The few steps from this public entrance space to the main gallery doubled as a journey
from public ritual to the private realm of the body.
The buildings and statues were not static but dynamic in the consciousness of the inhabitants of the first - century world, they were places about which
regular public rituals, processions, sacrifices, and feasts would be centred, in which all members of the community would often to some extent be involved.
By the 1800s, capital punishment was a long - established legal instrument and
public ritual in this country, utilized for a variety of purposes in various social situations.
This became a part of the function of the specialized manual priest, leaving the more formal and
public ritual utterances to the Hotri or sacrificing priest.
They are
phony public rituals, like complicated Big Science physics experiments that have 200 authors and cost half a billion euros a pop.
Using the sports narrative, the trucking company integrated races, games and competitions, together with leaderboards and other
gamified public rituals (such as fantasy sports gamified narratives) to provide employees the recognition they deserve.
As a Pagan, if you attend
a public ritual you go in knowing full well that a whole plethora of different deities might be called upon.
Yet by local custom, the Dalai Lama is typically greeted by Tibetans with a deep bow, or, in a more formal setting, such as at his residence in Dharamsala or in the context of
a public ritual, with three or more full prostrations to him.
«As a Native of New Orleans, 6th generation, my life is rooted in the Black Creole community and
its public rituals.
Bartana's platform of investigation are ceremonies,
public rituals and social diversions that are intended to reaffirm the collective identity of countries.
October 19th - 20th, 2000 at Exit Art: Coded Bodies, a two - day video and performance event featuring work by South Asian women that explored the coded meanings of the body through works examining traditional and non-traditional dress, private and
public rituals, and body adornments and movements.
Bartana investigates these through the ceremonies,
public rituals and social diversions that are intended to reaffirm the collective identity of the nation state.
Laura Bernstein (Brooklyn, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist who constructs scenarios and vignettes through immersive installation, performance, and video in which her fictional characters and creatures engage with their environment, exploring the relationship between human and animal, exemplary and freakish,
public ritual and private behavior.