amal spantanny kulturna-mastacki prajekt - sapnai/dreams

(notes for the paper on ‘liminality in Electronic dance music culture’)
A party has a fractal-like structure with at least three levels of liminality\intensity oscillating and fluctuating in and out on each level — track, set, whole party.
Another possible application of liminality\communitas concepts: EDMC communities, after all, truly exist not in the ‘profane world’ of everyday, […]

14-16 september - visual anthropological trip to Kyiv, where annual gothic festival “Chorna Rada \ Dity Nochi” took place.

couple of photos from the fest

coming (not so) soon: video

Press-conference:

Wonderful gothic people:

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my ukrainian friend and partner — Olga. without her this magic trip wouldn’t happen.
coming (not so) soon: more photos and video

July 21. Chilling at the forest chill-out at Yaga fest, i was reading a book on Lithuanian pagan religion by Algirdas Greimas (translated in belarusian by S. Šupa).
After reading chapter about offerings to fire (ugnis), i went to the ‘healing area’ to check what’s going there. Alas, a workshop on meditation had just finished. But […]

En: Just launched my research project on “rhythmic rituals” — from ancient \ tribal to their contemporary forms. This project mostly considers various aspects of techno & psy-trance (sub)cultures:

Why do we go to techno \ psy-trance parties?
What do we search there?
What do we experience there?
What those parties have in common with ancient \ tribal […]