest. This has led to marches that began in April as a national strike, resulting in
human rights violations at the hands of the public force that the Colombisn president
and government keep denying in spite of international reports by journalists and human
rights defense organizations. Some of the most vulnerable parts of the community
have often been silenced, and in these cases even dissappeared, but to represent them,
ContraMarcha arrives, as a group of discidence against the outdated binary views of
gender and identity, fiercely speaking against oppression and presenting the option of
a life free from capitalist concepts and behaviors.
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CONTRA
MARCHA
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What is the mission of ContraMarcha and
where does the name come from? Why a
“counter” march during the National Strike of
Colombia?
CM:The gathering was born out of the
discomfort of marginalized sex and gender
dissident bodies with the form and purpose of
the traditional “LGBT pride march”, which, like
many in the world, has been permeated by
marketing and the LGBT population as a niche
market useful to capitalism.
It is called contra because it is positioned
against the whitewashed and mercantilist ideals
of a proposal that is born out of rebellion and
with the purpose of rebelling against the cisissue
that with the arrival of the social outburst
becomes even more evident.
In the context of the situation in Colombia (and
Latin America), both due to the pandemic
and the National Strike and other protests
against the current government, what are
the causes of nonconformity, helplessness or
lack of recognition as part of this society, that
lead you to raise your voices and demand
representation?
CM: As a group, we believe that the emergence
of social outbursts in Latin America is an
expression of how the current neoliberal model
is failing and how, because of the pandemic,
these issues have deepened.
The dissidents of sex and gender are no
strangers to these problems which, in fact, are
more serious for us, Liberal “rights” such as
marriage are of no use to us as long as we do
not have access to land, health care, education.
The situation is critical. After living through a war
that has been going on for more than 50 years,
many non-binary, trans, queer and queerbinary,
trans, marikas, lesbians and other feminized
experiences have had to live forced displacement
to get to the big cities to face unemployment,
lack of opportunities and of structures.
We no longer want the forced inclusion of
capitalism and state models that have failed over
the last 50 years. We are betting on rethinking
the entire system to build a horizontal one, based
on the solidarity, mutual support and respect of
our differences.
What are the main objectives of this
“ContraMarcha” initiative?
what formats, platforms and structures do you
use to spread your voices and approach these
goals?
CM: This first appearance was a bid to make
people uncomfortable, to show how direct action
is a tool for the people to question their places of
privilege and how debate is fundamental for the
construction of the social fabric.
It is also a bet to show that dissident bodies exist
and that they are valid political agents who are
willing to make their way into the spaces that
have been denied us, we reject the whitewashing
and hierarchical structure in which the LGBT
spaces have been constructed, where inclusion
depends on class, skin color, and the region of
origin. We come to show who we are and art has
been our tool to do so.
The street actions characterize us as a space,
from the frame of the repertoire of mobilization
which has built the social movement through
decades of struggle.
Follow this powerful collective on social
media and show them your support:
@contra_marcha
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@afelipeurrego
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The performative arts, dance and other artistic
expressions of dissidence have been documented
as a great instrument of information, communication
and transformation in the history of the
LGBTQI community, as a form of protest.
Talk to me about your experiences with these
physical narratives, your personal learnings and
connection to the community:
This experience has shown us that young people
have a lot of political and performative
stakes of action that can impact society; the
aesthetics of dissence, of the ghettos, of the streets,
of the barrios, makes people uncomfortable and
this has been a fundamental political tool in our
actions. We recognize the historical tools we have
used in demonstrations to manifest and present
our views.
Vogue is one of the most representative ones,
since its birth in New York it has provided a
space for those rejected by society both to create
safe environments and to denounce structural
violence. Graffiti leaves a trace of how we
understand the world, what we want and who we
are.
Where can one find more information about you,
to join you and/or provide suport?
CM: You can find us on social networks (facebook,
instagram and twitter) as @contra_marcha, where
all the information is disseminated, we aim to be a
space for action and political training open to all,
that works from the basis of assembly.
You can join at any time and we have a nequi
where we receive donations with which we can
finance actions and the logistics of our events.
