This workshop brings together 15 automatic writers, 5 ecstatic typists, and 2 editors using Gysin/Burroughs cut-up technique to create a series of collectively authored texts. Working on approaching the paper with hypnotic inductions and somatic work, participants will be able to access (and channel) the writing and drawing sessions. The collectively authored score will be performed by Ron Athey following the conclusion of the workshop. This performance will be open to the public. 

RON ATHEY

Ron Athey has worked in esoteric forms since the early 1990s including ecstatic state movement, archetype work, hypnosis, glossalalia, and automatic writing installations that consult both Spiritualist practices and early surrealism. The first version of this piece, Gifts of the Spirit, was developed in the Great Hall at Queen Mary University, London. The last version, a collaboration with Opera Povera, was an opera at the Cathedral of St. Vibiana in 2018.

This public performance follows a workshop bringing together 15 automatic writers, 5 ecstatic typists, and 2 editors using Gysin/Burroughs cut-up technique to create a series of collectively authored texts. Working on approaching the paper with hypnotic inductions and somatic work, participants will access (and channel) the writing and drawing sessions. The collectively authored score will be performed by Ron Athey following the conclusion of the workshop.

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RON ATHEY

Ron Athey has worked in esoteric forms since the early 1990s including ecstatic state movement, archetype work, hypnosis, glossalalia, and automatic writing installations that consult both Spiritualist practices and early surrealism. The first version of this piece, Gifts of the Spirit, was developed in the Great Hall at Queen Mary University, London. The last version, a collaboration with Opera Povera, was an opera at the Cathedral of St. Vibiana in 2018.

“Experiments with Life Itself”
—Francisco González de Canales

This workshop is made for the study of perspective and botany to create textiles through printing with nature, collage, drawing, embroidery, patchwork for finished interior tapestries to translate to a garment or sculpture. Examples will be shown and open to free interpretation, always in flux. 

Understanding the process of making as a process of healing, Susan Cianciolo leads the program as an extension of her spiritual practice, building off her 2009 cookbook This Cookbook Is Made for Jesus.

This program includes a meditation, tea and lunch.

SUSAN CIANCIOLO

Susan Cianciolo was born in 1969 in Providence, Rhode Island, and lives and works in New York. Between 1995 and 2001, she created eleven ‘runs’ of handmade, unique garments under her label RUN, which at one time was alternatively incarnated as a popup restaurant. Her presentations blended fashion with music, film, performance, and food. Cianciolo has held academic appointments at Städelschule, Parsons School of Design, Yale School of Art and NYU Steinhardt. Since 2013, she has been Assistant Professor of Fashion Design at Pratt Institute. Her work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at The Community Centre, Pantin (2022); the Lumber Room, Portland (2021); South London Gallery (2019); Yale Union, Portland (2016); and 365 S. Mission Road, Los Angeles (2016). Her participation in the 2017 Whitney Biennial saw the reprisal of RUN Restaurant as Run Restaurant Untitled, a three-day installation and gastronomic event.