Psychosomatic Acid Test
9 January 2009
8pm-11.30pm
An evening exploring and celebrating Psychedelia and Psychedelics.
Performance:
Evel Gazebo perform Hawkwind’s seminal 1973 live album Space Ritual.
Jonny Woo performs Mark Titchner's "FEEL BETTER NOW! (Apathy and the New Sincerity)" 2008.
Talks:
Francesca Gavin: "The Super Mario Bros Shamanic Neon Rave Talk". (The new wave of contemporary psychedelic art).
Arran Frood: "Pressed for Opinion: a very brief history of psychedelics and the mainstream media".
Peter May: "The Entheogenic treatment of Cluster Headache: a brief outline of the potential efficacy of medicinal entheogens in a neurological syndrome often labelled ‘Suicide Headache’".
Andrew Osborne: "The Ethico-Aesthetic Object: The Tribal Assemblage and Space Rock".
Plus:
Music from DJ Laurie and a selection of artist’s video works and Psyche film ephemera
