Atelier de Melusine

The ‘Scarlet Women’ project at ATELIER MELUSINE
Co-convened and curated by Manon Hedenborg White and Sally Annett.

The Contributors (in alphabetical order)

Al-Shalabiya, Bint. ‘For the Women Girt with the Sword’

Website and social media address/es, links
https://shebint.com/
https://www.instagram.com/binnttt/
Contact details : bintalshalabiya@gmail.com

Annett-Henry, Censi.
‘Imogen’

Annett-Henry, Milly.
‘Blurred Boundaries’

Annett, Sally. Curator, co-convener, artist.
’Goddess in a Box’

Barnes, Siena.
‘Post Gravity Citizen’
‘Clean Your Bones’ 
www.sienabarnes.com
https://www.instagram.com/sienabarnes/
https://www.youtube.com/c/sienabarnes
Contact details for publication mail@sienabarnes.com  @sienabarnes

Bogdan, Henrik (University of Gothenburg)

Panelist 12/12/21
Henrik Bogdan, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Gothenburg. His main areas of research are Western esotericism, New Religious Movements and Freemasonry. He is the author of Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation (State University of New York Press, 2007), editor of Brother Curwen, Brother Crowley: A Correspondence by Aleister Crowley and David Curwen (Teitan Press, 2010); Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism (Oxford University Press, 2012), Occultism in a Global Perspective (Acumen/Routledge, 2013), Sexuality and New Religious Movements (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Handbook of Freemasonry (Brill Academic Publishers, 2014), Kenneth Grant: A Bibliography (Starfire Publishing, 2015), Western Esotericism in Scandinavia (Brill Academic Publishers, 2016), Servants of the Star & the Snake: Essays in Honour of Kenneth and Steffi Grant (Starfire Publishing, 2018), etc. Bogdan is the editor of the Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism Book Series, co-editor of Palgrave Studies in New and Alternative Religions, and Secretary of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE).

Cremona, Cinzia
‘In a Cold Light 2’
Contact details : cinziacremona@gmail.com

Eris, Katie
“I, Object” ;

Website and social media address/es, links: 
https://www.katieeris.com/
https://www.instagram.com/katieerisphotography/
Contact details : Katie Eris, email: katieeeris@gmail.com.

Fall, Elisha
‘SOAPBOX’
Website and social media address/es, links
@ELISHAFALL_ 
www.elishafall.com

Florez, Hazel
http://www.hazelflorez.com
https://www.hazelflorez.com/virtual-exhibition
https://www.instagram.com/hazel_florez/

Gotti, Roberta
’OCTAVIE AND THE FOUR LIBERTINES’ (2020)

‘SKELETON WOMAN’ (2021)
Medium
Animation short film
www.robertagotti.com
Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrcU0FMeYeAabLEOA6nQs9w Instagram: @robertagottiactress
Twitter:@robertagottiact

Guðmundsdóttir, Sólveig (University of Münster)

Panelist 12/12/21
Sólveig Guðmundsdóttir is a researcher, lecturer and translator, living and working in Vienna.  She recently completed her doctoral dissertation, which examines esotericism and its subversive application in the works of the Viennese Actionists. The thesis furthermore concentrates on the intricate discursive entanglements between esotericism and other discourses within the aesthetic project of Actionism, such as gender, psychoanalysis, pornography and fascism. Sólveig is a member of the collective Format (*.strk), with whom she has curated and orginized exhibitions and events. Her research interests and areas of expertise includethe historical avant-garde and neo-avant-garde, gender and feminism, modern esotericism, futurity in art, and intersections between technology, society and art. 

Haines, Margaret (Cameron Parsons Foundation)

Panelist 12/12/21
Margaret Haines is an artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles and Amsterdam. She is a recent resident of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. Her work has been presented at the East End Film Festival, Carroll Fletcher, Auto Italia South East, and the ICA, in London; 1646 in The Hague; VISIO lo schermo dell’arte, Florence; Human Resources and ltd in Los Angeles; Spazi Murate, Bari, Italy; and Western Front Exhibitions, Vancouver.