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In the eyes of
the beholder
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I make no sound, for they choked the breath out of me.
Still, I create – colours are my tears, canvas is my skin.
The furious realism of my art exposes the man who hurt me.
I am the brave Judith and her fierce Maidserva
blood smears pure linens,
as limbs slice through shadows –
he resists the blade, but my will is fiercer.
I am the dark Allegory of pain and painting,
for gold circles my pulsing heart.
I refuse to be silenced
– as a woman,
...as an artist.
Poem: Dramatic Chiaroscuro
by Petra F. Bagnardi - Switzerland / Italy
Illustration by Martin Andersen, Denmark
facebook.com/tuschmartin
instagram.com/skyggelaegger
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A most exciting new project launched this summer in Denmark / Sweden, led by Red Door but founded
as a democratically run and managed community radio station, with a focus on literature, sustainability,
sound art, mental health and wellness, as well as performance arts and independent music.
Tremella is the name of a family of fungi that is often ear-shaped, but also sounds a lot like Tremello, a
modulation effect that rhythmically changes the volume of your signal... It all just seemed very fitting
for the name of a radio station with the aforementioned interests.
There’s a little bit of everything, from the classic Orson Welles plays for radio to a show by the
International Centre of Women Playrights, several shows by poets, including Foreignness and
Friendship by poet Morten Ranum, Monday Madness by Claus Andersen, the Poetic Phonotheque
and Red Transmissions, as well as various sound art shows, talk shows about mental health and
wellness, and playlists by venues and DJs in our network. Tune in via: www.tremellaradio.eu
Or even better, join us with your own show! Write to tremellaradio@gmail.com for more info.
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...a feast for your ears! Tune in to Tremella Radio to listen to these and many other shows!
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WRITE4WORD/KVU/Kultivera present:
LIFTING THE VEIL
As an Irish Pagan Priestess / Teacher
, Storyteller, activist and maker of poems
and songs , I cannot separate what
many would call the Occult and which
to me is simply the Sacred from other
aspects of life . I like to say I inhabit two
realities simultaneously, one seen the
other unseen.
In a way I believe all creativity is imbued
with the occult , the hidden , what lies
behind the veil or beneath the surface.
The inflowing of inspiration that seeks
an outlet, the drawing from the source,
the self as conduit, shaping words and
images to communicate, to express, to
energise, to evoke a response is to connect
to what in Irish Druid practice is
known as Imbas or in Welsh as Awen.
My first connection with the world of the
occult came at 21, when disillusioned
and let down by the Catholic framework
in which I had been brought up, having
been banished to one of Ireland’s infamous
Mother and Baby institutions with
my first pregnancy at the age of 18, I
came across a Wiccan group in Dublin.
Looking back I think from childhood I
had a strong relationship with the world
of Spirit and in particular with my Guardian
Angel, I just didn’t have any frame of
reference for my spiritual experiences
outside of Catholicism. I learned a lot
from Wicca, but it wasn’t my exact path.
I studied Astrology, Tarot, Kabbalah, Numerology
I joined and ordained as a
Priestess of the Fellowship of Isis, a multifaith
foundation to promote the honouring
of the Divine Feminine where it
was not one of the Irish Goddesses but
the Welsh Arianrhod who called me to
dedicate to her.
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I trained as a Celtic Shamanic Practitioner
with Caitlín Matthews and learned
how to journey with a medicine drum to
aid soul flight /the lifting of consciousness
into another reality , to travel into
the psyche of a client seeking information
/guidance /signs of imbalance/soul
loss / power loss and how to restore balance.
I also joined a Druid Grove and
became a member of OBOD the international
Order of Bards Ovates and Druids.
The intertwining of the occult and the
power of poetry and of the word is readily
recognised in the ancient tradition
of the Bards and Satirists who had very
high status in ancient society and whose
words could bring down a King . Women
satirists were particularly feared!
