ARTIST AS SHAMAN
Tue 21 Jun
|Klapmuts
Workshop and Exhibition at Glen Carlou. In the modern world, the artist has taken over much of the role of the shaman. For our purposes during this workshop, we are interested in the artist as shaman in three roles: as endowed with special sight, insight and power; as transformer; and as healer.
Time & Location
21 Jun 2022, 12:00 – 26 Jun 2022, 10:00
Klapmuts, Klapmuts - Simondium Rd, Simondium, Klapmuts, 7625, South Africa
About the event
Why is shamanic practice becoming relevant again in contemporary art?
In a time of crisis, people look for solutions to transcend their current state of being. They try to find alternatives to and transcendence from what they are experiencing at that particular point in time. To some extent, covid has brought this condition on and induced a search for vision, for a path forward and for ways and means to reimagine the world.
The roles of the shaman and the artist have always been tied to vision and a position of existing between the physical and the non-physical worlds. The artist makes the invisible visible, and the shaman aims to transcend the visible and enter into another realm.
Shamanism has roots outside of the West, in the cultures of indigenous peoples across the world, extending through Siberia, Australia and Africa, as well as the Americas and pre-modern Europe. But shamanism…
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Workshop fees
20 places available; 12 taken
US$220.00
+US$5.50 ticket service fee
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