2025
October 23–26 – Presenting at Occulture conference, Berlin, Germany.
May 25, June 1, 8 & 15 – Presenting The Cut in Creation: Exploring the Avant-Garde, Dada, Surrealism, Modern Art, Noise Music, and Performance Art through a Psychoanalytic Lens, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, USA, online.
May 10 – Presenting DREAMS AS ART: Freud, Jung, Lacan seminar with Emmalea Russo, online.
May 3 – Presenting “Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art,” Corpo Freudiano Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada, online.
March 15 – Book launch event and seminar for The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond (Routledge, 2025), Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden.
2024
December 18 – Presented “Der Doppelgänger, the Artist & Creative Will: The work of psychoanalyst Otto Rank explored through artists Breyer P-Orridge, Val Denham, Pierre Molinier & Ovartaci,” The Last Tuesday Society, Victor Wynd Museum, London, England, UK, online.
December 14 – Presented “Cinema as Mirror: Film as Projective Surface,” (DE)MONTAGE OF THE SUBJECT IN CINEMA AND PSYCHOANALYSIS, INTERNATIONAL ONLINE-CONFERENCE, Cinema Club of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, online.
December 3 – Presented “The intersection between psychoanalysis and the creative arts,” Maryland Institute for Contemporary Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD, USA, online. Hosted by Mikita Brottman.
December 1, 8, 15 & 22 – Presented The Magical Films of Iconic Director Tim Burton, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
October 24–25 – Presented “The process of creating Things Happen using the cut-up method,” A Tide of Ghosts: Esotericism and Art beyond Fact and Fiction, University of Copenhagen, Main Building, Frue Plads, Copenhagen, Denmark.
June 16 – Book launch for Things Happen and Spiral of Objects with Dr. Vanessa Sinclair and Ad Vat, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
May 19, 26 & June 2, 9 – Presented Harnessing the Magic and Creative Power of the Cut-up Method a la William Burroughs, David Bowie, Genesis P-Orridge with Carl Abrahamsson, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
May 11 – Book launch event for Things Happen by Vanessa Sinclair, Spiral of Objects by Ad Vat, and Can I See Your Niche? by Jason Haaf (Trapart Books), Quimby’s Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
May 8–10 – “The Artist, the Double, and Creative Will,” Rank Horror Symposium, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA (pulled out of this conference in solidarity with the students protesting and the people of Palestine).
May 2 – Book launch event for Things Happen (Trapart Books, 2024), Bar Nancy, Miami, FL, USA.
March 18 – Presented at HAUNTQUINOX III with Carl Abrahamsson, Portland, OR, USA, online. Hosted by Keats Ross.
March 10 – Hosted Occult Influences In Pound’s Pisan Cantos by Katrina Makkouk & Literchoor, Kulchur, and a Damned Fine Friendship by Carl Abrahamsson, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
February 18 – Hosted The Devil’s Footprint Book Talk and Q & A with Author Carl Abrahamsson, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
January 21 – Hosted book launch event for This Is the Strangest Life I’ve Ever Known: A Psychological Portrait of Jim Morrison (Trapart Books, 2023) by Ana Leorne with Carl Abrahamsson, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
2023
November 5 – Hosted book launch event for BLOOD SEX MAGIC: Everyday Magic for the Modern Mystic by Bri Luna of The Hoodwitch with Carl Abrahamsson, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
September 10, 17, 24 & October 1 – Presented Harnessing the Magic and Creative Power of the Cut-up Method a la William Burroughs, David Bowie, Genesis P-Orridge with Carl Abrahamsson, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
September 5 – Presented “Freud and the Occult,” The Last Tuesday Society, Victor Wynd Museum, London, England, online.
