IN THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE UFO PHENOMENON
A symposium at Mildred’s Lane and “in the cloud”
A transdisciplinary symposium convening art practitioners, researchers, theorists, and students interested in the broad spectra of ideas and methods emerging from discourses surrounding the global UFO Phenomenon, with an emphasis on visual culture, cinema, and art as vehicles for the encryption and transmission of liminal phenomena.
PROFESSOR JEFFREY J. KRIPAL
On "ontological shock" and how expansion of our archives enables the expansion of consciousness.
ROBERT GEORGE
On the encoding of UFOs into popular consciousness through their many appearances in soap operas
CAMDEN ROY
On the encounters of Irish artist AE with higher-dimensional beings at the turn of the 20th century
J. TYLER ODLE
On reimagining the ontological barriers that restrict liminal experiences to the realm of religion or psychopathology
CÓILÍN O’CONNELL
On the UFO as a spectre of colonialism and cultural erasure in Ireland and Cypress
OLIVIER
On the "anarchival" or impossible-to-record nature of the UFO as a subversive mirror of queer identity
AB GORHAM
On the uncanny encounter with an "unidentified found object" in the form of a conceptual artist-book
ANDREW ROBINSON & DR. DAVID CLARKE
On cultural reproduction of the UFO mythos, and drawings as windows into collective consciousness
MARK PILKINGTON
On the manipulation of folklore and belief in liminal phenomena by systems of power perpetuating disinformation, from psychological warfare in WWI to Q Anon.
PROFESSOR REBECCA KRINKE
On how art can initiate disclosure and collective shifts in consciousness, proposing new pedagogical models for learning to be "earthlings"
AMANDA NEDHAM & JOHN ALLISON
On drawing as a window into knowing we don't know we possess, encountered through the study of drawings by experiencers
PROFESSOR JANE TOPPING
On alien subjectivity in her films "nou" (2018) and "The Man Who Fell to Millom" (2018)
ROBERT COZZOLINO
on the visual language linking alien abduction to childhood trauma and the unconscious self in the work of artist Mike Kelley
RICCARDO ZAGORODNEV
On the folklore of Dulce Base, the hidden dominion of powerful overlords and their technologies of control
RICHARD KLEIN
On the outsider artist and UFO experiencer Dante Vaghi, a paragon of the Space Age paradigm shift that identified "things in the sky" with extraterrestrial life
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$180
includes:
1) Special proceedings publication with presentation abstracts, speaker bios, and topical ephemera. Each copy of the proceedings is a unique, hand-printed and assembled “dossier,” a must-have addition to your library of occult texts
2) Access to 16 recorded presentations
Digital download upon registration will include a PDF of the proceedings with abstracts and bios for all speakers; web link to video archive will follow by email.
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$80
includes:
1) Access to 16 recorded presentations via private link
Digital download upon registration will include a PDF of the archived symposium schedule; web link to video archive will follow by email.
IMAGES FROM THE SYMPOSIUM, JULY 17–18
