PhantasmaphileのPam Grossmanから、ブルックリン/クイーンズをベースに活動しているアーティスト、Jesse Bransford(ジェシー・ブランスフォード)に関するイベントを開催するという連絡があったので紹介しておこう。
タロットカードに関するイベントらしいのだけど、タロットについてはまったく知識がないので、テキストを読んでもあまり意味が分からなかった。
母親にタロットのデッキをもらったこと、アレイスター・クロウリー(Aleister Crowley)が何やら関係しているらしいこと、神秘的なシステムの神話の構造と現代の科学的考え方を合わせてデッキを作るとか作らないとか、なんかそんな感じのイベントらしい。
OBSERVATORY and Phantasmaphile proudly present:
Layered Orders: Crowley's Thoth Deck and the Tarot
(a personal narrative by Jesse Bransford)
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Date: Friday, July 17th
Time: 7:30pm
Admission: Free
A deck given to his brother by his mother in 1986 sat in Jesse Bransford's childhood bedroom from the early 90’s until recently, delivering itself into Bransford’s possession at an opportune moment...
The Tarot in general and Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot in particular represent a miasmic confluence of image and thought into a single structure that is both liberating and overwhelming in its scope. In creating the deck, Crowley (in collaboration with painter Lady Frieda Harris) sought to integrate the mythological structures of the major mystical systems of both Western and Eastern occult traditions and to bring them into line with contemporary scientific thinking. The symbolism of the cards blends Kabbalah, Alchemy, Astrology, Egyptian mythology, quantum physics and even the I-Ching in ways that are at the same time clear and utterly confounding.
In an image-soaked personal narration Bransford, whose research-based artwork has delved into many of the territories Crowley sought to unify, will discuss some of the basic concepts of Tarot symbolism, returning to Crowley’s deck as among the most total example of the cards’ syncretism and as the most controversial.
Jesse Bransford is a Brooklyn/Queens-based artist whose work has been exhibited internationally. He received a B.A. from the New School for Social Research, a B.F.A. from Parsons School of Design, both in 1996, and an M.F.A. from Columbia University in 2000. He is currently a Master Teacher with the post of Undergraduate Director at New York University where he has been teaching since 2001, as well as a member of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism. His work is represented by Feature Inc. in New York, Kevin Bruk Gallery in Miami, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek in Köln, and Shaheen Modern and Contemporary Art in Cleveland. Images of his work, a complete bio and related articles can be seen at www.sevenseven.com/, a website he has continuously maintained since 1997.
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