‘DANCE IN THE SACRED DOMAIN’ is a new commission by Glasgow-based artist Rabindranath X Bhose.
A conceptual bog made up of fragments of writing, performance, and sculpture, ‘DANCE IN THE SACRED DOMAIN’ is an installation work emerging from time spent meditating on bog land in Scotland.
The bog is a historically sacred space, often considered a portal in rituals from the iron age and potentially before. In DANCE IN THE SACRED DOMAIN, Rabi considers what it feels like to be contained in these murky, warm, slow-burning, transitional spaces. The installation’s title is informed by research into the bodies that have been preserved in bogs: those who were bound with rope and sticks, then ritually sacrificed, but also those who were considered ‘undesirable’ and not afforded a proper burial. Growing out of these adverse connotations, Rabi’s new work dances joyfully through bog space – creating levity and bodily elation in a queer realm of sacred transcendence.
Rabi makes work around queerness, spirituality, and death, focusing on ‘crossing over’. The bog is an effective framework with which to hold these messy and fluid explorations, which cannot be contained solely in one medium. His performances weave together subconsciously sourced poetry, gestural drawings, and ritualised objects. His emerging movement practice explores the dynamics of a body in transition, and in his sculptural works, the energy of embodied movement is present in tender gestures and bodily flourishes.
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