OneiroPraxis Exhibition & Performance (Hastings UK) & Occulture Conference (Berlin)

16 October 2023

*Painting on poster is a work in progress collaboration between Orryelle and Melisssa Shemanna*

*Orryelle performing at the Private View of OneiroPraxis*

There has been such a flurry of exhibitions and performances in the last few months that I have failed to even promote several of them here. While the Opening/ Private View of ‘OneiroPraxis’ has passed, however the work of visionary painter Melissa Shemanna and myself remains up in the Hastings Museum and Gallery until the 29th of October, with a special Closing event ‘The Bliss of New Tongues & Eyes’ on Friday the 27th:

Dionysian Ecstasy from Visual & Vibrational Intoxication

With oration, poetry, violin and voice (through loops and FX), this presentation by Orryelle veers from talk into performancy with song and butoh dance, also incorporating film.

An exploration of the magic of language, the mysteries of the serpent and sundering of the head from pineal activation through visual or sonic focus. As the veils grow thin for Samhain (old pagan name of Halloween), death and dream are considered as portals betwixt the realms.

Oneiromantic journeys and Visionary epiphanies consolidate to OneiroPraxis, as winged eye alights in the painters’ hands

The Hermetic and Orphic Mysteries re-converge with the Dionysian Mysteries in paroxysms of bliss.

MythOneiric Gateways

Melissa Shemanna offers a guided creative visualisation across the threshold of conscious awareness into Oneiric Portals to reclaim (inter)personal dreaming and ignite the living myth.

Fri 27th Oct ’23, 6.30pm -10pm. Tickets (£10) HERE

*My Harpy sculpture (clay, wings, hair, oil paints) found a new perch in the spectacular carved wooden Durbar Room of the Museum*

Dionysos oil painting in the Hastings Museum

*Hermes bronze sculpture found a grand new mount in the Durbar Room*

The ‘Escherotic Ecstasies’ Exhibition at Gallery X (Dublin) was a wonderful event, with lively crowds for both opening and closing (Culture Night) events and performances.

This was followed by the Hastings private view, thenworks in the week-long ‘Beacon’ exhibition of 30 international visionary artists in London, curated by Dreams and Divinities and culminating in Westminster Chapel.

Next stop is the always-amazing and diverse Occulture Conference in Berlin Oct 19th-22nd, at which I will exhibiting and invoking Hermes with song, dance and film. Full e ent tickets are sold out but you may be able to still snag a night ticket HERE

Live-Painting ‘Escherotic Ecstasies’ -my largest canvas to date- at the the Escherotic Ecstasies Exhibition. I hope to finish this one by the end of the year…

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