Bleeding Circle works in progress 5/22
creatures of the deep emerge to share bloody fruits
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The Bleeding Circle works in progress show
Thursday May 22nd 6-8pmPST, online, fundraiser for the Sudan Conflict Response Fund
The Bleeding Circle, a group in apprenticeship to the spirit of blood and menstruation, has been in art making and ceremony for the last 9 months. We have been researching, playing in, and creating works from the origins of culture making. The understanding that menstruation is the founder of culture comes from Judy Grahn's theory that menstruation was the impetus for establishing measurement and externalizing inner knowings through collective ritual.
In The Bleeding Circle we aim to create sanctuary for and learn from the aspects of reality that are exiled and maligned by domineering supremacist culture(s) like Mystery, Death, Embodiment, The Dark, and Erotic Energy. With those aspects as teachers, we play, create, and study culture shaping for the benefit of all.
Now we are stepping out of our retreat to offer our bloody fruits to a wider community. There will be visual art, poetry, stories, and more. You might find some of this content challenging or strange because it does not fit prescripted forms of art or academia. Enjoy the luxurious languish in the indefinable and uncategorizable. There may be themes of blood, pain, uncertainty, or crisis, but nothing is shared for shock value and all will be held in an energetically hygienic container.
Thursday 5/22 6-8pmPST, over zoom, by donation, NOTAFLOF. This is a fundraiser! All proceeds will go to the Sudan Conflict Response Fund
*This event will be recorded for research and potentially funding purposes
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About the organizer:
Larissa Kaul (they/them, Portland OR) is a multidisciplinary Presence Artist, facilitator, ritualist, and counselor designing experiences to support people in waking up to their creative agency and the ancestral technologies of art-making. They design play-labs and performance workshops that feed Spirit, welcome home the exiled, shape culture, and reinvigorate our birthright to embodied liberation. They are a mixed race, non-binary person living with chronic pain and mad gifts, and this blend of life experiences informs how they design. Catch Larissa experimenting in semi-abandoned malls, behind waterfalls, and in the virtuals.
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