Installation and Ritual

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This course is intended as a space in which we could build/dream through our materials, sensations, and questions to the shrine, the ritual, and the installation. We will look at examples of each from cultures and traditions of many kinds, with a strict vow not to appropriate these forms but rather, as a way to develop our own questions about what these spaces might be for. What do they need? What do they require? What do they discharge? What kinds of images do they precipitate that were never seen before? How can writing and performance be the places where we develop or retain a memory of these images? Our work together this semester will unfold in the axial space between spirituality and art, with a focus on our own art-making, writing, and performance. Course offered online.