About
Between
Between is an experimental evocation of altered states, combining visual art, poetry and hypnosis to access the intelligence of your mind, for insight, creativity and healing.
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
Rima Staines
ARTIST MAGICIAN
Rima’s work explores the edge of culture and consciousness in media from painting and drawing to animation and puppetry, printmaking, music and writing. Steeped in melancholy, story-rich and alchemical, it straddles myth, magic and folk art, and feels simultaneously both strange and familiar.
Her paintings have been exhibited widely in the UK, in France, the US and New Zealand, and in 2018 she was a finalist in the 'Best Artist' category of the World Fantasy Awards. She co-founded Hedgespoken, a travelling storytelling theatre and press, and her latest exhibition - Widdershins III - featuring a group of Dartmoor mythic artists, was featured on BBC Devon. She is currently illustrating a book of Bulgarian folk tales.
Danny Nemu
TRANCE TECHNICIAN
Danny 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.
Between is an unfolding conversation between the collective unconscious and our individual experiences. Each stage is informed by the information and imagery that emerges during trance, and we recognise that other individuals have a part to play here.
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