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