Altar Practice 

Time: 21 September, 14:00 - 17:00

Place: Meditation Room, Konsthall C

Altar Practice casts, understands and practices the altar as an archive, a portal and place of gathering where linear time-space is disrupted, cartesian logics (such as body/mind, spirit/matter), central to modernity’s epistemes are disregarded and the bodymindspirit relation is recovered and centered. The altar is the workbench of the magician, who hopes to bring forward a way of being worthy of the earth. Here, in service of their aim, the magician channels and wields powers above and below, within and without. The altar is a tool that signals an otherwise that is already here and embodied. Altar Practice invites participants to gather around the altar and to share in its methodologies. 

In the context of the Meditation Room, where we gather at an altar made of iron, Altar Practice contemplates our changing but consistent responsibilities for crafting better worlds in the context of impermanence and suffering. We begin with matter, such as iron, and unpack its relation to spirit, the political and each other. 

We will make an altar together. Bring an object that belongs to one of the four elements (water, fire - such as a candle, air - such as a feather, or earth).

Curator and sangoma Mmabatho Thobejane invites participants into Altar Practice. She enacts the curatorial as a practice of care and employs the altar for this end.

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