Occulted

My name is Jove Spucchi and I'm so excited to share this lovely conversation with writer, educator and diviner Christopher Marmolejo.

Join us in our exploration of the mysteries of the art of teaching-- we discuss the martial power of literacy and Christopher's journey from the academy to the diviner's table.

Note: I apologize for the poor audio quality-- I had an issue with my primary recording interface and had to rely on backup recordings.

My name is Jove Spucchi and I'm so excited to share this lovely conversation with Artist and practitioner Indira Allegra.

Join us as we dive into the magic of weaving with inspirited objects, and discuss the importance of re-enchanting the digital in this new era of Pluto in Aquarius.

INDIRA ALLEGRA is a social psychopomp accompanying people, places, and non-human beings through cycles of death, memorial, and regeneration. They are the founder of Indira Allegra Studio—a performative craft design studio using weaving as a ritual, conceptual framework to craft living structures off the loom and in the world. A living structure can be performed as a memorial, a text, or the movement of human and nonhuman behavior across a rolling planet. Rather than focus on “human-centered” design, the Studio situates human concerns within a broader network of more-than-human desires and ecological temporalities.

Allegra’s work has been featured in Artforum, Art Journal, The Art Newspaper, BOMB Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, and KQED, and in exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design; the Arts Incubator in Chicago; the Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; and the Museum of the African Diaspora, among others. They have been the recipient of numerous awards including Creative Capital, United States Artists Fellowship, Burke Prize, Gerbode Choreography Award, Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts’ Artist Project Grant and a Lambda Literary fellowship among others.

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Welcome to the first episode of Occulted. 

My name is Jove Spucchi, and I'm excited to bring you this conversation today with witch and medieval scholar Arica Roberts.

Join us as we dive into the magical potency of Academia, the holy sites of Wales and Ireland, and the healing power of ancestor work.

Arica is a postgraduate research student at the University of Reading. Her interdisciplinary research is on gender and early medieval Wales with an emphasis on material culture, inscriptions, and hagiography. This work connects magical practices and root work through , connection to land, ancestor veneration, and the preservation of culture, language, and teaching.

Her past research explores the history and archaeology of early medieval folklore, witchcraft, sex, and gender in early medieval Ireland and Wales. Arica has also written on feminist history, Latin American history, and gender as it relates to religion.

Welcome to Occulted

Here, we'll explore all things othered, hidden, queer, and obscured. Join me in conversation with voices from the occultural sphere. All around us, currents of culture are birthed and stirred by the unseen. In the shadows cast by towers of capitalism and industry, there's a darkness to dance in. Magic is made here-- it has always been made here. The true culture-makers live in futures of their own design, obscured in the dissonance of being a phase ahead of the current pop relevance. In this darkness, lies a great opportunity for experimentation, invention, and true revolution. 

What beautiful things will we find in the dark?