Witchcraft. Crafting is embedded in witchery, part of the practice of magic.
… Editorial #6 Witch/Craft
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Nisha Ramayya on craft, creation & ritual
Nisha Ramayya is a poet and lecturer in Creative Writing at Queen Mary, University of London. Her recent book, States of the Body Produced by Love was published by Ignota in 2019. We find out more about her process of crafting poetics, the ritualistic elements of language, play, and creation.
… Nisha Ramayya on craft, creation & ritual
Spotlight: Xenobia Bailey’s Aesthetic of Funk
Xenobia Bailey’s career is as eclectic and colourful as the spiral crochet patterns that form a key part of her aesthetic. Having studied ethnomusicology at the University of Washington and Industrial Design at the Pratt Institute, she went on to work as a costume designer for Black Arts West and learnt to crochet at the Greenpoint Cultural society in Brooklyn. Her crochet hats infiltrated pop culture in the 1980s, appearing everywhere from United Colors of Beneton advertisements, and Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, to Elle magazine.
… Spotlight: Xenobia Bailey’s Aesthetic of Funk
Spotlight: Black Power Tarot Deck
When graphic designer Michael Eaton contacted musician King Khan he was gifted a very special commission: “I had been a huge fan of his music for years and it just so happened he was thinking of making this Tarot deck so it was appropriate timing”.
… Spotlight: Black Power Tarot Deck
Anne Jackson: The Witchcraft Series
My current body of work examines witch trials and witch-persecution, in European history, and as a metaphorical lens through which to explore some of the fears and prejudices of our own time.
… Anne Jackson: The Witchcraft Series
Jane Fairhurst: Wands, Fetishes for Uncertain Times & Women’s Work
Following a timeline from the Ice Age Venuses of the Paleolithic, the goddesses of Minoan, Ancient Egyptian, Old Norse and Ancient Greek cultures of the Neolithic Bronze Age to the present day Jane observed the diminution of the female in the human story. Her response was to create a series of textile sculptures.
… Jane Fairhurst: Wands, Fetishes for Uncertain Times & Women’s Work
Event Review: Modernism and Alternate Spiritualities Symposium
The Modernism and Alternate Spiritualities symposium, held at the Royal College of Art, was a day brimming with rich discourse on what the focussed study of personal and organised belief systems can provide to the expanding understanding of the literary, arts and social movements of modernity.
… Event Review: Modernism and Alternate Spiritualities Symposium
A Doorway In: My Own Way In
As I settled into my new routine, I began to explore the country, visiting Loch Lomond and the Hebrides, the Highlands and Orkney. While I felt such joy in each new place, I still had trouble connecting to the place-specific energy of the land. And so, I developed A Doorway In as a way to reflect upon my relation to this new place and also to experience more deeply the land around me.
… A Doorway In: My Own Way In
Machina Incantatii (Spell Machine) by Anna Nolda Nagele
‘Machina Incantatii’ (latin for ‘Spell Machine’) was conceived to explore the question of how digital tools can be used to create and introduce spiritual experiences by emulating a magical ritual of spell writing.
… Machina Incantatii (Spell Machine) by Anna Nolda Nagele
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