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We don’t Proofread, We Spell Check: Working Titles #3 Prelaunch Salon

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submitted by
Be Körner

Co-Authors
Yvon Chabrowski, Felix Sattler, Leopold Haas, Eleftherios Krysalis, Pablo Santacana Lopéz, Robert Rehnig, Ann-Kathrin Müller, Gabriel S Moses, Be Körner

Mentors
Ann-Kathrin Müller, Gabriel S Moses, Be Körner

Faculty:
Art and Design

Degree programme:
Art and Design/Fine Art/Media Art (Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.))

Type of project presentation
Event

Semester
Sommersemester2025

Exhibition Location / Event Location
  • – ONLINE –
    (https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/63757492504)
  • Steubenstraße 6 - Universitätsbibliothek / university library
    (Foyer)

11.07.2025 von 12-16 Uhr

Links
https://www.uni-weimar.de/projek...
https://www.instagram.com/workin...

Contributors:
Professur Art and Research

Project description

This interim presentation of the upcoming Working Titles issue—SPELL CHECK: Spiritualism, Shamanism, Sorcery & the Reincarnation of the Occult in Dark Times—is not a launch, but a live process. Structured as a prelaunch salon, the event introduces the authors and their contributions-in-progress to the public in three one-hour panel sessions. These panels bring contributors into critical dialogue with one another, emphasizing the journal’s core values: appreciation of peer culture, praxis, and the generative “search” at the heart of practice-based research.

Working Titles is a platform where artistic research unfolds in public, and the process matters as much as the outcome. This presentation reflects that ethos through live peer-review: a discursive, open exchange that resists closure and embraces friction.

A century after the so-called Age of Reason and two after the last European witch burning, rationality itself seems under siege. Self-declared shamans have stormed the US Capitol, scientists face death threats for ideas previously widely accepted & many feel targeted by “witch hunts” for their political or intellectual beliefs. In a time of crisis, change & global diaspora, many have turned to magic as part of what they see as a practice of resistance & care—reclaiming heritage, queering belief systems, and unsettling colonial cosmologies. Others decry these turns as “woo” or dangerous mystifications. Join us as we navigate this terrain together, in search, in practice.

Exhibition Location / Event Location

Events

Fri
11
7

We don’t Proofread, We Spell Check: Working Titles #3 Prelaunch Salon We don’t Proofread, We Spell Check: Working Titles #3 Prelaunch Salon

This prelaunch salon of the upcoming Working Titles issue—SPELL CHECK—brings artists and researchers into live, peer-reviewed dialogue. Across three panel sessions, contributors explore mysticism, ritual, and critical making in times of crisis. Where belief meets method and practice becomes research, we ask: can the mystical be critical—or is it just an escape? Join us as we explore and challenge this charged terrain.

  • Begin: 12:00 pm
  • End: 16:00 pm
  • Location: Steubenstraße 6 - Universitätsbibliothek / university library - Foyer
Fri
11
7

Panel 1 – Counter Powers: On the collective, counter cultural, activist, healing powers of magic We don’t Proofread, We Spell Check: Working Titles #3 Prelaunch Salon

This prelaunch salon of the upcoming Working Titles issue—SPELL CHECK—brings artists and researchers into live, peer-reviewed dialogue. The first panel focuses on the collective, countercultural and activist healing power of magic. Panelists include Kristen Nelson, Luke Fazakerley and Joachim Perez. Gabriel Moses will moderate the discussion.

Fri
11
7

Panel 2 – The Magical Body: On embodying & performing rituals We don’t Proofread, We Spell Check: Working Titles #3 Prelaunch Salon

This prelaunch salon of the upcoming Working Titles issue—SPELL CHECK—brings artists and researchers into live, peer-reviewed dialogue. The second panel focuses on the body as site and instrument of magic, discussing embodiment and the performing of rituals. Panelists include Rotem Ritov, Teresa Mayr, and Yvonne Salmon. Ann-Kathrin Müller will moderate the discussion.

Fri
11
7

Panel 3 – Magic Matters: Materialist Approaches to Magical Practice We don’t Proofread, We Spell Check: Working Titles #3 Prelaunch Salon

This prelaunch salon of the upcoming Working Titles issue—SPELL CHECK—brings artists and researchers into live, peer-reviewed dialogue. The third panel looks at materialist approaches to magical practice, with a particular focus on the intersection of magic within material culture, including the digital realm. Panelists are Alp Cenk Arslan, Lauriane Carl, Lisa Hoffmann and Liese Schmidt. Felix Sattler will moderate the discussion.