A key example of this is from the Book of
Invasions where we are told the story of
the arrival of the Milesians to challenge
the ruling tribe of Ireland , the skilled and
magical Tuatha Dé Danann ( Tribe of the
Goddess Danu ) where Amairgin Gluingheal
Bard / magician of the Milesians
uses poetry and incantation to calm a
magical storm and wins the acceptance
of the Goddess of Sovereignty Ériu and
her sisters Fodhla and Banba by promising
to name the Land after them. Hence
the land of Éire / Eireann. The Milesians
were the forerunners of the Gaedhail
and the Irish. After defeat the Tuatha Dé
Danann withdrew into the Hollow Hills
and hidden places of the Land , becoming
the Sidhe or Otherwordly folk continuing
to interact with the mortal realm
to this day . Eriu is said to lie under the
Catstone or stone of divisions / Ail na
Mireann on the Hill of Uisneach, site of
the lighting of the first Bealtaine fire.
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In 2017 I was honoured to be part of
the huge fire festival where our president
Michael D. Higgins , a poet, was
the first Irish leader in millennia to
ceremonially light the Bealtaine fire.
After my Celtic Shamanic practitioner
training, my focus became more and
more Irish focused and I began creating
songs and chants honouring the Sacred
in the Land and our ancient Gods and
Goddesses. I suppose what I do would
certainly be seen as strange by many
and the word Occult meaning hidden
would apply . For me it’s an intrinsic part
of who I am, interwoven with all aspects
of my life and being.
By Deirdre Wadding
Storyteller, poet, singer, Founder/ teacher at Coire Sois
School of Irish Spirituality, Socialist activist.
My storytelling focuses predominantly
on the retelling of Irish Mythological
tales and knowing and understanding
the mythology is, I believe a prerequisite
to connecting with Irish Pagan Spirituality
and the Sacred Land . As a result
of my connection with the land and our
prehistoric Sacred Sites such as Tara,
Lough Crew, Newgrange and Uisneach,
I feel strongly the need to use the Irish
language in ceremony, in invocations
and prayers. There is, I believe, a qualitative
difference in the response I feel from
the land when I use my native language.
As a revolutionary socialist activist , I am
in a minority as a non-atheist but for me,
my Pagan spirituality drives the work I
do ... if we believe the Earth is our mother,
then we are all kin and must all fight
racism, oppression, injustice and work
for the protection of the environment.
At protest marches I beat my medicine
drum, drawing strength from the land
and the Ancestors.
When I create poetry it is frequently
about my spiritual experience of the natural
world, in Irish or English, sometimes
bilingual, sometimes it comes as a song.
The term Occult often gives a misleading
impression, but literally it means
what is hidden or secret.
So what does Pagan practice consist of
in an Irish context? For me it is about observing
the Wheel of the Year , the four
Celtic Fire Festivals or cross quarter days
interspersing the Solstices and Equinoxes
making eight Festivals which are
observed with ceremony, fire and ideally
presence at one of the sites aligned
for that date e.g Uisneach at Bealtaine.
It means honouring the ancestors, coming
to know the Gods and Goddesses,
their stories and associations in the
landscape... it means listening to the
trees and the birds and voice of the sea.
Most of all it means being out in nature,
out on the land.
In Ireland, the birthplace of Hallowe’en
Samhain ( meaning Summer’s end and
in modern Irish the word for November
) is the time when the veil between the
worlds is said to be thinnest.
Poetry and story helps to lift the veil
and carry us to those hidden realms
..Long may it continue to do so.
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Originally from and residing in Denmark,
(1953,) Gert Ørnbøll has been painting all
his life, inspired by the psychedelic music
and environment of the 60’s and his spirituality,
which provides unconventional
subjects for his art... from the experiences
of regression therapy which include narrations
of his visits to Atlantis, to communications
with other beings, hallucinations and
the inspiration from the natural world.
Gert began studying books and narratives
in the mid 70’s, and experimenting with
acrylics, goauche, watercolors and oil on
canvas or egyptian papyrus to speak about
the concepts and imagery that influences
his life and work, using resources from
dreams, mythology, fairy tales, erotic symbolism,
astrology, women and the cultures
he has the opportunity of being exposed
to.
Since the 80’s, Gert also studies the tarot,
philosophy and occult practices.
GERT
38ØRNBØLL
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VASCONCELOS
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Luciana Lupe Vasconcelos is a Brazilian
artist whose work investigates the realms
of the mythic, the mystical and the occult
through the use of traditional techniques,
with a particular focus on the exploration
of automatism and graphism. She was born
in 1982 in the Brazilian mid-western town
of Goi nia, where she worked as a graphic
designer and tattoo artist before committing
to illustration, and later, to creating her
own art. Her very distinctive style alludes to
influences from symbolism and surrealism
and marks a continuation of the tradition
of women artists working with the subjects
of magic and the occult. She illustrated numerous
books both in English and in Portuguese,
including a brazilian edition of Edgar
Allan Poe’s The Raven .
Her work has been exhibited internationally
and was featured across
online and printed media alike.
She currently works and lives in Teres polis-RJ,
Brazil.
www.luciferovs.com
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POETRY
Wave
We have gathered at the mountain
For the leaving of the trees
I have tired of the works of men
My cathedral has become the sky
I took my hero to the river
And drowned him in silence
Abandoning premeditated form
He gasped his last in moonlight
Replace your dreams with visions
Burn all language to cook your food
For the soul is caught by a net called life
Ashes woven into clothing accompanying
Worship snakes and make them your
teachers
The banquet is laid but the hall is empty
The shadow cave of the skull is a screen
and you are the projectionist.
Total Football
everyone tries to bring something home
to me
best friend persuades:
this is greediness
it’s endless
have to choose one out of two
TV scrolling newsline says:
inhabitants of a settlement
which consists of women only
profess Buddhism and have their own
language
in which there are no words
that might mean “father” or “husband”
the third day on end Johnny Rotten
screams in my head:
fuck this and fuck that
fuck it all and fuck a fucking brat
The flesh apron drinks
From the bowl of solutions
Breath runs through us like a cloud
Beauty is composed of planes
Each dependent upon another.
Making death costs money
It’s factories are never silent
We deify it’s becoming
It’s being it’s business and it’s dying
The thrill of having an eternal edge
Keeps us clinging to each other
No matter the punishment demanded
By power.
the one whom you listen to most often
(because she is a woman,
the only one true woman in your life)
almost made you believe:
whatever path one chooses
everyone ends up at one and the same
place
I turn away from all of them
and watch football
the Dutch are playing.
By Mirek Bodnar - Ukraine
With morning the city emerges
Glistening from the retreating tide.
By James Barrett, Sweden, 2021.
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Vision
I see an Amazonic river
it is boiling
in its waves, a multitude of bodies dancing
they raise fires, sing,
their boats are filled with incense and flowers.
The river is red and I look at it from the bridge.
Fog
The fog shroud hangs like a whisper on
the tongue of a lover
to his beloved.
Tendrils of fugitive hair dance
and lengthen
and noses turn red.
Skeletal branches stretch up into white
splaying dark disappearing fingers,
and breath vapours to nothing.
Children’s voices carry on
the motionless void
as though time has stood still and the
world is paused in flow.
Next to me a witch,
half of her face is that of an old woman,
the other half, a child’s.
I ask her:
Do you wanna see how much it hurts?
-This much! - I scream,
pointing to the water...
the red tsunami elevates itself toward infinity
all the bodies disappear in its fangs
like an explosion from the center
of the earth.
That’s how much it hurts.
It burns.
It burns.
By Elizabeth Torres - Colombia / Denmark
The lover shrinks back into the frosted air,
the school bell
tolls the children in from play and the
deathly quiet clings all around once
more.
By Lottie Williams - Wales
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Immortality
When hand seeks hair and skin and wet,
and breath comes quick and sweet,
when mouth eats mouth and hungers
still,
when tongue and eyes entreat,
when lovers twist and turn and coil,
and bend and lift and cry,
who thus endears the little death
have little fear to die.
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Darkness
So still the evening air,
close caught in bleak despair.
Then suddenly a wind
lifts red leaves in my mind
as if your ghost strayed there.
