Sunday 8 January 2023, 7.30pm
'Everywhere is Haunted' provides a discourse on the themes of race, gender, queer identity and natural hostile spaces in horror through talks, screenings, live performances and a horror disco. Curated by Dee Sada.
There will also be a zine available on the night and the incredible Burning Witches Records on-site with their vast array of horror vinyl and cassette tapes.
Dee Sada is a London-based musician and curator of Nepalese and Indian origin. For over 15 years, she has moved through the underground and experimental arts scene with a quiet intensity — fusing noise, melody, and memory into a distinctive body of work that spans music, performance, and visual curation.
Her artistic journey has seen her perform in a range of critically regarded projects, including An Experiment On a Bird in the Air Pump, Blue On Blue, NEUMES, and Everywhere is Haunted. She has worked with renowned engineer Steve Albini (Big Black/Shellac) and musician and producer, Steve Mackey (Pulp) and supported artists such as Lydia Lunch, Colin Stetson and Mica Levi. With Fergus Lawrie of Urusei Yatsura, she co-founded the duo Paper Birch, releasing the album, ‘morninghairwater’ through Cafe OTO’s TAKUROKU label and Reckless Yes Records.
As a curator, Dee has programmed interdisciplinary exhibitions and performances with some of the most radical voices in contemporary art, including Carolee Schneemann and Laure Prouvost. Her work has been supported by influential institutions such as CIRCA, Whitechapel Gallery, IKON Gallery, and Cafe OTO. In September 2025, she will curate and perform in a new commission for the Thames Festival Trust. Dee will also be hosting a regular radio show on community arts station, Resonance FM later in the year.
Currently, Dee is preparing to release her debut solo album and first poetry collection. Her performances blend song and spoken word, drawing on horror, grief, and ancestral memory to create spaces of reckoning and reclamation. For this performance, Dee will be performing solo and alongside special guests including Massimo Braghieri.
Ric Rawlins is the writer and director of the UK's first folk horror anthology feature film, Rewilding, a trio of tales which take place in the fields, forests and caves of the UK's wildest haunts. As a writer he's published Rise of the Super Furry Animals (2015) about the seminal Welsh band, and he's currently writing a new film about a river-dwelling vampire.
rewildingfilm.com
Emma Merkling is an art historian based at the Courtauld Institute of Art and Durham University, specialising in the intersections between art, science, and spiritualism in the long nineteenth century.
She is co-host of Drawing Blood, a podcast about visual culture, the history of science and medicine, and the macabre. Emma received her PhD from the Courtauld in 2021 for a thesis on spiritualist artist Evelyn De Morgan and science, and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Courtauld’s Centre for American Art, University of Stirling, and the Science Museum (London).
She has just completed a grant project on the scientific photographs of the medium 'Margery' Crandon, and is currently working on a book project, with Dr Thomas Hughes, on The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature: Ecology, Matter, Form, where her contribution focuses on queer/more-than-human desire, ecology, and horror in the photography of Julia Margaret Cameron.
www.emmamerkling.com
https://drawingbloodpod.wordpress.com
Burning Witches Records is a UK-based record label specialising in forward-thinking electronic and heavy synth music. Born from a love of horror films and electronic music, Burning Witches presents artists that are pushing the boundaries of electronic music and music as a whole package. Opening track to album art to vinyl and cassette colour variants, Burning Witches Records makes every release count.
https://burningwitchesrecords.com
"Full of wonder, magic, and frightening set pieces" - Film Threat
When two teenagers report seeing the face of the Devil in a sea cave, a retired archeologist is asked to investigate. So begins the UK's first ever folk-horror anthology film, Rewilding.
Across three stories, we'll also follow a journalist looking into the Halloween rituals of a rural village, and an author on the hunt for the grave of a historical 'witch finder'.
Taking its influence from M.R James and the BBC’s Ghost Stories for Christmas, Rewilding takes the spirit of classic 1970s British folk horror and unearths it into a frightfully modern experience.
Meheli Sen, Associate Professor at Rutgers University and author of Haunting Bollywood: Gender, Genre and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema
