Your Art Is A Spell
Your Art Is A Spell
Podcast Description
Welcome to Your Art Is A Spell, the podcast that ignites inspiring and transformative conversations about art as a magical practice. I'm your host, Edgar Fabián Frías—a multi-passionate artist, witch, therapist, and proud mutant shape-shifter. My art spells have reached audiences through social media, billboards, and skyscrapers and have even been placed on the surface of the moon! Join us as we explore how reclaiming your unique artistic voice and embracing bold creativity can transform your life and the world around you. Subscribe to the podcast and sign up for our newsletter at www.yourartisaspell.com to stay connected!
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The podcast focuses on themes of art as a transformative and magical practice, personal journey, and intersections of creativity and spirituality. Episodes cover personal stories like how to achieve a dream job as a multi-passionate artist, discussions on indigenous approaches to AI in art, and astrological insights for personal growth, with specific episodes addressing the role of community, spirituality, and ancestral knowledge in creative practices.
Welcome to Your Art Is A Spell, the podcast that ignites inspiring and transformative conversations about art as a magical practice. I’m your host, Edgar Fabián Frías—a multi-passionate artist, witch, therapist, and proud mutant shape-shifter. My art spells have reached audiences through social media, billboards, and skyscrapers and have even been placed on the surface of the moon! Join us as we explore how reclaiming your unique artistic voice and embracing bold creativity can transform your life and the world around you. Subscribe to the podcast and sign up for our newsletter at www.yourartisaspell.com to stay connected!
Welcome to Season 2 of Your Art Is A Spell. In this premiere episode, we introduce the concept of Tactical Magic, the use of ritual, art, and ancient wisdom as tools for survival and agency in difficult times. Join me on a journey to the Palm Springs Art Museum for the groundbreaking exhibition, Queer Arcana: Art, Magic & Spirit. Spanning over a century of work from 1909 to 2026, this show reveals how queer, trans, and gender-expansive artists have long used the esoteric to build worlds where they were once excluded. From the tarot of Rachel Pollack to my own social practice ritual, Give Us Home Spider, we look at how art functions not just as decoration, but as a technology of the spirit and a powerful act of political resistance.
Video Chapters
00:00 – Welcome to Your Art Is A Spell Season 2
00:30 – Reclaiming Sovereignty & Agency in Difficult Times
01:05 – Artist Residency in Berlin: The Human Machine
01:40 – Traveling to Palm Springs: Queer Arcana Exhibition
03:30 – Arrival at Palm Springs Art Museum
04:15 – What is Tactical Magic? Defining the Theme
05:15 – Magic as Resistance: Survival at the Margins
07:10 – Inside the Queer Arcana Exhibition: Art, Magic & Spirit
08:08 – Art as Spellcraft: A Technology of the Spirit
09:27 – The Q+ Art Initiative at Palm Springs Art Museum
10:00 – The Six Portals of Queer Arcana (Section Walkthrough)
11:53 – “Give Us Home Spider”: My Social Practice Ritual (2017)
13:00 – Why Queer People Turn to Divination & Ritual
14:13 – Visionary Artists: Candice Lin & Hilma’s Ghost
15:15 – Honoring Queer Lineages: Clarity Haynes & Agnes Pelton
16:00 – Walter Mercado & Nao Bustamante: Latinx Astrological Legacies
16:18 – Remembering Ancestors: Genesis P-Orridge & Nancy Azara
16:50 – The Desert as a Place of Vision & Sanctuary
18:18 – Honoring Rachel Pollack & Austin Osman Spare
19:12 – Closing: Your Art is a Spell
Explore the Exhibition:
Queer Arcana at Palm Springs Art Museum: https://www.psmuseum.org/exhibitions/queer-arcana
The Q+ Art Initiative: https://www.psmuseum.org/art/q-plus-art
The artists included in this exhibition are:
Carlos Alfonzo, Steven Arnold, Nancy Azara, Judy Baca, Elijah Burgher, Nao Bustamante, Cameron, Tee Corrine, Jayne County, Frances Salomé España, Edgar Fabián Frías, Russell FitzGerald, Sergio Hernández Francés, Hilma’s Ghost, Tamara Gonzales, Marsden Hartley, Sadao Hasegawa, Richard Hawkins, Clarity Haynes, Joseph Liatela, Candice Lin, Fred Lonidier, Billie Luisi-Potts, Daniel Correa Mejía, Mundo Meza, Genesis P-Orridge, Agnes Pelton, Naudline Pierre, Rachel Pollack, Eric-Paul Riege
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