Both poems in this page by
Janice D. Soderling, US / Sweden
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Darkness
All the coffins opened at the scream of
the owl
In the coffin there was a terrible fight
between the skeleton and the soul
Rabindra devotees threw their harps and
ran to the well
The modern arts hang
on the tamarind tree
n the grip of the inconsolable
The spirits are intoxicated
with destruction on the battlefield
The lunatic dog is tearing the rope and
biting
Sita’s undressing takes place
in the ghost meeting
Shaman has closed his eyes
by throwing the harp.
By Rana Zaman - Bangladesh
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Sailing into exile
with consciousness:
Navigating in the spiritual
world and in the artistic world
can be either opposite or complementary
issues.
In general, from both walls it
can be seen with contempt.
For creators, it can be a matter
of charlatanism, and for
those who cultivate spiritual
matters, artistic things sometimes
are seen as minor tasks.
However, there are other strangers
who are nourished by
both worlds. One of them is
Alejandro Moreno. Musician,
writer and tarotist, he has cultivated
his multiple talents and
gifts from both worlds, where
the occult arts emerge, those
that during certain periods of
humanity have had to hide in
order not to be persecuted or
pointed out... a space where
light and darkness merge in
such a way that can give rise
to the scandal of the so-called
good consciousnesses that
swallow the shadow and then
throw it to those they consider
do not comply with the codes
that they themselves stipulated,
justifying themselves in
the name of God. Well, Alejandro
grew up being belittled by
his family by choosing these
paths that are not those that
lead to success or fame
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according to traditional canons,
but tend to enrich in a way
that few people realize. Let’s
say that the gift of consciousness
is one of the few gifts
that one’s own soul favors.
Alejandro was a child and
dreamed of a guitar, and his
parents gave him a banjo, then
a marimba with colored notes
and later a tin drum like the
one of Günter Grass’. He tells
us that at his parents’ house
they listened to symphonic
music all day long, at home
and in the car. His brother
introduced him to rock and
until then he had access to
other types of music, and that
is another of the disciplines
to which he is dedicated. He
remembers that since childhood
the first detonator was
mysticism. He is dedicated to
energy healing. His father was
a doctor and when he was
eight years old he dreamed of
becoming a doctor until one
day his mother needed to administer
an injection and told
him that injecting was something
very delicate because
if it was applied incorrectly to
someone one would run the
risk of paralyzing them. So he
was shocked and gave up the
possibility of becoming a doctor
like his father.
His brother had once told him
that he was not cut out for philosophy
nor music, so he decided
to study communication
sciences. When he finished
his degree, he was filled with
restlessness and went to a
tarot reading for the first time.
It turns out that when he asked
what his path in life was, the
tarot reader told him that he
was made for tarot. That was
how he found that tarot was his
path, but so was music and he
then remembered that when
he was a child, he liked to play
the magician or the wise man.
If finding one’s vocation is
usually a headache for anyone,
when it comes to art or
the path of consciousness, the
journey is even more arduous.
This is how Alexander had to
go through the scorn of his
family: the zero to the left, the
one who was useless for life.
Alejandro has published
several books, including La
puerta del chamán. Moreno
has walked through various
spiritual traditions: Hinduism,
Buddhism, Afro-American
traditions, Tibetan traditions,
Temazcal. He practices a healing
different from his father’s,
but equally healthy, and from
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from the rupture with the allopathic,
he works reiki. It serves
for what it is most useful for, but
not for the atrocious capitalist
ways that, instead of building,
tear down and charge fees to
the forests for existing so naturally,
so improperly beautiful.
Fortunately, wizards
and wise men like Alejandro
Moreno Villarreal survive. In
him we are fortunate to see
one beating in the ONE, sharing
his knowledge and healing
from the deep. He tells
us that the tarot is a leafless
book and is assembled from
people... so Moreno has the
humility to set aside his ego
to see others and accompany
from the gift he possesses and
has developed with much discipline
and sacrifice. For this
reason, in the universal family
we recognize and honor him.
In particular I have been fortunate
to be accompanied by
his readings... I discovered him
through Facebook and in the
middle of the pandemic. Since
then I go to his wisdom and I
drink from his teachings.
