Art Hub Film Club is on. This time around with a various film program exploring horror aesthetics in the context of a present embedded in horror: the horror of war, the horror of climate change, the horror of economic power, and the horror of political persecution.
Part II is curated by Aaron Moulton, Head of Exhibitions and Special Projects at Creator Projects.
For the duration of exactly one calendar year, curator and anthropologist Aaron Moulton invoked a ritual known as the Trito Ursitori. Functioning as an experiment in exhibition-making that was part experiential anthropology and part superstitious ritual, this occult system brought together a vast array of objects and individuals and used the exhibition as an altar and a space for ritual. The energy, practices and cultural output of each invocation represent the very essence of core archetypes pulsing through cultures and across time – The Mythical Pattern. The trinity consisted of the embodiments of three absolutes: evil or darkness, light or supreme energy, and the enlightened choice between the two - the revelation of the sacred. The overall ceremony was conducted with rituals both ancient and esoteric connected to earth, flesh, light, gold, fire, air, salt and water. The resulting rebis challenges the nature of cultural value, aura and spirituality by channeling energies that have defined religion, civilization and dualism at large.
Through artist films and masterful ceremony, this event will tell the story of Omul Negru, of evil, of darkness and of the faces we so desperately want to give it. It will confront our supremacist desire to see ourselves as good through demonizing others and massage our universal potential to commit the darkest actions at any given moment.
Films by:
Sara Bezovsek, Church of Euthanasia, Constant Dullaart, Brock Enright, Dana Greenleaf, Corporate Kafka, Mike Z. Morrell, Alban Muja, Post-America, Jon Rafman, Jak Ritger
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INFO:
Art Hub Film Club: Into the Dark We Enter
Part II featuring Aaron Moulton: Summoning the Boogeyman
5 December 2024
19:00 – 21:00
Location:
Vester Vov Vov
Absalonsgade 5
1658 Copenhagen V
Tickets are free, but reservation is necessary. Find your tickets here.
Read more about this season’s film programme here.
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About Aaron Moulton
Aaron Moulton is a curator and anthropologist whose research looks at the ways in which creativity is purposed and managed by new age communities, the global art world and propaganda initiatives.
Having curated over one hundred exhibitions across Europe and North America, Moulton boasts a distinguished career, having served as in-house curator for the global brand Gagosian, senior curator at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City, and as an editor for Flash Art International in Milan. Alongside his wife, he founded Galerie Feinkost in Berlin. He is currently the Head of Exhibitions and Special Projects at the art agency Creator Projects in Copenhagen. His recent research study was an exhibition and publication entitled The Influencing Machine (2022) which charted the impact of the NGO Movement on the visual cultures of Eastern Europe from the 90s to present day. This untold story about art’s role in social engineering became a way to discuss political witchcraft, socially engaged practice and tactical magic in contemporary art.
