Artist, writer + publisher Alkistis Dimech highlights the daimonic space and what it means to interact with what she calls "the occulted body." She muses on how the body holds magic and is an ever-unfolding landscape in the dance that is life. We discuss the goddess Babalon, the pleasures of this world and the flesh, and orienting to different narratives about time. It sparkles.
"We can’t think in this finite way, in this defeatist way. Even if everything is ending…We can’t but bring joy and beauty into the world." Alkistis Dimech
Alkistis Dimech is a writer + artist – working principally with dance and the body. Her practice is grounded in butô (dark dance). Her work explores the occulted dimensions of the body and its subtle anatomy as an archaeology of the flesh. With Peter Grey, she is the co-founder of Scarlet Imprint, an independent press which publishes practitioner-oriented works on the occult, esotericism + magic.
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More about our guest —
Alkistis Dimech's website
Scarlet Imprint website
Mentioned in the episode—
The Brazen Vessel, book by Peter Grey + Alkistis Dimech
The Red Goddess, book by Scarlet Imprint
The Brazen Vessel, digital version
Antonin Artaud, A Theatre and its Double
Butoh
Tatsumi Hijikata**
Marie-Gabrielle Rotie
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