I am very excited to be a part of this year’s Occulture Conference in Berlin. The line-up looks stellar and I look forward to meeting old and new friends alike. Check it out and get your ticket here! Home My talk this time will focus on the path between two recent books: my magical autobiography Meetings with Remarkable Magicians and the brand new Introduction to Occulture. Going from the occult scene of mid 1980s Stockholm to contemporary processes of occulture and occulturation (for good & bad), with lots of stories, meetings, wisdoms, and hopefully inspiring take-aways. Seeing what works has always been important to me, and the very ambitious Occulture Conference is like an accumulation of exactly that; not only in terms of attracting individuals who have found their own magical truths and systems, but also in its own right: the conference is an active result of an original need that finds or takes form and then very tangibly affects other people. Sharing experiential and...

A declaration of love for Russ Meyer’s epic! ”“Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!” remains a delightful beacon because it successfully embodies the fundamental contradictions of American culture itself: the simultaneous fear and fascination with female power, the love-hate relationship with violence, the complex negotiations between high and low culture. It remains a perfect artifact of its time while somehow transcending it, speaking to each generation in its own language.” #russmeyer #fasterpussycatkillkill #exploitationcinema #turasatana #johnwaters #thecramps #anartapart #carlabrahamsson

In today’s WEEKLIES post at our Patreon, I write about brave attempts to keep calm: ”Certainty: what strikes a chord becomes immediate signal, and can be played with others as in proper music. One tone, two tones, several. A major or a minor key? These melodies are popular one day, and then comes a whole new style, inspiring people to dance together all the way to the grave (Saint-Saëns!). Can the harmony of the spheres ever be anything but? Can it ever be disharmonious? The Bard said it out aloud on the brightest night of the year, and in a dream no less: ”What fools these mortals be!”” #weeklies #vanessasinclair #carlabrahamsson

Just posted an appreciation of the Czech Aktual Art experiment. I love phenomena that strive for impermanence and fails (because of greatness of course!): ”The tone fuses Dadaist provocation with the sober minimalism of Czech Brutalist architecture. The eighth thesis—memory is already propaganda—directly challenges the socialist injunction to create monuments to the glorious future. By refusing documentation, Aktual pre-empted both the state’s desire to archive (and thereby control) culture and the capitalist art-market’s need for commodifiable objects.” #anartapart #aktualart #conecptualart #performanceart #carlabrahamsson