Rendering Unconscious episode 321.
Gast Bouschet presents his lecture “On Cinematic Sorcery and Psychogeological Conflicts,” on the occasion of the conference “Psychoanalysis and the Magic of Cinema,” Husets Biograf, Copenhagen, Denmark, 14-16 October 2022. His lecture is illustrated with images from two video installations created with his partner Nadine Hilbert and with the help of musicians Stephen O’Malley, Kevin Muhlen and Angelo Mangini, as well as dancer and writer Alkistis Dimech. Watch the full video HERE.
Gast Bouschet is a visual artist and occult philosopher. Since the 1980s, alone or in collaboration with Nadine Hilbert, he has created a complex body of work that challenges the fundamental principles underlying structure, visibility and power. His work spans a wide range of media, including photography, sound, video, painting, sculpture and writing. His book Anarch is available from Scarlet Imprint. Follow him at Instagram.
Bouschet’s art has been shown internationally in numerous exhibitions, including Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw Poland; BPS22 Museum Charleroi, Belgium; Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art Porto, Portugal; Darling Foundry Montreal, Canada; Cube Space Taipei, Taiwan; Philharmonie, Luxembourg; Opderschmelz, Dudelange, Luxembourg; Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Poland; Casino Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg; Mudam Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg; Busan Biennale of Contemporary Art, South-Korea; Camouflage Johannesburg, South Africa; MUHKA Antwerp, Belgium; Contretype Brussels, Belgium and CCA Glasgow, Scotland, to name a few. Together with Nadine Hilbert, he represented Luxembourg at the 53rd Venice Biennale.
In recent years, Gast Bouschet has increasingly focused on what has been described as a primordial and uniquely blackened eco-sorcery that he practices away from the public eye in the Ardennes Forest.
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