In this process I was simply playing with an incredibly simple dance which I could stage in public in any number of systems or scenarios implicating money or consumerism, which engages with abstract embodiments of the supposedly sacred female erotic body, without really showing the body. Moving between the floor and standing in a red outfit, which is open to reading in a number of ways according to angle and gesture (little red riding hood, superhero, nun, goddess, hollywood star, retro hipster, hippy etc), I was playing with possibilities, testing them out. Very simple!
Studio Methods I will be doing this will be polyvalent;
1. Theoretical and artist readings on the topic done prior to mine and related processes.
2.Recording my exchanges and interactions within money systems both online in all systems and in every day reality, via consumerism and street systems and bureaucracies, observing the violence and rigidity of these systems and how they affect my sexual and erotic body and considering spaces for potential intervention, dialogue, subversion ie playfulness, humour, challenge; all recorded through writing and photographs.
3.Studio process or transforming and playing with experiences and ideas around how these relationships to money and the erotic body can be transformed and subverted in my body and creative practice through dance, performance art, voice, text, theatricality, photographs, objects, video and music in a shamanistic and internal 'sacred' process.
4.I also aim to open up a dialogue for other people, I am wanting to create an exchange in which other women/men from my real and online communities can reflect upon their own relationships to money and female sexuality- whereby they are given the task to reflect upon it and find creative transgressive space for healing and questioning- in their own lives with a ritual which moves into the world and they can also ask me to do this ritual with and for them, regardless of where they are in the world.
I will therefore be embodying their idea within Berlin where I am living, doing a small intervention or task or 'ritual' that reflects their experience of or relationship to money and female sexuality. This way the project opens to a broader dialogue and community in which I do not feel so isolated as a female inside these systems and neither do they. It also allows for a process which becomes a social 'movement', a dialogue which can become a powerful transformative intervention across spaces.
These will be recorded in writing, photographs or video documentation. An example is; I have already been asked to do a tarot reading on the train system by a female artist in NZ, as a form of 'payment' and an embodiment of sacred feminine process, another person has asked me to 'dance people's complaints about money' in the street – even for suggested money. These are examples of physical transgressions and disruptions to rigid systems of money using the erotic female body.
5.Bringing all of these experiences and reflections back into a studio practice, I will create a work next year which embodies some of these processes and interventions as a theatrical work to be shown in theatre/dance spaces and potentially also gallery spaces as a reduction and distillation of this interactive community art process and social healing process. This could include some experiences from the street and also from other people's lives if they permit that.
Sacred
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For other uses, see Sacred (disambiguation).
"Holy" and "Sanctity" redirect here. For other uses, see Holy (disambiguation) and Sanctity (disambiguation).
Holiness, or sanctity, is in general the state of being holy (perceived by religious individuals as associated with the divine)[1] or sacred (considered worthy of spiritual respect or devotion; or inspiring awe or reverence among believers in a given set of spiritual ideas).[2] In other contexts, "objects are often considered 'holy' or 'sacred' if used for spiritual purposes",[3] such as the worship or service of gods. These terms can also be used in a non-spiritual or semi-spiritual context ("sacred truths" in aconstitution).[4] It is often ascribed to people ("a holy man" of religious occupation, "holy prophet" who is venerated by his followers), objects ("sacred artifact" that is venerated and blessed ),[5] times ("holy days" of spiritual introspection, such as during winter holidays),[6] or places ("sacred ground", "holy place").[7]
