Documentation, editing, structure: Aaron Dylan Kearns
Additional camera: Juli Kearns
iPhone videography: Juli Kearns
Featuring: Steven Cline, Hazel Cline, Aaron Dylan Kearns, Juli Maria Kearns, Megan Leach, Steve Morrison
Egregore soundscape: Hazel Cline, Martin Kearns
Egregorrhea #6 - Surrealist Egregores, Or, How To Take A Collect Call Collectively
written by Jason Abdelhadi and narrated by Juli Maria Kearns
Runtime: 47:47
Budget: $0
Release Date: May 15, 2022
Egregore—a very strange beast. A spectral entity created inside the alchemical furnace of true collectivity, an external spirit which surpasses all its individual components. It is the “something more than”, it is the “space between”, which haunts all our activity. A trickster child that, once birthed, immediately overshadows its parents, creating a paradoxical new reality, a third invisible other. A 1 + 1 which, quite inexplicably, is seen equaling 3. And so we draw our magic surrealist circle here, and we summon. Against the miserable capitalist world which we inhabit, so dominated by online fragmentation, individual narcissism, and personal compromise, we raise this phantom—the answer to all our dilemmas. Surrealism brought us many new paths to liberation, but none quite so potent as this. This present exhibit will be a document of its wanderings among us during the past five years of surrealist collective activity in the belly of old Atlanta. An incomplete document, as it must be. This exhibit is a call to play, too. A call to find and join The Others. For if the future affords us any hope, it is a hope that is only to be found together. In the eclipse of Me within We, a marvelous Egregore waits. Don’t keep it waiting.
Egregore documentary poster:
More information on the Egregore exhibit, staged October 21 to 31 at The Bakery in Atlanta, GA is at the Peculiar Mormyrid website, including the Egregore book that is a record of the physical exhibit.
Pieces of mine included in the physical show and recorded in the Egregore book were:
"3 The Process", a collage by Steven Cline and Aaron Dylan Kearns (pg. 29)
Another collage by Steven Cline and Aaron Dylan Kearns (pg. 32)
"There's No One There", a collage by Hazel Cline, Steven Cline and Aaron Dylan Kearns (pg. 39)
"Plum Pudding", a collage by Hazel Cline, Steven Cline, and Aaron Dylan Kearns (pg. 40)
"Winter Sports", 2020, acrylic painting on canvas by Aaron Dylan Kearns (pg. 47)
"Kafka #1", 2019, acrylic painting on poster board by Aaron Dylan Kearns (pg. 47)
"Kafka #2", 2019, acrylic painting on poster board by Aaron Dylan Kearns (pg. 49)
"Man in a Forest", 2020, acrylic painting on poster board by Aaron Dylan Kearns (pg. 54)
"Wolfman", 2020, acrylic painting on poster board by Aaron Dylan Kearns (pg. 55)
Mushroom collage by Hazel Cline, Steven Cline and Aaron Dylan Kearns (pg. 66)
Lobster claw collage by Hazel Cline, Steven Cline and Aaron Dylan Kearns (pg. 70)
"Vital Motor", found objects sculpture with animal bones by Aaron Dylan Kearns (pg. 84)
"An Homage to Suehiro Maruo", readymade by Aaron Dylan Kearns (pg. 85)
"Deaf Wind Chimes", found objects sculpture with animal bones by Aaron Dylan Kearns (pg. 86)
"Grandfather", 2019, acrylic painting on poster board by Aaron Dylan Kearns (pg. 88)
"Dreams of a Blue Butcher's Shop", 2021, acrylic painting on book cover by Aaron Dylan Kearns (pg. 94)
"Night", 2020, acrylic painting on book cover by Aaron Dylan Kearns
"Untitled, 2019", pen and ink on mixed media paper by Aaron Dylan Kearns
"Kafka #3", 2019, acrylic painting on poster board by Aaron Dylan Kearns
"Junkyard Phantom Riot", 2021, acrylic painting on book cover by Aaron Dylan Kearns
"Darkroom Explosion", 2021, acrylic painting on book cover by Aaron Dylan Kearns
