Kinjiki – Forbidden Colours

Performance with Tony Yap, Taichi Ishii and trumpeter Reuben Lewis

Following on Tony Yap’s workshop Animal/God: A Journey into Trance, this performance draws on the colours of Yukio Mishima's novel of the same title. It holds this same passage into becoming animal and god at the edge of form. Come to the class, then watch the performance from the inside.

Dr. Sebastian Job is an Australian cultural anthropologist, researcher, and academic who specializes in the study of entheogens (psychoactive substances used in a sacramental or spiritual context) and their intersection with ecology, politics, and Western psychology.

A core guiding interest in his modern research is how psychedelics can address the global ecological crisis. In publications like DMT, Ecocide, and the Western Psyche, he argues that entheogenic experiences can help dismantle the psychological and capitalistic defense mechanisms driving environmental destruction, offering an altered standpoint from which humanity can reconnect with the Earth.