Like when you write or paint
and suddenly a word, an image,
emerges. In this way he can
grasp people and create portraits
through the letters that,
being the same, in each being
manifested in different ways.
Of his music, Juan Luis Spíritu
says: “ The lyrics take us from
the depths of our own hells to
the most exalted glory, where
all worlds are possible”.
And it is right there, in the vortex
of heaven and paradise,
where the occult arts gather to
manifest themselves in all their
fury and temperance. A good
part of the population dedicated
to the arts is bohemian and
enjoys drinking while creating.
Only a minimal part of the people
dedicated to these other
ways of grasping the world,
which includes art, possess an
iron discipline far from bohemia
and alcohol. I remember
Perec and his assembling and
disassembling puzzles. Alejandro
tells me that he collects
bad things and that he has an
altar and on it a Buddha whose
head always falls off, and we
laugh, because laughter is the
gift of heroes who, even when
wounded, sketch on the face
where the soul has been incarnated
a picture of contentment
to thank Father-Mother for
the divinity of this existence.
The great benefits of this pandemic
are the interpersonal
relationships that have been
generated through the networks,
beyond the superficial,
and the seminars, workshops
and conferences to which we
can have access thanks to the
forced confinement. Yourcenar
said that we must get to
know this great prison that is
the world. I would also add
that we must get to know this
great prison that is sometimes
our body, our drives, our mental
and emotional cartography.
Undoubtedly, approaching
consciousness allows us to inhabit
other multiverses.
THE BEAK OF THE VULTURE
From the top of the vulture’s
beakeyes are closed
breaking my ideology
I lean out through the wall
there appear banished and
broken legs
there I am bewitched
in diamantine
there where everything is
there where everything is
nothing
where the created never
existed
where there are routes of skin
and wine
where time in my ears
awakens to emptiness
since the time of the sigh
my life has become cold
since you said river
I have not stopped running
I carry hands of wind
I peck the sky with my eyes
and I sing with opossums
and mice in the attic
I illuminate blurred pages
the pages of my vices
from the top of paradise
I’m falling to reality
to mortality
to lightness
to what I call
my truth.
-Alejandro Moreno.
By: Tanya Cosio
Jalisco, Mexico, 2021
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Nature & Culture:
International Poetry Film Festival
This fall, Copenhagen will enjoy
its first almost fully unrestricted
cultural autumn since the
pandemic started. This means,
we are returning to galleries,
museums and concerts, and
enjoying a time of outdoor life,
friends and interactions we
all have missed. Yeah, there’ll
still be some requirements for
everyone to be safe from the
pandemic, but this is a great
time for reconnecting through
culture in the city. Kulturhuset
Islands Brygge, home of the
Poetic Phonotheque, will
celebrate the occasion with its
first ‘Nature and Culture: International
Poetry Film Festival’,
a screening of films on
the subjects of nature, environement
and culture, with
a focus on poetry. Recruiting
the help of Red Door Gallery
& Magazine as organizers
of the event, the festival
has now received over 170
submissions from more than
70 countries on the subject
of environment, nature, climate,
and the connections
of humanity, narrated in a
poetic language through
short, poetry, animation and
documentary. The selected
films (and audio poems)
received for the festival will be
documented in a publication
to celebrate the occasion, in
the form of an anthology book.
If you have any questions
regarding this event, please
write to poetiskefonotek@
gmail.com
The festival will be screened
FREE to the public on the
21st and 28th of November
at Kulturhuset Islands Brygge
in Copenhagen and online.
www.poeticphontheque.com
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At The Fringe means “at the margin” and it is a
definition coming from the first Fringe Festival
created in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1947 as a
parallel celebration to the great Edinburgh
International Festival. It was not the official
organisation, but a journalist, Robert Kemp, who
first used the name “At The Fringe” to define a
series of initiatives happened at the margins of the
larger festival.
The US association of Fringe Festivals has made an
attempt to define what a fringe festival consists of:
various types of cultural appearances - literature,
art, music, theatre, lectures.
