Alternative Pharmacy | 2011
"Alternative Pharmacy is a space for healing. Starting from an investigation into the superstitions and healing rituals of the portuguese rural culture I want to question the symbolic place of fear and superstition in contemporary culture. What place and functionality can rituals of healing assume in society now?
The suppression of the animistic in modernity did not erase the irrational rituals, it only produced new ones. I want to reaffirm the old and new rituals as shifting manifestations of a continuity of the collective subconsciousness.
The engagement with the parallel worlds of the symbolic networks allows for an emergence of a negotiation of this hidden irrationality in modern life. Alternative Pharmacy explores the tension between the material and the symbolic conditions inherent to daily life objects. It creates an environment where the materiality and the symbolic value of things become fluid.
This fluidity and indeterminacy opens up a field for the spectator where it is possible to negotiate alternative meanings and perform parallel symbolic cultures for a chainging world."
[Ana Casimiro, 14/01/2011]
>>> Presented during Burning Ice Festival : radical_hope's CHANGING TENTS / Kaaitheatre - Brussels [17- 23 Jan 2011]
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17-01-2011 - 23 Jan 2011 / Burning Ice Festival : radical_hope's CHANGING TENTS / Kaaitheatre - Brusselsan installation by :
Ana Casimiro