Art, Ritual, and Trance Inquiry: Arational Learning in an Irrational World

by Barbara A. Bickel

Overview

This book provides insights into the practice of trance-based inquiry through arts-based research, serving as a beacon to guide the way to thresholds of ancient, yet novel, transmissions. Embedded in lived experience and theory, this book introduces the reader to the liminal space of place and trance-based inquiry processes entwined with creative artworkings. The interweaving of art, ritual, and trance-based inquiry opens sacred spaces for learning and unlearning that bring spirit into form. Each chapter presents examples from women artists and culminates with experiential practices drawn from the author’s decades of creative peregrinations to assist artists, teachers, and researchers in transmitting a conscious way of practicing and creating with trance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030457440
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	11/03/2020
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Movement across Education, the Arts and the Social Sciences
Edition description:	1st ed. 2020
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Barbara A. Bickel is Emeritus Associate Professor of Art Education at Southern Illinois University, USA, and Co-Director of Studio M*: Collaborative Research Creation Lab Intersecting Arts, Culture, and Healing based in Calgary, Canada.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: An Earth-Based Sensual Spirituality of Art, Ritual and Trance.- 2. A/r/tography as Ritual and Dreaming in Matrixial Borderspace(s).- 3. Trance, Sacred Place and Collaboration.- 4. Artists and Trance.- 5. Gestare Art Collective: With Nané Jordan and Medwyn McConachy.- 6. Attending to Ancient Voices.- 7. Performance Ritual: With Tannis Hugill.- 8. Dreaming into Lines of Matrixial Time.