Journal
Stars of BABALON
Alkistis Dimech’s keynote for Astro Magia 23, on the prehistory of Babalon, the celestial theophanies of the hierodule Inana-Ishtar and the poietics of flesh.
Dark dance: Eros, illness and the sacred
A lecture by Alkistis Dimech on butô, antinomian dance and the radical reappraisal of the body after Nietzsche, presented at the Occulture Conference in Berlin on 20th October 2023.
Transgressing angels, entangled bodies
Alkistis Dimech’s lecture for the Astro Magia conference on 18th September 2021, in which she presents material from her work-in-progress Antimony.
The Mystical Body
A conversation on the place of the mystic and the body in our modern surveillance cities, with Alkistis Dimech and philosopher Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh.
The Heretic: Body
Alkistis Dimech discusses the body, opening with Tatsumi Hijikata as a focal point of her praxis, and exploring the body as a vehicle for mantic vision, and dance as rebellion.
Mantic Visions
Alkistis Dimech for Trans-States: The Art of Revelation. It is through the body that the invisible makes itself known to us, visionary states are embodied states.