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SILENT INVOCATION, BANISHING BY MEANS OF PYRAMID-LIKE STRUCTURES
My main work turned out to be researching, creating and recording
of the “”Invocation of Sol””, a short performance in celebration of
the winter solstice. I set the date for the darkest day of the year,
December 21st, Sunday at noon (day and hour corresponding to
the Sun) and performed a piece loosely based on the ‘Lesser ritual
of the hexagram’. One of this ritual’s uses is to invoke planetary
and zodiacal forces (solar force in this case). My main aim was to
take it out of the magical circle and into the studio space to study
how the energy, voice and body movement change when given
another context. I ended up skipping some parts and adding new
ones, thus creating a coded, visual storyline told by gestures but
devoid of a vocal component of the original ritual.
My second work was an investigation into the nature of an
automated banishing. From twigs and rope I constructed an object
with a set purpose: to keep me from having nightmares and banish
all unwanted entities from my residency room and its vicinity.
The object was supposed to work as a reversed dreamcatcher,
dispersing nightmares rather than catching them. It acted as a
filter for dreams as well as a ghost repellent, and after hanging
above my bed for the duration of residency I burned it the last day,
upon my departure home.