Sunday 8 January 2023, 7.30pm
'Everywhere is Haunted' provides a discourse on the themes of race, gender, queer identity and natural hostile spaces in horror through talks, screenings, live performances and a horror disco. Curated by Dee Sada.
There will also be a zine available on the night and the incredible Burning Witches Records on-site with their vast array of horror vinyl and cassette tapes.
Dee Sada is a London-based curator, broadcaster, and musician. She is the creator and host of For the Lost, a weekly Resonance FM radio programme and live event series exploring experimental music, poetry, storytelling and interdisciplinary performance, with a focus on underrepresented voices and independent artistic communities.
Dee curates and produces live events and broadcast programmes, and has recently collaborated with Spanners, Theatreship and Totally Thames Festival, bringing together artists across music, spoken word, sound art and performance. She is particularly interested in radio as both an artistic medium and a public space, creating live broadcasts that blur the boundaries between performance, documentation and participation.
Alongside her curatorial work, she performs with the experimental no-wave trio An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump (AEOBITAP). Dee also produces solo work and collaborates with musicians including Massimo Braghieri and Fergus Lawrie (Urusei Yatsura). With Lawrie, she co-founded the duo Paper Birch, releasing the album, morninghairwater through Cafe OTO’s TAKUROKU label and Reckless Yes Records.
As a curator, Dee has programmed interdisciplinary exhibitions and performances with some of the most radical voices in contemporary art, including Carolee Schneemann and Laure Prouvost. Her work has been supported by influential institutions such as CIRCA, Whitechapel Gallery, IKON Gallery, and Cafe OTO.
Her practice explores memory, migration, myth and identity through sound, live performance and collaborative projects. She has curated events at Cafe OTO since 2015 and recently collaborated with Pop-Kultur Berlin on a series of workshops and panel events on DIY communities.
https://www.instagram.com/deesada1
Ric Rawlins is the writer and director of the UK's first folk horror anthology feature film, Rewilding, a trio of tales which take place in the fields, forests and caves of the UK's wildest haunts. As a writer he's published Rise of the Super Furry Animals (2015) about the seminal Welsh band, and he's currently writing a new film about a river-dwelling vampire.
rewildingfilm.com
Emma Merkling is an art historian based at the Courtauld Institute of Art and Durham University, specialising in the intersections between art, science, and spiritualism in the long nineteenth century.
She is co-host of Drawing Blood, a podcast about visual culture, the history of science and medicine, and the macabre. Emma received her PhD from the Courtauld in 2021 for a thesis on spiritualist artist Evelyn De Morgan and science, and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Courtauld’s Centre for American Art, University of Stirling, and the Science Museum (London).
She has just completed a grant project on the scientific photographs of the medium 'Margery' Crandon, and is currently working on a book project, with Dr Thomas Hughes, on The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature: Ecology, Matter, Form, where her contribution focuses on queer/more-than-human desire, ecology, and horror in the photography of Julia Margaret Cameron.
www.emmamerkling.com
https://drawingbloodpod.wordpress.com
Burning Witches Records is a UK-based record label specialising in forward-thinking electronic and heavy synth music. Born from a love of horror films and electronic music, Burning Witches presents artists that are pushing the boundaries of electronic music and music as a whole package. Opening track to album art to vinyl and cassette colour variants, Burning Witches Records makes every release count.
https://burningwitchesrecords.com
"Full of wonder, magic, and frightening set pieces" - Film Threat
When two teenagers report seeing the face of the Devil in a sea cave, a retired archeologist is asked to investigate. So begins the UK's first ever folk-horror anthology film, Rewilding.
Across three stories, we'll also follow a journalist looking into the Halloween rituals of a rural village, and an author on the hunt for the grave of a historical 'witch finder'.
Taking its influence from M.R James and the BBC’s Ghost Stories for Christmas, Rewilding takes the spirit of classic 1970s British folk horror and unearths it into a frightfully modern experience.
Meheli Sen, Associate Professor at Rutgers University and author of Haunting Bollywood: Gender, Genre and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema
