Rites at a Distance
installation and video (18:40 minutes), desk, chair, blanket, styrofoam, ink, cables, mixing board, av receiver, speakers, cctv monitors, media players, flash drives, 2015/20
A ritual performance to video taking place on, in, under, and around the desk.
"Ascending: a being devoted. That future climb; we shall see reach a great jar. Two small ladders; two masters admitted. Unable...yet. Ascent/return constitutes the essential act. To say nothing!? To fly!? To perch!? (could jump) Would have been too weak (remained to possess). The doctor lies on his back. According, clever; lying on his back. His cord! His head! His body! His legs! His Arms! Arriving! And then!? On his back!? Re-entered fail structure. We shall study."
Words chanced upon from chapter IV of Mircea Eliade's Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
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