Since attending a Scandinavian performance art fest last week, my long interest in performance as contemporary ritual has solidified to a point where I am interested in studying it further, especially within the punk community, and women artists.
The freak-folk movement over that last several years launched a new mystical/psychedelia in the punk underground (and commodified mainstream). Yet some of the only reference points the punk community has to go on are such far-out tribes like Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth, and others even more extreme.
At one point I thought I would pursue my doctoral studies via the art realms, and was definitely going towards something like "Female performance artists' use of ritual as contemporary religious practice." (I think now I am sticking to information studies, and am not certain if I will go for a doctorate anytime soon.)
Scientists supposedly (now being contested) have isolated a "god-spot" in the brain that can be artificially stimulated, (and also more commonly by psychedelic substances). What I'm saying is, there is likely an anatomical part of our brain that is interested in this sort of thing, and so it makes sense to pursue it. (Major religions are seeing declines in followers, but that is not to say that there is a loss of interest in religious belief.)
I would like to study if there are common threads throughout. If anyone reading this has any insight I would really appreciate any thoughts you have. {You can email me at eyekendra (at) gmail (dot) com.}
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interesting...i recently was aware of a butoh performance by the local troupe dar sirena honoring the virgin mary. something like this??? one of the ladies is from the island if you want to ask questions...etc.
that is interesting, I was actually more interested tho in looking perhaps thru a non-christian lens.
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