'Ethnographic Film of The Masked Movement Ritual' by Emma Jane Brassington

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By Signature Art Prize 2019/20
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2019
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This work is currently shortlisted for the Signature Art Prize 2019/20. If you wish to purchase this piece it will be available after the 13th February 2020. About the artist: At first, repetitive movements appear familiar and insignificant yet put them under a microscopic lens and they shift into an exotic realm: we see the uncanny and the absurd. Repetition that transforms activity into sacred ritual. My work draws from ethnographic devices immersion, observation, participation and informant interviews. I use a wide range of media to interpret, process and explore my experiences of the culture that surrounds me. Taking the everyday as a subject, the work orbits the themes of identity and it engages with its inherently political and psychological dimensions. Key elements of anthropological text inform my work. I consider Arnold Van Gennep's three stage model of ritual structure: Preliminal, liminal and postliminal phases and Victor Turner provides a useful description of liminality and communitas to understand social collectivity of ritual. The ritual process leads participants through stages that transforms their identities and creates new social bonds. I use these interpretations to observe my surrounding culture: Grooming, brushing teeth and morning commutes. By examining everyday ritual we uncover great mythologies that form our daily experience. About the work: Introducing Dr Amme Newington, Anthropologist specialising in Renodnol Tribespeople. Recently discovered, the Renodnol tribespeople are a lesser known cultural group living in the Isolated Renodnol Territory. Whilst the Renodnol do have living neighbours the Renodnol refuse to recognise civilisation outside of their lands. In depth research and thorough analysis into the bizarre and curious practices of the Renodnol Tribespeople will no doubt significantly contribute to Anthropological inquiry and science as a whole. The ethnographic film presents rare and exciting footage of the Tribe's Masked Movement ritual. The film explores the curious ritual, its structure and the beliefs that surround it. This film is part of a wider ethnographic archival collection. Dr Amme Newington's groundbreaking research within the Anthropological field helps us to understand what it means to be human. The work contributes to the Renodnol Research Archives.

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