Cleanin Ritual at the Art School

The place

The school as a building, the doors and windows, stairs and corridors. The unanimated structure in a specific place. The institution, books, activities and the people that are working and studying. Living our illusions and frustrations. The projection of arts in our life.

The school as an ethereal territory where our own energies coincide with other more complex and powerful ones, affecting the peoples lives and behaviour, creating an energy hole. This is the ethereal energy I choose in this opportunity, creating a spiritual cleaning ritual, inspired by the Candomblé Caboclos cosmology. Caboclos is the fusíon of the ancestral African religion Candomblé Nagó, spiritualism and pantheistic rituals from indigenous people.

"At the time of disintegration, the luxury of  Elejibou becomes confusion. And the desperation of the members of the house brings an irreconcilable vacuum of emptiness"

The Ritual

The reason of the ritual is to clean the building from the anguish energies like "pombas girias and mortos menhnos" and stop the action of  the energy hole. The pombas girias anguish activity lessens the possibilities of mutual agreement betwen people who are working and studying in the house.

The dead energy of mortos menhnos entities destroys the harmony of the ethereal territory and people are always in danger of loosing control of their destinies.

The Ritual is divided into three parts, the first part or "Despacho de Exú" begins in the last hour of Oxalás day,where we keep contact with the Orixás or ancestral divinities. The second part  " The Incorporation" begins in the first hour of Jemanyas and Ogúms day. This is the time the mediums incorporate four Orixás, we choose Oxosse, Xangó, Oxalá and Omulú for specifics reasons.

The last part of the "Cleaning" is specifically dedicated to clean the ethereal territory from the anguish entities. In a state of trance the mediums work with the four natural elements, air and fire to attract them into the material state, earth and water to give them a new place out of the house....

                                                                           Alvaro Arrosamena "Cleaning Ritual"  at the exposition Institution 2003