Threshold

Erotic Ecologies + Embodiments
Maps for Making + Revelation

What is Threshold?

a Threshold is both an Ending + Beginning. we encounter these junctions in transition, in movement, at the brinks. once we pass through them, we enter another World.

Threshold panels are a network of conversation + ideas at the intersection of Spirit, Art + Ecology. these quarterly gatherings aspire to 

* create a critical mass — a conscious collective of heartful dreamers + doers
* become Gateways for consciousness to evolve towards regenerative practices, lives + work
* they seek to increase our embodied belonging to ourselves, one another + this incredible planet we call Home.

in this time of great upheaval + environmental change, we don't just need different ways of Doing; we also need different ways of Being. we need cultures that support the possibility of Long + Beautiful Futures.

these conversations are in service to seeding that Culture, in ongoing service to Life.

— Details —

Erotic Ecologies + Embodiments — Maps for Making + Revelation
Sunday, February 13
130 - 3p EST

This panel is a live conversation facilitated by Mary Grace with guests Alkistis Dimech, Anicka Austin + Michael J Morris.

We'll come together to explore —

◽️the connection between the erotic + creative embodiment
◽️how the erotic is a way of seeing and knowing the world(s) that we are a part of
◽️what is the power the erotic + what medicine does it make available?
◽️what is the value of creativity, erotic ecology + eschatology in this moment of environmental crisis?
◽️the role of revelation to + through the body

In addition to the live discussion, we'll dedicate 20-25 minutes to answer questions specifically from the live audience. 

— Guests —

Alkistis Dimech is a writer and artist – working principally with dance and the body. Her practice is grounded in butô (dark dance). Her work explores the occulted dimensions of the body and its subtle anatomy, as an archaeology of the flesh – drawing from the esoteric and phenomenological traditions – with a particular interest in our sexual and erotic natures.

With Peter Grey, she is the co-founder of Scarlet Imprint, an independent press which publishes practitioner-oriented works on magic, esotericism and the occult.

She has performed in the UK, Europe and the United States, solo and in collaboration with musicians and artists, notably Z’EV, Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert, and Anji Cheung – and has spoken on her magical and artistic practice, and given workshops, at conferences and events in the UK, Europe and the United States. Selected works from 2008 to 2018 are documented in The Brazen Vessel (Scarlet Imprint 2019), and she is currently creating Antimony, a work of texts and images on the angelic, alchemical transfiguration of the body.

Anicka Austin works primarily with experimental movement and archival material.  Ritual from her upbringing in the Southern Primitive Baptist church and a draw towards spiritual movement practices inform her choreographic process. Repetition, endurance and devotion shape a meditative movement vocabulary.  Her work has been presented by Elevate Atlanta, The Lucky Penny, Fulton County Arts and Culture and Adult Swim and exhibited at Zuckerman Museum of Art’s Fine Arts Gallery (GA) and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (ATL). 

As an archivist and researcher, she examines the relationship between physical documentation, embodiment, and ephemerality; and the function of beauty in objects and activities used for coping. The union of spirit (sensual and embodied), myth (the questions that connect us, transcendent of time, place, and space) and color (as signal and healer) reoccur within this research. She is currently studying memory and embodied ways of knowing in Atlanta’s public spaces as the 2021-2022 Art on the Atlanta Beltline Scholar-in-Residence.

Michael J. Morris is a consulting astrologer and tarot reader, artist, writer, teacher, facilitator, and witch committed to personal and collective healing and liberation. They began their consulting practice Co Witchcraft Offerings in 2019. Michael holds a PhD in Dance Studies and brings decades of experience in dance, yoga, reiki, and other somatic practices to their work. Their dissertation, entitled "Material Entanglements With the Nonhuman World: Ecosexualities in Performance," examines ways in which performances of dance, performance art, and pornography provide modes of thinking the ecological entanglements between sexuality with the more-than-human world. They are a queer feminist, and their practices are inspired and informed by years of study and teaching in feminism, queer studies, gender and sexuality studies, environmental studies, and other branches of critical theory. Michael was a speaker at the Queer Astrology Conference 2020, the 2020 Fresh Voices in Astrology Summit, the Astrology and Climate Change Conference, and they will be presenting at NORWAC 2022. They are currently a contributing writer to the CHANI App and a teaching assistant with Kelly Surtees. They reside in Columbus, Ohio—the ancestral and contemporary territory of the Shawnee, Potawatomi, Delaware, Miami, Peoria, Seneca, Wyandotte, Ojibwe, and Cherokee peoples. Find them on Instagram @cowitchofferings or on Twitter @morrismichaelj