With Karmit Even-Zur
in collaboration with
Culture Vultures
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THE POETICS OF CRAFT SEFROU, MOROCCO
‘In any creative work, be it the artist or the artisan, the creative person unites with the material they are working with, which symbolises the world outside him/herself. The worker and the artefact become one. The human being becomes one with his creation. ‘ Erich Fromm
The word Poiein in Ancient Greek (ποιεῖν) means making. It is where the word Poetry comes from. Plato had pointed at the connection between craft-making and poetry, calling us to gaze at the rich worlds of form and meaning that come to life when we take raw material from our landscape and create with it. It is possible, when we look at a handcrafted object, to appreciate the emotion and soul life that the maker had infused in it.
Praxis Mundi
A collaborative psycho-magical act of healing and
metaphoric redistribution of power along the 0º Meridian
Jane Glenzinska & Karmit Evenzur
Praxis Mundi
A collaborative psycho-magical act of healing and
metaphoric redistribution of power along the 0º Meridian
Jane Glenzinska & Karmit Evenzur
Praxis Mundi
A collaborative psycho-magical act of healing and
metaphoric redistribution of power along the 0º Meridian
Jane Glenzinska & Karmit Evenzur
Sefrou is located in the heart of the middle Atlas. Traditionally, a market town located amidst fertile farming lands, it is known for its fruit orchards, cherry festival and the large Jewish community that lived there up until the last century. Sefrou is still home to a large community of local artisans, metal smiths, woodworkers, weavers and button makers. Though the community is still thriving, few are the ones of the young generation who wish to learn these skills.
Visiting local crafts people in their workshops, we will learn about their work and daily lives as a way to get a sense of the place through the people and their working spaces. An orientation of the city from the inside out hosted by Culture Vultures, will lead us into a deeper relationship with Amazigh women who spin and weave and we will participate in a hands own textile workshop.
We will be introduced to ‘The Loom in Local Rituals’ and how women used the loom as a sacred medium for protection. On Sunday we will make a day trip to a mountain market town in the Middle Atlas where the wool comes from, to meet women who practice unbroken textile traditions in the region.
Alongside these visits our work will consist of listening to the stories that emerge from our activities, as well as engage with traditional stories from around the world to bring into clearer focus the role of craft-making in the life of the Soul. On our last day we will share these stories in a storytelling evening (no previous experience necessary). Daily shamanic practices will help us access ancestral knowledge and seek healing for modern day’s rupture between skill and community, craft and Time.
Karmit Even Zur
EARTH SPEAKS
EMBODIED
PARTICIPATION
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IMAGINATION
Karmit Even Zur (b.1974, Tel Aviv) is a social artist creating live, place based ritual events to ignite social imagination around kinship systems, memory and territory. She invites people to engage in conversation about their local bioregion through process based art. Working primarily with stories and textiles, she makes objects that act as mediators and agents that invite participants to engage in body informed, land/place based creative practices to access nonlinear systems of knowledge.
The work I do is grounded in modern geomancy and European shamanism. I am interested in how we shape, and at the same time, are shaped by the places we inhabit. I speak the language of story, image and metaphor to move and communicate between the visible and invisible spheres.
My practice builds on the premise that the world draws us into a relationship with itself through the act of imagination. Together with a host of colleagues and companions, I conjure spaces and contexts where we can, as a group, explore the edges of what we collectively know. This is no new technology, this is akin to traditional ecological knowledge held in sacred trust by indigenous societies, carried through by oral traditions.
Faculty member at the School of Storytelling at Emerson College in the South East of England, where traditional folk tales, wonder tales and myths meet autobiographical material and new narratives are created.
Co- founder of the creative placemaking art and research residencies BeeTime in the South of Spain.
An exploration into forms of ritualised communion with the spirits of the land through ceremonial dressmaking
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painter Manuel Maqueda
Collaboration between artists, geologists, shamanic practitioners & geomancers to re-imagine the ancient microcontinent Avalonia.