Right. Was its purpose to obtain more funding, or was that a
by-product of a different purpose?
~Caroline.
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Well, since the performance dealt with various forms of
magic as they related to my life (particularly Kabbalah) and that of several
prisoners who used tropes of magic in their own writing (mixed with a healthy
dose of Foucault, Bachelard, Genet, and Eco), and I used a ritual frame for
the performance, it most certainly was an overtly magical working.
Jason
said: >>I
sometimes tell a story within a performance context about doing my PhD
recital in the Performance Studies department at Northwestern University as a
magical working - one that ultimately led to getting more funding. So it
worked.<< So
in your case it was the Crowley definition of magic as ‘causing change in
accordance with your will’. He didn’t specify that this had to be done
through a magical, or a ‘traditional magical’ or ‘recognisably magical’,
ritual. I
do this sort of ‘change in accordance with your will’ magic a lot. ~Caroline. |