From the perspective of exploration of shyness, participants will explore the possibilities for employing ritual creatively for performance in public art practice, and to explore also means to draw audiences into unexpected and potentially liminal experiences of place through ritual. The engaging effects of performance are to be explored through familiarity, temporality, and the incidental on active, random, and happening audiences and spaces. This is, to various extents, knowingly or unknowingly participating in ritual in public. This appreciates the value of place and recognition in altering perceptions of interaction.
Participants will become a temporary ritual community within which engagement of self, space, memory, and observation is employed to explore plausible ritual practices in performance. This places focus on the process and transformative qualities of ritual performance and how they may subvert norm structures and stability as sources for creative production.

We will undertake a variety of exercises, tasks, performances, and discussions, involving both solo and communal exploration. We will be responsive to the locality of outdoor spaces as places for designed, inhabited, and customized ritual familiarity in connecting with space and audiences.