A Laboratory in Surrealist Philosophy, Studio Praxis and the Marvellous Encounter
A four-week laboratory in surrealist philosophy, studio praxis and the marvellous encounter: automatism, chance, the found object and the mantic stain, with Breton, Jung, Deleuze and the women Surrealists. [Read the full course description →]fleamarketsoftheunconscious
Join the laboratory in the room. Four two-hour sessions on Zoom, where philosophy and practice are woven together through Surrealist games, cut-ups and collaborative experiments.
Dates: Tuesdays 3, 10, 17 and 24 November 2026
Time: 7pm–9pm GMT
Places: limited to fifteen
You'll receive:
A place in all four live sessions on Zoom
Full access to the Google Classroom: readings, specimens, discussion threads and the Stall
The recording of each session, posted in the Classroom within a day or two
Ongoing access after the lab ends
The Classroom opens on 20 October. You'll receive an invitation and Zoom details by email.
Sessions are recorded and shared with participants. Details and opt-out options in your confirmation email.
A Laboratory in Surrealist Philosophy, Studio Praxis and the Marvellous Encounter.
Tuesdays 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th November 2026 - 7-9pm GMT - Online via Zoom
A four-week laboratory in surrealist philosophy, studio praxis and the marvellous encounter: automatism, chance, the found object and the mantic stain, with Breton, Jung, Deleuze and the women Surrealists. [Read the full course description → flea-markets-of-the-unconscious
For those who can't make the live sessions on Tuesday evenings (UK time). You won't join the Zoom sessions; instead you'll follow the lab at your own pace.
You'll receive:
Full access to the Google Classroom: readings, specimens and discussion threads
The recording of each session, posted in the Classroom within a day or two
Ongoing access after the lab ends
The Classroom opens on 20 October. You'll receive an invitation by email.
Recording: Sessions are recorded and shared with participants. Details and opt-out options in your confirmation email.
Saturday 6th February 2027 7-9pm GMT Online via Zoom
Something is watching you. You have felt this. Everyone has. The certainty of being observed from a direction that cannot be named, in a room that was empty a moment ago. Most of us move through this feeling quickly. Turn on a light. Rationalise.
This workshop does not rationalise.
The eye appears everywhere in the oldest images we have — in temples, on hands, on the wings of angels so strange the prophets who saw them could not describe them without terror. In Ezekiel's vision the creatures that carry the throne of God are covered in eyes. All of them open. None of them blinking. Watching everything at once without rest.
But the eye does not only watch us. We are always watching too. The watcher and the watched are not as separate as we imagine.
In this workshop we sit with the eye as a watcher. We ask what it means to be watched, to watch. We follow the image through art, through mythology, through the uncanny corners of cinema and poetry where it keeps appearing uninvited.
*Sessions are recorded and shared with participants. Details and opt-out options in your confirmation email.
Saturday 5th December 2026 · 7–9pm GMT · Online via Zoom
Henri Michaux went inward and found a universe with its own geography, its own creatures, its own laws. He took mescaline to get there faster. He wrote what he found with the precision of a cartographer and the urgency of an exorcist.
His writing does something unusual. It makes the strange feel inevitable and the familiar feel suddenly, slightly wrong. The creatures that inhabit his interior are described with the seriousness of a field biologist. The mescaline experiments are reported with the precision of a scientist. And underneath all of it is the sense that he is trying to get something out of himself. Onto the page, out of his body, exorcised.
In this workshop we sit with that writing until the strangeness becomes familiar — and the familiar becomes strange. We ask what Michaux found in the space within, and what it opens in us.
No prior reading of Michaux is needed.
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