Nice. I would have gone along to that if I had known, are you doing any more? I’ve been to a few psychedelic society events. Their first meet and then a talk at earth hackney with the founder and robin harris which was good. But I also find the community off-putting in some ways. I have hippie tendencies. But there’s an anti-hippie gremlin in me that clenches his fist reading about events like ‘slow dating’
I liked the idea of that thread on psychedelia and the avant-garde. It’s sad we didn’t get to see Mark Fisher expand on the acid communism stuff. It was an interesting turn. In terms of aesthetics, a lot of psychedelic art is too nostalgic, channeling 60s counterculture (maybe this is because of a circling around the first trauma) But i’d like to see psychedelic tropes: beautiful patterns, dissolving boundaries, strange and sacred geometry, amorphous states but executed in future focused art that leans toward being potentially odd or uncomfortable rather than familiar. The experience can be terrifying and some of the most interesting visions and insights are dark and unsettling, this isn’t always reflected in how psychedelic art looks and feels.