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Religion, though often dismissed in contemporary creative circles, is still the most powerful vehicle for empowering change and building community. When studied as amicrocosm, religious practices boil down to a long history of powerful stories – stories seen through action-based rituals, stories told as lessons in living, stories passed from generation to generation to create a line age of narrative identity. Our work is powered by an intentional awareness of, and interaction with, the stories we occupy. The internal compass by which we set our course is grounded and consistent, but adaptable in its application. Because of the conversation alnature of our exploratory methodology, we’re inclined to build a project based on rural hagiographies, parish relationships, or landscape phonospheres. This could take shape in many ways:
-as an interactive archive of sound and print media for a specialized religious narrative;
-as acontent-driven sound system for collecting and experiencing religious phonospheres;
-as a micro-library of experimental theological research;
-as a hyper-local curatorial project in religious heritage artifacts;
-as a performative social ritual that highlights and celebrates the sacredordinary;
Mary Rothlisberger (b. 1983, Killeen, Texas) is a thinker, writer, conversationalist, and relationalist. Her creative work is community-specific and socially responsive and thus takes many different forms. Projects have included building a neighborhood radio station, facilitating a social center on a frozen lake, developing creative living systems within a former thrift store or exploring microcosmic cultural production within interstitial spaces. Mary has served as a Collaborative Director of LOOK AROUND, a pop-up artspace and creative playground in Palouse, Washington. She earned a BA in Religion from the University of Mary Washington and an MFA in Sculpture from Washington State University.
Monique Besten. Before she became a visual artist, Monique Besten studied medieval and cultural history for six years in The Netherlands and Ireland. She did research and wrote numerous articles about different historical subjects. Since 2004 Monique Besten organizes New Riddles and Constellations: a project series for which she invites a number of artists to work next to each other during a period of 4 to 8 weeks to develop and/or present new work. Every edition takes place at a different, special location and is shaped according to the location, participants and guests. Founder of Stichting Mista’peo, organizing art events and projects (15 editions of the festival “The Evening of the Longest/Shortest Night”), creating opportunities for artists from different disciplines to develop and present new work.