Anyone may do almost anything. The mix of
professionals and amateurs is important. The
festival should be cheap (ours is free), so that
anyone can come and watch. The appearances
should be short and the technical solutions simple.
The length of the festival may vary between a few
days and a few weeks.
In our case, this year the festival takes place from
October 16th to the 24th, and although the name
is self explanatory about our location, due to the
current travel restrictions we’ve chosen to focus
on the hybrid possibilities of the festival - where
digital and real life converge.
For this year’s At the Fringe, we’re happy to
announce a new collaboration as the Swedish
base of the Poetic Phonotheque, and in
collaboration with Red Door will be presenting
the virtual collection of poems sent from all
over the world in various languages during the
lockdown. In addition to this, a selection of poetry
films submitted to this multimedia archive will also
be screened. To add your voice to the collection,
visit www.poeticphonotheque.com or join us At
the Fringe, and let poetry bring us closer together.
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For eight days in October, practitioners from
Sweden and other countries working with
different disciplines (visual art, literature, dance
and film) will meet online and IRL to conduct
around 70 events. Join us for the 8th edition!
To learn more about the program, how to get
involved and the collaborators making this festival
possible, visit:
www.atthefringe.org/
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A Tarot reading
by
HENRY
THE RABBIT
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An interview with S. Elizabeth
The Art of the
Occult
Mystic and occult practices
date back centuries, but why
is the esoteric of such interest
permanently through time?
Over the past two hundred
years, image-maker shave
been drawn to these unknown
spheres and have created curious
artworks that transcend
time and place –but what is
it that attracts artists to these
magical realms?
From theosophy and kabbalah,
to thezodiac and alchemy;
spiritualism and ceremonial
magic, to the elements and sacred
geometry –The Art of the
Occult (White Lion Publishing
/ October 6, 2020) by S. Elizabeth,
introduces major occult
themes and showcases artists
who have been influenced
and led by these practices.
In this book, you’ll find the
symbolic and mythical images
of the Pre-Raphaelites; the automatic
drawings of Hilma af
Klint and Madge Gill... Leonora
Carrington’s surrealist interpretation
of myth, along with
contemporary artists creating
while practicing the occult.
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The book is divided in
three segments: The
Cosmos, Higher Beings and
Practitioners, and beautifully
curates this wide series of
subjects, from the many
practices and subjects to the
people whose work was/is
openly intertwined with the
occult, combining a careful
selection of art in a hardcover
tome that is apt for any
collector, either of art books
or of occult publications...and
a must have for those of us
who collect both.
S.Elizabeth spoke to the Red
Transmissions Podcast from
her home in Florida on the
day of the book release and
shared with us the process
of being asked to make
this book, in great part due
to having built a following
online through her passion
for art, curating, collecting
and writing about it.
She is a writer, curator and
frill-seeker, who writes and
interviews about esoteric art
for various online and print
media, but who also has
had a lifelong passion with
the arts which has led her to
co-create The Occult Activity
Book Vol I and II, as well as
to host a blog where she
writes about art, fashion,
film, literature, dreams, grief
and dying, the supernatural
and the occult, for she is
particularly fascinated with
where these things converge,
and the conversations and
creations that come out of
these convergences.
S.Elizabeth explains that the
purpose of this publication is
not just to document occult
artists... it all comes back to
a book that is accessible,
where these practices and
connections resonate with
everyone through art, in
hopes that non-believers,
non-practitioners and nonartists
can also read/view this
book and feel transformed
or inspired in whatever
field of work they function.
From the overly popular to
the unknown, S.Elizabeth
has conjured the perfect
compilation to draw in beauty
and inspiration through its
pages.
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“At the very heart of it all, I want
this book to serve as inspiration
and help build new creations in
whatever field people are, as well
as new connections that we didn’t
previously link to the practices used
for making art”.
-S. Elizabeth
Follow S.Elizabeth at:
unquietthings.com
You can acquire the
book through Quarto
Books and order it online
via Amazon and
other book providers.
