ABOUT

JOVE SPUCCHI is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, performer, dramaturg, and educator working in an occult-driven practice. They explore the intersections of technology, dance, and queer nightlife as driven by the value and goal of spiritual enmeshment with the magical other. Leaning into their decade of software engineering, IT and engineering leadership, they explore how occult traditions, ritual practices, and divination techniques overlap, and “dance” with emerging technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence.

In their ritual research practice they act as psychopomp, mentor, celebrant, and inspirited dancer; creating the conditions for exploring the multiplicity of selves that arise in relation with a diverse range of human and more-than-human others. Through group ritual, hosting, and sensory environment design, Jove collaborates with participants in improvisational composition, spontaneous mutual aid, and ecstatic experiences, creating the conditions for transformative communal and individual change. This research process stands alone as a significant practice but dovetails with their compositional and performance practices. This process-based research finds itself in conversation with the works and writings of Faye Driscoll, Alkistis Dimech, Anna Halprin, and Pierre Bordieu, centering butoh, ekstasis, and queer celebration as modes of praxis.

Foundational to more recent explorations, Jove's earliest works examine the potential of technology and new media as tools toward the gestation of persona and queering of possible selves both online and off.

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