August 20 – Hosted The Decaying Female Body in Horror Cinema with Mary Wild with Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
July 16 – Hosted The Future of Occulture, Magic, and Underground Networking: A Conversation With Tom Banger and Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
June 11 – Hosted Angels, Demons, and Ketamine: Occultist Chaweon Koo in Conversation with Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
May 14 – Hosted The Uncanny in Cinema: Ingmar Bergman’s Hour of the Wolf (1968), An Illustrated Online Lecture with Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
April 16 – Hosted Westworld: Anton LaVey’s Total Environments, Gamification and Ghosts in the Machines with Anders Lundgren + Caligula as a Dionysian Affirmation of Life with River with Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
March 12 – Hosted David Bowie Music Videos and Filmography: A Live, Online Presentation with Mary Wild with Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
February 19 – Hosted The Bloody Countess: Valentine Penrose, Erzsébet Báthory, and Sanguineous Surrealism: A Live, Online Lecture with Dr. Sabina Stent with Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
January 15 – Hosted Uncertain Places and Strange New Worlds: A Live, Online Talk with Occult Scholar Mitch Horowitz with Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
2022
November 20 – Hosted Cinematic Surrealism in Los Angeles: Maya Deren and David Lynch by Sabina Stent + David Lynch: Cinema’s Uncanny Master by Mary Wild with Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
October 23 – Presented/hosted Body Modification, Polymorphous Perversity & Pandrogeny by Vanessa Sinclair + Forcing the Hand of Chance – A Look at the DIY Occulture of Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY) by Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
October 14–16 – Organized the conference Visionary Medium: Psychoanalysis & the Magic of Cinema with Carl Abrahamsson, Husets Biograf Copenhagen, Denmark.
October 7–9 – Presented “Embracing Your Own: Creating a Personal Pantheon of Blood and Adopted Ancestors,” Occulture Conference, Berlin, Germany.
September 25 – Hosted Lost Dimensions: The Psychic and the Technical by Isabel Millar + From Success Comes Failure, on Cloud Computing by Dwayne Monroe with Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
September 15 – Presented “The Tenderness of the Cut” as part of the exhibition that other world, the world of the teapot. tenderness, a model, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany.
August 21 – Hosted Exploring Consciousness through Liminal Dreaming by Jennifer Dumpert + Cinematic Dream Sequences by Mary Wild with Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
July 17 – Presented/hosted The Atavistic Network by Charlotte Rodgers + Working with Ancestors in Art and Magic by Dr Vanessa Sinclair with Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
June 19 – Hosted Animism for Apocalypse by Langston Kahn + Spirit Voices: The Mysteries and Magic of North Asian Shamanic Traditions by David Shi with Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
May 30 – Respondent/discussant for Dany Nobus, “Group Pathology and the Analysis of the Ego: On the Dissolution of Psychoanalytic Organisations and the Question of Psychoanalytic Training,” ABF, Stockholm, Sweden. (canceled/ postponed)
May 22 – Hosted “The Death Drive on Film” by Mary Wild + “The Revolution will go Viral… on Sexting, the Digital & Contagion” by Dr Clint Burnham with Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
April 24 – Hosted Uncanny Aspects of Oscar Wilde: “Dancing With Salome: Decadence & the Supernatural” by Nina Antonia + “Activating Wilde’s World View” by Robert Podgurski with Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
March 27 – Hosted “The Compleat Story: How Anton LaVey Created The Compleat Witch” by Peggy Nadramia with Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
March 6, 13, 20, 27 – Presented The Unconscious Act: Theories of Repetition in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy, Global Centre for Advanced Studies (GCAS), Dublin, Ireland, online.
February 20 – Hosted Experiences with Precognitive Dreams, Synchronicity + Notes on the Occult Influence of Derek Jarman with Gary Lachman and Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
January 23 – Hosted The Psychic Violence of Alfred Hitchcock + Roman Polanski’s Apartment Trilogy: Repulsion, Rosemary’s Baby and The Tenant with Dr. Todd McGowan and Mary Wild with Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
2021
December 19 – Hosted “Up, Up O Ye Gods!” Hermeticism as a Path for Modern Seekers by Mitch Horowitz + “Secrecy Exposed!” On the Necessity of Psychic Stigma and Dynamic Darkness in Occultism by Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
December 11 – Presented “Embracing Your Own,” Yule Hyggeasy 2021, online.
November 21 – Hosted The Face of Fear: Faces in Gothic Horror Films with Icy Sedgwick + “How Weird is That?” with Kasper Opstrup with Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
October 9 – Presented “Scansion in psychoanalysis: The cut-up method and Pandrogeny,” Cast off! Lacan and the arts, Fondation de la Psychanalyse, Paris, France, online. Hosted by Franck Ancel.
