Techgnosis and Apocalypse

The Crypto Art of Sarah Zucker

Allan Johnson, PhD
CARRE4
Published in
4 min readJan 15, 2021

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Still from ‘The Dance of the Rendered’, Sarah Zucker (2021). Performed and crafted in studio with analog glitch processing on VHS. Digitally transferred and upscaled to 4k in Analog Native 4:3 aspect ratio.

In his 1902 book The Varieties of Religious Experience, the great American psychologist William James described what he saw as the four key elements of mystical experience: it is indescribable, it imparts some form of knowledge, it passes quickly of its own accord, and it is something that can’t be directly controlled. For James, this form of mystical encounter was a…

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Allan Johnson, PhD
CARRE4
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