Psychic Intuitive and Art Events
News about the other side of Asher’s practice in theater and performance, lectures and presentations.
IT’S BETTER TO START OUT UGLY
At The Lab, San Francisco (2023), JOAN, Los Angeles, and The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York (2024)
Asher Hartman and Gawdafful National Theater present a “no time for oblivion” thirst trap for queer psychosis, aging and dementia, fascistic white gay nuttery, near ventriloquism, fake theater and untranslatable gut goo of buried antipathies neatly played out on a hairy stage. Starring red hot actors and aesthetes José Luis Blondet, Michael Bonnabel, and Philip Littell, and written and directed by miniature puppeteer Asher Hartman, this 90 -minute slippery ghost town of a play promises to leave you shaking your head at the nearest wine bar and taqueria. Graphic design by A. Jinha Song.
Chiron Armand and Asher Hartman in Conversation at
NYU Tisch School of the Arts
I am uncontainably excited to announce that I will be chatting with influential contemporary shaman, author, and artist, Chiron Armand, at NYU in an event hosted by my dear friend Tim Reid. The event will celebrate my new book Mad Clot on a Holy Bone: Memories of a Psychic Theater published by X Artists’ Books.
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Mad Clot on a Holy Bone: Memories of a Psychic Theater
I am thrilled to announce the X Artists’ Press’s publication of three of my plays performed by Gawdafful National Theater, my LA theater company. With contributions from: Dierdre O’Dwyer, Janet Sarbanes, Lucas Wrench, Mark Allen and Tim Reid. Design and Typography by Becca Lofchie. Click for more information. Published by X Artists’ Books.
Tag Team with Edgar Fabían Frías
Intuitive Readings at the Vincent Price Art Museum
We’re at it again! Back by popular demand! Give us your name and we will do an energy and Tarot reading in under 3 minutes on Instagram, as part of Meditation Mondays at the Vincent Price Art Museum. @edgarfabianfrias and @chickentasteslikewood #vincentpriceartmuseum
How To Be Yourselves:
Using Your Intuition to Unlock the Worlds Within
As part of The Golden Dome School, I presented this 2 hour step-by-step course on discovering the powerful selves we host within. See what I see when I look at the complexity and richness of your lives. You can still register and watch at your leisure.
The Dope Elf
Coming to The Lab in San Francisco
Gawdafful National Theater’s six hour saga will be on tour in San Francisco It has been postponed, but we’ll be there in the future. We’re social distance-rehearsing to give this complex matrix of a play on elves, trolls, magicians, and the allure of hegemonic power the life-blood it needs to rise again.
CONVERSATION
Johanna Hedva discusses their novel On Hell
with Asher Hartman
Saturday, January 26, 2019, 5pm, FREE
Skylight Books, Los Angeles
I will be in conversation with Johanna Hedva (author of Sick Woman Theory) on their new novel On Hell, a book about myths that trick and resist totalitarianism.
MEDITATION & CONVERSATION
Skeletal Readings: A meditation and conversation with Asher Hartman and Rossen Ventzislavov
Wednesday, December 5, 2018, 7-9pm, FREE, RSVP
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA)
As part of the art journal X-tra magazine’s winter launch event I will be leading a non-acting theatrical exercise to strip the body to its imaginary skeletal form. I will then be in conversation with philosopher and cultural critic Rossen Ventzislavov using his article for X-tra’s Winter issue as a point of departure. Other topics of discussion will include: the hegemony of narrative (in the theater and beyond), the gravitational pull of reductive identity (persons, personas, etc.), the contemporary cultural defanging of criticism and criticality, and maybe even the vagaries of gender.
WORKSHOP
Saturday, September 29 & Sunday, September 30, 2018
PHOTOBOOK: RESET, Berlin
I will be teaching the workshop “Serving it Cold: How being real with yourself & your practice can change the world” as part of a three day immersive program which brings together photo and publishing industry professionals to re-imagine the future of publishing. We will look at how we might align our political, spiritual, and emotional selves to do the work we’re meant to do. We will use our intuition to entertain the idea that our natural desires and aptitudes can lead us towards joyous service.
FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS:
View and download the questionnaire here
TALK
Saturday, August 25, 2018 4pm
5 Car Garage, Los Angeles
I will be part of a panel talk about the shadow as part of the closing of the group exhibition SuperShadowPowerWoman at 5 Car Garage. The talk will be hosted by Virginia Conesa who is an artist and licensed psychotherapist in Jungian psychology. Together with Emma Gray (5 Car Garage) and several artists from the exhibition, we will talk about the creative process and its relationship to the Shadow and the Feminine Principle.
