event
Curators' Talk & Performance, Eddie Owens Martin: Drawing Between Worlds
Date
November 8, 2025Related exhibition
EDDIE OWENS MARTIN, Drawing Between Worldsevent Images
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Charles Fowler, Travis Dodd, Annie Moye & Michael McFalls
Michael McFalls, Director of Pasaquan
Travis Dodd, Levitation ceremony
Travis Dodd levitation performance at St. EOM’s Pasaquan, Buena Vista, Georgia
About the event
Saturday, November 8, 4 - 6pm
EDDIE OWENS MARTIN: Drawing Between Worlds
Curators' Talk / Performance / Opening Reception
The show features 90 drawings made between 1930-1950 during the visionary Southern artist’s time in New York City. These early works, many seen here for the first time, reveal Martin’s spiritual awakening and aesthetic transformation into St. EOM.
TALK:
Join us at 4pm for a discussion 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.
LINK to talk
EVENT:
At 5pm, 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.
