The conference is host to a specialized book fair and art show with leading publishers and artists in the field of esotericism. Ample space is provided to browse book stalls, view art and network with presenters, scholars and conference attendees in the Social Circle throughout the duration of the event.

The book fair and art show are open to the public. Admission is free. Only paid ticket holders will be permitted into the presentations and performances.

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Authors

The following authors will also be present and available for book signings at the conference:

  • Shon Clark
  • Taylor Ellwood
  • Phillip Bernhardt House
  • Erynn Rowan Laurie
  • Lupa
  • Bill Whitcomb
  • Brandy Williams

Vendors

Artists

Anima Nocturna

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Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule is a ChaOrder Magickian and Baphometic avatar somewhat obsessed with physical reification and Malkuthian manifestation. As a vessel for these processes and others, hir Metamorphic Ritual Theatre Company presents public rituals aiming to transform rather than merely entertain the audiences. Other ongoing outlets for expression and initiation are the ever-expanding digital archives and galleries of The Mutation Parlour; and the underlying/overflying HermAphroditic ChAOrder of The Silver Dusk, a global multicultural and multisubcultural blend of tradition and innovation and a lunar, arachnean, artistic and intuitive counterpoint to the more solar and structured magick of the Golden Dawn and their heirs.

Other affiliations and initiations include the AdiNath and Aghori Tantric traditions, The Horus-Maat Lodge, the EOD, the SSS and the I:.I:. He is also the Australian ambassador of The Dionysian Underground.

A prolific visual and sonic artist, Orryelle finds drawing, painting, sculpture, dance, drama, photography, animation, verse, video, violin and voice effective ways of earthing magickal currents.

He co-developed with other ChaOrder in-it-I-ates The Choronzon Machine, a Ritual Opera and musickal-mechanical-magickal device for generating analogue fractals, is co-ordinator of iNSPiRALink Multimedia Press, editor of this IMPress’s SilKMilK MagiZain, and created The BOOK of KAOS Tarot Deck.

Sept. ‘08 saw the launch of Orryelle’s Graphic Grimmoire Conjunctio from Fulgur Limited, and he is currently developing the other three books in the fourfold bookweb or Tela Quadrivium, which hir Performance at the Esoteric Book Conference will revolve around.

Original drawings from Conjunctio and forthcoming volumes of the series will be exhibited and for sale at the Seattle Esoteric Book Conference, as well as a new clay sculpture.

Orryelle is also releasing at the Esoteric Book Conference a limted edition of ‘The Book of Going Back by Night’ — 3rd Chapter never seen — lavishly hand-bound by Hell Fire Club Books UK.

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Liv Rainey-Smith is a print artist working primarily with woodblocks. Her process incorporates a mixture of traditional and modern tools as well as a blend of European and Japanese printmaking technique. Liv’s imagery is figure-oriented, and she draws on history, nature, religion, dream, and vision for inspiration. Or as she likes to say, “Some artists explore the human form, some seek to deconstruct, and some seek the sublime in nature. I’m interested in that thing crouching in the corner of your room.”

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Gabriela Sugier. Through Dream and Vision the colors and beings emerge before the painter. Sometimes the Beasts and Angels that come forth are new and unfiltered. They open the gates, the energy shifts and a new portal is made into their world. And then, there are those which are the comforting and familiar faces of the Spirits that are always watching us. They are the whispers from the folds of the Heart. Confirmations of our sacred connection to the Gods and the many journeys they place before us. To these Visions I surrender…

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Bryan Ward. My time is spent drawing, painting and being a single parent to my lovely daughter, I also find inspiration in traveling and spending as much time in nature as possible. I’ve been creating visual art since I can remember, having been influenced by the Surrealists and the discovery of Entheogens at a young age my art has always reflected the strange and the weird, the fantastic and visionary. At times reflecting the macabre and my darker side and other times exploring my fascination with the unknowable and the awe and bliss of being alive. My work obviously has meaning for me and my personal myth comes through either consciously or unconsciously; as for any absolute meaning in my work though I think the power of visual art is that it’s open to the individual’s interpretation. Question what you see, consider what you don’t, draw your own conclusions.

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For information on vending please contact the conference administrators; space is limited.