When Art Meets Séance: Biola Professor’s Spiritualist Performance Art Exposed

Описание: A Biola University art professor (15+ years on faculty) openly engages in performance art that explores 19th-century occult spiritualism, inviting participants to interact with esoteric symbology, ritual magic, confetti divination and pendulums—complete with a $85 divination toolkit promising "personal guidance and enlightenment." Monique breaks it all down from the artist's public website, podcast appearance, and installations. This information isn't hidden; it's leadership-approved under Biola's President, Barry Corey.

Our main question isn't even about the prof at this point. It's this: WHY has the university's LEADERSHIP allowed this situation to last for over 15 years? There needs to be a deeper conversation about Biola's leadership, including the Board and the President; in other words, the people who allowed the university to downgrade between 2012 to 2021/22-ish. Where is the accountability?

Time Stamps of Key Moments in the Discussion:
0:00 Intro: Something Came Across My Desk
2:17 Biola's Diversity of Thought Statement
5:29 Concerns about Biola's leadership
7:18 Introducing Art Prof, Astri Swenrud; Prof's Bio on the Biola website
8:35 Reading Prof's website; Semitropic Spiritualists Project Explained
15:25 Defining Esoteric Symbology (Grok AI)
21:20 Podcast Clip: Faith, Feminism & Esoteric Systems; Avoiding "Immovable Beliefs"
24:04 Podcast Clip: Semitropic Spiritualists as Performance Art
27:33 Podcast Clip: Spiritualism History (Fox Sisters, Calvinism Pushback)
32:01 Defining Spiritualism (Mediums, Ectoplasm) (Grok AI)
35:48 Podcast Clip: How the project started; Spirit Trumpets
43:07 Podcast Clip: First Installation: Divination Board + Planchette
53:48 Podcast Clip: Artists' relationship to the source material
59:12 Podcast Clip: "We Have a System That Can Help Your Life"
1:03:45 Confetti Art: Pentagram-Adjacent?
1:15:56 $85 Divination Toolkit for Sale
1:22:52 Anti-Apocalyptic Call-and-Response Video
1:33:06 Closing: Clean House at Biola

Key Sources:
👉 Biola Statement on Diversity of Thought: https://www.biola.edu/about/mission/p...
👉 Biola Faculty page: https://www.biola.edu/directory/peopl...
👉 Artist's website: https://www.astriswendsrud.com/
👉 Podcast:   / ep-66-astri-swendsrud-quinn-gomez-heitzebe...  
👉 Article by Clay Jones explaining his departure from Biola: https://clayjones.net/2020/01/dispens...

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