Equinox Catalogue available now
July 8, 2009
We are proud to announce the general availability of the magnificent EQUINOX FESTIVAL CATALOGUE 2009. A book companion to the three-day festival of scientific illuminism held at London’s Conway Hall on 12-14 June 2009. Featuring full length essays and artworks from:
Carl Abrahamsonn, Aethenor, David Beth, Peter Christopherson, Comus, Erik Davis, Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, Paul Devereux, Phil Farber, Stephen Grasso, Andrew Hartwell, Barry Hale, Raymond Salvatore Harmon, Paola Igliori, Alan Moore, Ralph Metzner, Mark Pilkington, Jack Sargeant, Robert Wallis, Matthew Wiley, Z’EV, John Zorn.
Limited to a run of 777 copies.
‘a substantial 200-plus page book of essays by the speakers, beautiful artwork, pieces about the intent of the Festival from the organizers, background and interviews on the artists at the Festival, and more. This book is a wonderful take-away which supports what happened and will allow it to take root much more effectively for those who were there. I’ve read the essays of several presenters and the interview with the re-united band Comus after their performance and it really helped deepen my experience. … It stands well on its own as something of a snapshot/ad hoc manifesto of the current “occult revival” (if, in fact, such a thing is happening)’. Gareth Branwyn, Boing Boing
At a solid 208 pages in A5 this is a fantastic book, and was edited by Raymond Salvatore Harmon and Mark Pilkington, the latter of Strange Attractor.
The Equinox Catalogue is available from our very own webshop, as well as from Strange Attractor and other discerning booksellers. Why even Amazon have copies!
Equinox Webshop now open
July 4, 2009
Barry William Hale's 'Enochian' T shirt design for Equinox.
We have finally opened a small webshop in association with Aurora Borealis Recordings that allows you all to purchase items that were available at the event itself, such as the amazing Barry William Hale T shirt designs, the silk screen poster he designed, Equinox T shirts, CDs by Arktau Eos, Burial Hex, K11 and more. We aim to add other products very soon.
Sacrifice and Birth: Reflections on the Equinox Working.
June 20, 2009
As time for reflection in the wake of the Equinox Working grows the stresses and obstacles in organizing such an undertaking become dimmer. Upon reflection the Equinox Working was in fact a success, accomplishing the goal of bringing together disparate minds in order that communication may occur between the models of transcendental thought.
The shape defined by the Equinox Working was intended to be a catalyst for change within the field of occult and esoteric study. As such it has been an astounding success. The wave of energy that is spreading is even now causing the creative individuals involved to come together in collaboration, new ideas forming from old forms, new relationships developing as well as old relationships rekindled.
The feedback since the end of the festival has been enormous. We stood collectively at the crossroads of the beyond, looking out across the garden of forking ways and seeing both the past and the future of the Art. Old forms reinvigorating new concepts, technologies of the past and present merging under the hand of the practitioner. From the corners of the world this fellowship gathered together under one roof, and history has been made in the accounting.
The shape of the Equinox Working forms a very complex and contextual sigil. The various components of the sigil outlined in the ideas, words, sounds and images presented over the course of the three day working. Such a shape is often referred to as a hypersigil, as its form is beyond the typical dimensions of the sigil, its tendrils extending beyond the shape of the known. The focus and intent of this hypersigil is to cause change within the realm of esoteric understanding, and already its effects have begun.
The bulk of the hundreds of letters I have received in the week since the Equinox have centered on the question, “Will this happen again? Are you going to do this again next year?” At this moment I am still considering. How can one repeat the apotheosis of occult events? Is it possible to add to the dialog of esoteric understanding more so than has recently occurred? As the influence of the Equinox Working unfolds only time will tell.
Obviam lux Lucis
Raymond Salvatore Harmon
- Summer Solstice 2009
Full Festival Schedule Timeline online now.
May 31, 2009
A full festival schedule is now up on the site. Featuring a breakdown of times and days for all events taking place at this years festival.
equinoxfestival.org/timeline.html
There is also a 2 page guide to the festival available as a pdf link at the bottom of the time line page. It gives descriptions of the lecture programs and short blurbs about the films.
Less than two weeks to go until the biggest esoteric event of the past decade!
3 days of illumination.
Get your tickets now!
equinoxfestival.org/tickets.html
Check out the full page print features on the Equinox Festival in this months Wire magazine and the summer festivals issue of Time Out London!
