I will be lecturing in Copenhagen on June 25th. The title of the talk is Intuition as a State of Grace and deals with familiar themes: One key feature of both artistic processes and esoteric/spiritual/magical ones is the reliance on intuition as guide. But this is only one common denominator. Both areas are also filled with emotional filtering/compensation, intellectual evaluation and technical training/accomplishment. At a closer look, it’s almost as if it’s the mere terminology that sets “art” and “magic” apart from each other. However, one thing is crucial in any possible perspectives of separation or fusion: the human concept of “will”. In the magical process, will is integrated on an overall level: what one does in ceremony and ritual has ulterior goals ranked higher than the process itself. In art, the process and eventual results often remain within a confined sphere. Considering how many similarities there are between...
