Within the alchemical nigredo
A powerful and deeply affecting presentation of images and text from Gast Bouschet’s Anarch, evocatively read by Peter Mark Adams and produced by Darragh Mason. Originally presented in Peter Mark Adams’s keynote, ‘Metamorphoses of Mind and Matter within the Alchemical Nigredo,’ at the Metamorphosis: Ecstasies of Matter & Image conference at the University of Copenhagen on 31st May 2024. The immersive film, with a soundtrack by Sutekh Hexen and Funerary Call, documents a transformative and sorcerous descent into the alchemical nigredo.
We recommend that you experience this transformative collaboration on the largest screen and best sound system you have access to.
Text and photographs by Gast Bouschet
Selected & narrated by Peter Mark Adams
Produced by Darragh Mason
Soundtrack P:R:I:S:M by Sutekh Hexen & Funerary Call
‘Many thanks to the University of Copenhagen for hosting the event, to Kevin Gan Yuen for the permission to use the music, and to Alkistis Dimech & Peter Grey for providing the images for the slideshow.’
– Gast Bouschet
Gast Bouschet’s Anarch is a profound work of sinister animism and sorcerous practice, a unique account of the path taken towards the dark sacred in a lifetime of personal struggle and artistic creation.
4vo (195 × 300 mm)
160 pp
100 colour images
Issued in a strictly limited hardback edition of 800 copies, bound in deep black paper stamped in red and black foils.