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<div id="content"><h1 id="monday-morning-rituals">Monday Morning Rituals</h1>
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<p>For eight weeks, students from XPUB prepared a ritual to perform at
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the top of Monday morning class. We explored cultural rituals such as
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the birthday cake and coffee-ground reading, but also more personal
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rituals such as ‘going to sleep’ rituals, a personal hard-drive
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purification, and the creation of worry-dolls.</p>
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<h4 id="week-1-january-9th-2023-tea-and-cookies">Week 1, January 9th
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2023: Tea and Cookies</h4>
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<p><em>Performed by Artemis and Lídia</em></p>
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<p>Artemis and Lídia introduced us to Monday Morning Rituals on the
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first cold, dark, wintery Monday morning. We shared cookies with tea as
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a way to open up the semester and get to know each other. The ritual of
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a hot drink and cookies is well-known around the world as a moment of
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gathering, peace, gossip, and self-care.</p>
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<img src="Lidia_Ritual.jpeg" alt="Artemis and Lídia’s Preparations" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Artemis and Lídia’s
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Preparations</figcaption>
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<h3 id="week-2-january-16th-2023-coffee-fortune-telling">Week 2, January
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16th 2023: Coffee Fortune-Telling</h3>
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<p><em>Performed by Aglaia</em></p>
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<p>For Aglaia’s ritual, we sat in a circle while the coffee was being
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prepared by the ancient Stove priestess placed in the middle. When done,
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it was served to the participants in special coffee cups. We drank our
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coffee while gossiping and eating cookies. When everybody finished, we
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swirled the cup counter-clockwise three times and turned the coffee cup
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upside down over the cup’s saucer. We waited patiently for five minutes
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for the fortune to be prepared. Everybody had to tell the Fortune of the
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person sitting on their left side by reading the coffee grounds until we
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completed the circle.</p>
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<img src="Aglaia_Ritual.jpeg" alt="Aglaia’s Ritual" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Aglaia’s Ritual</figcaption>
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<img src="Aglaia_ritual_2.jpeg" class="white-caption"
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alt="Overturned Coffee Grounds" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Overturned Coffee Grounds</figcaption>
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</figure>
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</div>
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<h3 id="week-3-january-23rd-2023-hard-drive-purification">Week 3,
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January 23rd 2023 Hard Drive Purification</h3>
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<p><em>Performed by Stephen</em></p>
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<p>Stephen prepared a few zines with instructions to conduct a
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ceremonial cleansing of not only our browser history and cookies but
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also our trash cans/recycle bins. All operating systems were welcome.
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The zine was a reminder to ‘clean’ messy space up (for yourself),
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written in such a way that instructed us to recite sentences at the same
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time, with one person leading the group – a play on the magic
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circle.</p>
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<img src="Stephen_Ritual.jpeg" alt="Stephen’s Ritual" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Stephen’s Ritual</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<h3 id="week-4-january-30th-2023-birthday-cake">Week 4, January 30th
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2023: Birthday Cake</h3>
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<p><em>Performed by Boyana</em></p>
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<p>To celebrate Aglaia’s birthday, Boyana baked a cake, and Ada made
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jellies. We sat in a circle around the cake. The person who had their
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birthday most recently sliced the cake, and we took turns to wish them
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our blessings. After going through a round, we ate together.</p>
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<img src="Boyana_Ritual_Cake-jelly.jpeg"
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alt="Boyana’s Birthday Cake and Ada’s Jellies" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Boyana’s Birthday Cake and Ada’s
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Jellies</figcaption>
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<h3
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id="week-5-february-6th-2023-special-issue-prediction-ritual-sipr">Week
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5, February 6th 2023: Special Issue Prediction Ritual (SIPR)</h3>
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<p><em>Performed by Ada</em></p>
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<p>For Ada’s ritual, Ada brought in a deck of tarot cards to read the
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fortune of the Special Issue you are holding in your hands right
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now.</p>
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<p>Her text made us laugh, and we have chosen to include it in full:</p>
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<p>“The priestess Ada will start the ritual by playing the ceremonial
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music on the sacred Spotify. Candles shall be turned on. Then three
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human sacrifices will be selected amongst the group through a collective
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decision. The three sacrificial people will then select three cards from
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either of the two decks given by the priestess. While they do so, they
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must think of the special issue. The priestess will then interpret the
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cards and together we shall rejoice in having found out our Special
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Issue’s future.”</p>
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<img src="ada-ritual.jpg" class="white-caption"
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alt="The reading of this special issue." />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">The reading of this special
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issue.</figcaption>
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</figure>
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</div>
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<h3
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id="week-6-february-13th-2023-guided-meditation-a-nighttime-ritual">Week
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6, February 13th 2023: Guided Meditation (A Nighttime Ritual)</h3>
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<p><em>Performed by Cara</em></p>
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<p>Cara’s ritual relates to her history of having a hard time falling
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asleep at night. Over the years, she has found that music - especially
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quiet music with the sound of nature (field recordings) – really helps
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her fall asleep. She DJs outside of class and plays a lot of ambient,
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narrative DJ sets. For her ritual, she played a sound piece made of
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field recordings around Rotterdam (the sound of water lapping against a
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water taxi, the sound of wind, the sound of rain) and read a poem about
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sleeplessness from a collection of literature about the Night. The
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ritual meant to lull everyone to a moment of peace.</p>
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<img src="Cara_Ritual.jpeg" alt="Cara’s Ritual" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Cara’s Ritual</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<h3 id="week-7-february-20th-2023-worry-dolls">Week 7, February 20th
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2023: Worry Dolls</h3>
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<p><em>Performed by Irmak</em></p>
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<p>Irmak’s ritual was about how to ease our worries. We wrote down our
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worries on a pink piece of paper and shared them with a handmade doll
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that Irmak brought. These dolls are called Worry dolls (also called
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trouble dolls; in Spanish, Muñeca quitapena) and originate from
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Guatemala. There is one in each box of our special issue.</p>
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<img src="Irmak_Ritual.jpeg" alt="Irmak’s Ritual – A Worry Doll" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Irmak’s Ritual – A Worry
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Doll</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<h3
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id="week-10-march-13th-2023-that-distant-future-when-we-share-a-tea">Week
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10, March 13th 2023: That Distant Future When We Share a Tea</h3>
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<p><em>Performed by Chae</em></p>
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<p>Special Guest Chaeyoung Kim joined us in a ritual involving drinking
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tea, steaming glasses and collective healing through care and
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conversation. Over bubbling background sounds, we talked about our
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experiences of a recent global pandemic that had an effect on us all,
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and we recreated the isolating experience of wearing glasses with a
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mask. Finally, we wiped each others glasses back to clarity, from a
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distance but somehow at the same time closer.</p>
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<img src="chae1.jpeg" alt="Pointing becomes holding." />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Pointing becomes holding.</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<img src="chae3.jpg" class="white-caption"
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alt="Collective clearing of the fog." />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Collective clearing of the
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fog.</figcaption>
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</figure>
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