Knot Project Space hosted The Confraternity of Neoflagellants (Neil Mulholland + Norman Hogg) for a special reading/performance as part of their exhibition þan-þan. Anchored behind the gallery walls, and visible through a Fotodiox lens-adaptor embedded in the drywall, the Confraternity’s story-time performance involved various dramatically pitched retellings featuring the pan-dimensional cross-talking stars from their latest neomedieval boke-making act, as well as older chestnuts. This expansion pack extravaganza nested itself within the already seam-bursting digestive maze that proliferated throughout the Knot’s black-box, as audience members were invited to write notes on stickies and pass them through the wall-lens passage to the anchorites beyond, who sent back responses in the form of mini Oh Henry bars, re-packaged Kinder Egg surprises, and, naturally, sage advice.
O F F I C I A L I N V I T A T I O N
Knot Project Space and The Confraternity of Neoflagellants invite you, your colleagues, your friends, family, and neighbours for a reaaaaaally special proxy encounter with the loungey vibe of the gastēr-investigative anchorhold that lies, literally, behind the convulsing spyryte-casts that animate þan-þan. Stalk and assay the CoN weorld across a fetid Fotodiox tele annulus 180mm f5.5 pontifex as The Confraternity of Neoflagellants forever forgo the National Capital Regional sunshine for Knot’s soft, warm cell. Clicking and whistling, gossamer malware spectres creep from this 2000+ MHz anchorhold to course betwixt the Fotodiox’s precision machined anodised aluminium ring, bringing you and your colleagues, or friends and their family and neighbours approximately 219* theses from the heretical þan-þan apocrypha. Considered dead to the world, CoN will devote themselves to propagating a litany of errors – including ASMR CrockPottery, EVPclimatology, pineal gland LRAEXLing, peristaltic mystery unboxing, and deodandy [userexperience] management – so that you, your friends’ colleagues and family, or your neighbours don’t have to. gYEAhhhhhh!
*Actual volume of apocrypha may vary
The Confraternity of Neoflagellants
The Confraternity of Neoflagellants was founded in 2009 by Serjeant-At-Law Norman Hogg and joined by Keeper of the Wardrobe Neil Mulholland. The 12thAnimal, Neven Lochhead, was summoned for their 2019 þan-þan exhibition as its nascency proctor. It is a secular and equal opportunities confraternity bound by chirograph. @neoflagellants is constituted of lay actants dedicated to the ludic, ascetic, aesthetic and athletic treatment and dissemination of neomedievalisms. Confraternity of Neoflagellants is an avatar for nonmodern world-building, a neomedieval theory-fictioning gaster-machine, a GAN-oracle of the not-yet-MHz. As a world-building electrostatic-#gut relic-ing technology, @neoflagellants patent pending nonmodern fictioning combines with mythopoesis: how premodern existences might be utilized against the impasses of hastily prescribed futures.
Related Programming
Exhibition: þan-þan, The Confraternity of Neoflagellants. Oct. 19 – Nov. 16, 2019.
Performance: *219 Heretical Marginalia, Alive!, The Confraternity of Neoflagellants. Nov. 7, 2019. 
Workshop: Shift/Work [STATIC] Speculations, The Confraternity of Neoflagellants. Nov. 9, 2019. Knot Project Space.
Publication: þan-þan, The Confraternity of Neoflagellants, Punctum Books. Fall 2020.