"I work with a process of cut-ups as magical practice that my Third Mind partner Katelan Foisy has termed "glitch-craft." This working began with a prompt from Keats Ross. I then delineated my intention and created a traditional sigil by deconstructing the language in which my Will was formulated. After constructing a sigil, or abstracted design, I drew this image on the page. I then proceeded to collage onto the paper, directly on top of the sigil. As usual, my collages contain personal elements, in this case photographs of my husband Carl Abrahamsson and me, along with writings of friends and loved ones, who are also magical practitioners themselves, adding potency. This is mixed with the added charge of images of sexuality, sex, sex magic, and beauty, as well as texts. In this case the words of our recently deceased loved one Genesis Breyer P-Orridge figures prominently, as well as Carl's and my own writing, and a piece cut from The Third Mind of magical mentors Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs. I then recorded a couple readings of the cut-up created, and then looped and layered those to created the final audio sigil."
Vanessa Sinclair
credits
from DETRIT∴US - A W†H AudioSigil,
released August 23, 2021
Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst, artist and poet. She recently authored Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: the Cut in Creation, forthcoming from Routledge (2020), and edited the anthology Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019), as well as On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) with Manya Steinkoler. Papers from the Psychoanalysis Art and the Occult conference co-hosted with Carl Abrahamsson have been collected in The Fenris Wolf volume 9 (2017), available from Trapart Books (www.trapart.net). Dr. Sinclair hosts the Rendering Unconscious Podcast, wherein she interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, philosophers, artists and poets about their work (www.renderingunconscious.org). She organizes psychoanalytic events and conferences internationally and is a founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis (www.dasunbehagen.org). Links to everything can be found via her website (www.drvanessasinclair.net). Join her and Carl at www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl to follow their creative work and process.
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