What's Happening
The Six Imaginal Zones
This is an interdisciplinary laboratory of image-making for artists, oracles & practitioners across disciplines that involve access to the imaginal realm-a mode of experience beyond the ordinary senses but that is nonetheless real.
It is a system I originally developed as part of my graduate thesis in contemporary performance exploring the question: how does the artist deepen into an image-making process? Each "zone" serves to root the person within a specific quality of their work in its ecological, mythological and archetypal implications.
This work is for performance artists, writers, painters, sculptors, oracles & other media artists. It's also for creatives who work with a sense of the astral, or imaginal, worlds and divination as key components of their practice. Participants will work on a piece of material (as diverse as performance art, poetry, painting, sculpture, storytelling, sound poems or hybrids) from the perspective of each imaginal zone as well as the subterranean/chthonic counterpart of each zone.
Where It's Happening
CAELi's virtual campus (& Zoom)
Your Instructor
Nate Speare
Nate Speare (MFA) is a multidisciplinary artist, astrologer and educator. His work offers generative possibilities of revisioning life, within and through: performance art, experimental theatre, therapeutic storytelling, shadow work, pleasure-centered bodywork, extended range singing, and astrological approaches to sex & desire (AstroErotics), and to the unfoldment of your soul’s code. Nate’s therapeutic storytelling has been featured at the United Nations and in programs for disabled public school students and incarcerated men at Rikers Island. Working as an arts educator in NYC for over a decade, Nate has developed a unique pedagogy in oral storytelling for young urban populations, and in a federal research grant integrating the arts with social-emotional learning goals. Nate’s performance works and interdisciplinary performance research have been featured at Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre (UK) and the Myth and Theatre Festival at Pantheatre, south of France. Nate has been a presenter at the Queer Astrology Conference and the Astrological Association Conference. His practice, Weird Astro Body, includes client work, performances and writings.
Additional Information
Logistics
Starting April 15 at 4-6pm PDT/ 7-9pm EDT, we’ll meet for six weekly live sessions to cover one of the six zones {language, definition, directionality, scale, signature, affect}. These labs will be recorded and uploaded within 48 hours for participants. Upon completion of the lab, participants will get a badge to add to their CAELi badge collection.
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