ALkistis Dimech
Living Crystal : Incarnate Cosmos - in conversation with JD Kelley
This conversation explores the occult body — the incarnate liquid crystalline field, where matter, memory, and imagination converge. Drawing on both scientific and hermetic perspectives, we’ll consider the body as an intelligent, living medium shaped by cosmic and terrestrial forces — lunar tides, solar weather, and the great cycles of planetary change.
At this moment of ecological and energetic transformation, what does it mean to be incarnate? To recognise that within us is an ocean, ancient waters, and the resilience of epochs past? The body becomes both archive and vessel — a place where the cosmos imprints itself, where consciousness and flesh evolves.
Through reflection and experiential practice, participants will attune to the intelligence of the flesh — the coherence of its crystalline structures, the imagination woven through matter — and glimpse the emergence of a new, luminous human form shaped through our ongoing dialogue with the world.
Alkistis Dimech is an artist, dancer-choreographer and writer exploring the mysteries of the carnal body and its subtle anatomy through an archaeology and poietics of flesh. Her art and praxis is grounded in ankoku butô (dark dance), which she have practised since 2002.
She has performed, given workshops and spoken on my practice at events, conferences and research seminars in the UK, Europe and the United States.
With Peter Grey, Alkistis is the co-founder of Scarlet Imprint, channelling her creative energies into book design and typography.