Religion & Art + the subjective was a two-day public event taking place at St James Art Studio, Goldsmiths College on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 March 2026, with performances, projections, conversations and installations from:
Barbie AI / Noa Amson / Helen Blejerman / Elena Botts / Maya Brachfeld / Lucille Brownrigg / Teresa Calonje & Dominic White / CillaVee / aly,willamina cutler-gear / Nina Danino / Mark Dean / Susan Francis / Daniel Thomas Freeman & Ashling McCann / Rachel Garfield / Guiguisuisui 鬼鬼祟祟 / Ryan Hooper / e.g. King / David Leal / Christian Molenaar / Linda Mary Montano / Mimi Nicholson / Grace Papineau-Couture / John Rogers / SACRA / Holly Slingsby / Aryavandana-Caroline Smith / Danni Stewart / Lili Süper / Nina Trigo / Ilya Utekhin / Jess Wood
A recording of the event will be posted here in due course.
Contact:
Nina Danino
n.danino@gold.ac.uk
Mark Dean
artschap.com/projects
Lead researchers:
Elena Botts
Dr Teresa Calonje
Barbie AI / Noa Amson / Helen Blejerman / Elena Botts / Maya Brachfeld / Lucille Brownrigg / Teresa Calonje & Dominic White / CillaVee / aly,willamina cutler-gear / Nina Danino / Mark Dean / Susan Francis / Daniel Thomas Freeman & Ashling McCann / Rachel Garfield / Guiguisuisui 鬼鬼祟祟 / Ryan Hooper / e.g. King / David Leal / Christian Molenaar / Linda Mary Montano / Mimi Nicholson / Grace Papineau-Couture / John Rogers / SACRA / Holly Slingsby / Aryavandana-Caroline Smith / Danni Stewart / Lili Süper / Nina Trigo / Ilya Utekhin / Jess Wood
A recording of the event will be posted here in due course.
Contact:
Nina Danino
n.danino@gold.ac.uk
Mark Dean
artschap.com/projects
Lead researchers:
Elena Botts
Dr Teresa Calonje
FRIDAY 13 MARCH
(in person and online)
11.00-11.45 GMT
CONVERSATION
Nina Danino & Mark Dean: Reflections on six years of Religion & Art, with reference to Hillel the Elder’s three questions: If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?
11.45-14.00 GMT
PROJECTIONS
CillaVee Light Body / Shadow Body
Danni Stewart Pain Re-synthesised
Grace Papineau-Couture A Body of Objects
Ryan Hooper margins of unfinished self
Holly Slingsby Holding Shards
Lili Süper Fog is coming
Maya Brachfeld insufferable/rare honor/noself, em/where is here/placevid72, dreamt someone was holding me tightly by the ribcage 4
Noa Amson & friends a guilt so profound
Ilya Utekhin Meditation Machine
Elena Botts Vespers
14.00-15.00 GMT
CONVERSATION
Teresa Calonje, Nina Danino, Harri Hudspith & Christian Molenaar:
Our love relation with the mystics - Dialogisim: Sisterhood/Fanhood - Affectivity and academic research - Being the third person in the room in the love affair between these women and their Beloved - the question of appropriation, mediation and historical presentism; how can we relate today with the mystics of the past?
15.00-16.00 GMT
CONVERSATION
Teresa Calonje, Mark Dean & Mimi Nicholson:
Research/practice linked to personal experience and the autobiographical artistic practice. The questions of mothering, suffering and birth, creating and decreation, the Eucharist, the broken body and Marian iconography; creativity and the mystery of Incarnation, what does it mean to be a creator? What is incarnation?
SATURDAY 14 MARCH
(in person and online)
11.00-13.00 GMT
PRESENTATIONS
Welcome and introductions
Mark Dean Promenade
Aryavandana/Caroline Smith Silent Under Ground: 12 hour meditation (with pause) on the Circle Line
Daniel Thomas Freeman & Ashling McCann Strange Weather Documents: Listening in the Dark [excerpt]
Mimi Nicholson Birthing Godot
13.45-18.30 GMT (WITH SHORT BREAKS)
PRESENTATIONS
e.g. King what this is
Rachel Garfield GLIMPSE
Barbie AI Humility
John Rogers Topographical walking and its relationship to psychogeography
Nina Danino Vision Seven: Sed Diabolus [excerpt]
Christian Molenaar Strophische Gedichten
SACRA If I am not for me, you will (be) for me, I will (be) for you – us into us
Lucille Brownrigg Pitch
Nina Trigo Un Matecito
Teresa Calonje and Dominic White On the controversy of the body
Jess Wood Experiencing sanctuary in the Here-and-Now
Helen Blejerman Areas of Search
Linda Mary Montano My Mother: Artist and Teacher
18.30-19.00 GMT
MUSIC & DANCE
Linda Mary Montano Chicken Dance
Guiguisuisui 鬼鬼祟祟 Live in concert
SATURDAY 14 MARCH
(in person only)
11.00-19.00 GMT
INSTALLATIONS
Susan Francis He Loves Me He Loves Me Not
Jess Wood Experiencing sanctuary in the Here-and-Now
David Leal Piercing the veil
Nina Trigo Un Matecito
11.00-19.00 GMT
PROJECTIONS
CillaVee Light Body / Shadow Body
Danni Stewart Pain Re-synthesised
Grace Papineau-Couture A Body of Objects
Holly Slingsby Holding Shards
Ryan Hooper margins of unfinished self
Lili Süper Fog is coming
Maya Brachfeld insufferable/rare honor/noself, em/where is here/placevid72, dreamt someone was holding me tightly by the ribcage 4
Noa Amson & friends a guilt so profound
Ilya Utekhin Meditation Machine
Elena Botts Vespers
David Leal FILTERS (or, Sigils, Ichthus, and their liminal smoke)
aly,willamina cutler-gear The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1665-1669)
(in person and online)
11.00-11.45 GMT
CONVERSATION
Nina Danino & Mark Dean: Reflections on six years of Religion & Art, with reference to Hillel the Elder’s three questions: If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?
