Rituals
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Highlights
Shoes for Departure
Shoes for Departure is part of Marina Abramović’s Transitional Objects series, exploring the use of crystals and minerals in interactive objects as emotional or symbolic transitions. The work connects walking, departure, and psychological journey, reflecting her focus on the body’s limits, transformation, and personal rituals.
Yumari! The Festival of Hospitality as a Ritual of Renewal
This article is available in French and Spanish. On May 30, Gigacircus presented the Festival of Hospitality in Villefagnan, bringing to a meaningful close the French hosting phase of the WALC project, Walking Arts & Local Communities. Before the dinner concert held in the village community hall, more than eighty residents took part in an
Lost in Jüdischer Friedhof Weißensee
Beginning with the daily choice of walking or not walking to and from the largest intact Jewish cemetery in postwar Europe, the project mediates separation between experience inside and outside the burial grounds’ walls over a sustained six months.
¡Yumari! La Fiesta de la Hospitalidad como un Ritual de Renovación
This article is available in French and English. On El 30 de mayo, Gigacircus presentó en Villefagnan la «Fiesta de la Hospitalidad», poniendo un cierre significativo a la acogida en Francia del proyecto WALC, Walking Arts & Local Communities.Antes de la cena-concierto celebrada en la Sala Municipal, más de ochenta habitantes participaron en la caminata
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Drifting Through Bodies and Auguring Spaces: Terminalian Drift
The experimental novel *Terminalian Drift* features a narrating voice inhabiting André Cadere's used skin while drifting through a district in Osaka, Japan, exploring the fluid relationships between body, place, and identity. The novel intertwines fictional and historical layers of actual locations to enact a geopoetic process, using specific events—real or imagined—to complicate general historical narratives and embody the city as a mutable personal skin.
Resounding Cities (Athens, Lisbon, Brussels)
Resounding Cities was a collaborative project examining urban rituals through workshops in Athens, Brussels, and Lisbon, resulting in sound maps and sound walks. The project involved international contributions and culminated in an interactive audiovisual map and a collective sound walk presented at the 2015 Athens Science Festival.
• Articles on WLC
Yumari! La Fête de l’Hospitalité comme un rituel propitiatoire
This article is available in English and Spanish. Le 30 mai, Gigacircus a présenté à Villefagnan la « Fête de l’Hospitalité » pour clore de façon significative l’accueil en France du projet WALC, Walking Arts & Local Communities. Avant le dîner-concert qui se déroulait à la Salle des Fêtes communale, plus de 80 habitants ont
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Danzar o Morir on the Sierra Tarahumara paths
The long-distance running and ritual dance among the Ralámuli of Mexico’s Sierra Tarahumara is a practice that holds the power to heal and sustain the world. Author Sylvie Marchand has lived among them for years and reflects on this ritual through a dialogue of perspectives: that of Erasmo Palma, Ralámuli poet and cultural guide, and
Articles elsewhere
OLLI Course Summer 2025 – Walking as Artistic Practice
I’m delighted to share I’m doing an online talk and an in-person walk focused on my book, Walking as Artistic Practice, as a part of OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute via the College of Continuing & Professional Studies at UMN). OLLI’s vibrant learning community for people aged 50+ is host to hundreds of high-quality noncredit […]
ONLINE 2024 CHOREOGRAPHIC MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
ONLINE FALL 2024 CHOREOGRAPHIC MENTORSHIP PROGRAM A FULL immersion into the creative Act of Choreography For choreographers, dancers, theater directors, performance artists, filmmakers, and multidisciplinary artists. FACULTY: ANABELLA LENZU DATES: October 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2024 (Saturdays from 11am-1pm – NYC time) Online Choreographic Mentorship Program, is an Online 1 month program where YOU can immerse yourself […]
May Day, a provocation
About a film assemblage of artists' work on YouTube curated by Kel Portman Mayday Walking 2024
• Interview with Jaime Morse
As part of the release of the hardcover release of my book, Walking as Artistic Practice (softcover comes out in April!), I’m going to be publishing some brief interviews with the various artists, authors, researchers, creatives, collectives, and platforms whose art practice, written material, or other works I cite and mention. My 13th interview in […]