Chicago artist Elijah Burgher

Local artist Elijah Burgher has already been mentioned on Occult Chicago on at least two separate occasions, so it seemed time to dedicate a post to him.

Burgher works with tools such as sigilization to produce magical-personal works of art.  He has recently shown at Western Exhibitions (at the same time as Black Thorns in the White Cube) and as part of Homoccult & Other Esoterotica.

Build Better Human Beings

Anal Swastika (Recruiter Version)

Ghost Vomit

Black Mirror

All images taken from Burgher's blog, Ghost Vomit.  He is also on Tumblr.

Update: Homoccult & Other Esoterotica

It was recently pointed out in response to my previous post regarding Homoccult & Other Esoterotica that they are having gallery hours this Saturday 4/28. And there is a closing reception on 5/11 at 7 pm.  Great news!

Visit the HOMOCCULT website for more information

Homoccult & Other Esoterotica

Another exhibition that just ended.  It's sad that I wasn't able to post about it here in time, but amazing that all of these events are going on simultaneously.


Homoccult & Other Esoterotica is a group of short experimental queer films focused on magick & the occult - curated by Daniel McKernan - which was screened in Chicago at S&S PROJECT over the weekend of April 6-8, 2012.


http://brainwashed.com/daniel/homoccult/

"Many of the films capture the spirit of arch-gay cinematic spell-casters Kenneth Anger and Derek Jarman, especially those made by the program's more (in)famous participants, such as Throbbing Gristle alumni Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and the late Peter Christopherson (operating together as the Threshold HouseBoys Choir)." - Matt Sussman, Flavorpill

There was also a visual artwork aspect which featured the artwork of Christos Andrews, Elijah Burgher, ColectivoMultipolar, Maj Furani, Erika Keck, George Keller, Armando Lozano, Daniel McKernan, Sofia Moreno and Erik Peterson.