revitalizing rituals

Revitalizing Rituals is an artistic inquiry into rituals as a technology of belonging with the rest of nature. The project operates in the interstice between inherited knowledge, today’s complex realities, and contemporary artistic practice. It seeks to translate rituals into forms that navigate the fracture between human communities, the land and other living forms. Rather than treating rituals as fixed heritage, Revitalizing Rituals approaches them as living, evolving gestures shaped through deep observation and relational practice with knowledgekeeping communities. Working across distinct urban and rural landscapes in Tunisia and Hungary, the project seeks to move from a state of dissociation toward a sense of reciprocity and mutual flourishing. Revitalizing Rituals is supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

This residency explores the interstices of uprooting and re-rooting across two landscapes defined by a fractured relationship between human communities and the land: the urban margins of Bhar Lazreg (Tunisia) and the transforming wetlands of Somogy County (Hungary). Historically, rituals were the heartbeat of reciprocity. We ask: can artistic gestures revive or reinvent these rituals to move us from dissociation toward belonging, and therefore protection.

We invite an inquiry into the narratives of life that emerge when inherited knowledge and buried memories encounter today’s realities through artistic form.