Ritual performance with sound
At the closing of Deering Contemporary 2026: Here We Gather, Rebecca White and companions carried out a ritual within her installation La Guía. Designed to connect body and spirit with the Four Directions, and suffused with a live sonic landscape by Emily Peters (an Artist in Residence at Deering Estate), the performance was an invocation for the highest good of the Collective. Keening, a mourning practice shared among Gaelic-speaking people, was commonly seen in Ireland and Scotland up until the middle of the 20th century when it fell out of favor with the Church. Certain women offered ecstatic wailing cries during burials, which gave community members permission to release their own pent-up emotion and honor their loved ones. This modern-day Keening was intended to facilitate catharsis of collective rage, grief, and despair at the current state of our country.
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