[M] Dudeck

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 — particularly effective in the genre of comic books and graphic novels, for metaphysical reasons the workshop will illuminate. HYPERSIGIL CODEX invites 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.

[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.