So yes I did what every student in the known universe does when starting a project or wants information on anything, I asked google shame on me! This is what google says:
But, I would like to gain more knowledge in this not just scrape the surface or get someone’s potentially un educated opinion from a certain site starting with a W and ending with an A.
Personally I believe there are two main kind of ritual:
secular
sacred (for the purpose of this blog I will count mystical as sacred as well)
secular being that ritual which has no real connection to god or the religion; something like the way me and my Dad used to go to MacDonald’s before every home game at Birmingham city FC
Sacred being that of something connected to religion; something like a marriage (?) you may disagree.
My performance work over the past year particularly those that have consisted around a audience base have spoke of a secular ritual, and some what of sacred/mystical.
The Performance lecture sees a almost sacrifice of water in the name of the gold fish bowl. The sacrifice of bread also. I would count this as Mystical as although bread has catholic/Cristian meaning for me more of the skin rather than the body itself.
Rock Paper Scissors has a secular bases not lying within the religious or mystical sphere but almost of a representation of a daily routine (?), I continually and repetitively hand out umbrellas and water to the viewers.
brings me on to circles and as you may remember from a previous post of mine I had spoken about circles and why they appeared in my work. Emma Starkey and I had spoken about that how humans had a in bread desire to produce circles rather Emma had said that it may be something to do with a connection to the womb at a cellular level.
I had spoken of cell memories but that is something Emma and Myself are going to read about and try and prove/disprove.
