This workshop is about developing the skills, mind-set and theoretical basis for starting creatively-based, experimental esoteric organizations.

It is not about debating, uncovering, or critiquing existing or suspected groups.

Together, through hands-on participatory exercises, presentations and group-work we will consider the basic functional components of secret societies including: agenda, ideology, initiation rites, punishments, degrees and levels, regalia/dress codes, signals, meetings, communications and oaths. We will envision, discuss and design new preliminary models for contemporary art-based societies and sects using non-traditional methods.

Who should attend this event?

Artists and outsider interventionists, collectivists and inventors, amateur historians and aesthetic heretics, community workers and writers.