A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness 2013 From pagan re enactors to failed communes, black metal festivals to Arctic hermits, and the forever Golden Hour to the Northern Lights, A Spell to Ward off the Darkness is an inquiry into the possibilities of a spiritual existence within an increasingly secular Western culture A participatory ethnography in the best possible sense, A SPELL choreographs the actions of non actors within existing Scandinavian landscapes in an effort to arrive at a hybrid document of the past, present, and future it is a record of experience that proposes belief in transcendence as a viable outcome of living in the now