13/11/2021
RITUAL MAKING
ARTISANCTUARY
Ritual Making
A contemporary archaic mytho-poetic inquiry for craft makers & artists
Facilitated by Karmit EvenZur
Hosted by Nika Scheidemandel
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Although modernity wishes to have us forget, it is nonetheless true that the land draws us into a relationship with itself through the act of imagination. It invites us to consider a spiritual ecology akin to indigenous epistemologies of shamanic engagement with the environment through ritual making, sacred objects, storytelling and dreaming.
We are inviting you to a 10 day residency programme where we will visit sacred sites in the area, and consider how objects may become ‘systems for creating kinship ties’ between human and more than human communities. We will engage in object making as an exploration into forms of ritualised communion with the spirits of the land, as a way of drawing in the spirits into making sanctuary with us. This might include the making of sacred objects, masks, costumes or wherever your practice may lead you. We are interested in the wisdom gathered by ‘thinker makers’ who are using their hands and sensual intelligence to gather and shape knowledge from the environment.
If you are interested in joining us please drop us a line, telling us about your practice and what draws you to this work.
Where?
The residency will take place in Magic Ranch El Palmar, on the coast of the Atlantic, and we will get to know the earth energies of the La Janda area. All around La Janda, stretching all the way to Campo de Gibraltar (in Southern Andalucia), the mountains are dotted with over 250 caverns and rock faces covered in Palaeolithic and early
Neolithic paintings. The abundance of these shelters and the uniqueness of the paintings are a testament to the people who created these images as a response to, and in conversation with the land in which they lived. Their nature-based culture related to time as a cyclical, rather that a linear progression. We hope to be touched and activated by their archaic forms and memorie. http://www.earth-speaks.net
