Omsk Social Club: Tulpa-Trancing Workshop

Tulpamancer is a participatory event on the eve of the Full Moon, that aims to construct animated Tulpas in the people who are present. The word originates from certain branches of Buddhism, a tulpa is an object (usually a living creature) that is brought into existence via sheer will and concentration of its host. Internet forums such as 4chan and reddit have integrated Tulpas as sentient beings in real space in recent years via role play, larp and memetic magik.

Omsk Social Club will construct an immersive meditative environment and guide those present into a state in which they will start to be able to construct their own tulpas.

Special Notes

Please bring a yoga mat and blanket, wear comfortable clothing. It is advised not to consume caffeine nor animal products for at least one hour before the practice. If you wish you can bring something small and personal with you and it is advised to keep a piece of paper and pen next to your bed and write down your dream the night before the workshop.

Bio

Omsk Social Club Lives and works in Berlin. Omsk studied at The Glasgow School of Art in 2008 and went on to attend the European Graduate School Summer Institute in 2015/16. She has exhibited across Europe in various institutions, galleries and offsites such as Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Middlesbrough Modern Institute of Art, Bergen Kunsthalle, Gold and Beton Cologne, “Vomit Apocalypse” for Glasgow International and Kunsthalle Zürich. She attended The Eternal Internet Brother/Sisterhood residency in Sri Lanka in 2016 curated by Angelo Plessas and was awarded the Gleis 70 Zurich international artist award from Pro Helvetia in 2017 and the 8th ARTWARD Junior Prize in Munich.

She coined and works heavily with the concept of Cosmic Depression – The theory of depression caused by digital utopia (Paradise without Ecology) and Real Game Play. Omsk’s practice spans from visual to theoretical production often using the model of gaming. Working with a cross disciplinary practice and over many avatars or pseudo-names. The artist is constantly observing and questioning the concept of Self, Individualism and the community both in off and online scenarios. Pioneering the spectacle Ying Colosseum in Berlin (2015-2016), She is heavily influenced by her peers and their voices as collective anonymous mass often incorporating them into her Meta Larps and Real Games. One may liken her output to a new form of relational aesthetic practice. “Zen, Speed, Organic: 3 lifestyle diets.”