VCA ART 2020

L Hermosilla

PhD

In my PhD dissertation "Practicing Magic", I examine magic as both a generative methodology and an instrument for ideological critique. Through studio-led artistic research, new artworks ratifying and presenting magic support analyses of the strategies and rationales that artists utilise to both manifest and situate magically-oriented artworks. As researched through "Practicing Magic", the diversity of magic as a generative and transformative force in art highlights the contribution of magic to art practice and research, and its potent capacity to advance artistic and interdisciplinary social discourses.

Enquiries

l.hermosilla.artist@gmail.com

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L Hermosilla, *A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Witch. Left: Astrological Self Portrait. Right: Legal Name Change #1 (I've Not Been Feeling Myself)*, astrological chart embossed on cotton rag, legal and performative name changes incorporating positive numerology and contagious magic, 2015-2020 (ongoing series)
L Hermosilla, A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Witch. Left: Astrological Self Portrait. Right: Legal Name Change #1 (I've Not Been Feeling Myself), astrological chart embossed on cotton rag, legal and performative name changes incorporating positive numerology and contagious magic, 2015-2020 (ongoing series)
L Hermosilla, We've Been Here Before/Before We've Been Here, video documentation, model of installation plan, magic(s), 2020. Videography by Andrew Johnson. Model courtesy of Amy May Stuart.
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L Hermosilla and Nico Callaghan, Combined Sound works: 1. Working the Room and Tuning You Up 2. Complete/Utter/Chaos, sound composed utilising the doctrines of vibrational medicine and spoken sigil witchery (artist's constructed language), 2020
L Hermosilla, *Opening Ceremony I: Drawing Down the Moon V*, opening ceremonial performance of ritualised energetic channelling, 2020
L Hermosilla, Opening Ceremony I: Drawing Down the Moon V, opening ceremonial performance of ritualised energetic channelling, 2020
L Hermosilla, *Codex*, reclaimed timber, recycled paper fibreboard, paint, chaos magick, 2020
L Hermosilla, Codex, reclaimed timber, recycled paper fibreboard, paint, chaos magick, 2020
L Hermosilla, *Hekate's Wheels: Casting Circles, Painting in Spells, Binding Thoughts*, braiding tables assembled from reclaimed timber, plaster, hand-painted twine, 2020. Documentation by Amy May Stuart.
L Hermosilla, Hekate's Wheels: Casting Circles, Painting in Spells, Binding Thoughts, braiding tables assembled from reclaimed timber, plaster, hand-painted twine, 2020. Documentation by Amy May Stuart.
L Hermosilla, Braiding in Friendship/Support Structures, performance utilising cord magic and support structures, 2020. Videography by Robert Frantzeskos.
L Hermosilla, *Sitting in Vigil + At the Crossroads + Fire + Escape*, installation and performance: personal temple constructed in linen and timber; anointed candles, candle magic, fire warden training certificate, 2020. Documentation by Amy May Stuart.
L Hermosilla, Sitting in Vigil + At the Crossroads + Fire + Escape, installation and performance: personal temple constructed in linen and timber; anointed candles, candle magic, fire warden training certificate, 2020. Documentation by Amy May Stuart.
L Hermosilla, *Detail: Grayscale - Participation Mystique or Sacrifices at the Altar of My PhD*, offerings via the community; altar constructed from recycled materials, repurposed artist's tables and plinths; oil painting on linen by the artist, 2020. Documentation by Amy May Stuart.
L Hermosilla, Detail: Grayscale - Participation Mystique or Sacrifices at the Altar of My PhD, offerings via the community; altar constructed from recycled materials, repurposed artist's tables and plinths; oil painting on linen by the artist, 2020. Documentation by Amy May Stuart.
L Hermosilla, Opening Ceremony II - Altarepistemologies Exhibition Opening, video documentation from the opening night of the solo PhD exhibition Altarepistemologies at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery, 2020. Videography by Robert Frantzeskos.

PhD

L Hermosilla
Rowan McNaught
Rebecca Najdowski

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