Barbara Bickel

Oracular Co-Encounters:  A Multi-Media Art Installation

Oracular Co-Encounters works with feminine architecture, beginning with the geomantic structure of the labyrinth, architectural acoustics of historical sacred sites, and oracular rituals. These artworkings, as matrixial mediators, involve textile wall hangings, and floor labyrinths as both horizontal and vertical architectural interventions, which temporarily transform the architecture of traditional gallery spaces and foster an embodied, co-relational and multi-sensorial experience of art. The installation includes a backlit video projection piece of invited collaborators embodying the oracle and responding to the art.

 

 

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                                                                       Sound arrangement of the 5 Oracle Soundings -2 min.       

 

Oracular Co-Encounter(s)
Rear looping video projection onto fabric, 32 minutes
Video Editing & Production, Barbara Bickel
Camera, Barbara Bickel & Cindy Lou Griffith

Oracle Voices
Mary Blaze, Cindy Lou Grifith, Bruce Entus, Medwyn McConachy,
Barbara Bickel

The first four minutes of the video are a silent ground with slight movements of breath intended to cleanse the visual and aural palette. Oracular sounding is then introduced for two minutes followed by the oracle co-encounters.