MAKE BELIEF: WEAVING HYPERSIGILS TO HACK THE OVERCODE

[M]DUDECK + MARC WILKE

We inhabit a reality that tries to Overcode All Options. The Collective Unconscious is shrinking in the numbing entropy of ‘content’ ravaging the imaginal plane. Our imaginations are assimilated, our desires are colonized and our visionaries are institutionalized. 

Make-Believe is a framework used to describe games enacted by children, alone or in groups, wherein ‘actors’ perform elaborate fictions and ask those interacting with them to treat their fictions as real. Make-Belief is what happens when we intentionally access that same imaginal realm when we are no longer children. It is what happens when we hack the Overcode and liberate our own imaginations and start worldbuilding alternate futures.

A Sigil is a desire or intent, folded it down into its key aspects, producing a magickal symbol that acts as a conduit between conscious and unconscious thought. Chaos Magician and comic-book writer Grant Morrison upgraded the concept of “the Sigil” with his invention of “the Hypersigil” — which “develops [the sigil] beyond the static image and incorporates elements such as characterization, drama and plot.” The hypersigil is magickal narrative construction that re-codes reality through transmedial storytelling. 

In this talk, [M]Dudeck will introduce RELIGIONVIRUS, their 16-year hypersigil, wherein they have invented their own queer sci-fi religion as art. Following this, [M] will be joined in conversation with Europe’s Youngest Séance Medium, Marc Wilke, about the role of art in magickal practise and the hypersigil as narrative tool to liberate the unconscious from the Collective Overcode.

Note: [M]Dudeck will also be leading a 2-day workshop entitled: WEAVING HYPERSIGILS: HACKING THE SOURCE CODE OF REALITY, May30-31, 2026 at The Fool. Limited to 13 participants, DM The Fool to register.

BIOS

[M] Dudeck

 invents and creates their own queer sci-fi religion as art. They perform rituals, sermons and liturgies; build shrines, temples, and altars; compose scriptures, psalms, and bibles; and make artifacts, tapestries and iconographies. They perform how to hack reality and produce one’s own belief system as art. Their project, called RELIGIONVIR.US has been performed, exhibited, screened and otherwise disseminated in over forty countries worldwide. Current projects include: a virtual reality temple, a role-playing oracle game and queer alien folk music. They are the Co/Director, alongside Martina Raponi of The Ansible Institute, a nomadic research laboratory for artists using speculative fiction to generate templates for new realities. They live and work in constant migration.

Marc Wilke

• Spiritual Educator, Séance Medium, and Practitioner of Occult Arts •

Marc Wilke is an educator and practitioner specializing for over a decade in occult arts, ritual magick, and personal development. With an academic background in education sciences and adult learning, he draws on years of hands-on experience to teach both newcomers and seasoned practitioners modern Western Magick and allied arts. As Europe’s youngest publicly demonstrating physical séance medium, Marc has become a leading figure in contemporary spirit work, holding a near monopoly on authentic séances in Berlin.