In celebration of the release of Etherian Channeler, the first monograph dedicated to Paulina Peavy and her work, author Laura Whitcomb and research director Narin Dickerson will offer a presentation illuminating Peavy’s fascinating life, works, and practice. Accompanying the talk will be a rare screening of Peavy’s films, depicting translucent, biomorphic forms set to mesmerizing narration, as well as a display of Peavy’s intricate masks in PRS’s historic Manly P. Hall Library. Guided by an entity named Lacamo who identified as coming from other realms and “travelled on an etherian ship”, Peavy made and wore elaborate masks that represented a composite view of humanity to communicate with the unseen world. Finally, inspired by the final layers of Peavy’s paintings which, completed in the 1980s, present abstracted crystalline formations the evening will conclude with a very special performance by acclaimed Czech sound artist Lenka Morávková. Working in the tradition of the Baschet Brothers, Morávková will activate through the glass rods of her Bohemian Cristal Instrument. Through an ethereal and utterly singular performance on this fascinating, self-made instrument, Morávková will explore both her connections to the crystals’ sonic attributes as well as to the notable alchemical library of King Rudolf II of Prague.