This book provides insights into the practice of trance-based inquiry through arts-based research, serving as a beacon to guide the way to thresholds of ancient, yet novel, transmissions. Embedded in lived experience and theory, this book introduces the reader to the liminal space of place and trance-based inquiry processes entwined with creative artworkings. The interweaving of art, ritual, and trance-based inquiry opens sacred spaces for learning and unlearning that bring spirit into form. Each chapter presents examples from women artists and culminates with experiential practices drawn from the author’s decades of creative peregrinations to assist artists, teachers, and researchers in transmitting a conscious way of practicing and creating with trance.
Author(s): Barbara A. Bickel
Series: Palgrave Studies in Movement across Education, the Arts and the Social Sciences
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 190
City: Cham
Praise for Art, Ritual, and Trance Inquiry
Foreword
Series Editor Preface
Preface
Trance to Meet My Writing Double
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Images
Author Biography
Chapter 1: Introduction: An Earth-Based Sensual Spirituality of Art, Ritual and Trance
Sensual Spirituality
Art as Compassion
Invitation into Ritual
Following the Spirit of Art into Matrixial Borderspace(s)
Wit(h)nessing Eyes Close(d)
Lifting the Veil
Overview of Chapters
References
Chapter 2: A/r/tography as Ritual and Dreaming in Matrixial Borderspace(s)
A/r/tography as Ritual and Radical Relationality
Ritualizing
Dreaming
Dream
Matrixial Theory and Healing
Becoming a Woman Artist
Communicaring Through Performance Ritual
Matrixial Gift Economy
References
Chapter 3: Trance, Sacred Place and Collaboration
Trance-Based Inquiry
Trance-Based Learning
Sacred Place
Tree Earthvox
Artist Collaboration
A Collaborative Aesthetic
Ma Aesthetic and Collaboration
Artist Collectives
References
Chapter 4: Artists and Trance
Woman Artists and Trance
References
Chapter 5: The Gestare Art Collective: With Nané Jordan and Medwyn McConachy
The Dialogue
References
Chapter 6: Attending to Ancient Voices
Sound, Art and Healing
Voicing the Stones: A Performance Ritual21
Wendalyn Bartley: A Healing Journey with Art
Baba Yaga Soundwalk37
The Shamanic Artistry of Tanya Tagaq
References
Chapter 7: Performance Ritual: With Tannis Hugill
Dream
The Dialogue4
References
Chapter 8: Dreaming into Lines of Matrixial Time
The Day Between the Worlds
Women ‘Enduring Freedom’
Art as a Gift of Testimony
References
Index
