Nov 11 – Dec 10, 2011 Opening: Nov 11 6pm-2am Closing reception: Dec 10, 6pm-2am QUETZALCOATL GALLERY 3209 Beacon Ave S Seattle, WA 98144 USA
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The Medusa Gaze Project is an art project conceived by Artist Collective Seeking Kali (William Evertson, Susan Shulman, Ria Vanden Eynde), to rage against public sexual harassment of women. Whether it be catcalling, obscene gestures, sexually explicit comments, cornering, follwing women. We want to protest against this kind of bullying by men of women in the public space. Literally and figuratively unseen by bystanders, this kind of threatening behavior leaves women feeling insecure to walk the streets. Society, men AND women often perceive it as normal, a small annoyance , as a way of complimenting the women or they hold the women responsible as a kind of victim blaming. Seeking Kali wants to artistically speak out against sexual harassment and raise awareness that it IS a problem. We created this project as a way to empower women and confront society with its responsability. We aim to do this by sharing stories and showing images/video of women expressing their reproval and their determination not to be intimidated. We want to claim the right for women to walk freely and safely on our city streets. Join us in the Medusa gaze Guerrilla Projections Raging Against Sexual Harassment. Help us make a Visual Tag to Claim our Right to Walk Freely and Safely in our Cities! How to participate: send us your 15 to 20 seconds video file or jpg of your gaze, no text, no name, no photo manipulation, just your icy stare. For uniformity, standing like I am, cropped like in our tumblr pic. We will add the text ‘I will not be intimidated’ to it and add it to the projection loop. We will accept images&videos throughout the Summer 2011. We plan projections beginning this Fall (US and Europe) and will document them online. Also called for are your harassment stories, in writing or an audio clip. Send images, audio, written texts and video files to: seekingkali@yahoo.com
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Butoh Performance with Kali’s Sari. Handpainted Sari by William Evertson with scenes from the Kali Shadow Theater featuring Butoh performers Shizu Homma, Jane Wang and Angela Ferrara. With an original music score by Ian Evertson this performance was recorded in May 2011 in New York City. Editing by Ria Vanden Eynde and William Evertson for the Artist Collective Seeking Kali. Seeking Kali is William Evertson, Susan Shulman and Ria Vanden Eynde. ©Seeking Kali 2011
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Yantras come from the more than 2000 years old tantric tradition. A Yantra is the yogic equivalent of the Buddhist Mandala. Sri Yantra is called the mother of all yantras because all other yantras derive from it. The Sri Yantra is a configuration of nine interlacing triangles centred around the bindu (the central point of the yantra), drawn by the super imposition of five downward pointing triangles, representing Shakti, the female principle and four upright triangles, representing Shiva, the male principle. Man’s spiritual journey from the stage of material existence to ultimate enlightenment is mapped on the Sri Yantra. The spiritual journey is taken as a pilgrimage in which every step is an ascent to the centre, a movement beyond one’s limited existence, and every level is nearer to the goal. Each of the circuits of the Sri Yantra, from the outer plane to the bindu (the center), corresponds with one of the stages of the spiritual journey. The goal of contemplating the Sri Yantra is that the adept can rediscover his primordial sources. The circuits symbolically indicate the successive phases in the process of becoming.
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