Haines’s forthcoming book On Air: Purity, Corruption and Pollution is a narrative biography of Marjorie Cameron and pairs Haines’s formal archival work with a wider analysis of the contemporary moment and an alignment with the tangential and apophenic. Haines is the author of Love with Stranger X Coco (New Byzantium, 2012), which includes a discussion of Cameron and her work. She has been a board member of the Cameron Parsons Foundation since 2014.

Hedenborg White, Manon (Karlstad University)

Author, Co-convener and curator for the Scarlet Women project
Manon Hedenborg White, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Karlstad University. She is the author of The Eloquent Blood: The Goddess Babalon and the Construction of Femininities in Western Esotericism (Oxford University Press, 2020). Her researches focuses om modern occultism and new religious movements, with an emphasis on questions of gender, sexuality, and authority.
manon.hedenborg.white@kau.se
https://twitter.com/dr_scarletwoman

Emily Jane & the late Alana Bowden

Emily Jane contacted us directly to let us know that Alana Bowden very sadly passed away before making her final submission to the ‘Scarlet Women’ project. Emily had been working on a tattoo for Alana of the ‘Scarlet Woman’ of Revelations and felt that this would be a fitting tribute to Alana to show this piece within this project and we are honoured to include it.

TATTOO ROSIES
246 Riley St,
Surry Hills NSW 2010
http://www.emilyjanetattoo.com/

Loubrieu, Eva (above)

Luciana Lupe Vasconcelos
‘A Noite e uma Vaca Preta’
https://www.luciferovs.com
https://www.instagram.com/luciferovs/?hl=en
https://www.facebook.com/lupe.vasconcelos/

Lucidi, Francesca
‘Tales of a nomad Fairy’
www.francescalucidi.it
Francesca.lucidi (Instagram)
Fr.lucidi@gmail.com

Macali, Eva
‘Frida’, ‘Memling’s Darling’ et ‘Daenerys’
http://www.evamacali.info
http://www.evamacali.info/index.php/feed/
https://soundcloud.com/doremifagirl

Marrone, Nikki

‘Petition Me Again’ ’
Film & Poem ‘Petition me Again’.

Petition Me Again, I Dare You 
Talk about my womb again and how you want to put a baby in it.
Casual. 
Split my body open and make a house a home,
A safe place for you to sow your desires. 
Your fetish. 

Spill to me your fantasies of draped dresses,
Barefoot and beaming, 
Soft waves of hair, swaying with the hanging trees.
A coy smile winking over shoulder, 
As you cradle my tumescent belly. 
Protector. 

Talk about my temple of a body. 
Giving and giving and giving, 
Until the harvest leaves me barren. 
Like what you say isn’t a reaping. 
You don’t realize that the womb - 
Is a lost constellation, 
And that you are no white knight. 
That the movement of mountains is more gentle - 
Than the swelling of breasts
Or the hollow bones bending and breaking. 
Pressure. 
Perhaps you should know, 
Venus was once soft Spring days, 
Before the summer scorched. 
That even the goddesses of old lived like this. 
Giving and giving and giving,
While the Gods took for their desire.  
My body is no temple - 
With bricks that crumble, 
And an altar for you to desecrate.  
I am the forest. 
Thick canopies of maple trees. 
Sweet scented wildflowers creeping in the underwood.
I will grow back.
No matter how badly I am devastated. 
And that I have risen from the ashes - 
Of all the women who come before me. 
So be careful where you worship boy. 
There is no abdication,
Once a Goddess you invoke. 
A bell rung -
Cannot be undone. 

