ACTIONS: Shadow Initiation Spell,, Harbor Gallery UMass Boston MA 2012
Shadow Initiation Spell is a merging of Buddha and Baby Jesus, time and space, mind and body, and life and death –all in a single energy form. A subconscious and earnest wish is the foundation for the alchemical transmutation taking place in the space during the artist’s intervention. Random video-rhythm, sonic transmissions and flickering fleeting doors opened the portal beyond the symbolic and sensorial duality that the viewer experience.
Shadow Initiation Spell was two live actions: the first one was a 3 hour action on the opening reception night January 26, the other a six hour culminating action on Sunday February 5,
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