Conjuring Feral Alterity in an Age of Entangled Collapse
September 25-26
Image credit: Morna McNulty
TOWN Friday
Educator, artist and writer Morna McDermott McNulty and artist-activist Jill Goldman ask the question: What is feral alterity and how do artists conjure change through aesthetic practices?
The title suggests that uncivilized and untamed ways of making art with the more-than human world become collaborative sites of investigation that disrupt oppressive and static systems of being and knowing. Participants explore the artists' use of feral aesthetics as a form of inquiry designed to entangle our shared resistance to oppressive systems of art and knowledge creation.
Morna McNulty’s work (as a university scholar, artist and educator) explores how feral inquiry is more of a “conjuring” which invokes embodied transformation rather than research of transmission. The process includes the intentional embrace of a non-normative, untamed, or "monstrous" existence to critique, defy, or escape conventional human, social, or technological constraints. She includes tarot making and tarot reading as methodologies, along with other (il)logical, alchemical, anti-establishment modes of conjuring arts-based research for social change.
Jill Goldman (activist, filmmaker, and research-based performance artist) will present her artist book/monograph, Disentanglement / Re-Embodiment, the culmination of a five-year, research-based project developed through multiple residencies at Mildred’s Lane. The book examines the entanglement of patriarchy, capitalism, ecological collapse, and systems of power, proposing art as a practice of structural inquiry, embodied transformation, and radical reimagining. Jill will also introduce her new installation/performance, Balls and Things, which premiered in Porto Palo di Capaperro, Sicily where she extends her ongoing practice of shapeshifting beyond the animal world into relationships with the more-than-human world and the elemental forces of earth, water, and air.
This event is of interest to community activists, scholars, and educators who understand the power of creativity to challenge existing paradigms of power, and to disrupt systems of harm. Attendees will be invited to “make-together” using the materials (to be provided) and to conjure together alternative imagined possibilities to our entangled future(s).
Social Saturday:
Documentary, Discussion and Dinner
Join us on the farm for an evening of film, discussion and dining. Professors Dr. Gary Homana and Morna McNulty from Towson University will host a showing of Voices of Baltimore: Life Under Segregation (G. Homana Executive producer). The film examines the lives of people who lived during the Jim Crow era of segregation. After an audience-driven dialogue with the film directors andJill Goldman as film discussant, we will delight in a community-style dinner, led by Digestion Choreographer: Monique. The full moon of September is a time to celebrate the history of social, political and ecological resistance through collective and imaginative agency.
6:00 PM Gathering
Social Saturday: Documentary, Discussion and Dinner
Join us on the farm for an evening of film, discussion and dining. Professors Dr. Gary Homana and Morna McNulty from Towson University will host a showing of Voices of Baltimore: Life Under Segregation (G. Homana Executive producer). The film examines the lives of people who lived during the Jim Crow era of segregation. After an audience-driven dialogue with the film directors and Jill Goldman as film discussant, we will delight in a community-style dinner, led by Digestion Choreographer: Monique. The full moon of September is a time to celebrate the history of social, political and ecological resistance through collective and imaginative agency.
Social Saturday is an event series that has been taking place for almost two decades, your ticket purchase encompasses a late-afternoon guest lecture or presentation and a dinner, BYOB. Tickets are a Sliding Scale Donation, $55.00 to $125.00 - larger donations welcome and much needed! Help support art, culture & ecology. This is a 501(c)3 organization, all donations are tax deductible.
RESERVE your stay experience with the HARVEST MOON at Mildred’s Lane!
Contact us at complexity@mildredslane.org to make a booking or use the link below.
September 25 – 27th
Book your two night stay at the enchanted art-site of Mildred’s Lane. for this upcoming weekend swarming. Educator, artist and writer Morna McDermott McNulty and artist-activist Jill Goldman ask the question: What is feral alterity and how do artists conjure change through aesthetic practices?
This weekend aligns with the 15th Annual Big Eddy Film Festival - SEPTEMBER 24th - 27th at various venues in Narrowsburg, NY. https://bigeddyfilmfest.com/
The main lodge house accommodations is in the meadow and features eccentrically installed rooms filled with unique art collections and curiosities. Our library offers an extraordinary experience with a stone fireplace, various nonfiction and fiction works, and hundreds of books about all the artists gathered there over the years. The Kitchen Laboratory boasts a whimsical array of equipment that inspires you to craft your own Digestion Choreography.
All site access included.
Meals for one person, additional person in room pays $100 for all meals.
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Seasonal rates subject to change.
Please inquire before making a booking to confirm availability: complexity@mildredslane.org
ALSO during the Harvest Moon Weekend is the BIG EDDY FILM FESTIVAL
September 24-27th, 2026.
Visit bigeddyfilmfest.com for updates.
