 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Zeena Schreck Returns To The German Music Scene After 24 Years Performing A Typhonian Tantric Ritual Soundscape at the Egyptian Museum, University of Leipzig Presented by: Wave-Gotik-Treffen festival for dark music and arts. Saturday May 23, 2015 - Doors open at 7PM Egyptian Museum of the University of Leipzig - Prof. Dr. Hans-W. Fischer-Elfert // Goethestraße 2 // 04109 Leipzig Admission with the WGT pass // no reserved seating Description After a twenty-four year retreat from the German music scene, this event is Zeena Schreck's return to sonic magic performance-art appearances in Europe. An historical event by a legendary figure of modern magic, mysticism and experimental-ambient music – this is more than just a secular musical concert. It will touch the audience with divine blessings and plant the seeds necessary for spiritual liberation and enlightenment. Surrounded by the sacred, magically charged ancient artifacts housed in Leipzig's Egyptian Museum, the performance will be a unique ritual soundscape. Zeena is also High Priestess of Seth and leader of the Sethian Liberation Movement. Therefore, the Egyptian Museum is a prime genius-loci to present ancient Egyptian aspects of Zeena's spiritual practices. This is the second in a series of ritual musical installments inaugurated with the 2013 performance-art event at The Community Church of New York, curated by Performa-13. Historical Context: The Leipzig-Seth-Abraxas Connection Professor Albrecht Dieterich, a student of the University of Leipzig, wrote the first study in modern times of the god Abraxas with his influential Abraxas: Studien zur Religionsgeschichte des spätern Altertums published in Leipzig in 1891. He was also one of the first scholars to work with the Greek Magical Papyri or Papyri Graecae Magicae, a collection of ancient magical spells, formulae, hymns and rituals collection from Graeco-Roman Egypt, a body of treatises essential to Zeena's work reviving an authentic Sethian religion in modern times. Continuing the Leipzig and WGT connection to the ancient Egyptian god Seth, Karl Preisendanz collected the texts and published them in two volumes in 1928 and 1931. A projected third volume, containing new texts and indices, reached the stage of galley proofs dated "Pentecost 1941", (WGT is always held on Pfingsten or Pentecost) but the type was destroyed during the bombing of Leipzig during World War II. Biography Zeena Schreck (b. 1963, San Francisco/U.S.A) is a graphic artist, photographer, avant-garde musician, author and animal rights activist. Between 1988-1993 she was 50% of the sonic magical musical project Radio Werewolf and served as composer, vocalist, musician and graphic designer for all Radio Werewolf albums and products. At sixteen Zeena began lecturing and teaching magic and sorcery. At a comparatively young age, she held the highest possible leadership positions in three of the most notorious occult orders of modern times: High Priestess of The Church of Satan, High Priestess of The Temple of Set and Female Alpha of The Werewolf Order. This unprecedented status has never been matched by any other occult figures in history. In 1990 she rejected all forms of satanism and western occultism and publicly proclaimed such pseudo-religions as spiritually fraudulent and inherently destructive. Since then, she has focused her spiritual pursuits exclusively in the mystical practices of ancient Gnostic Sethianism and the original Eastern left-hand path of Vedic tantra (Shaktism) and Buddhist tantra (Tibetan Buddhism). She is an initiated yogini in the tantric Buddhist lineages of Nyingma, Karma Kagyu and Drikung Kagyu and teaches in Berlin. Interview requests should be directed to [email protected] ###  Egyptian Museum, University of Leipzig / Das Ägyptische Museum der Universität Leipzig ©Zeena Schreck 2015
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A heartfelt thanks goes out today to my dear artist friend Frank Haines, who sent me his latest book, aptly titled, Frank Exchanges.
Frank organized the 2013 New York performance, “Zeena Schreck, Live from the Eye of the Storm.” Over the course of our lifetimes, Frank and I have worked, lived and loved in many of the same cities - San Francisco, Vienna and Berlin - but it wasn't until 2012 when our paths finally crossed and we began plans to collaborate on various art projects.
Frank Exchanges is a labor of love spotlighting twenty-six artists who have traveled through Frank's life at various times. I had the privilege of meeting many of these talented and hard-working artists as a result of my collaboration with Frank for our New York performance. So it's wonderful to learn more about this community of creators and creatrixes in this volume.
Frank is inspired by and works with artists who understand and embody the integration of spirituality, magic and the creative process. He also has an appreciation and understanding of the feminine energy central to creativity. This could be because he's been nurtured and mentored by many female artists, including his two sisters and his life's partner, Jackie Klempay. It could also be because he really digs feminine mystical artists. Conversations with Frank are often peppered with references to female artists who inspire him. So it's not surprising that the introduction to his book explains the genesis of Frank Exchanges, as related to two female artists and how the “direct interview form, where the content reflects a conversation” shaped his desire to publish his exchanges with artists he knows: When I look at a Loise Nevelson sculpture I think about the way she described eating raisins. She would not eat raisins by the bunch but singly and selectively. 'When I put a raisin in my mouth I know what I'm doing'. This single statement expresses a mindfulness about living in the world that I see reflected in her work.
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“Eliza Swann interviewed me for Arthur magazine in 2011. I loved the conversation that resulted from the meeting of our minds. Inspired by these results, I wanted to document many of the ideas that have been shaped through conversations with close friends of mine.” 
Anders Hermund, Frank Haines and Hisham Akira Bharoocha at sound & light check for Performa-13 biennial. Photo by Zeena
From that launching point, Frank manifests Frank Exchanges. A collection of essay-interviews that reveal complex philosophical and religio-magical perspectives from artists who have experienced struggle, love, pain, poverty, doubt, loss, euphoria and all of the usual challenges artists face in a society which devalues visionary thought. It offers a glimpse into the minds of ambassadors from another state of consciousness. In a strictly materialistic culture, both art and spirituality are often viewed by society as worthless, when they don't contribute to economic and industrial productivity. So it's refreshing to see artists intelligently interviewed by one of their own, rather than being asked inane questions by someone who can't relate to the creative spirit!
~Zeena |