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<div id="content"><h1 id="monday-morning-rituals">Monday Morning Rituals</h1>
<p>For eight weeks, students from XPUB prepared a ritual to perform at
the top of Monday morning class. We explored cultural rituals such as
the birthday cake and coffee-ground reading, but also more personal
rituals such as going to sleep rituals, a personal hard-drive
purification, and the creation of worry-dolls.</p>
<h4 id="week-1-january-9th-2023-tea-and-cookies">Week 1, January 9th
2023: Tea and Cookies</h4>
<p><em>Performed by Artemis and Lídia</em></p>
<p>Artemis and Lídia introduced us to Monday Morning Rituals on the
first cold, dark, wintery Monday morning. We shared cookies with tea as
a way to open up the semester and get to know each other. The ritual of
a hot drink and cookies is well-known around the world as a moment of
gathering, peace, gossip, and self-care.</p>
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<img src="Lidia_Ritual.jpeg" alt="Artemis and Lídias Preparations" />
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Preparations</figcaption>
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<h3 id="week-2-january-16th-2023-coffee-fortune-telling">Week 2, January
16th 2023: Coffee Fortune-Telling</h3>
<p><em>Performed by Aglaia</em></p>
<p>For Aglaias ritual, we sat in a circle while the coffee was being
prepared by the ancient Stove priestess placed in the middle. When done,
it was served to the participants in special coffee cups. We drank our
coffee while gossiping and eating cookies. When everybody finished, we
swirled the cup counter-clockwise three times and turned the coffee cup
upside down over the cups saucer. We waited patiently for five minutes
for the fortune to be prepared. Everybody had to tell the Fortune of the
person sitting on their left side by reading the coffee grounds until we
completed the circle.</p>
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<img src="Aglaia_Ritual.jpeg" alt="Aglaias Ritual" />
<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Aglaias Ritual</figcaption>
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<img src="Aglaia_ritual_2.jpeg" class="white-caption"
alt="Overturned Coffee Grounds" />
<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Overturned Coffee Grounds</figcaption>
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<h3 id="week-3-january-23rd-2023-hard-drive-purification">Week 3,
January 23rd 2023 Hard Drive Purification</h3>
<p><em>Performed by Stephen</em></p>
<p>Stephen prepared a few zines with instructions to conduct a
ceremonial cleansing of not only our browser history and cookies but
also our trash cans/recycle bins. All operating systems were welcome.
The zine was a reminder to clean messy space up (for yourself),
written in such a way that instructed us to recite sentences at the same
time, with one person leading the group a play on the magic
circle.</p>
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<img src="Stephen_Ritual.jpeg" alt="Stephens Ritual" />
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<h3 id="week-4-january-30th-2023-birthday-cake">Week 4, January 30th
2023: Birthday Cake</h3>
<p><em>Performed by Boyana</em></p>
<p>To celebrate Aglaias birthday, Boyana baked a cake, and Ada made
jellies. We sat in a circle around the cake. The person who had their
birthday most recently sliced the cake, and we took turns to wish them
our blessings. After going through a round, we ate together.</p>
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<img src="Boyana_Ritual_Cake-jelly.jpeg"
alt="Boyanas Birthday Cake and Adas Jellies" />
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Jellies</figcaption>
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<h3
id="week-5-february-6th-2023-special-issue-prediction-ritual-sipr">Week
5, February 6th 2023: Special Issue Prediction Ritual (SIPR)</h3>
<p><em>Performed by Ada</em></p>
<p>For Adas ritual, Ada brought in a deck of tarot cards to read the
fortune of the Special Issue you are holding in your hands right
now.</p>
<p>Her text made us laugh, and we have chosen to include it in full:</p>
<p>“The priestess Ada will start the ritual by playing the ceremonial
music on the sacred Spotify. Candles shall be turned on. Then three
human sacrifices will be selected amongst the group through a collective
decision. The three sacrificial people will then select three cards from
either of the two decks given by the priestess. While they do so, they
must think of the special issue. The priestess will then interpret the
cards and together we shall rejoice in having found out our Special
Issues future.”</p>
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alt="The reading of this special issue." />
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issue.</figcaption>
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<h3
id="week-6-february-13th-2023-guided-meditation-a-nighttime-ritual">Week
6, February 13th 2023: Guided Meditation (A Nighttime Ritual)</h3>
<p><em>Performed by Cara</em></p>
<p>Caras ritual relates to her history of having a hard time falling
asleep at night. Over the years, she has found that music - especially
quiet music with the sound of nature (field recordings) really helps
her fall asleep. She DJs outside of class and plays a lot of ambient,
narrative DJ sets. For her ritual, she played a sound piece made of
field recordings around Rotterdam (the sound of water lapping against a
water taxi, the sound of wind, the sound of rain) and read a poem about
sleeplessness from a collection of literature about the Night. The
ritual meant to lull everyone to a moment of peace.</p>
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<img src="Cara_Ritual.jpeg" alt="Caras Ritual" />
<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Caras Ritual</figcaption>
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<h3 id="week-7-february-20th-2023-worry-dolls">Week 7, February 20th
2023: Worry Dolls</h3>
<p><em>Performed by Irmak</em></p>
<p>Irmaks ritual was about how to ease our worries. We wrote down our
worries on a pink piece of paper and shared them with a handmade doll
that Irmak brought. These dolls are called Worry dolls (also called
trouble dolls; in Spanish, Muñeca quitapena) and originate from
Guatemala. There is one in each box of our special issue.</p>
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<img src="Irmak_Ritual.jpeg" alt="Irmaks Ritual A Worry Doll" />
<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Irmaks Ritual A Worry
Doll</figcaption>
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<h3
id="week-10-march-13th-2023-that-distant-future-when-we-share-a-tea">Week
10, March 13th 2023: That Distant Future When We Share a Tea</h3>
<p><em>Performed by Chae</em></p>
<p>Special Guest Chaeyoung Kim joined us in a ritual involving drinking
tea, steaming glasses and collective healing through care and
conversation. Over bubbling background sounds, we talked about our
experiences of a recent global pandemic that had an effect on us all,
and we recreated the isolating experience of wearing glasses with a
mask. Finally, we wiped each others glasses back to clarity, from a
distance but somehow at the same time closer.</p>
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<img src="chae1.jpeg" alt="Pointing becomes holding." />
<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Pointing becomes holding.</figcaption>
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alt="Collective clearing of the fog." />
<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Collective clearing of the
fog.</figcaption>
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