Contemporary Seers
“It has always been the business of the great seers (known to India as ‘rishis,’ in biblical terms as “prophets,” to primitive folk as ‘shamans,’ and in our own day as ‘poets’ and ‘artists’) to perform...
View ArticleThe Power of Myth: The Hero’s Adventure
“You’re talking about a search for the meaning of life?” I asked. “No, no, no,” he said. “For the experience of being alive (…) People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t...
View ArticleRitualistic (re)birth canals
Ellen Ringstad / Rasmus Hungnes, artist/curatorial talk, pOTSYMPOSIUm 11.10.13, at pOTSYd. Photo: Rasmus Hungnes. “Initiation ceremonies most frequently took place in a cave as symbolic of the...
View ArticleTo make yourself invisible
Hulinhjalmur is a magical sign to make yourself invisible. An invisible boy is on display at the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft, after using this method. (ref).
View ArticleTonight the stars shine favourably over the gallow’s hill
“Well, Rasmus the executioner! Let now the evil witch’s body sting. Let her catch her breath, Rasmus the executioner, and loosen the screw a little at a time, as she confesses her sins” – Häksan The...
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For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of...
View ArticleTTL
“Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.” – Grant Morrison: The Invisibles
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“Eckhart saw Hell too. He said: The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won’t let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they’re not punishing you,...
View ArticleKUKLOS – Border 1.0
Exhibition series by artist-curator duo Ellen Ringstad (me) and Rasmus Hungnes. Border 1.0 opens May 16. Open daily 12-19 until June 1. Galleri Split, Bergen. Like our Facebook-page?
View ArticleI now declare this Temple closed
Me, performing a circuit ritual last night in front of UNTITLED* before taking down the exhibition KUKLOS – Border 1.0 (a duo-collaboration with Rasmus Hungnes). KUKLOS (greek: circle, cycle, wheel)...
View ArticleNight Child
Your rotten world Means nothing to me Under cover of darkness Is when I am free – Electric Wizard. Night Child. Album of the night: Electric Wizard, Black Masses (2010).
View ArticleLike virgin prairie resisting the plow
At Dissensus, Bergen, 2014. La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles; L’homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles Qui l’observent avec des...
View ArticleThe other folks wanted wilderness
At Dissensus, Bergen, 2014. Performance. Looking at these masks, I was ceaselessly asking myself the same questions. Why this unusual shape, so ill-adapted to their function? (…) I was unable to answer...
View ArticleDisenchanted Forest
Ringstad≠Hungnes at Dissensus, Bergen, 2014. Plastic forest and performance.
View ArticleJodorowsky’s Dune: The greatest sci-fi movie never made
What is the goal of the life? It’s to create yourself a soul. For me, movies are an art, more than an industry. And it’s the search of the human soul, as painting, as literature, as poetry. Movies are...
View ArticleLiberation
In creating life out of the primeval slime, Chaos has always sought to increase its possibilities of expression and to diversify its manifestations. During the evolution of life there have been many...
View ArticleREPRESS/REGRESS
Here’s my REPRESS / REGRESS, which was shown at Cinema B-Open at the Bergen town square (Festplassen) last month:
View ArticleTrance of Sorrow, Trance of Wonder
“The imagination cannot pierce beyond terrestrial conditions, or the sense of self grasp more than the natural consciousness. One thinks at first no more than this: “there is nothing possible that is...
View ArticleThe Sabbatic Goat
Baphomet “The goat which is represented in our frontispiece bears upon its forehead the Sign of the Pentagram with one point in the ascendant, which is sufficient to distinguish it as a symbol of the...
View ArticleWand of Circe
An Italian fresco of Circe returning the followers of Ulysses to human form, c.1610 by Giovanni Battista Trotti – Il Palazzo ducale di Parma, Artegrafica Silva, Parma 1980. “Mistress of love or of...
View ArticleHistory piled upon history: lost kingdoms of Africa
“Africa. Where the human race began. Nearly a billion people live here. It’s a continent with an incredible diversity of communities and cultures, yet we know less of its history than almost anywhere...
View ArticleImmensity equals immensity
There is only one dogma in Magic, and it is this: The visible is the manifestation of the invisible, or, in other terms, the perfect word, in things appreciable and visible, bears an exact proportion...
View ArticleLiberator of the Mind
Happy New Year! Behold my 2015 patron: “The Queen of Swords represents the watery part of Air, the elasticity of that element, and its power of transmission. (…) She is enthroned upon the clouds. The...
View ArticleTarot: How to create a soul
“I have always been drawn to things I found interesting but couldn’t understand. The tarot fascinated me because it was very strange. (…) You see all the tarot at once and realize it is a unit. And...
View ArticleYour children are not your children
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You...
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