Talisman for Surviving Eclipses and the Non-Conforming Dates of Movable Feasts

Talisman for Surviving Eclipses and the Non-Conforming Dates of Movable Feasts

The term ‘movable feast' has come to encompass multiple meanings in calendrical systems as well as in literary and idiomatic contexts. A common usage of the expression in spoken and written language, for instance, is a metaphor for things which change over time. It could also refer to ephemeral but serendipitously momentous points in one’s life.

For this workshop, participants will be invited to draw from the archival and anecdotal, from questions of chronology, timelines and time travelling, from personal and collective methods of memory-making and the way we tell stories and construct traditions to measure and mark time. Through the act of storytelling, ritual and gesture, we will create our own memory maps, totems, effigies and calendrical systems to remember and memorialise all that we assume matters.