25 May Charlotte Rodgers
Charlotte Rodgers
LECTURE
The Blood and The Bones, The Art and The Magick. A Journey from One to All.
This presentation examines the magical and creative experiences of Charlotte Rodgers over her 40+ years of practice, that have been primarily focused on working with blood, bones and remnants of death. This work has included the use of venous and menstrual blood in rituals and offerings and the use of her own so called ‘diseased’ or contaminated blood. It will also include descriptions of her creation and feeding of servitors, fetishes and spirit houses.
All of these she considers to be part of a process akin to the slow reveal of a forgotten language, where the completion of each artwork and every magical action yields a fragment of understanding of this system of communication, often requiring an accompanying sacrifice of an element of self.
Her presentation will encompass her more recent realisations that, on a wider level, she was always working with concepts of animism as encapsulated in memory. This brought her to understand that what she initially considered to be an intuitive and somewhat eclectic practice was actually following a very clear, atavistic current.
Bio
Charlotte Rodgers is an artist, author and non- denominational magician. She conceived and co-edited A Contemporary Western Book of the Dead and wrote The Bloody Sacrifice and P is for Prostitution and her work is published in magazines including The Cauldron, The Oracle and SilkMilk, FOLKWITCH, and The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies as well as in anthologies published by Avalonia, Scarlet Imprint and The Fenris Wolf. She had given talks at Edinburgh and York Universities, The Museum of Morbid Anatomy in New York and many conferences and events; most recently being the Artist in residence at The Magickal Women Conference in Birmingham. A filmed exhibition of her work was made for CRASSH (Cambridge University Centre of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) Magic and Ecology Symposium 2021-2022. Her art has been exhibited globally and her sculptures are on permanent display at the Museum of Naive and Marginal Art in Serbia.