Plus a full 6 pages on our presentation of the reformed Comus in the Wire.
Tickets available via wegottickets.com
New additions to the lecture lineup
May 3, 2009
We are happy to announce that both Robert Wallis and Marco Pasi will be joining the lecture program for this years festival.
Robert Wallis
Robert Wallis’ research interests are wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, including indigenous and prehistoric art, particularly ’shamanistic’ art, and the re-presentation of the past in the present, especially by contemporary pagans and neo-shamans, and the implications of such engagements for heritage management.
Wallis has published extensively on these topics and is the author of Shamans / neo-Shamans: Ecstasy, Alternative Archaeologies and Contemporary Pagans (Routledge 2003, short-listed for the Folklore Society Prize 2003), and the co-author of The Historical Dictionary of Shamanism (Scarecrow Press 2007) and Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights: Contemporary Pagan Engagements with Archaeological Monuments (Sussex Academic Press 2007). He co-edited A Permeability of Boundaries: New Approaches to the Archaeology of Art, Religion and Folklore (Oxford BAR 2001) and has contributed papers to the volumes The Archaeology of Shamanism (Routledge 2001), Shamanism: A Reader (Routledge 2002) and Researching Paganisms (2004). He has been published in such journals as World Archaeology (2000), Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2002), Journal of Material Culture (2004) and Journal of Ritual Studies (2006), and has produced numerous book reviews and encyclopaedia entries.
Marco Pasi
Marco Pasi is Assistant Professor in History of Hermetic philosophy and related currents. He holds an MA in Philosophy from the University of Milan, and a PhD in Religious studies from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne, Paris). He has focused his research mainly on the relationship between modern esotericism and politics, on the history of the idea of magic, and on methodological issues related to the study of Western esotericism. He is a member of the editorial board of Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism and Politica Hermetica .
Pasi spent a period studying at the Warburg Institute (London) in 2000, and was Lecturer for History of European esoteric currents at the EPHE from 2001 to 2004. In 2004 he was appointed Assistant Professor for History of Western Esotericism since the 19th century at the University of Amsterdam. Pasi is particularly interested in the processes of transformation of esotericism after the Enlightenment, especially under the impact of secularization and modernization, and the relationship between esoteric currents and the wider cultural context in which they have developed. He is member of the Editorial Board of Politica Hermetica and Book Review Editor of Aries.
The Equinox Festival is honored to present the works of these esteemed speakers. A full time line of lectures, films and presentations will be available on the festival website in the coming days.
Day Passes Available Wednesday April 22nd at noon
April 20, 2009
There will be a very limited quantity of individual day passes available starting Wednesday April 22nd at noon. These will go super fast so anyone looking to catch this weekend of highly acclaimed performances and lectures needs to act very very fast.
This is one weekend you do not want to miss!
Peter Christopherson – famed member of Throbbing Gristle, Coil and Psychic TV will present his solo project Threshold House Boys Choir as the headliner of the final night of this year’s Equinox Festival. Peter’s work has been carving a path for the merger of spiritual discovery and creative practice since the inception of TG in the 1970’s. This is an astounding addition to the years Equinox Festival. Don’t miss your chance to see Threshold House Boys Choir it all is glory!
We are absolutely ecstatic to present Peter’s work and to be able to make this years Equinox Festival a stellar weekend of unforgettable events. This is one weekend you will never forget.
Finding the best hotel during Equinox
April 16, 2009
We are happy to announce that we have partnered with the CityHotel company to provide you with the best deals on hotels in the area around the festival. Check out the deals here.
If you are coming from abroad and looking for a good place to call home during you visit we suggest you look no further than the link above. And book soon as space is filing up fast!
John Zorn only at Equinox this summer!
April 9, 2009
Contrary to the popular rumor that John Zorn will be playing on this year’s Meltdown Festival we can confirm that the Equinox Festival will be the only place you will see Zorn perform in the UK this summer. The rumor seems to have originated in an Observer/Guardian article that mentions Zorn as a likely canidate for the Ornette Coleman curated Meltdown Festival. Subsequently picked up by other magazines as a fact. What ever happened to checking sources?
That said we may have a very surprise special edition to this years festival. Could be an unprecedented addition to the already astounding lineup for this years Equinox. Stay tuned!
