Schedule
FRIDAY
6:00-7:00 PM: Reception (Someday Lounge)
7:00: Welcome Address by Nick Pell (Someday Lounge)
8:00: The Freeman Perspective LIVE! (Someday Lounge)
10:00: Danny Chaoflux toasts esoZone and unveils the art gallery (Someday Lounge and Backspace)
10:15 - 10:45: Cult of Zir (Someday Lounge)
10:45 - 11:45: Ryze+Fall (Someday Lounge)
11:30 - 12:15: Pulse Emitter (Someday Lounge)
12:30 - 1:15: Acroyear (Someday Lounge)
1:30 - 2:30: Synchronicity Frequency (Someday Lounge)
SATURDAY
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Mutant Meatspace Networks (Someday Lounge)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: DNA Magic with Taylor Ellwood (Backspace)
12:00 - 1:00 PM: Lunch break
1:00 - 3:00: Arte, Magick and Musick (Someday Lounge)
1:00 - 2:00: The Magical and Ritual Use of Animal Parts with Lupa (Backspace)
2:00 - 3:00: Streetcraft (Backspace)
3:00 - 5:00: Viking Youth Power Hour LIVE! (Someday Lounge)
3:00 - 4:00: Kink Magic with Taylor Ellwood and Lupa (Backspace)
4:00 - 5:00: Hypersigil workshop with John Harrigan (Backspace)
5:00 - 6:00: Dinner break
6:00 - 8:00: Foolish People, Part I (Someday Lounge)
8:00 PM - 12:00 AM: Keynote Address by Paul Laffoley (Someday Lounge)
12:00 - 2:30: Zephyr (Someday Lounge)
SUNDAY
10:00 - 10:30 AM: The esoZone Mass (Someday Lounge)
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM: Making Magick: Innovative Sorcery Techniques (Someday Lounge)
10:00 - 11:00: Modern Myths and Hyperglyphs (Backspace)
1:00 - 2:00: Lunch break
2:00 - 4:00: Foolish People, Part II (Someday Lounge)
4:00 - 6:00: Practical Chemgnosis: Beyond Tripping Out (Someday Lounge)
6:00 Closing Address by Wes Unruh (Someday Lounge)
7:00 - 8:00 PM: Dinner break
8:00 - 8:30: Video art by Mouth of Infinity (Someday Lounge)
8:00 - 10:00 PM: Group jam and open mic time (Backspace)
8:30 - 9:15: Nightmare Generator (Someday Lounge)
9:30 - 10:15: Stalking Jane (Someday Lounge)
9:30 - 10:30: Critical Theatre (Backspace)
10:30 - 11:30: Azphodel (Someday Lounge)
Midnight: The Red King (Someday Lounge)
Panels:
Practical Chemgnosis: Beyond Tripping Out
While the medication of America spirals out of control, the drug war shows little signs of slowing. Figures such as Timothy Leary, Terence McKenna and others have argued that drug use itself has no “good” or “bad” value, per se, but rather that individual factors can lead to a rewarding, transformative experience or a scarring nightmare. The last century’s experimentation with chemically altered states stands as a long-term research project stretching from the cocaine ramblings of Victorian counterculture, Aleister Crowley’s interest in such varied substances as mescaline and heroin, and the 60s rebellion with its roots in the late 40’s LSD Hollywood scene of such legendary figures as Aldous Huxley and Cary Grant. What is the role of chemically altered states in magickal, mystical and social practice? Were the psychonauts right or do mind-altering chemicals represent nothing more than a short path to madness? What about other techniques such as drumming, chanting, mind machines, and yoga? Our diverse panel will discuss the various perks and pitfalls of chemgnosis in ritual and shamanic work from across spiritual traditions.
Moderator: Johnny Brainwash. Panelists: Bill Whitcomb, Taylor Ellwood, Ian Williams (Mouth of Infinity), Freeman, and James Curcio.
Mutant Meatspace Networks
While the Internet promised easy interaction with other mutants, many express a dissatisfaction with the medium. Recently, projects such as PDX Occulture and Irreality.net have attempted to use the Internet to take Mutants off the net and into meatspace to meet up. What are the advantages of personal meatups? How can the Internet be used to facilitate interpersonal communication? Children of the cyberpunk generation will interact with grizzled zine veterans to discuss different strategies for getting together with your local tribe for fun and profit. Hear stories of how people just like you organized their own occultist gangs, businesses and social networks. Go home and make better ones!
