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Curators' Talk & Performance, Eddie Owens Martin: Drawing Between Worlds

About the event

Saturday, November 8, 4 - 6pm
EDDIE OWENS MARTIN: DRAWING BETWEEN WORLDS
Curators' Talk / Performance / Opening Reception

Join us for a panel with curators Michael McFalls and Charles Fowler in conversation with Annie Moye, Chair of the Pasaquan Preservation Society. These three experts will discuss the early drawings of Eddie Owens Martin / St. EOM and their relationship to the development of Pasaquoyanism. 

After the talk, performance artist Travis Dodd will present a levitation ceremony inspired by the visionary practice of St. EOM. A reception will follow until 6pm.

Dodd Artist Statement: 
The performance incorporates sound created from St. EOM's archive, layering history, voice, and myth into the atmosphere of the event.

Sweat Signal is a series of levitation ceremonies that question earthly limitations and rational constraints. The work originally debuted at the Headlands Center for the Arts as part of The Quieting World.

The piece is rooted in the fever dreams of St. EOM, who envisioned the utopian world of Pasaquan. These dream-states—saturated with color, intensity, and altered perception—act as portals to freedom, revealing how shifts in consciousness can heighten aesthetic experience and open possibilities that reach beyond the technological or scientific.

At the center of the performance is the Pasaquoyan levitation suit, an otherworldly device within St. EOM's mythos that made levitation possible. In Dodd's work, the suit functions as both symbol and tool. Levitation here is not a spectacle of floating but a poetic act of defiance: a reimagining of freedom that rises against gravity and logic, refusing the ordinary boundaries of existence.