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Hej everyone!
As always, there is so much going on! First of all, Rendering Unconscious Podcast celebrates 200 episodes! Huge thanks to all the listeners, guests and supporters, especially our Patreon community. I couldn't have done it without you!
For the 200th episode my dear friend and stellar colleague Dr. Lara Sheehi had the idea to take over as guest host and interview me. So we did! It was really fun, although a little anxiety provoking, to have the tables turned. We had a great time, and I hope you enjoy!
RU200: RENDERING UNCONSCIOUS CELEBRATES 200 EPISODES! WITH DRS LARA SHEEHI & VANESSA SINCLAIR
I've also had 2 new albums come out this month! 2 new collaborations with sonic mastermind Pete Murphy, Night of the Hunter and The Sexual is Provocative. Both are available at Highbrow Lowlife's Bandcamp page!
The other new, exciting news is that Carl and I have been invited to help facilitate a retreat on art & magick in Bali to be held December 7-21, 2022! Here's what the organizer Jake Kobrin has to say about it:
I am organizing an art, magick, and self transformation retreat in Bali with an amazing team of superheroes, from December 7th to the 21st 2022. $3000 per person, but 15% off with early registration to the first 10 participants. 2 weeks all inclusive in an amazing retreat center in Deep Bali. Adventures, art, initiations, healing, ceremonies, connection, community, creativity - 100% uplifting, empowering, genuine, bold, epic, fun, inspiring, and transformative experiences.
This workshop is centered around the intersection of art and magick. How can we tap into our power as creators, and unleash our creativity to not only shape the works of art we craft, but our lives and self-identities. How can we get in touch with the power and creativity that flows through us and use this to manifest radical empowering change in our lives. This is the start of a new direction, a new momentum towards beauty and fulfillment.
Including guest workshops from:
@izzy_ivy_art an incredible visionary artist leading her amazing Anchoring Light workshop to help you explore art as a spiritual practice, set in the context of a deep ceremonial journey, where she will unveil all of her tips and secrets for making magic on canvas through the art of painting.
@carl.abrahamsson and @rawsin_, two influential chaos magicians and artists who will be helping to guide ceremonies and rituals, teaching about the intersection of art and magick, teaching the art of the cut-up and presenting on various aspects of Occulture. Carl was the leader of the Scandinavian branch of the legendary occult order Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth.
And other incredible artists and magicians to be announced!
This experience is yours for the taking. The first step towards a radically different future. Excited to see you here!
Are you interested? Send Jake Kobrin a DM to register.
#bali #art #magick #retreat #transformation #yoga #spirituality #baliretreat #Ubud
The Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult series at Morbid Anatomy Museum continues June 19th!
Animism for Apocalypse by Langston Kahn and Spirit Voices: The Mysteries and Magic of North Asian Shamanic Traditions by David Shi
Date: June 19
Time: 2 pm EDT
PLEASE NOTE: This lecture will be recorded and available for free for Morbid Anatomy's Patreon members at $5/month and above. Become a Member HERE.
Ticketholders: A Zoom invite is sent out at 1 pm EDT on the day of the event to the email used at checkout. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email info.morbidanatomy@gmail.com. A temporary streaming link will be emailed after the event concludes.
Animism for Apocalypse: Working with Spirits and Ancestors to Find Freedom in Endings
Langston Kahn
According to the majority of indigenous peoples’ oral histories, the world has ended many times. After the world ends, the human experiment begins again with those who survive and in the space between worlds, the birth of the new world is shaped by the stories the surviving humans choose to bring with them. What is required in the space between worlds is that we carefully tend both the personal and collective stories we carry with us, because they will manifest through our actions. As we navigate this time of so many cataclysmic endings and new beginnings, many of us feel disoriented, tired and uncertain about the future. What might we learn from our ancestors, our helping spirits and the Earth about the stories keeping us from tending these endings well? How might we engage these endings as an opportunity to liberate ourselves from the harmful systems we are entangled with and tell a new story with our lives? Come join Langston Kahn this Juneteenth to explore how we might move through the grief of these times to find the power waiting for us on the other side of it.
Spirit Voices: The Mysteries and Magic of North Asian Shamanic Traditions
David Shi
David Shi will be talking about his new book Spirit Voices: The Mysteries and Magic of North Asian Shamanic Traditions, which will be coming out in Spring 2023. Shi explores the history and practice of shamanism. What is it? Where is it from? What do shamans actually do? He guides the audience through unfamiliar territory—the landscape of North Asia – and through what are largely hidden and unfamiliar traditions. This area, ranging from the Caspian Sea to the Pacific Ocean, is a vast region often described as the “Cradle of Shamanism” and where the word “Shaman” originates from. His book features history, first-hand experiential reports, mythology, and folklore to explore the spirits, spirituality, and practices of true shamanism. In addition to history and analysis of North Asian shamanism, Shi also provides practical information for those seeking to implement practices that are appropriate to non-initiates and outsiders to the culture.