Moderator: Klint Finley. Panelists: Edward Wilson (Fenris 23), Johnny Brainwash, and Trevor Blake.
Arte, Magick and Musick
Aleister Crowley claimed that “all art is magick, all magick is art”, though this seems like a gross exaggeration. Art is magick only when it has intention- what John Harrigan has called “weaponised art.” What separates paintings of dogs playing poker from the cut-ups of Brion Gysin, the evocative art of Austin Osman Spare or the nightmarescapes of Salvador Dali? What is the role of performance, music and dramatics in art? How can art be used to bring about change in conformity with will? Our panel will discuss these and other topics as explore the overlapping and diverse terrain of magick, musick and arte.
Moderator: Popjellyfish. Panelists: t0tem7, James Curcio, Wes Unruh, John Harrigan, and Rex Church.
Making Magick: Innovative Sorcery Techniques
Sorcery remains the most enigmatic and difficult of the esoteric arts. While the self-transformative alchemy of Thelema, the Golden Dawn and other ceremonial magick-based traditions are easily grokked, the results-based magick of sorcery often leaves newbies scratching their heads looking for a point of entry in what can see like so much noise. Alternatively, practicing sorcerers often rely more upon musty old tomes than personal experimentation. How does one begin experimenting with sorcery? How does the practitioner develop their own system? What’s new under the sun? Our panel will discuss experimental sorcery from archaic witchcraft to Zos Kia Cultus to William Burroughs’ sci-fi hoodoo to TOPY’s media-based magick. Designed to be of use to both neophytes and adepts alike.
Moderator: Trevor Blake. Panelists: Nick Pell, Wes Unruh, Lupa, Bill Whitcomb.
Streetcraft
Whether it be graffiti magick, urban shamanism or just learning to live off the land in a city environment, city-based magick is one of the most exciting and innovative forms of magick to emerge in recent years. But precious little information exists about the practice other than mapping basic 101 techniques onto an urban paradigm. What are urban magickians doing with graffiti sigils, the spirits of the city and more mundane practices such as dumpster diving? Come to our memetic open mic at the Backspace and talk with other practitioners about the secret art of Streetcraft.
Modern Myths and Hyperglyphys
Far from being low-brow entertainment for the semi-literate, comics have come into their own not only as an artistic medium but an authentically new form of writing. Comics have systematically cataloged and deconstructed contemporary hero / villain archetypes. Finally, artists such as Grant Morrison and Alan Moore have used to format to create works of arte magick known as hypersigils. How are comics to be read? How does one go about creating their own comic book tulpas and hypersigils? What are people just like You doing with the format? Join us for a special open-mic style discussion at Backspace.
Workshops:
A Brief Introduction to Hypersigils with John Harrigan
John Harrigan will take you through an experiential and experimental workshop exposing participants to the core magical techniques and practices integral to Foolish People’s work. Peek behind the director’s chair at this workshop which explores retroactive time, occult dramatics and hypersigils. Harrigan will demonstrate magical rituals and powerful exercises that combine the transcendental and theurgic elements of ceremonial magic with established theatrical techniques. Come learn how to change your future and past while impressing friends and enemies alike.
The Magical and Ritual Use of Animal Parts with Lupa
Lupa has been working with animal parts both in her artwork and her magical practice since the mid-1990s. In this workshop she’ll discuss the history of animal parts in magic and ritual from cultures around the world. She’ll also go over modern concerns, including legalities, ethics, and getting in touch with the spirits of the remains.
DNA Magic with Taylor Ellwood
What is DNA magic? Can we really work with the physiology of our body, and if so how? What risks are there? These questions and more will be answered in this workshop, where Taylor Ellwood presents how he has been working with DNA magic since 1997. Come with an open mind and be prepared to think about your body in a whole different way.
Kink Magic with Lupa and Taylor Ellwood
The use of primarily vanilla sex for magical purposes is pretty well covered, but what about those who like other flavors, too? Here Lupa and Taylor present on BDSM and other fetishes and how they can be utilized in magic not only for practical results but for personal development as well. They also go over safety issues with both sexual kink and magic in general.
