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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia;">Planning for Strange Attractor's residency at <a href="http://www.viktorwyndfineart.co.uk/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Viktor Wynd Fine Art</span></a> is moving at tachyon-like speeds. We now have a full programme of discussions, films, music and performance for your edification and delectation.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia;"><!--more--><em>To book tickets for any of these events visit </em><a href="http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/"><span style="color: #551e8d;"><em>The Last Tuesday Society</em></span></a><em> web site.</em></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><em>Mind, Art and Magic: Visions of Inhabited Worlds</em></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;">with Phil Baker, Blue Firth, Gavin Semple, Robert Wallis</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><strong>Phil Baker</strong> is the author of <em>The Devil is a Gentleman: The Life and Times of Dennis Wheatley</em>, <em>William S Burroughs</em> and the forthcoming <em>Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist</em>.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;">Artist <strong>Blue Firth</strong> has a long-standing interest in the nature of local communities and how their histories are recorded through vernacular crafts and practices. Through research of local history and customs, she seeks out arcane and often neglected information with which she aims to rediscover the forgotten character of a place. She is currently studying at the Royal Academy.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><strong>Gavin Semple</strong> is a writer, artist and musician with a deep understanding of magical practice. He is the author of<em> Zos Kia: An Introductory Essay on the Art and Sorcery of Austin Osman Spare</em> (Fulgur 1995) and other texts on Spare, and is a co-founder of magical publishing house Fulgur.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;">Robert Wallis is Associate Professor of Visual Culture at Richmond University in London and a Research Fellow in Archaeology of Southampton University. He is the author of a number books on shamanism, 'sacred sites' and heathen magic, including <em>Shamans/neo-Shamans: Ecstasy, Alternative Archaeologies and Contemporary Pagans</em>, <em>Galdrbok: Practical Heathen Runecraft, Shamanism and Magic</em> (with Nathan Johnson) and <em>Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights: Pagan Engagements with Archaeological Monuments</em> (with Jenny Blain).</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;">Richard Brown, Disinformation, Tessa Farmer and Sean Daniels, Blue Firth, Julian House, John Lundberg, Eleanor Morgan, Drew Mulholland, Cathy Ward  &amp; Eric Wright.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><em>Man, Myth and Music: Occult Traditions in Popular Music from Mozart to Mayhem</em></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;">with Gary Lachman, Frances Morgan,  Edwin Pouncey</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><strong>Gary Lachman</strong> is the author of several books of esoteric cultural history including <em>Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius</em>; <em>A Secret History of Consciousness</em>; <em>The Dedalus Book of the Occult: A Dark Muse and The Dedalus Occult Reader</em>:<em> The Garden of Hermetic Dreams</em>. As a musician Gary was a founder member of Blondie and played guitar with Iggy Pop, a period described in his book <em>New York Rocker</em>. Gary was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><strong>Frances Morgan</strong> is the former editor and publisher of independent music magazine Plan B and has written for publications including <em>The New Statemsan</em>, <em>Frieze</em>, <em>Loops</em> and <em>The Quietus</em>. As a musician she performs in underground experimental groups including Morgen und Nite, Macroprosopus Dancehall Band and Time.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><strong>Edwin Pouncey</strong> is an artist, writer and musician. As Savage Pencil, Edwin's unmistakable illustrations have been a mainstay of the underground UK music scene for over three decades, adorning album sleeves for bands including The Fall, Sonic Youth and Sunn O))) while his writing has appeared in music magazines from <em>Sounds</em> to <em>The Wire</em>. Edwin has lectured on the role of magick in black metal and also performs in the improvising noise band Pestrepeller and duo, with Sharon Gal, Meltaot.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;">Live performances from <strong>English Heretic</strong> and <strong>Welcome to Mars</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><strong>English Heretic</strong> creates verdant, darkly humorous soundscapes for the darkest recesses of the English imagination. The magical texts of Kenneth Grant and the occult fictions of Sax Rohmer form an uneasy alliance, accompanied by a musical backdrop that glides effortlessly from Motown to 70s progressive horror rock.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><strong>Ken Hollings</strong> reads from his book <em>Welcome to Mars: Fantasies of Science in the American Century</em> with a live, improvised soundtrack of 1950s electronica for analogue synthesisers, reel-to-reel tapes and theremin from <strong>Simon James</strong> and <strong>Bruce Woolley</strong>.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><em>Natural Allies: Art and Other Lifeforms</em></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;">with Tessa Farmer, Alison Gill, Eleanor Morgan, Bridget Nicholls</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><strong>Tessa Farme</strong>r's fantastical, often disturbing sculptures, films, installations and drawings depict an inhabited world that exists just out of sight of our own. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Saatchi Gallery, the Ashmolean Museum and The Natural History Museum.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><strong>Alison Gill</strong> studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London. She has shown widely in solo and group exhibitions in the UK and internationally including: Brink, Sabine Wachters Fine Arts, Brussels; Alison Gill, Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; In the Society of London Ladies, Dispari &amp; Dispari Project, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Dream Machines, [Hayward Gallery National Touring Exhibition curated by Susan Hiller].</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><strong>Eleanor Morgan</strong> has exhibited in Europe and North America. Using video, sculpture, performance and drawing she explores the relationship between nature and culture and attempts to create art that hovers between the two. This has included sculpting with spider's silk, encouraging ants to draw self-portraits and a close encounter with a giant green sea anemone.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;"><strong>Bridget Nicholls</strong> is a writer, naturalist and broadcaster whose work has featured on BBC radio, Discovery Channel and <em>The Ecologist</em>. She is a founder and director of Pestival, an international arts festival dedicated to 'Insects in the arts and the art of being an insect'.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;">Sounds from <strong>Man From Uranus</strong>, <strong>Disinformation vs USURP</strong>, <strong>Oscillatorial Binnage</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;">Three unique, very different explorations of electronic sound and music:</p>
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