About Between
Between is an experimental pathway into altered states, combining visual art, poetry and hypnosis to access the intelligence of the deep mind.
Artist magician Rima Staines and trance technician Danny Nemu create a ritual space where journeyers gaze into an art-portal while listening to hypnotic inductions set to metre and rhyme. Each pairing of image and word evokes a different stage of the alchemical process, taking the viewer into a different zone of the imaginal - a space that is both collective and personal, strange and familiar.
The Artists
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Rima Staines
ARTIST MAGICIAN
Rima Staines is an artist whose work straddles myth, magical realism and the folk arts. She has worked over the years predominantly as a painter, but also with music, writing, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, theatre, puppetry, animation and book arts. She was co-founder and co-director of the Hedgespoken travelling storytelling theatre and small press and in 2018 she was a finalist in the 'Best Artist' category of the World Fantasy Awards.
Her visual world is an umber and madder-infused chapel of misfits and magicians, story-rich and alchemical. Her paintings, which feel both ancient and familiar at once, have been exhibited and published internationally. Rima has a long-held fascination with the idea of the liminal - that which lies at the edge of culture, society and consciousness as well as the literal boundaries between one place and another, both metaphorical and real - and with the power of art that comes from that place. Her work is a kind of “Iconography of the Otherworld”.
Fascinated by how talismanic, apotropaic imagery has been used throughout human history to make real magic, she has a strong belief in the power of art to change things, in art as a true alchemy.
Stories, too, play a fundamental role in Rima’s work - she believes that they speak truth to us in a similar non-linear language to that which imagery speaks, and that we need them more than we think we do: inside them are old maps back home.
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Danny Nemu
TRANCE TECHNICIAN
Danny Nemu is a hypnotist, independent researcher and writer on a mission to democratise technologies of mind-hacking and unleash the powers that lie dormant within us. He blends hypnotic trance induction with ritual to fuzz up the edges of reality and unleash the powers of a mind unfettered.
With a background in the history and philosophy of medicine, he is the author of Science Revealed and Neuro-Apocalypse, as well as articles and academic papers on subjects ranging from the psychopharmacology of drug preparations in the Bible to collective intelligence in nature.