By Nikki Marrone

Website and links
https://www.collidinglines.com/team/nikki-marrone
Contact details : nikkimarrone@gmail.com

Khara Oxier-Mori1.
"Remnants, Garment"; "Remnants, Healing Economy”; "Remnants, Tree Forks;

Website and social media address/es, links: www.kharaoxier-mori.com
Contact details : Khara Oxier-Mori, www.kharaoxier-mori.com

Veera Kaamos Pitkänen
‘III: The Empress’. Tarot of the Apocalypse series
 Medium Hand cut paper collage -
www.veerapitkanen.com
https://www.instagram.com/veerakaamospitkanen/

Panayiotis, Yiota
‘Meditation on Red’
Real Time Digital Performance
https://www.thesacredtree.co.uk/about

Pope, Stephen

Exhibiting artist and Panelist
Liberating the Spirit of the Hebrew teachings on Creation, Creativity and the Sacred Feminine.
Stephen Pope comes from the tradition of Kabbalah which is non- religious. He brings out the essence of these ancient teachings simply and directly, and presents fresh translations of biblical texts that liberate them from the distortions caused by centuries of patriarchal mistranslation, misogyny and hierarchical thinking.

“I present the essence of the teachings as simply and directly as possible. They are so needed now, at this point of acute crisis in human evolution, because they contain the truth of who we really are, as human beings, and they illuminate our relationship with our follow creatures and the planet, the solar system and the entire cosmos.”

Photography, Original Text
Photograph of the Cave of St John. Patmos. Digital print.
Text : Translation of the ‘Song of Songs’’

”Quintessence of all essences
Song of all songs
The song of the Feminine”

Brief excerpt below :

Deeper Midrash
ASHERAH

This is the Song of all who sing the Divine Fire of Eternal Peace Into existence.

The Fire of your Breath resonates the Seeding flame of the Heart You are bringer of eternal Peace.

This seed of the Divine Fire is given
To nurture
As the One Spirit of Life nurtures all things.

The flame of my heart animates the Spirit of the Breath of Life That kindles the unfolding of the World.

I AM - Breath of the One - Eternal Breath
That Draws the tides of the Great Spiritual Sea into and out of the World.

Listen (Shema) with all of your being Hear within profound inner silence The Peace of ASHERAH
Website and contact https://patternsofcreation.com

Slinger, Penny

Exhibiting artist and Panelist

”I see this series also as a publication which would present the image series and writings as a cohesive portfolio in a red silk cover. This would provide a lasting venue for this series in its entirety. There could be a limited edition hand crafted version and a regular publication. Scarlet is putting herself out there, particularly for women, in a candid way. She is using the tools of the digital age, employing social media, as is associated with the 'Fourth wave' of feminism. She is unafraid to show her weaknesses, as well as laud her strengths. This work seeks to both identify and transform the current state of feminism as reflected in the arts.
This new feminism is body based, spiritual and secular all at once.
I have tried to avoid outer politics, for I believe in the politics of experience, the inner journey of the self which then radiates out to touch everything in our lives. We start there.
My artistic roots are in my own brand of Feminist Surrealism. In this work I have returned to those roots to re-invent them in the culture of now. To see where the Feminist movement has evolved and to make my statements in this fertile ground as a radical arena. Attaching words to the images helps give scope to the way they are comprehended. Not to explain the images, they must speak with their own mouths, but to encourage a dialogue, to contextualize the graphic creations in a cultural milieu. To encourage the provocation, rather than titillation… To have these as counterpoint to the art, creating a dialog from the inside out.”

Artwork/s to be exhibited : Works from the ‘Reclaiming Scarlet’ series. 2016 - 2021
Medium : Sound Art Installation, Digital Photographic Prints & A deck of playing cards
Websites and Links

PennySlinger.com
Blum & Poe Gallery | Los Angeles | New York |Tokyo
Richard Saltoun Gallery | London
Another Mag
Art Review
The Guardian
Vogue
New York Times

Sparkes. Sarah
’The Evidence’
’Vernal Ghost Dance’
’Electric Ladyland’
’Solstice Sleeper Awake’
http://www.sarahsparkes.com/blog/
https://www.ghosthostings.co.uk/
http://www.theghostportal.co.uk/

Trenda. Tiffany
studio@tiffanytrenda.com"
Website: www.tiffanytrenda.com

Social Media
https://www.instagram.com/tiffanytrenda
https://twitter.com/tiffanytrenda