Art practices/Urs
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The Urs performance or situation is derived from the Islamic Sufi practice of a festival held at a grave on the death anniversary of a holy person.
Psychic workers have used the Urs and Anti-Urs performances:
Rahmat Ali Urs
[edit | edit source]- 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_0zuC2dWus
- 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB50lUaSZBc
- 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgMyQ7H6YLQ
- 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcWSS__L2IU
Karl Marx Urs
[edit | edit source]Use of DesaKalaPatraGraph from Alytus. The original plan was to attach the DKPGraph to the memorial but in the end the letters were cut out and carried by participants as we circumvented the grave site memorial. This therefore created a new form of situograph or DKPGraph.
Exhume Cecil Rhodes Anti Urs
[edit | edit source]Mapping and MetaDKPGraphing with digging chanting and dance at Wandlebury. See invitation text here: http://www.psychogeography.org/exhume-rhodes-awaken-gog-magog/