Art Book Corner Screen Dance as Rite of Passage Screen Dance as Rite of Passage (c) Dr Lila Moore The Dancing Veil I was lying on the treatment bed waiting for the acupuncture needles to take effect on my distressed body and mind. The acupuncturist, a highly praised though modest practitioner of alternative medicine, and I, were in the unknown. He could not […] Lila Moore April 1, 2023November 26, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Art Book Corner Creative Crossing Thresholds: Stories & art from beyond ordinary consciousness Creative states of consciousness seem to exist on a continuum spanning everyday unconscious cognitive processing and flashes of inspiration, to experiences that stretch beyond space and time and have the potential to open a dialogue with a spiritual source. I have had a long-standing fascination with the link between creativity, imagination, and expansive states of […] Lorraine Tolmie March 10, 2023March 10, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Art Research ‘This Is The Land’: A liminal journey through performance art My PhD is an embodied and interdisciplinary research that investigates the concept of the ‘eerie’ in Contemporary Performance through a methodology of inhabiting abandoned spaces, where the eerie presence of an unknown agency is felt. As Fisher (2016) says, “the eerie clings to certain physical spaces or landscapes” (p.61). I have come to realise that […] Mary Steadman February 1, 2023February 1, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Art Visionary Brit Museum On a cold afternoon in November, I passed through the threshold of the smallest gallery in London to install my augmented reality prints. It reminded me of a scene from Harry Potter or an occult ritual in which two realms intersect and fuse into a visionary vista. This time, it wasn’t a wall that led […] Lila Moore December 13, 2022December 13, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Art Holistic Wellbeing Do Less, Be More: Summer Creative Retreat Do Less, Be More is a series of seasonal retreats which align internal transformative processes with the natural rhythms of the seasons. They offer a facilitated, yet self-directed process, informed by a variety of contemplative and embodied traditions delivered by an interdisciplinary team. The ethos is one of learning by doing, experimenting, reflecting, and sharing. […] Tamara Russell and Trudi Simpson July 13, 2022July 14, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Art Word, Flesh and Whale Song And the word became flesh and dwelt among us for many days and nights. Life was simple and peaceful until one noon when it was fishing, the flesh desired to become word again. Longing for a release, the flesh jumped into the big waters, and fell through the mouth of an old and wise whale. […] Lila Moore June 9, 2022June 9, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Art Think Pink: Spirituality and the Arts “Rulers of the World” is a description of an automatic drawing made by the artist Pamela Colman Smith in 1907. It depicts three solemn-looking women sitting on a cliff in a rocky landscape. The women are dressed in flowing robes in earthy hues and wearing pink S-shaped headdresses. A tower is visible on another cliff […] Lila Moore May 5, 2022May 5, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Art Contemplative Land Art – The Spiralynth The Story of The Spiralynth October 2021 – on-going Media: Conkers, leaves, rake and movement. Location: Buckinghamshire, UK. In the paddock, beneath the giant outspread branches of the tree we’ve come to know lovingly, respectfully as ‘Big Momma’, I slowly gathered myself against the cold and wind. My intention, to complete the Sisyphean task of […] Trudi Simpson February 10, 2022February 10, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Art Media Priestesses and Auric Fields ‘We live in times of darkness, in shadows of artificial light’ writes Psyence Vedava in her illuminating book chapter: The Dance of Aurora, Media Priestesses and Auric Fields The chapter suggests that embodied ritual practices of the feminine—involving media, art, psycho-spiritual technologies, and techniques of the occult—manifest transmedial auric fields that weave the dance […] Lila Moore February 2, 2022February 3, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Art Solstice and the Technology of Time The architectonic structures of monuments such as Karnak Temple in Egypt and Stonehenge in England are ancient time measurement systems that, through links with the sun and sky, helped regulate human activity in cyclic correlation with a sacred Earth and Cosmos. These structures are the remains of ancient magical technology that in special moments in […] Lila Moore December 20, 2021February 17, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked