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  • liminal

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    • my initial idea for this project was to devise a gender-neutral rite of passage, and then perform it in class. at the time i was also really feeling yoko ono's instruction paintings and i wanted to create a communal work of art. when i investigated the traditional rite of passage, i ran into arnold van gennep's canonical anthropological structure for a rite of passage.
      
      according to van gennep, a rite of passage has three stages: separation, where the initiate withdraws from the group and their current status; liminality; and reintegration, when the participant rejoins society as part of a new group. my imagined rites of passage kept getting hung up on liminality, which is the nebulous period in between states.
      
      the more i thought about it the more i saw a connection between liminality and our digital modes of communication and community building. the project ended up being less of an actual rite of passage than an experience meant to represent one.
      
      
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