The first word I learned to say is guaita. My paternal grandmother would take me for a walk in the trolley, and as we wandered around she would point at things with her finger and say: “Guaita Laia, guaita!”. She spoke a particular Catalan, she was the daughter of Vallcarca. She said guaita instead of mira (look at). Guaitar means to watch carefully, analysing what is observed. Vigilant.

Jo guaito – I analyse what I vigil carefully.

/ˈgwaj.tə/ 



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COLLECTIVE RITUAL OF LONGING




COLLECTIVE RITUAL OF LONGING 1 / JOANNA LALOWSKA AND LAIA MIRET
PERFORMANCE, MEDITATION AND WORKSHOP / 01:30 HOURS



PROJECT:

Ritual of Longing


PERFORMANCE:

San Mei Gallery

LONDON
26/06/2021
11AM-12AM AND 5PM-6PM

Collective Ritual of Longing is an invitation to embrace friendship in dislocated time-frames. Participants perform a meditative practice to remember friends being physically unreachable due to unforeseen circumstances, recreating a new relationship and perhaps creating a new history through the healing power lying under such tender, relevant and legally non-represented relationship.

We invite all to question: how can we communicate with our friends when personal contact is out of reach? How can such tender, relevant and legally non-represented relationship become a political tool enacting real change How do we approach the feeling of longing, to invite in and welcome a more deep and everlasting consciousness into our own experiences as well as the planetary ecology? Should friends be our political family?

The journey is a ritual based on ancient rites, academic research and artistic performative action, treating it as a meditative process to aid the emotional state of yearning for another.

Our intention for this ritual is to welcome the idea of connection beyond physical barriers in life. As we honour the deep arts of co-creative listening, feeling and sensual awareness, we are finding each other and the intricasies of global friendships.







Last artefact we designed for the collective Ritual of Longing, the Compass Rug:









Please see the full project at:

RITUALOFLONGING.CARGO.SITE











Collective Ritual of Longing at San Mei Gallery, photos taken by Haris Pix, thank you Eleanor Wang and all participants.