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The Red Door
Network:
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Red Door Magazine is a quarterly Arts &
Culture publication meant to document
the work of creators everywhere, as well
as facilitate new conversations on important
matters for our communities in a
local and international way, through the
linking of themes, collaborations, interviews
and hybrid events that can expand
the reach of independent voices and remarkable
projects. Red Door counts with
the help of correspondents in Australia,
Mexico, the US and Denmark.
Red Door also functions as a gallery and
independent space in order to serve as
a platform for the same purposes. In expanding
its reach, Red Door also counts
with:
-A podcast called the Red Transmissions,
where creatives, activists and cultural
organizers share their process, projects
and initiatives.
-A Poetic Phonotheque, which serves
as an online collection of poetry in many
languages in the voice of its authors, created
to break the barriers of distance and
facilitate free access to poetry in households
around the world.
-An independent print project called Red
Press, which focuses on the publication
of poetry (and illustration) in translation.
Bilingual books, handmade, limited edition
books.
-The Red Door Gallery located in the cultural
hub of Copenhagen on Møllegade,
Nørrebro, where talks, workshops, exhibitions,
performances and other events
are often on the calendar, as well as limited
edition books and prints, original
art, miniature books and other art related
products, often with a focus on poetry.
See them also on the online shop:
www.reddoormagazine.com/shop
The Partners:
Litteraturcentrum KVU: Litteraturcentrum
KVU is an international literary initiative
we often promote as a league of
publishers in Scandinavia. Red Door is
published through this collaboration.
Kultivera operates international cultural
programs that are physical, social and
creative; that stimulates and inspires both
the artists and the local community. It is
the organization in charge of the Tranås
Fringe Festival and their curriculum of
activities can be seen on the issues of
the Red Door Magazine.
Write4Word: Is a West Wales community
organization with a focus on language
arts. Its director, Dominic Williams, is a
frequent correspondent of Red Door.
La Libélula Vaga: is a spanish literary
magazine published in Sweden
documenting the work of poets all
over the planet, as well as encouraging
translations, talks and other
collaborations.
Keith FM: is a Berlin-based community
radio. Red Transmissions Podcast airs
on the 1st Thursday of each month at
15, the 3rd Sunday of each month at 12,
and the last Thursday of each month at
3am (for the early birds or those in other
timezones).
Trafika Europe Research: seeks to help
renew the role of literature in nudging
along the European conversation
in culture, This is done through a
bookshop, a journal, and a radio, where
Red Transmissions Podcast is also on
rotation, as well as a selection of its poets
/ musicians.
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There are beautiful things happening
due to the collaborations, partnerships,
ideas and new projects that arise from the
conversations started in these pages and
through the other Red Door initiatives,
such as the podcast, which has already
celebrated over 30 interviews, or the
phonotheque, which counts with the
voices of over 100 poets around the world...
all of this, including the digital version of
the magazine, are free to ensure access to
information wherever you are in the planet.
However, these projects are indeed time
consuming and not free, especially since
it is necessary to pay to remove the ads
so that you are not distracted and can
have a fully immersive artistic experience
when enjoying this magazine and the
RED DOOR website. There’s costs for
hosting and printing and domains and
publishing... and for now, ONE certain way
to show your support directly: PATREON.
WIth a membership starting at 3 EU a
month, yo too can ensure these projects
keep existing. What’s more, now Patreon
allows for one yearly payment, if you’re
not into monthly fees. So, what do ya say?
Wanna help keep making this happen?
www.patreon.com/
madamneverstop
Eternal gratitude to the current patrons
of this magazine: Yamila Bush, Valeria
Schapira, Valentina Upegui, Juan Pablo
Salas, Ulla Hansen, Tamar Tkabladze,
Sergio Guzman, Jaider Torres, Mikkel
Vinther, Melissa Albers, Melanie Perry,
Juditch Schaecther, Juana M. Ramos,
Jenny Gråf, Mambe&Danochilango,
Dominique Storm, Devin Fairchild, David
Miller, Crox Pow, Doktor Hansen, Aleisa
Ribalta Guzman, Alan Pallais and you, who
are reading this.
Love and poetry always,
Madam Neverstop
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SUMMER 2021
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