Golden Dome School

2016 - Present

The Golden Dome School is an educational and curatorial platform dedicated to studying intersections of art, metaphysics, and ecology.

The Golden Dome School honors ideals of responsiveness, communal learning, and evolving artistic disciplines that foster community building, ecological awareness and non-hierarchy. The Golden Dome School was founded by artist and intuitive Eliza Swann in 2013, and has collaborated with over 200 artists, mystics, and scientists to produce exhibitions, performances, classes, publications, and artist residencies year round. Frías has acted as programmer, curator, educator, and artist with the Golden Dome. In 2018, they developed the "Tactical Magic" series in collaboration with both local and international mystics, offering pedagogical experiences focused on developed mystical tools to support creative, political, social, and relational practices. In addition to this, they have participated in The Resurrection of Care, The Golden Dome Artist Intensives, and other Golden Dome related programming and exhibitions. 

Tactical Magic Series

"Tactical Magic" was a series of magical workshops hosted by The Golden Dome School and Edgar that introduced magical techniques for activists and explored the history of magic as it has been used in resistance and renewal work. All these workshops took place at Pieter Performance Space in Los Angeles, California.

APRIL 15th, 2018 Mirror Flecha of Truth: Tactical Magic With Obsidian, with Edgar Fabian Frias and Yunuen Rhi.

The Resurrection of Care

The Golden Dome School has begun the tradition of performing "The Resurrection of Care" ritual each year - a performance that invites Los Angeles artists and mystics to respond to our culture’s violence, ecocide, caustic hierarchies, and exploitative capitalism. Each year we re-instate our vow to care for ourselves and all of the people, plants, animals, water, earth, air, and spirits that are threatened with annihilation by unfettered greed and exploitation. “The Resurrection of Care” has been performed at Coaxial (Los Angeles, CA), MaRS Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), The Gaylord (Los Angeles, CA), and at Echo Park Lake as part of the Maiden LA festival. Words & Documentation by Eliza Swann.

2022 at Debs Park Lake

GIF by Sarah Zucker

2020 Virtual Ceremony

2018 at Echo Park Lake

The Golden Dome School performs "The Resurrection of Care" ritual each year - a ceremonial performance that invites Los Angeles artists to respond to our culture’s violence, ecocide, caustic hierarchies, and exploitative capitalism. The notorious Bohemian Club, an ultra-exclusive all-male club, has membership that includes business leaders, government officials, former US presidents, military elite, bankers, media executives, and other men in positions of power. Political and business deals are developed at the Club’s annual summer gathering at Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio, CA. Each year, members of the club stage the 135-year old "Cremation of Care" ceremony, in which the body of “Care” is symbolically cremated and banished from Bohemian Grove, paving the way for drunken celebration, male bonding, capitalistic scheming, warmongering, and – according to many reports – excessive public urination. In response, the Golden Dome School developed "The Resurrection of Care", an annual ritualistic play performed by Golden Dome artists. The play narrates the resurrection of the cremated body of caring. Each year we re-instate our vow to care for ourselves and all of the people, plants, animals, water, earth, air, and spirits that are threatened with annihilation by unfettered greed and exploitation. The ceremony was conceived of in 2014 by Eliza Swann. The 2018 ceremony was led by Lisa Dring, Edgar Fabian Frias, Kwonyin, Saewon Oh, Thaddeus Pedisich, Yunuen Rhi, and Estella Sanchez and organized by Patrick Mansfield and Eliza Swann.

2017 at The Gaylord

2016 at MaRS Gallery

Rainbow Transmissions

Please watch the video below or click here to learn more about Rainbow Transmissions.

Other Workshops & Artworks