New Publication Series: RENSEP Research Dossiers
We are proud to announce the launch of the RENSEP Research Dossiers, a new open-access publication series dedicated to documenting and reflecting on research projects funded, supported, or otherwise connected to RENSEP.
Each Research Dossier is a commissioned collection of contributions developed around a specific project, collaboration, or research outcome. Bringing together scholars, practitioners, artists, and other contributors, the series provides a space for reflecting on the diverse forms of knowledge that emerge through collaborative investigations of esoteric practices. In doing so, it reflects RENSEP’s commitment to advancing the interdisciplinary, global, and practice-oriented study of esoteric practices while fostering dialogue across conventional boundaries between scholars, practitioners, and artists.
We are also pleased to announce the publication of the inaugural RENSEP Research Dossier, dedicated to the RENSEP Artist’s Award 2024, which was organised in partnership with Arts University Plymouth. The dossier documents the outcomes of the Award, which was established to support research through artistic practice at the intersection of art and esotericism. It centres on Ghostwood, a site-sensitive body of work by Natasha Viosna Moody exploring ecology, magical consciousness, alchemy, material transformation, and the spectral memory of London’s fragmented Great North Wood.
Bringing together contributions by Judith Noble, Michelle Foot, Natasha Viosna Moody, and Stephen Felmingham, the dossier situates the Award within the growing interest in esoteric and magical practices in contemporary art. It explores artistic practice as a mode of esoteric inquiry, showing how plant matter, glass, metal, light, writing, and performance can become vehicles for ecological, mythopoetic, and experiential knowledge. The volume also includes an interview with Moody, offering a first-person reflection on her artistic process, her engagement with plants and landscapes, and the relationship between artistic creation, esoteric practice, and more-than-human agencies.
