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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...

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The 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...

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Ritualistic (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...

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To 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).

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Preparations.

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Tonight 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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Article 19

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...

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TTL

“Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.” – Grant Morrison: The Invisibles

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Article 17

“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,...

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Chaosphere

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KUKLOS – 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?

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I 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)...

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Night 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).

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Like 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...

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The 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...

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Disenchanted Forest

   Ringstad≠Hungnes at Dissensus, Bergen, 2014. Plastic forest and performance.  

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Jodorowsky’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...

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Liberation

  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...

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REPRESS/REGRESS

Here’s my REPRESS / REGRESS, which was shown at Cinema B-Open at the Bergen town square (Festplassen) last month:

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Trance 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...

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The 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...

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Wand 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...

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History 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...

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Immensity 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...

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Liberator 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...

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Tarot: 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...

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Your 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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