Please RSVP to attend info@emmagrayhq.com.
WORKSHOP
Sunday, August 26th, 2018 at 10:30am
La Maida Institute, Los Angeles
I will be teaching a workshop using psychonautic techniques and the methods of my theater company Gawdafful National Theater Company as part of a three month program called "Mirroring Resilience Artist Intensive" organized by La Maida Institute artist in residence Edgar Fabián Frías. Please note the application deadline for participation in the entire program has already passed.
VIDEO
Psychic in Room Reading an Artwork (July, 2018)
by Katya Tylevich and Alexei Tylevich
”Stockholm based artist Carl Hammond watches as LA-based psychic, Asher Hartman, performs an intuitive reading of one of his paintings. Asher has no prior knowledge of the artist or the artwork, which are not revealed to him until the end.” - Elephant
MUSEUM ACTIVITY
Saturday, April 14, 2018, 10-5pm
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
As part of Crystal Bridges' Slow Art Day: Slow Down and Enjoy the Art day of activities I will be engaging museum visitors in an activity called Mindfulness with Asher Hartman in which we will learn to listen and respond to the architecture at its surprisingly resonant depths.
WORKSHOP
Friday, April 13, 2018, 7:30pm
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
I will be leading a beginning mind reader's workshop in The Kress Gallery at the Philbrook Museum of Art. Geared toward those with no psychic experience, we will learn how to tap into our intuition and begin reading minds through a series of solo and partner exercises.
WORKSHOP
March 19-26, 2017
The Golden Dome School, 29 Palms
The Golden Dome School presents "The Hierophant: Liberation! Movement!" in its sixth artists-in-residence program where participants will be working with the Hierophant archetype and concepts of liberation, spirit, and revolution, and its polarity, slavery, bondage and materialism. Over the course of seven days, a faculty of six artist healers and participants will learn tactical magic skills, the Alchemical art of the Tarot, the art of the pendulum, the art of reiki, breath-work, and we will work on a performance ritual.
WORKSHOP
January - March, 2017
Machine Project, Los Angeles
Krystal Krunch (Asher Hartman and Haruko Tanaka) present a 6-week workshop Re-enchantment in Changing Times wherein we reconnect a group of lively creative people with their sense of enchantment, possibility and purpose.
FILM
OPUNTIA (2017) by David Fenster
I am featured in the latest film by David Fenster Opuntia, which is based on the writings of 16th century conquistador turned shamanic healer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, an early European explorer of the "New World" and one of the strangest figures in U.S. history.
Cabeza de Vaca is an unusual figure, so I used unconventional techniques to tell his story: I collaborated with psychic Asher Hartman and practiced mediumship to channel the spirit of Cabeza de Vaca who chose to communicate through the prickly pear cacti, also known as the Opuntia, the plant that saved him from starvation. David Fenster, Director
EXHIBITION TOUR
Saturday, September 24, 2016, 2pm
Gasworks, London
I will be leading a guided tour called "The Intricate Speech of Intimate Objects" of L.A. artist Candice Lin's solo exhibition A Body Reduced to Brilliant Colour. The tour will explore the exhibition through psychometry, where extrasensory perception is channeled to read the histories, energies, and associations attached to objects.
READINGS
July 16 - August 6, 2016, Sundays, 1-8pm
The Miaow, Los Angeles
In celebration of the Grand Opening of Asher Hartman Intuitive I will be giving readings at the Meow on 4 consecutive Sundays, from 1-8pm.The Meow is an exhibition space. When a small business is operating out of The Meow, it’s an exhibition. The people running businesses there are artists. They might think of their exhibition at The Meow as a performance, or it could be simply something they do to make some money. The role of The Meow is to host and to help. There is no rent at The Meow. Artists charge what they want and keep what they earn.
WORKSHOP
February 28-March 6, 2016
The Golden Dome School, 29 Palms
The Golden Dome School presents "The Emperor: Songs for the Arch-Preposterous," its fifth artist-in-residence program where participants will be working with the Emperor archetype and concepts of authority, rulership and power. Over the course of seven days, a faculty of seven artist healers and participants will be guided through sound centered exercises, alchemical breath work, tarot instruction, plant communication and psychometry exercises.
FILM
Psychic Reading of the Gamble House (2014)
by David Fenster
As part of the Machine Project Field Guide to the Gamble House, I had the opportunity to give the Pasadena historical landmark a psychic reading. The reading was made into a short film by versatile and virtuosic David Fenster.
Contact Asher
If you are interested in bringing Asher to teach a workshop, give a talk, or collaborate on a project, please fill out the form below or email asherhartmanintuitive@gmail.com. Thank you.