Date: Monday, March 20
Time: 7 pm EDT
Admission: $8

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If the heart of magic is about inspiring change, how can we dream the futures we want into existence? What will stir us to create visions of a new and better world for us all?

In this lecture, writer, curator, and critic, ethnographer and folklorist Dr. Amy Hale will take a deeper dive into the various frameworks and influences stimulating the development of forward looking and futurist magics from the past and present, including Science Fiction, Afrofuturism, queer theory, ecofeminism, AI, feminist quantum mechanics, and even cryptocurrency and NFTs.

We will briefly explore some esoteric futurist movements from the past and then consider the ways in which a new generation of magicians, predominantly led by women, is proposing novel models of enchantment and magical strategies to get people to think and respond creatively in times of global crisis.

Dr. Amy Hale is an Atlanta based writer, curator, and critic, ethnographer and folklorist, speaking and writing about esoteric history, art, culture, women and Cornwall. She has addressed topics as diverse as psychogeography, Cornish ethnonationalism, Pagan religious tourism, color theory, and extremist politics in modern Paganism. Most recently she is the author of Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of the Fern Loved Gully (2020) and the editor of Essays on Women in Western Esotericism: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses (2022). She has contributed essays for Tate, Burlington Contemporary, Correspondences Journal, Camden Arts Centre, Art UK, Arusha Galleries, Heavenly Records and Spike Island, Bristol. She is currently a curator and host for the internationally loved Viktor Wynd’s Last Tuesday Society lecture series and a 2022 Transatlantic Artist in Residence for Eston Arts Centre in Eston, England.

Images

1. Still from The Martian Word for World is Mother, by Alice Bucknell. 2022.

2. Group I, Primordial Chaos, No. 16 from The WU/ Rose Series, by Hilma af Klint. 1906–07