Religion & Art + the subjective is a two-day public event taking place at Goldsmiths College, London, on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 March 2026, with conversations, projections, presentations and installations.
This in person event will be also be broadcast live online and recorded for future online viewing. Tickets are free and valid for either or both days, or parts thereof.
Book free in person tickets at: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1982976216243?
Book free online tickets at:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/-1983262197621?
Contact:
Nina Danino
n.danino@gold.ac.uk
Mark Dean
artschap.com/projects
Lead researchers:
Elena Botts
Dr Teresa Calonje
This in person event will be also be broadcast live online and recorded for future online viewing. Tickets are free and valid for either or both days, or parts thereof.
Book free in person tickets at: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1982976216243?
Book free online tickets at:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/-1983262197621?
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)
MORNING SESSION
11am-1pm
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?
Elena Botts, Lucille Brownrigg & aly,willamina cutler-gear:
i. counter-ontologies, imaginaries and futurisms of spiritual automata,drawing on each of our arts and research practices, we address this schema ii. counterontological to power deconstructively creates futurisms through reimagining each:
a) counterpublics and their lifeworlds through community arts, cultural, and religious organising e.g. elena’s research on politics of cultural policies on arts communities and remembrance which also includes
b) memory practices which affect the future worlds we create by how we remember
c) wellbeing, being-in-the-world e,g, biopolitics, especially lu’s research on medical trauma
d) linguistic imperialism e.g. aly’s research on imperialism’s effect on marginalised languages and ways of life in shetland
e) machinic subversion e.g. aly’s research using llms despite their corporate programming to revive languages and speech, lu’s research on automata.
AFTERNOON SESSION
2pm-4pm
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?
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?
PROJECTIONS
Friday 13 March
continuous screenings from 11am-4pm
Saturday 14 March
continuous screenings from 11am-7.30pm
(in person only)
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 [tbc]
David Leal FILTERS (or, Sigils, Ichthus, and their liminal smoke)
PRESENTATIONS
Saturday 14 March
(in person and online)
MORNING SESSION
11am-12.30pm
Welcome and introductions
Mark Dean Promenade
Aryavandana/Caroline Smith Silent Under Ground: 12 hour meditation (with pause) on the Circle Line
Frances Young Frequencies 1-3
Mimi Nicholson Birthing Godot
Nina Trigo Un Matecito
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
1.10pm-7.30pm
e.g. King what this is
David Leal FILTERS (or, Sigils, Ichthus, and their liminal smoke)
aly,willamina cutler-gear [storytelling]
Rachel Garfield GLIMPSE
BREAK
Barbie AI [interactive performance]
John Rogers [talk and reading]
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
Teresa Calonje and Dominic White On the controversy of the body
Lucille Brownrigg Pitch
BREAK
Daniel Thomas Freeman & Ashling McCann Strange Weather Documents: Listening in the Dark [excerpt]
Jess Wood Experiencing sanctuary in the Here-and-Now
Helen Blejerman Areas of Search
Linda Mary Montano My Mother: Artist and Teacher
BREAK
LIVE MUSIC
Guiguisuisui 鬼鬼祟祟
INSTALLATIONS
Saturday 14 March
open for viewing 11am-7.30pm
(in person only)
Susan Francis He Loves Me He Loves Me Not
Jess Wood Experiencing sanctuary in the Here-and-Now
David Leal FILTERS (or, Sigils, Ichthus, and their liminal smoke)
Nina Trigo Un Matecito
(in person and online)
MORNING SESSION
11am-1pm
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?
Elena Botts, Lucille Brownrigg & aly,willamina cutler-gear:
i. counter-ontologies, imaginaries and futurisms of spiritual automata,drawing on each of our arts and research practices, we address this schema ii. counterontological to power deconstructively creates futurisms through reimagining each:
a) counterpublics and their lifeworlds through community arts, cultural, and religious organising e.g. elena’s research on politics of cultural policies on arts communities and remembrance which also includes
b) memory practices which affect the future worlds we create by how we remember
c) wellbeing, being-in-the-world e,g, biopolitics, especially lu’s research on medical trauma
d) linguistic imperialism e.g. aly’s research on imperialism’s effect on marginalised languages and ways of life in shetland
e) machinic subversion e.g. aly’s research using llms despite their corporate programming to revive languages and speech, lu’s research on automata.
AFTERNOON SESSION
2pm-4pm
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?
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?
PROJECTIONS
Friday 13 March
continuous screenings from 11am-4pm
Saturday 14 March
continuous screenings from 11am-7.30pm
(in person only)
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 [tbc]
David Leal FILTERS (or, Sigils, Ichthus, and their liminal smoke)
PRESENTATIONS
Saturday 14 March
(in person and online)
MORNING SESSION
11am-12.30pm
Welcome and introductions
Mark Dean Promenade
Aryavandana/Caroline Smith Silent Under Ground: 12 hour meditation (with pause) on the Circle Line
Frances Young Frequencies 1-3
Mimi Nicholson Birthing Godot
Nina Trigo Un Matecito
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
1.10pm-7.30pm
e.g. King what this is
David Leal FILTERS (or, Sigils, Ichthus, and their liminal smoke)
aly,willamina cutler-gear [storytelling]
Rachel Garfield GLIMPSE
BREAK
Barbie AI [interactive performance]
John Rogers [talk and reading]
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
Teresa Calonje and Dominic White On the controversy of the body
Lucille Brownrigg Pitch
BREAK
Daniel Thomas Freeman & Ashling McCann Strange Weather Documents: Listening in the Dark [excerpt]
Jess Wood Experiencing sanctuary in the Here-and-Now
Helen Blejerman Areas of Search
Linda Mary Montano My Mother: Artist and Teacher
BREAK
LIVE MUSIC
Guiguisuisui 鬼鬼祟祟
INSTALLATIONS
Saturday 14 March
open for viewing 11am-7.30pm
(in person only)
Susan Francis He Loves Me He Loves Me Not
Jess Wood Experiencing sanctuary in the Here-and-Now
David Leal FILTERS (or, Sigils, Ichthus, and their liminal smoke)
Nina Trigo Un Matecito
