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esoZone 08 - Early Bird Tickets

 

Buy Your Tickets NOW Or Pay MORE Later!

From 6AM this morning until the stroke of midnight Sunday you can get your Esozone tickets for the low, low price of just $40 for the whole weekend! WOWZERS! $40 gets you a weekend of magick and fringe science with:

* Dennis McKenna

* Antero Alli

* Paul Laffoley

* Rex Church

* Thirty-Seven

* Lupa

* Taylor Ellwood

* Alex Ansery

* Trevor Blake

* Bianca Lee

* Bill Whitcomb

* Edward Wilson

JUST ADDED! Wes Unruh! Many more TBA!

If you were at Esozone: Designer Reality Expo or know someone who was, then you're already on your way to buying your ticket. If not, check out Altertube for all the footage from last year's event.

This sale only lasts until midnight Sunday so buy now! Repost this bulletin for your friends and enemies alike!

Desecration - Way In...

Just found a way in, after four days off the grid.

Preparations for Desecration are going well, sometimes too well. We've had at least one confirmed possession. Along with various other positive and strong biological reactions to the GLORY that is the Galleries of Justice.

I feel like I'm home, I could sleep in BenBen/ThePit.

FP, doing this one for the Demon.

Now that I have access again you should keep your wet little holes focused here (FoolishPeople.com) for updates on the journey towards the beginning of the manifestation of Desecration on the 6th of September.

Desecration will exist in the material realm for no longer than four days.

The gap closes on the 2nd of September after the last working. So its advisable to book early.

A clue, if you need to exist within the eye of the storm, then book your tickets for Friday the 7th of September. As we have something special in mind for this date.

Desecration is a Theatre of Ophidia and FoolishPeople production, it would be amiss of me to not mention that Desecration would not have ever even happened without the faith and insight of Martin Jeffrey the master mind behind Theatre of Ophidia and Fright Nights.

You still have time (retroactive time) to experience the various ripples of FoolishPeople's Dead Language at Esozone via the Internetz.

Phase II have a review of Dead Language for you.

Reflections again tomorrow around this time.

The Mytosis of "Art on the Inside, Blood on the Outside"

A very bright and intelligent Irreality discussion on the meaning behind the magickal statement "Art on the inside, Blood on the outside" from the Dead Language script.

As well as having various meanings which are pretty much nailed by the Art Engines/Participants; Samm Hain, Cubist Justin, Cobalt, Pop Jellyfish.

"Art on the Inside, Blood on the Outside" forms the one and only line of code that runs the Hyper Dimensional Noumenal Engine created during the Eden/Dead Language Working at esoZone.

James Curcio at Alterati on Esozone

"This is how ritual is meant to be done."

James Curcio (Author of Join My Cult and Fallen Nation: Babylon Burning) on Dead Language and the whole esozone weekend at Alterati.com

Oregonian - Esozone Coverage

Eden

I have no idea how to communicate the experience of the last weekend, all I can say is that it has been one of the most profound experiences of my life.

Meeting the glorious people that I have met, has given me back faith in what we are and what we can be.

Thank you to everyone who gave us your time and focus and thank you all for the amazing artifacts you have gifted to us.

I cannot thank you enough here, so I will do it in the flesh.

This has meant the world to us.

Eden is now Omnidirectional.

esoZone: Serious Business

Hey Guys:

Lots of work here in Portland, OR. Having the Foolish People in town from London is great. I've always considered myself a part of the troupe but being able to participate in the type of weaponized (I'm a Yank) group ritual that makes FP exactly what the fuck they are- that's basically why I started practicing magick in the first place.

We've been staying in a beautiful converted church on the north west side of Portland. Our landlords are great people, very friendly and plan to come to the event. The play is very intense and magickal, sure to change everyone in the room. I'd love to tell you just what we're up to, but I feel as bound to secrecy as a Mason would with his grade signs and passwords. If you're in little England and don't feel like waiting for FP to make their Institute of Contemporary Art you can check it out on the Someday Lounge website. If you're fortunate enough to be attending esoZone you can catch them live but if  you haven't got tickets yet act fast- they're selling through pretty quickly, no small thanks to the buzz surrounding Foolish People's American debut.

For my own part, I'm very satisfied with both my performance and the rest of the cast. We're all very finely tuned instruments performing an act of collective will under the guidance of director and writer John Harrigan. I've always seen a very Continental flavor to his drama. It's as if the Universe decided to cross Abramelin the Mage with Albert Camus and stripped it of all contradictions. The work we do is difficult both physically and emotionally, but as rehearsals progress I gain a far greater understanding of my character and what it is his lines mean. I found that upon first reading the script I was impressed with the language, but found the lines difficult to memorize because of a lack of context. Now in possession of the full script and having seen the work performed several times, I find myself incredibly impressed with the power of what I am participating in.

