Assignment: Prepare a short presentation (via blog post) on church. It can be specific to the Mass we attended this evening, another Mass, or any other experiences of church you would like to draw on. It can be a personal reflection, a broader study, educational, abstracted - wherever this leads. Words, sounds, images, associations, explanations. Could be a list, a poem, a picture, a story, and so on and so on. Present something. Topic: Church. No rules or restrictions.
Due: Wednesday, February 3.
Traditional Latin Catholic Mass: Easter Sunday
Not only some footage of a high mass but the gift of a narrator. Quite possibly from Ireland. I felt a little less lonely last night.
Important Links
Here are a few things I mentioned yesterday, which I relate to this project broadly as theories on how people work, and specifically interesting in terms of some of the themes in the Mass (mercy etc):
Random Emotion Theory:
The idea is credited to Joseph Chaikin (director) by Chuck Mee Jr. (playwright) in the article "Shattered and Fucked Up and Full of Wreckage: The Words and Works of Charles L. Mee" - though I haven't been able to find it anywhere else.
The quote:
The Milgram Experiment
From Wikipedia:
The BBC did a program recreating these tests in 2009, and you can see that over at YouTube. And if you watch the last one to the end you can catch the editor's racial biases at play - for extra credit!
It is also worth noting the Stanford prison experiment as a related study.
Holy Spirit Interactive: The Explanatory Mass:
The Explanatory Mass is simply a guide to the mass. Should just add some context (from a religious perspective) to the text.
Feel free to add more links in the comments here or as new posts.
Random Emotion Theory:
The idea is credited to Joseph Chaikin (director) by Chuck Mee Jr. (playwright) in the article "Shattered and Fucked Up and Full of Wreckage: The Words and Works of Charles L. Mee" - though I haven't been able to find it anywhere else.
The quote:
"I think there are things that everyone feels at least once every 15 minutes: embarrassment, for example, or humiliation, from no-where, without apparent cause; sudden grief, anxiety, dread, distraction — as though a spirit or monster of some kind had passed overhead; regret, impatience, hatred, and unreasoning rage. It’s not the same for everyone. Some people I know feel none of those things, but instead, every 15 minutes they feel vengeful, jealous — they are immobilized by envy, a longing to possess something or someone, greed, lust, a wish to put something in their mouths."
The Milgram Experiment
From Wikipedia:
The Milgram's experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. Milgram first described his research in 1963 in an article published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology,[1] and later discussed his findings in greater depth in his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.
The BBC did a program recreating these tests in 2009, and you can see that over at YouTube. And if you watch the last one to the end you can catch the editor's racial biases at play - for extra credit!
It is also worth noting the Stanford prison experiment as a related study.
Holy Spirit Interactive: The Explanatory Mass:
The Explanatory Mass is simply a guide to the mass. Should just add some context (from a religious perspective) to the text.
Feel free to add more links in the comments here or as new posts.
first gleaning/last light
there's a procession of doves in your rafters
-an army of pecks
-a liturgy of squawks
and up in the cobwebs
-a broken wing
-an army of god
-cobwebs and tongues and elbows, angels and lips
sucked in/devoured
sin-sensical
drifting like dust on the sunbeams (PAINted glass)
-lamb of god
-leg of mutton
-leg of lepers
and no-fair seeing
this ain't grace
this all fucked
this old thing
a procession
-of broken
-of cattle
-of flock
-of orgasm shrieks
and beat/red bottoms
(i've never dripped in punishments quite...like...this).
there's a speck of dust on your father
in your shadows and up your ass
and
there's a procession of doves in your rafters
piano
is there a piano at the bindery? if not, is there one available? (i know that's a long shot.) slightly out of tune is ok and possibly preferable.
dan
dan
A Human Mass?
Why?
Because contradiction and misunderstanding are the beauty of existence, collaboration is the only sanity. Science can only explore the repeatable, and religion is tied to preconceived answers beyond our experience. Art has the freedom to question and the freedom not to answer. All we have is each other and some time together. It's a conspiracy of us. Breathing together in the same place, diverse experiences exploring the chaos. The human experience - as alternately mundane or transcendent as it is.How?
Beethoven's Missa Solemnis (a musical adaptation & simplification of the Catholic Mass) offers a well-worn and understood structure for exploring aspects of life that we all experience. Humility, Power, Mercy, Joy, Intellect, Argument, Relationship, Reconciliation and Community.What?
A multi-media performance experience (we call it "theatre") exploring human experience through the structures and themes of the Mass (specifically Missa Solemnis). Drawing input from every source available, from science and religion to pop culture, personal experience, public record and recorded history.The Structure:
- Kyrie
- Gloria
- Credo
- Sanctus
- Agnus Dei
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