Arriving at the Church of Mother Country
Channel: Artist as Family
Date: 2023-06-06

In this unscripted, barefoot generation of thought through Mother Country, Patrick returns to the Pandora myth, which is necessarily entangled with the twinning myth of Prometheus and Epimetheus, and he connects these major western origin stories to the present culturing, making and remaking possibilities of Mother Country.

Patrick here offers an embodiment experiment into what he's calling the reclamation movement, or the returning movement. This spirit of consciousness willing to draw on origins and ancestors is in direct contrast to the groundless, innovation-anxious, becoming-thrust of hypertechnocivility, which Jonathan Pageau, John Vervaeke, and Paul Kingsnorth are all critically and eloquently examining right now, among others such as Artist as Family.

Krishnamurti speaks to the "utterly religious" experience being characterised by a lack of fear in his 1972 work, The Impossible Question. This wisdom is unspoken in this reperforming of the feminine sacred by Patrick, but it underpins this experiment.

Relevant references to this piece include:

Paul Kingsnorth's 'What is there left to conserve?' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EObWLbJqGkI
Jonathon Pageau and John Vervaeke's 'Pandora's Box: Jonathan Pageau and Dr. John Vervaeke Discuss AI, Hope, and the Biblical Worldview' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDmyRgv7XYw
Patrick Jones' 're:)Fermenting culture: a return to insight through gut logic' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v49bB6YC9zw&t=1798s

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