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.
Released in 1981, Shopping Bag Spirits and Freeway Fetishes: Reflections on Ritual Space is a documentary film (US). It was directed by Barbara McCullough. The cast is led by Kamau Daaood, Betye Saar, Kenneth Severin, Barbara McCullough and Yolanda Vidato. With a runtime of 1h 0m, the film averages 10.0/10 across 1 TMDB ratings.
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