Ralph Barrientos - The Sun, The Land, and a Poem.
Dispelling Energies Using Spells I Found on Google
Single Channel Video
3 Minutes, 33 seconds
Dispelling Energies Using Spells I Found On Google is a compendium of personal rituals I learned while seeking answers for personal issues online. Modern day witch craft for coping in the world.
- Makeup tutorial as self care.
- Sharing your personal struggles to strangers online as an exercise in vulnerability.
- Ancient rituals to make someone “Chill the fuck out”.
- Hand stands as a means of reconnecting with your self.
Referencing elements from contemporary internet culture, the video work reframes digital trends and seeks to use them as tools to create conversations surrounding self care, vulnerability, and gender-based discrimination.
The video work also explores different ways on how the post-internet condition has influenced our generation’s coping mechanisms and how we use these new technologies to navigate our daily lives.
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