WEAVING HYPERSIGILS: HACKING THE SOURCE CODE OF REALITY

2-DAY WORKSHOP FACILITATED BY [M]DUDECK

ONLY 13 PLACES AVAILABLE
DM “THE FOOL” TO REGISTER

2 Days, 11 am to 6 pm both days

Chaos Magick emerged in the 1970s as postmodernity’s contribution to the Occult. Its practitioners rejected the hierarchies of the Western magickal tradition, advocating the use of “belief” as a creative tool, and Magick as a technology of hacking the source-code of reality. Chaos Magicians make active use of Sigils — magical symbols charged with intent – reconceptualized and modernized by Austin Osmand Spare and Thee Temple ov Psychik Youth in the early 20th century.

The Sigil takes a desire or intent, folds it down into its key aspects, and produces a magickal symbol which acts as a conduit between conscious and unconscious projection. Chaos Magician and comic-book writer Grant Morrison upgraded the concept of “the Sigil” through 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 —including comics, stories, videos, films, installations, animations, performances, concept albums and rituals. WEAVING HYPERSIGILS is a two-day workshop led by performance artist/witchdoctor [M] Dudeck, whose 15-year ongoing hypersigil RELIGIONVIRUS has involved inventing an entire fictional religion as art. Combining theory, practise and exercizes, WEAVING HYPERSIGILS invites 13 practitioners/participants to imagine magical intention as an ongoing mythopoetic process rather than a device invoked to generate “results.” This workshop will introduce the hypersigil as methodology, inviting participants to “storyboard” new realities through magickal mythopoesis, and each participant will create their own hypersigil in any media and begin to craft it in the workshop.