{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Your Art Is A Spell","title":"How Queer Artists Have Used Art Spells For Liberation For Over 100 Years","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1178,"description":"Welcome to Season 2 of Your Art Is A Spell. In this premiere episode, we introduce the concept of Tactical Magic, the use of ritual, art, and ancient wisdom as tools for survival and agency in difficult times. Join me on a journey to the Palm Springs Art Museum for the groundbreaking exhibition, Queer Arcana: Art, Magic & Spirit. Spanning over a century of work from 1909 to 2026, this show reveals how queer, trans, and gender-expansive artists have long used the esoteric to build worlds where they were once excluded. From the tarot of Rachel Pollack to my own social practice ritual, Give Us Home Spider, we look at how art functions not just as decoration, but as a technology of the spirit and a powerful act of political resistance.Video Chapters00:00 – Welcome to Your Art Is A Spell Season 200:30 – Reclaiming Sovereignty & Agency in Difficult Times01:05 – Artist Residency in Berlin: The Human Machine01:40 – Traveling to Palm Springs: Queer Arcana Exhibition03:30 – Arrival at Palm Springs Art Museum04:15 – What is Tactical Magic? Defining the Theme05:15 – Magic as Resistance: Survival at the Margins07:10 – Inside the Queer Arcana Exhibition: Art, Magic & Spirit08:08 – Art as Spellcraft: A Technology of the Spirit09:27 – The Q+ Art Initiative at Palm Springs Art Museum10:00 – The Six Portals of Queer Arcana (Section Walkthrough)11:53 – \"Give Us Home Spider\": My Social Practice Ritual (2017)13:00 – Why Queer People Turn to Divination & Ritual14:13 – Visionary Artists: Candice Lin & Hilma’s Ghost15:15 – Honoring Queer Lineages: Clarity Haynes & Agnes Pelton16:00 – Walter Mercado & Nao Bustamante: Latinx Astrological Legacies16:18 – Remembering Ancestors: Genesis P-Orridge & Nancy Azara16:50 – The Desert as a Place of Vision & Sanctuary18:18 – Honoring Rachel Pollack & Austin Osman Spare19:12 – Closing: Your Art is a SpellExplore the Exhibition:Queer Arcana at Palm Springs Art Museum: https://www.psmuseum.org/exhibitions/queer-arcanaThe Q+ Art Initiative:...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/OWhM--UdKsZ_4FBvU1NrHQKvneBNtnTXlI0EIio6t8U/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kOTBl/MDVlNDU3N2NkMGI1/MzJlY2IzYjRlNWFj/NTZkNi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}