Glorious Ninth
Project date: January 2007
submitted 2009-01-13 17:37:33
Call: After the Net
Description:
Making intimate places through 'everyday performances' calls for a fragilising and making vulnerable of the self, and creates a potential for healing. Everyday performance artworks draw on that part of the human psyche that evades commodification and resists colonisation. love_potion is an everyday, distributed performance artwork in three phases that uses borage herbs, seeds, magic spells, aural-visual trans-narratives and DIY installations. love_potion uses only the most fragile protocols to draw attention to everyday performance spaces and situations. The first phase of the performance takes place over six months and involves seeding, tending, harvesting and drying borage herbs. It was first carried out by the artists as an everyday activity and subsequently transformed through repetition and ritual into a form that can be shared with others. The second phase involves preparing a magic potion from borage, an herb that reputedly drives away sorrow and melancholy, uplifts the spirits, and when shared with others nurtures compassion and peace. The third phase is where performers come together to co-create and co-tend an intimate place filled with aural-visual trans-narratives that can be downloaded from the glorious ninth website. When performers leave the shared space they take with them borage flowers and seeds with the intention of making new intimate spaces to share with others. As more people take part, there is potential for an invisible network of love to co-emerge.""
Format: ritual, everyday performance, aural-visual
Genre: network art
URL: http://lovepotion.gloriousninth.net
Artist Bio:
Kate Southworth and Patrick Simons work together as glorious ninth. Current experiments into co-poietic relationships between code and ritual find form as DIY installations with aural-visual works and everyday performances, and attempt to evade systems of control. Recent works, use rituals, magic and networks to recover knowledge of herbs and healing and to share it as common knowledge. glorious ninth’s work has been exhibited in academic, gallery and online contexts.