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VestAndPage, Arcane Portals Workshop Outcome, Future Ritual, 2025. Photo by Fenia Kotsopoulou.
VestAndPage: Arcane Portals
an intensive co-creation workshop at Copeland Gallery20.04 - 26.04.2025
VestAndPage invite you to dive into the transformative world of rites and rituals as performative experiences. This intensive workshop invites artists to explore our time's urgent and vital portals—personally and collectively. How can we artistically (re-)invent rites of passage and rituals for modern society?
Together, we delve into the connections between body memory of sites, soma and matter, symbolism and archetypes to address themes like normativity, liminality, intimacy, identity, and healing. In the alchemy of encounters, we approach practical techniques involving and reinventing formalities (protocols, liturgies, sacraments), repetitions, and time-energy relations.
We apply and revert the classic stages of rites—separation, threshold, aggregation—and co-create new, idiosyncratic ritual performances.
Whether driven by research or practice, this intimate workshop offers a unique opportunity to advance your artistic journey through enigmas, hermeneutics, and mysticism and partake in a profound experiential exploration of performative ritual creation.
Arcane Portals was offered as part of CEREMONY, a year-long programme of performances, exhibitions, artist labs and workshops exploring the function of performance as a modality for gathering, ritual and ceremony amidst the fragmentation of contemporary life. The CEREMONY programme was supported with public funds by Arts Council England.
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The participating artists were: Amy Mauvan, Aparna Ashok, Caro Ruoff, Cherlynn Zang, Frauke Huhn, Izzie Major, Joana Cifre Cerdà, Johanna Peltonen, Johanne Sundfør, Kelvin Atmadibrata, Marta Lodola, Olivia Hassett, Ruth Biene, Spirit Doll, Tania Camara and WOJAK.The portals were opened, sustained and closed through a public outcome during CEREMONY: a festival of performance, at Copeland Gallery.
VestAndPage, Arcane Portals Workshop Outcome, Future Ritual, 2025. Photos by Fenia Kotsopoulou.