Attached are two pictures of me at rehearsals. You may remember some writing I did for the group some time back (Manifesto of the Invisible Generation and Hot Fuck With a Total Stranger are good ones, I think). While I value that involvement it's a whole other thing to really be a living part of the organic meme bomb that is Foolish People.

64,

Ulysses Lazarus
New Alamut

The Pictures to Prove It

Me pointing to my luxurious mane of hair.

Me crying in the arms of a very tall Hobbit.

You can find more pictures from the week long esoZone pre-party and other tales of debauchery at Irreality, a sponsor of esoZone

super large invite, without cut, because this is important

Congregation

I'm staying in Guildford tonight, before FP fly out at 12:30pm from Gatwick.

It's been a busy week, lots of meetings; ICA, potential production designers and costume designers, while also putting the final elements in place for pre production on Desecration.

Expect updates from me along the way and when we touch down in Portland.

esoZone mass: a call for participation » Technoccult

Link: esoZone mass: a call for participation »  Technoccult.

We’re looking for some contributions to the esoZone Incandescent Mass. First, we still need someone to play the role of the Black Queen in the mass. Second, we’re looking for suggestions of media clips and images to accompany the mass. If you can’t come to esoZone but want to participate, this is your chance. Details and text of the mass are available here.

It looks like the mass could turn out to rightly be the beating heart of esoZone.

Ikipr

I'm very pleased to announce that I'm collaborating with the immensely talented Ikipr on Dead Language, his music has fed my own current for sometime now.

Ikipr is creating a soundtrack of Hyper-Dimensional music that is both sublime and powerful. His work on Dead Language beautifully complements the work FP have been manifesting within rehearsals, it adds another solid layer of Magick from a true master. 'Ikipr has been working in Music and Magick concurrently for the past nine years. His work attempts to create magickal states in harmonics. In this way he works through pre-established systems in a cross-discplinary fashion, however, to record this VIA waveforms requires a scholary chaos magick approach.

He runs the netlabel at aleph9 and attempts to work in the background of information oriented communities to fuel and aid the great work in any role which he may be able to fit.'

Esozone

Esozone Lives

The Esozone site is now live.

The second half of the twentieth century saw the proliferation of diverse cultural trends. Zine culture, underground comix and alternative media covered subcultures otherwise inaccessible in a stifling, corporatist consensus reality. This culminated in the Internet's promise of personally-created virtual realities. Now in the twenty-first century this promise has largely come to fruition with a corner of the Internet for every microculture imaginable. However, esoZone is conceived as an event decidedly oriented towards moving our specific meme culture (however one personally interprets that) out of impersonal communication (whether it be the Internet or mail art) into the Meatspace of Malkuth.

Human beings are deeply social animals, enriched by interpersonal communication in the flesh. Any (r)evolution which takes place only in cyberspace, the Interzone or the Akashic records is fundamentally flawed because culture is only a form of communication, it is not experience itself.

esoZone provides a map toward a new kind of culture that recognizes the truism of Stephen Dedalus' "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." Unlike the doom and gloom of the so-called "Apocolypse Culture", esoZone draws on the radical optimism of the recently departed Robert Anton Wilson. While we all admire the work of the counterculture, Chaos Magick, our comic books heroes and the Discordian pranksters of "the good old days" we do not seek to venerate or even necessarily to emulate them, but rather to provide a road map into the future where we can create reality in such a way that makes sense to us. esoZone is futurist, in as much as it is a future-present oriented event where we root ourselves in the present while never forgetting that we are creatures moving forward in space-time. Designer realities are the personal chariot of travel into future and esoZone represents a collective road map (not the territory!) through the process of mutual interaction.

Lest there be any kind of confusion, the "star" of esoZone is Time Magazine's person of the year- You. The event has been conceived as primarily user-driven and ceases to become the exclusive property of the planners the second that the doors open on August 10. esoZone's structure has been designed for maximum facilitation of communication between all participants be they event planners, guests, staff, performers, speakers or anyone else present in the physical area of esoZone.

Perhaps more interesting than our lofty intentions is the schedule. Everyone listed at the event will be available for your inspection- be it at audience-driven panels, performances that will permanently change your brain, open discussion groups, a for the 21st century mass, a live internet radio interview, workshops, gallery showings, dance parties, or just mingling around. esoZone is partly a reaction against quasi-celebrity driven esotericism. esoZone is not a collection of talking heads, but a menagerie of reality engineers just like You.