Shopping Bag Spirits and Freeway Fetishes: Reflections on Ritual Space

Shopping Bag Spirits and Freeway Fetishes: Reflections on Ritual Space

1981
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Shopping Bag, Spirits and Freeway Fetishes: Reflections on Ritual Space explores nine Los Angeles based artists reflecting on ritual in their life and art. Artist David Hammons discusses the role of chance and improvisation in his work while working on sculpture on a waste site while N’Senga Nengudi talks about staging her performances in freeway underpasses. Spanning performance to spoken word, environmental sculpture to music each artist talks about how ritual and cultural traditions informs their work. This experimental essay intercuts interviews, documentation and photographs with the music of Don Cherry seeking to adjust the criteria and language used to talk about artists of colour.

Status: Released

Language: EN

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Quick Facts

Release Date January 1, 1981
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt0232635

Cast

Kamau Daaood
Kamau Daaood

Self

Betye Saar
Betye Saar

Self

Kenneth Severin
Kenneth Severin

Self

Barbara McCullough
Barbara McCullough

Self

Yolanda Vidato
Yolanda Vidato

Self

Key Crew

Barbara McCullough
Director