11.45-14.00 GMT
PROJECTIONS
CillaVee Light Body / Shadow Body
Danni Stewart Pain Re-synthesised
Grace Papineau-Couture A Body of Objects
Ryan Hooper margins of unfinished self
Holly Slingsby Holding Shards
Lili Süper Fog is coming
Maya Brachfeld insufferable/rare honor/noself, em/where is here/placevid72, dreamt someone was holding me tightly by the ribcage 4
Noa Amson & friends a guilt so profound
Ilya Utekhin Meditation Machine
Elena Botts Vespers
14.00-15.00 GMT
CONVERSATION
Teresa Calonje, Nina Danino, Harri Hudspith & Christian Molenaar:
Our love relation with the mystics - Dialogisim: Sisterhood/Fanhood - Affectivity and academic research - Being the third person in the room in the love affair between these women and their Beloved - the question of appropriation, mediation and historical presentism; how can we relate today with the mystics of the past?
15.00-16.00 GMT
CONVERSATION
Teresa Calonje, Mark Dean & Mimi Nicholson:
Research/practice linked to personal experience and the autobiographical artistic practice. The questions of mothering, suffering and birth, creating and decreation, the Eucharist, the broken body and Marian iconography; creativity and the mystery of Incarnation, what does it mean to be a creator? What is incarnation?
SATURDAY 14 MARCH
(in person and online)
11.00-13.00 GMT
PRESENTATIONS
Welcome and introductions
Mark Dean Promenade
Aryavandana/Caroline Smith Silent Under Ground: 12 hour meditation (with pause) on the Circle Line
Daniel Thomas Freeman & Ashling McCann Strange Weather Documents: Listening in the Dark [excerpt]
Mimi Nicholson Birthing Godot
13.45-18.30 GMT (WITH SHORT BREAKS)
PRESENTATIONS
e.g. King what this is
Rachel Garfield GLIMPSE
Barbie AI Humility
John Rogers Topographical walking and its relationship to psychogeography
Nina Danino Vision Seven: Sed Diabolus [excerpt]
Christian Molenaar Strophische Gedichten
SACRA If I am not for me, you will (be) for me, I will (be) for you – us into us
Lucille Brownrigg Pitch
Nina Trigo Un Matecito
Teresa Calonje and Dominic White On the controversy of the body
Jess Wood Experiencing sanctuary in the Here-and-Now
Helen Blejerman Areas of Search
Linda Mary Montano My Mother: Artist and Teacher
18.30-19.00 GMT
MUSIC & DANCE
Linda Mary Montano Chicken Dance
Guiguisuisui 鬼鬼祟祟 Live in concert
SATURDAY 14 MARCH
(in person only)
11.00-19.00 GMT
INSTALLATIONS
Susan Francis He Loves Me He Loves Me Not
Jess Wood Experiencing sanctuary in the Here-and-Now
David Leal Piercing the veil
Nina Trigo Un Matecito
11.00-19.00 GMT
PROJECTIONS
CillaVee Light Body / Shadow Body
Danni Stewart Pain Re-synthesised
Grace Papineau-Couture A Body of Objects
Holly Slingsby Holding Shards
Ryan Hooper margins of unfinished self
Lili Süper Fog is coming
Maya Brachfeld insufferable/rare honor/noself, em/where is here/placevid72, dreamt someone was holding me tightly by the ribcage 4
Noa Amson & friends a guilt so profound
Ilya Utekhin Meditation Machine
Elena Botts Vespers
David Leal FILTERS (or, Sigils, Ichthus, and their liminal smoke)
aly,willamina cutler-gear The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1665-1669)
