This Special Issue has been an attempt to understand the notions of
games and rituals. Instead of an introduction, we will try to unravel
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-
+
For 8 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.
+
For 8 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.
Week 1, January 9th
2023: Tea and Cookies
-
Performed by… Artemis and Lídia
+
Performed by Artemis and Lídia
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
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Week 2, January
16th 2023: Coffee Fortune-Telling
-
Performed by… Aglaia
+
Performed by Aglaia
For Aglaia’s ritual, we sat in a circle while the coffee was being
prepared by the ancient Stove priestess who was placed in the middle.
When it was done, it was served to the participants in special coffee
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Week 3,
January 23rd 2023 Hard Drive Purification
-
Performed by… Stephen
+
Performed by Stephen
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.
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ circle.
Week 4, January 30th
2023: Birthday Cake
-
Performed by… Boyana
+
Performed by Boyana
To celebrate Agalaia’s birthday, Boyana baked a cake and Ada made
jellies. We sat in a circle, gathering around the cake. The person who
had their birthday most recently sliced the cake, and we took turns to
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Week
5, February 6th 2023: Special Issue Prediction Ritual (SIPR)
-
Performed by… Ada
+
Performed by Ada
For Ada’s 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.
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Week
6, February 13th 2023: Guided Meditation (A Nighttime Ritual)
-
Performed by… Cara
+
Performed by Cara
Cara’s ritual is related 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
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ ritual was meant to lull everyone to a moment of peace.
Week 7, February 20th
2023: Worry Dolls
-
Performed by… Irmak
+
Performed by Irmak
Irmak’s 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
@@ -553,6 +553,20 @@ Guatemala. There is one in each box of our special issue.
Irmak’s Ritual – A Worry
Doll
+
+
Week 10, March 13th 2023:
+Worry Dolls
+
Performed by Chae
+
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 eachothers glasses back to clarity, from a
+distance but somehow at the same time closer.
+
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+
click-click,
the clicking game - a matter of accumulation
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-
+
Fruitual
text adventre game
Creating a text adventure game is no easy feat. It takes a lot of
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+
Some
Gossip on gossip and what coffee has to do with it.