SupernormalSuperSensorySummerSchool (SSSSS) is an experimental arts educational project created for the Supernormal Arts and Music Festival at Braziers Park, Oxfordshire. Braziers Park is the home to the longest running intentional community in the UK and for many years it hosted the Braziers International Artists Workshop that eventually evolved into Supernormal festival in 2010. SSSS was founded by myself, Charlie Fox, Stephanie Moran and Anne Robinson following the Project Sigma/Anti-University Forum at Supernormal 2013. Working with the Brazier’s archive SSSS modelled its approach on the founding ideas of The School of Integrative Social Research that Norman Glaister, the community’s founder, established there in the 1940’s. SSSS have run workshops at Supernormal since 2014 combining the ISR methods with the arts, educational and therapeutic expertise of the group. Workshops have included play therapy sandpits, mask-making workshops, masked processions, seminars on music and politics, drone baths, animal choirs and inter-species dreaming.

In 2014 I made an iteration of Ponto for Banbha Mooira that was accompanied by an explanatory talk and ran a Soul Power Seminar discussing the relationship between Northern Soul and the Black Power movement.

At Supernormal 2015, in collaboration with Chris Hind, Annabella Pollen and Martin Pover, we ran three workshops that thought through, recreated and reimagined the history, prehistory and possible futures of Braziers Park School of Integrative Social Research. The workshops involved short presentations about the history Braziers, its relation to The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, The Order of Woodcraft Chivalry and The Social Credit Party, followed by open round-table sensory discussions that determined what happened in the outdoor space of the festival and the the SSSS sandpit. In 2016, with Margareta Kern, we led Spirit mask making workshops, voice workshops, Woodcraft activities, meditation workshops, built a Woodhenge and curated a program of supersensory films.

At Supernormal 2019 we curated a program of talks, films, workshops, dialogues and collective making around the theme of inter-species communication, including a percussion workshop with Limpe Fuchs, who was part of the legendary Avant Garde Krautrock group Anima Sound.

I gave a talk called Tansy and Me, an investigation into hereditary psycho-geography, invasive species and other-kin on the banks of the Yorkshire Ouse and showed the Raven Transformation mask documentation from Chief Alan Hunt’s potlatch.