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==== Shrines House Spirit ==== | ==== Shrines House Spirit ==== | ||
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+ | This page is a trace of the research and creation by **Rasa Alksnyte** with close involvement from **Pieter De Wel** and her beloved dog **Billy** about characters and personalities of House Spirits, their summoning and Shrines to care and worship them. This ongoing trajectory is supported by **wp Zimmer**, **FoAM Zenne** leading towards the final result to be presented at the **Zwalm 2021** festival curated by **Croxhapox** | ||
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+ | The English word shrine is derived from the Latin scrinium, meaning a box or receptacle. The shrine is the receptacle within the material world for the spiritual association that believers experience when they come into the presence of these receptacles. Many shrines are unambiguously religious, linking events, persons, and places central to religious traditions. Other shrines much more open-ended, not tied to particular religious traditions but possibly linked to a certain regional or national identity.</ | ||
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+ | There is something attractively collective and democratic about public shrines. There is no one author of it. Only the initial form and invitation for action can be created by one person. What happens after is beyond control. Informal participation of passersby creates everchanging visual aesthetics and energetical charge. Respect for what is already there and negotiation where your contribution finds its place creates dialog. The constant accumulation of various objects adds strength and intensity to the experience. You are not alone yet your thought and action are as important as any other, represented in the shrine. | ||
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+ | <fs large>** A Shrine for Now** (working title) | ||
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+ | Since very short I am a volunteer at a retirement home for people with dementia. There is a closed ward for patients with most advanced stage of this illness. Spending time there is touching, emotional and confronting. Will my parents end up like that? My friends? Myself? Being among these people is also very interesting and inspiring. As if humanity gets peeled off to its core. Only very basic mechanical actions are possible, only very basic true emotions. Some patients light up by hearing their name or a sentence in their mother tongue, others burst in tears from recognising their favourite melody or a face in the picture on the wall. All of them live in that one exact moment, the moment when the mind is still capable to make sense of what’s around them. Moment of epiphany. And then they sink back into the unknown. In this ward there is very little of yesterday and there is no tomorrow. If you can enjoy beauty, warmth, touch and happiness you have to enjoy it now. Because Now it’s all there is. | ||
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+ | I would like to invite to take a moment and think of Now. What is there around you? Do the traces, stories, images and symbolic representations of my encounters with Zwalm inspire or question your state of being? Is there something that bothers you or makes you smile? What thoughts deserves your time and attention? Is there something you want to tell your partner, friend, child, parent but are waiting for the right moment? Perhaps that time is Now? As for Now is the best time there is. | ||
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+ | A large, old, wooden wardrobe is installed in a young forest behind the villa “Vrede”. It serves as the casing for the shrine. The inside panels of the wardrobe are created by stone printing the graveyards, brick walls and other surfaces in the surroundings of Zwalm. The words and patterns from the stones are applied on a big canvas and placed inside of the wardrobe to create a clear environment for the shrine to be. From the random conversations with local people important keywords about their experience of happiness, joy, fun and good times are written (or printed) on the tracing paper and layered on top of the canvas. Pictures, donated magazine or newspaper snippets fill the empty gaps to create visual accents of the total image. Discarded broken objects gets collected and transformed into a number of small figurines as a symbolic representation of different characters and experiences. These hangs or are placed in the wardrobe accumulating volume and forming a sense of mystery. There are QR codes displayed among the images and objects linking to the pictures and the stories of the exact locations in Zwalm. In the drawers of the cupboard more of the broken/ | ||
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+ | <fs large> **-Presence of body parts in a shrine as an association with the physical remains of spiritual creature.** | ||
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+ | As an example: The bones and teeth of the body of the Buddha that remained after his cremation have become objects of great veneration because they enable the devotee to link the meaning of the Buddha' | ||
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+ | <fs large>** -Shrines at intersection of nature and culture.** | ||
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+ | Many shrines are located at the important natural sites such as confluence of two rivers, rocks in the middle of flat landscape, unusually shaped mountains… But also, objects (de)formed by coincidental natural events. Such as trees that been stroke by lightning or large stones penetrated by forces of nature often serves a base to install a shrine and dictates its form and aesthetics.</ | ||
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+ | <fs large>** - Shrines as a trajectory for movement.** | ||
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+ | An important function shrines serve is to provide points of destination to groups of pilgrims or individual wanderers. The shrine may be located at the end of the road, or a network of shrines may serve as attention points along the way. Most often the journey of the pilgrims is more important than the shrine itself. Yet without the destination point the journey would be meaningless.</ | ||
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+ | <fs large>** -Street shrines as artefacts of visual culture.** | ||
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+ | Street shrine constructions (often present in Asia) as a challenge of the organization of space: a sacred space (the shrine) that invites individuals to stop, pray and get in touch with deepest inner thoughts provokes this public space (the street) that asks for neutral and general behavior. | ||
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+ | <fs large>A house spirit is an ethereal creature who lives in people’s houses and if well cared for it is known to bring luck, good fortune and prosperity. Some spirits are resident in a house even before people move in. However, most of the time new owners have to summon house spirit themselves. On the occasion it is possible to purchase one on the market or order spirit eggs online. Though, even efficient, this way does not guaranty a smooth assimilation of the house spirit and might not be so successful in terms of good fortune and happiness.</ | ||
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+ | Congratulations! Now you have your own house spirit.</ | ||
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+ | <fs large>Go to your local supermarket, | ||
+ | walk home.</ | ||
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+ | go to the door open your leek gate | ||
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+ | you have come home"</ | ||
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+ | <fs large>In a hot bath | ||
+ | burn some artemisia, fumigate the room, | ||
+ | you are alone. | ||
+ | Slide down in bath holding a meat cleaver. | ||
+ | It's business end just touching your pubic hair. | ||
+ | If by accident you shave of a few, that's perfect. | ||
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+ | Christine the strawberry girl" | ||
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+ | <fs large>If you can burn some more artemisia, good | ||
+ | If you can fake heart failure that's just perfect | ||
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+ | Needless to say, Aldona Parnassus is part of a galaxy which is ever so mind blowing we cannot start to describe it. | ||
+ | Later on, in her career all things Haunted became ever more the center of her being culminating in being appointed as the CIO of the International Presidium of Spirits and Shrines (IPSS)</ | ||
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+ | <fs large>An untold story tells us that she once built a shrine for a spirit before that spirit had even started its career. Then she decorated the shrine with that spirit’s dying breath which she bottled in a Chanel 5 flask. | ||
+ | Parnassus is known to have cheated spirits into leaving the keys to their back doors. | ||
+ | She has built shrines that drove humans to tears with their beauty and veracity. | ||
+ | There might be only one way to describe the work and world of Aldona Parnassus. | ||
+ | If it is haunted, in every sense of that term, she has been there and sniffed it. | ||
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+ | When he shows up in this meadow it is mostly to entertain the cows, basically these poor things are complacent and hilariously slow. He will play practical jokes on them and try to trick them into extasy. Kraka Snakkur is a very blessed singer, especially of disco music! Bones Bones Bones!!!</ | ||
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+ | If you are here when he is around, he will certainly enjoy singing Lionel Ritchie' | ||
+ | Showing your devotion to him is easy, place a white stone on the shrine. He will be overjoyed. | ||
+ | Hail Kraka Snakkur!!!</ | ||
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