September 26 – Hosted Dancing in the Graveyard: Death Imagery in Satanism by Blanche Barton + Memento Mori Forever by Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
September 19 – Hosted The Two Antichrists with Peter Grey and Alkistis Dimech of Scarlet Imprint with Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
September 12 – Hosted Mary Wild on Taxidermy in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho + Discussion with Anna Biller, Writer and Director of The Love Witch & Viva with Carl Abrahamsson, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
September 5 – Presented/hosted Artificial Intelligence and the Patipolitical Body with Dr. Isabel Millar + Freud’s Explorations of the Occult with Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, Psychoanalysis, Art and the Occult, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
June 26 – Presenting Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation (Routledge, 2020) at Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA, online.
March 14 – Sinclair, V.R. & Steinkoler, M. On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) presented at Reckoning/ Foresight, 40th annual conference of APA, Division 39, New York, NY, USA, online.
2020
December 20 – “Creativity, Dreams & the Unconscious” as part of Aquarius Rising (Reimagined), online.
October 15-18 – Presenting at the conference Next: When the Ice Melts, Ljubljana, Slovenia. (canceled)
July 24–26 – Organized the conference Psychoanalysis to Come: Community and Culture with Drs. Emma Lieber and Kasper Opstrup, Husets Biograf, Copenhagen, Denmark. (canceled)
May 28 – Sinclair, V.R., Johanssen, J., Millar, I., Steele, J. & Zeavin, H. Connection and Community Through Technology panel presentation at The Psychology of Global Crises 2020 conference, American University Paris, online.
May 12 (postponed) – Release event for Outsider Inpatient (Trapart Books, 2020), Bokhandeln Aniara, Göteborg, Sweden.
March 18-21 (postponed) – Presenting On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) with Manya Steinkoler at Reckoning/ Foresight, the 40th annual conference of APA, Division 39, New York, NY, USA.
2019
November 4-5 – “Psychoanalysis & Necromancy,” The First International Queer Death Studies Conference: Queer(ing) Mourning, Attuning to Transitionings, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden.
October 25 – “Scansion as applied in psychoanalysis and the arts,” Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden.
August 26 – “Scansion in Psychoanalysis & Art: Another Royal Road,” Swedish Psychoanalytic Society, Stockholm, Sweden.
August 10 – Live performance of “Mementeros” with Carl Abrahamsson as part of Kendell Geers’ exhibition “The Second Coming (Do What Thou Wilt)” at Rua Red, Dublin, Ireland.
July 4–August 28 – “Mementeros” exhibition, The Museum of Pornography in Art (MOPIA), Zürich, Switzerland. Live performance and film screening with Carl Abrahamsson.
June 15 – Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019) release event, Aeon Books, New York, NY, USA.
June 11–12 – “Inpatient/ Outsider: Creativity and Mentabolization,” The Material and Immaterial History of Psychiatry: an Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
May 30–June 1 – Organized the conference Re-writing the Future: 100 Years of Esoteric Modernism & Psychoanalysis with Carl Abrahamsson, Schloss Pienzenau and Schloss Brunnenburg, Merano, Italy. The papers from this conference are collected together into a special edition of The Fenris Wolf 11 (Trapart Books, 2022) co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson.
May 10–12 – Presented “The Colonial Crusade against Magical Thinking,” Colonial Fantasies, Violent Transmissions, Psychoanalysis and Politics, Swedish Psychoanalytic Society, Stockholm, Sweden.
May 2–4 – Presented “Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: Another Royal Road,” The Truths of Psychoanalysis,11th Meeting of the International Association for Psychoanalysis & Philosophy (SIPP), Södertörn University & Swedish Psychoanalytic Society, Stockholm, Sweden.
April 26 – Book launch event for Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019) and On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019), Rönnells Antikvariat, Stockholm, Sweden.
January 12–February 3 – “Cut to Fit the Mouth” art exhibition, Galleri Granen, Sundsvall, Sweden. Live performance with Carl Abrahamsson. Reviewed in Sundsvalls Tidning.
2018
September 14 – Live performance with Carl Abrahamsson, Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden.
Spring/summer – Lecture series “The Cut-up Method of Brion Gysin and William Burroughs” with Carl Abrahamsson across Scandinavia to celebrate the release of the book Brion Gysin: His Name Was Master (Trapart Books, 2018).
April 28–29 – “The Magic of the Cut-up Method & Third Mind,” Conjuring Creativity: Art and the Esoteric, Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden.
April 9 – “The Magic of the Cut-up Method & Third Mind,” Nura Learning. Hosted by Jeremy Johnson.
