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þan-þan : 219* Heretical Marginalia, Alive!, The Confraternity of Neoflagellants

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Member of The Confraternity of Neoflagellants, Neil Mulholland, produced a surprise, improvised audio mix within the control-closet of the þan-þan exhibition, mingling and bleeding together recordings and live readings from the related þan-þan publication with the looping audio and video tracks that constituted the more stable components of of the longer-term installation.

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 Condemnations, Alive!, The Confraternity of Neoflagellants. Nov. 6, 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.