About the speakers:
Langston Kahn is a Black, Queer teacher, author and shamanic practitioner who specializes in radical human transformation, ancestral healing, and restoring an authentic relationship with our emotions. He stands firmly at the crossroads; his practice informed by somatic modalities, contemporary shamanic traditions, initiations into traditions of the African diaspora, and his helping spirits and ancestors weaving it all together. Langston is the author of Deep Liberation: Shamanic Teachings for Reclaiming Wholeness in a Culture of Trauma. He is a senior teacher in the Cycle of Transformation and has served for 5 years in the Last Mask Community, a collective of people striving to live in alignment with ancient shamanic principles in service of personal and collective liberation. He lives in the ancestral lands of the Lenape, Rockaway and Canarsie also known as New York City. For more information please visit his website LangstonKahn.com.
David Shi is a shamanic worker and folk magic practitioner who engages in traditional North Asian forms of shamanism. He is primarily of Manchurian descent, but can also trace ancestry to Mongolian, Chinese, Korean, as well as a little Tungus Siberian and ancient Central Asian Turkic heritage as well. Raised in a household that incorporated both Southeast Siberian and North Chinese practices, David has dedicated his spare time to the study of the spiritual traditions of his ancestors and of greater Eurasia. Recognized as a sagaasha/ongodtengertei, a future shaman prior to initiation, among both Mongolian and Korean shamans, David’s practices are deeply rooted in spirit work in which ancestral and land spirits are called to empower all workings. David’s readings incorporate a combination of Tarot, Runes, Bones, Jaw-harp, as well as Mongolian stone divination (known as Kumalak in Turkic Central Asia). David is the author of the book North Asian Magic: Spellcraft from Manchuria, Mongolia, and Siberia.
Following that we have:
The Atavistic Network by Charlotte Rodgers and Necromancy: Working with Blood and Adopted Ancestors in Art and Magic by Dr Vanessa Sinclair
Date: Sunday, July 17
Time: 2 pm EDT
PLEASE NOTE: This lecture will be recorded and available for free for Morbid Anatomy's Patreon members at $5/month and above. Become a Member HERE.
Ticketholders: A Zoom invite is sent out at 1 pm EDT on the day of the event to the email used at checkout. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email info.morbidanatomy@gmail.com. A temporary streaming link will be emailed after the event concludes.
The Atavistic Network: Listening to the Voices of the Dead and Discarded
Charlotte Rodgers
Charlotte Rodgers has been creating creatures from bones and dead stuff for over 40 years. This was in part a reflection of her era’s countercultural, dystopian expression; however learning the language of death and memory was something she had always felt called to do. In this presentation Charlotte will describe a journey littered with discarded objects, bones and road kill; talking in terms of magic, animism, physical cut-ups and gateways of power; empathy, play and understanding.
Who we are now is an amalgamation of stories layered through time and how that is translated depends on the language used. The scientist, the magician, the story teller and the artist all can hold the same item and translate its voice into different scripts; what is key in all instances is that we pay attention and listen, not letting our agenda destroy the core meaning and not letting thoughts of what something does or how it appears, obscure the reality of what it actually is.
Whilst Charlotte works with road kill and found dead, she never kills and is not trained in taxidermy. Her journey with bones is a tale of magic, attention and belonging.
Necromancy: Working with Blood and Adopted Ancestors in Art and Magic
Vanessa Sinclair
My practice is personal and very much of my own creation. It revolves around necromancy.
Not in any traditional sense, as in studying grimoires and structured systems of legions of daemons/ angels, but in a much more personal sense. My intention in this talk is to impart the importance of developing one’s own personal practice by nourishing one’s relationship with the dead – with one’s blood ancestral lineage, as well as with adopted ancestors, those artists, writers, friends, mentors and magicians who have influenced you; those who have had a lasting impact on your life, development and formation – thereby creating a unique mythology and personal pantheon of your own.
About the speakers:
Charlotte Rodgers is an author, artist and animist who is presently exploring an academic wormhole as an anthropology student at Bristol University. She has been widely published in magazines and anthologies and her books include, The Sky is A Gateway, Not a Ceiling, P is for Prostitution, and The Bloody Sacrifice. Her art incorporates remnants of death and discarded objects and has been exhibited widely, including shows in New York and London, and she has sculptures on permanent display at the Museum of Naive and Marginal Art in Serbia. Charlotte has spoken at conferences and venues globally, including ‘The Magickal Women Conference’ in London 2019, ‘Rewriting the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism and Psychoanalysis’ in Merano, Italy and ‘The Left Hand Path Symposium’ in 2020. A filmic exhibition of her work was recently created for Cambridge University’s CRASSH Magic and Ecology Symposium.
Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst, artist and occultist based in Sweden. She is the author of The Pathways of the Heart (Trapart Books, 2021), Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation (Routledge, 2020) and Switching Mirrors (Trapart Books, 2016), and the editor of Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019), Outsider Inpatient: Reflections on Art as Therapy (Trapart Books, 2021) with Elisabeth Punzi and The Fenris Wolf, vol 9 (Trapart Books, 2017) with Carl Abrahamsson. She hosts the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occcult series of events, as well as Rendering Unconscious Podcast.
The Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult series of events, curated by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson, is dedicated to exploring the intersections and integration of psychoanalytic theory, the creative arts, occult practices, and folk magic traditions. By inviting psychoanalysts, philosophers, artists, writers, and occult practitioners from a variety of theoretical orientations and worldviews to discuss their work, personal experiences, and areas of research interest with one another, dialogue is opened up between practitioners in fields of study that traditionally rarely engage with one another though often operate in similar and complementary ways.
The next Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult conference is in the preparation stages! Join us for:
VISIONARY MEDIUM: Psychoanalysis and the Magic of Cinema
October 14-16, 2022 | Husets Biograf, Copenhagen
The third Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference focuses on cinema as a gateway into and out of the human mind, in all its complexity. No modern medium enchants quite as powerfully as that of the moving image. As film developed into an art form parallel to the emergence of both psychoanalysis and the late 19th century renaissance of the occult, its presence was rapidly imbued with a genuinely visionary power that continues to spellbind to this day. This event shines the light on a psychological screen filled with innovations, ideas, prisms and mirrors, revealing ever more to us about the intimate, intricate relationship between psychoanalysis, art and the occult.
In 1895, the same year Sigmund Freud published Studies on Hysteria with Josef Breuer, the Lumière brothers presented the first projected moving pictures to a paying audience and practicing occultist William Butler Yeats published his very first collection of poetry. As Freud continued developing his theories, the film industry established itself, with experimental film-making evolving alongside conventional cinema from the beginning. The early films of Georges Méliès, Hans Richter and Fritz Lang influenced generations of filmmakers, including Jonas Mekas, Luis Buñuel, Harry Smith, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Frank, Kenneth Anger, Antony Balch, Derek Jarman, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Peter Greenaway, John Waters, Darren Aronofsky, Anna Biller and Lars von Trier.
When a filmmaker is a true artist, their vision and own unconscious processes are projected and worked through via the medium of film. The magic lantern’s cinematic spells are timeless expressions of the human condition – existing outside trends, discourses and even the larger Zeitgeists of the times – yet resonating throughout. As Freudian cinephile Mary Wild relays in her work, films are projective surfaces engaging similar mechanisms as the classic projective tests of psychoanalysts, such as the Rorschach Inkblot Test. In the chamber of the cinema, films are projected onto screens while audience members project their own internal worlds onto the films, identifying with the characters and enacting the drama being played out. Nowadays screens are ubiquitous in our everyday lives, the interactive screens of computers and phones providing countless opportunities for individuals to project themselves into the digital realm in a multitude of ways never before imagined.
The Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult series of events, curated by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson, is dedicated to exploring the intersections and integration of psychoanalytic theory, the creative arts, occult practices and folk magic traditions. By inviting psychoanalysts, philosophers, artists, writers, filmmakers and magical practitioners from a variety of theoretical orientations and worldviews to discuss their work, personal experiences and areas of interest with one another, dialogue is opened up between practitioners in fields of study that traditionally rarely engage with one another, though often operate in similar and complementary ways.
Topics may range from themes of the double, mirroring, projection, programming, propaganda and poetry to psychoanalysis on film, the history of cinema, celluloid tangibility, home movies, horror, underground cinema, spirit photography, the scopic drive, the Uncanny, Cinema of Transgression, Film as a Subversive Art (a la Amos Vogel), social media, TikTok, artificial intelligence and the digital realm to deep dives into particular auteur filmmakers, photographers or artists, such as Diane Arbus, Joel-Peter Witkin, Francis Bacon, William Mortensen, Werner Herzog or Russ Meyer.
Please send inquiries and proposals for presentations to: sinclairvanessa [AT] gmail [DOT] com
Recently on Rendering Unconscious Podcast:
RU199: BRET FIMIANI ON PSYCHOSIS & EXTREME STATES: AN ETHIC FOR TREATMENT
RU198: ACTOR DAVID PATRICK KELLY & WRITER/ DIRECTOR RICHARD LEDES ON ADIEU LACAN
And please keep in mind, I've created an Etsy store as a home to sell my collagework, prints, and limited edition CDs that come with original artwork. Check out TrapartUniqueWorks!
That's a wrap for now!
As always the best way to keep in touch is at Patreon!
Vi ses!
Vanessa
www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl
http://www.drvanessasinclair.net
http://www.renderingunconscious.org
https://store.trapart.net
https://highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com
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