2017
May 6 – Launch event for The Fenris Wolf 9 (Trapart Books, 2017), Cut to Fit the Mouth (Arcana Machine), and Message 23 (Highbrow-Lowlife) + sleep concert with Michael Reiley, SoHo Psychoanalytic, New York, NY, USA.
March 22 – Presented “The Cut in Creation,” Maryland Institute for Contemporary Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD, USA. Hosted by Mikita Brottman.
February 27 – Switching Mirrors book release event, The Bookstore in the Grove, Miami, FL USA. Live performance with Carl Abrahamsson.
January 4 – Switching Mirrors book release event, Rönnells Antikvariat, Stockholm, Sweden. Live performance with Den Arkaiska Rösten.
January 3 – Switching Mirrors book release event, Bokhandeln Aniara, Göteborg, Sweden. Live performance with Joachim Nordwall & Carl Abrahamsson.
2016
November 28 – Book launch for Switching Mirrors (Trapart Books, 2016), The Delancey, New York, NY, USA. Live performance with Liza Beth Paap.
October 24 – Hosted “An Evening of Exquisite Corpse,” The Delancey, New York, NY, USA.
October 15–16 – “Dream Over: A Sleepover for Adults,” The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA. Article by Alexxa Gotthardt “I Spent the Night in a Museum, and I’ve Never Felt Closer to a Work of Art” for Artsy.
October 6 – Hosted “On the Dance of Occult and Unconscious in Freud” with Steven Reisner, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA.
September 19 – Hosted “Rendering Unconscious: An Evening of Automatic Poetry,” The Delancey, New York, NY, USA.
September 14 – Hosted “Stripped to the Core on the Road to Madness” – Journey of the Shaman, Artist, Magical Practitioner with Charlotte Rodgers and Khi Armand, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA.
September 9–10 – Presented “Third Mind Work & Pandrogeny,” Trans-States: The Art of Crossing Over conference, University of Northampton, Northampton, England, UK.
July 22 – Presented “Belle de Jour (1967) & the work of artists Breyer P-Orridge” for Cabaret Cinema, as part of the Breyer P-Orridge exhibition Try to Altar Everything, The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA.
July 12 – Hosted “The Thing That Knowledge Can’t Eat: Engaging the Power of Archetypes and Deities for Radical Transformation/ Exploring the Seven Souls” with Langston Kahn and Demetrius Lacroix, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA.
May 27 – Hosted “Double, Double, Toil and Trouble; Narcissism, Mourning & Sexuality: Freud and Lacan meet Dalí and Goldin” with Claire-Madeline Culkin and Ray O’Neill, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA. Review by Sola Agustsson “Dali’s Doppleganger’s and Ghosts” at Hyperallergic.
May 6–8 – Organized the conference Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult with Carl Abrahamsson, Candid Arts Trust, London, England, UK. The papers from this conference are collected together into The Fenris Wolf 9 (Trapart Books, 2017) co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson.
April 28 – Presented “Cutting up the Image of the Father/ Reconstructing the Third” as part of the exhibition “Father Figures are Hard to Find,” NGBK, Berlin, Germany.
April 18 – Hosted “Image Within/ Image Without: Iconography, Symbols, and the Psychology Reflected Therein – A Discussion of Historical and Modern Divinatory Practices” with Al Cummins and Jesse Hathaway Diaz, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA.
February 5 – Hosted “Death is in Our Hearts: Meditations on Death’s Attractional Force, an Illustrated Lecture” with Carl Abrahamsson, Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA.
January 16 – Presented “The Cut in Creation” with Katelan Foisy at Madame Zuzu’s, Chicago, IL, USA.
January 11 – Presented “The Cut in Creation: An Introduction to Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult” with Katelan Foisy, at Morbid Anatomy Museum, New York, NY, USA. Article by Gabby Bess for Broadly/VICE, “The Power of Cutting Up Your Idols & Everything Else.”
2015
May 1–3 – Organized the conference On Violence and Psychoanalysis with Manya Steinkoler, Fordham University – Lincoln Center Campus, New York, NY, USA. The book On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2019) co-edited with Manya Steinkoler came from this event.
2012
October 5–7 – Presented “The Great Mr. Gatsby” at the conference “On Madness” organized by Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups (APW) and St. Louis Lacan Study Group, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA. Hosted by Todd Dean.