Art, Ritual, and Trance Inquiry

Barbara A. Bickel is Emeritus Associate Professor of Art Education at Southern Illinois University, USA, and Co-Director of Studio M*: Collaborative Research Creation Lab Intersecting Arts, Culture, and Healing based in Calgary, Canada.

• 1. Introduction: An Earth-Based Sensual Spirituality of Art, Ritual and Trance.- 2. A/r/tography as Ritual and Dreaming in Matrixial Borderspace(s).- 3. Trance, Sacred Place and Collaboration.- 4. Artists and Trance.- 5. Gestare Art Collective: With Nané Jordan and Medwyn McConachy.- 6. Attending to Ancient Voices.- 7. Performance Ritual: With Tannis Hugill.- 8. Dreaming into Lines of Matrixial Time.