Swarming insects are the defining symbols of our newly emergent global culture. Assailed by a raging sea of pictures, icons and branded coding, the humanity of the new millennium is…

Welcome to the postmodern present where reality is remixed ‘live’ to CNN theme-muzak. In a world where the real is no longer hip enough, there can be no talk of…

Apocalypse culture surpasses the usual sardonic postcards from the abyss such as Manson-style pop Satanism, kiddie porn, and iconic serial killers. The tipping of society's sacred cows is a time-honoured…

In the course of a research expedition to Sicily in 1638, the alchemist Athanasius Kircher had himself lowered into the crater of Vesuvius. There, perched on a rock in the…

Trance parties, festivals, squat-parties and ‘alternative’ cultural events’ are highly contested spaces. Aside from the invariable troubles they pick up with authorities, they are often prone to internal conflicts over…

During the last one-millionth part of Earth’s history, the biosphere has undergone a dramatic change. Since the evolution of agriculture 10,000 years ago, eco-systems have progressively made way…

November 2008's Mandala Project was a massive success, with official numbers well exceeding the 2000 mark. On the main floor, under specially commissioned Mandala-themed banners, guest-stars Logic Bomb and Tranan…

At trance parties partygoers are undertaking journeys into the web of interconnected living reality. In a psychedelic fusion between dance and idea they are experiencing an ancient shamanic…

At the dawn of the 21st century, we seem to be living in on a Euro-American planet. The phenomenal expansion of western civilisation from its spiritual heartland in western Europe…

Information rises to the surface … precise biochemical pathways become kinetically stimulated.  Movement spreads chemical information through & among dancers, feeding into a higher level of species-evolution.