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FlowRate ritual performance
 

School of Creative Practice - studio 121 -  March 2023

FlowRate: ritual performance

 

The concept of ‘solastalgia’ encompasses the enormous emotions we feel in response to climate change and the insecurity that arises as our environment changes.

 

'FlowRate' became an offering to our community in the form of an improvised ritual performance pouring liquid clay with the intention of transforming fear into empowerment, and paralysis into action.

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The performance had three acts: 

Primordial Time

Geological Time

Now

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Clay was suspended in buckets from the ceiling above the 12'x8' canvas. Performers sounded and danced, eventually pulling on hemp ropes to pour the clay from above. The resulting Flow Painting was dried, preserved with copal resin, and framed. Bob Marsh played his self-made instrument, the chair, while the other performers moved and sounded in response to each other in the moment.

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Concept, direction, and performance: Helen Eberhardie Dunn

Performers: Bob Marsh, Matte Refic, Julie Kim

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Materials:
Sound, projections, local Pueblo clay, porcelain and earth oxides, hemp rope, acacia gum, and clove oil on muslin and canvas.

 

time + action + remains = ART

‘How do evolving timelines invite intersections with ecology, expansion, and contraction?’

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As an interdisciplinary artist, I explore conversations about spiritual ecology, creating immersive experiences through sculpture, performance, and installation that invite expansive awareness. I aim to create spaces for connection, reflection, and alternate perspectives. I am committed to contributing to a more just and compassionate world.

 

How can art catalyze change and inspire us to reimagine intersections between social and environmental justice and personal and collective change? My work is led by investigative approaches, incorporating locality, clays, found objects, pigments, fibers, plants, film, photography, sound, and light.

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‘Can we experience spatial relationships through vibration harmony and dissonance?’

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This work centers on curating collaborative ritual performances informed by solastalgia, our experience of climate change. EARTHflows is an ongoing project based on locality, reverence for the natural environment, and community collaboration. It includes EARTHflow Ritual Performances, Earth Experiments, and Ritual Action Flow Paintings.

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As director of the ecological art collective SkySoulStudio, I host a platform exploring solastalgia. We are a developing collective of environmentally aware creatives collaborating on investigations into impermanence and ecofeminism. Public engagement in community events offers the potential for reframing ideologies of contraction. Art can unite people, challenge assumptions, and inspire us to envision new possibilities.

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