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Activismes Ésotériques – Magie · Performance · Résistances est un travail de création et de recherche (solstice d’hiver 2020 – équinoxe d’automne 2021) à la croisée du rituel, du workshop, de la performance et de l’intervention dans l’espace public.
[En résidence : 49° Nord 6° Est Frac Lorraine]
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A series of talismans as key rings from the pebbles on the Sainte-Odile site with Odylus residents, who are temporarily occupying places. Doubles are then shaped and decorated with an engraving of the Kenaz rune. This rune shaped in a corner of a roof symbolises the domesticated fire, the torch, the flame, in connection with the hearth or the household: in the past, the population was counted in number of « fire » or luminous « hearths », therefore readable at night. Kenaz, lined and inverted to form a cross, corresponds to the rune Gebo which means hospitality, gift or attachment.
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On one side, a series of precious, fetish or sacred objects, on the other, views from the rooms of the former Sainte-Odile clinic.
The ensemble is as much a whole as a mediation to operate in a collective egregore of personal belongings, amulets, talismans, gri-gri, family jewellery, or objects of burden or good luck charms collected with the residents and retranscribed in the form of building site banners to cover, adorn or adorn as an offering the dress and scaffolding of the former Sainte-Odile chapel.
The banners are hung with the residents in complicity with the site workers.
Ritual workshop & performative urban visit at Université de Lorraine24 Septembre 2020, Jeudi des Quatre Temps The Tuesday of the 4 times, 4 groups of anonymous citizens gather to form a collective egregora, a political and spiritual body. The 4 groups wander through the city « traveling in spirit » with 4 tools to 4 diferent sites […]
Esoterical vandalism & dialogical graffiti as ruses for symbolic appropriations of public space took the shape of a talk during Urban Creativity User Experience Online Conference, curated by Pedro Soares Neves.
External Promises is a simultaneous urban and astral visit through different cities. External Promises — Fortune guide for disaffected places addresses the issue of disaffectec space, as a way of rethinking intimate space (assigned space, sacred space or conquered space) from a post-confinement perspective by applying it to the affective and political relationship to public space. What […]
Graffiti Ouija No. 1 – Oracle Graffiti is a device to allow communication with the banished spirits of the city. It takes the shape of a Ouija board on the scale of a tunnel floor (13 x 3 m), inscribed on the ground with sign paint. While the municipality tries to make them disappear, wandering […]
Homemade sundial dealing with cycles of consumption and season, viewpoint on urban landscape during lockdown and time passing by. It also addresses emptiness regarding both space and time: urbanism and capitalism versus nature and DIY culture.
esoterical graffiti, esotericogeography, gesture, interviews, psychogeography, spontaneous prose, uncomissioned residency, urbanintervention
Dialoging directly with public and occult places through field surveys, exploratory interviews, serendipity walks, visits via esoteric, narrative, sensitive, geological approaches.
