{"id":4713,"date":"2009-03-22T02:36:03","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T02:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=4713"},"modified":"2009-03-22T02:36:03","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T02:36:03","slug":"voo-doo-hoochie-coochie-and-the-creative-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/03\/22\/voo-doo-hoochie-coochie-and-the-creative-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Voo-doo: Hoochie Coochie and the Creative Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Better late than never mentioning this exhibition which has been running at Riflemaker<\/a>, 79 Beak Street, London, since mid-January.<\/p>\n

The exhibition features those artists, writers and musicians who acknowledge the need to reach a heightened or ‘altered state’ in order to create their work. We look at the mystery of the creative act; not the inexplicable ‘spark’, aka inspiration, but the fire; the non-doing before the doing, the summoning up of elemental spirits from within, or without, during the preparation of some visual or musical work, some theory or idea. This welling-up or ‘possession’, this ‘fever in the heart of man’, this spirit, this spell, might sometimes be referred to as Voodoo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Among the very varied selection of work the chief attraction for me would be the rare opportunity to see one of Mati Klarwein<\/a>‘s major paintings, Crucifixion<\/em>. I referred to this large and detailed picture last year<\/a> as I was fortunate to be able to use it for the packaging of Jon Hassell’s Maarifa Street<\/em><\/a> CD. And while we’re on the subject of Mr Hassell<\/a> (who had a track entitled Voodoo Wind<\/em> on his second album) he has a new CD out on ECM, Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Voo-doo<\/em> runs until April 4, 2009.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The fantastic art archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The art of Mati Klarwein, 1932\u20132002<\/a>
\n\u2022 Exuma: Obeah men and the voodoo groove<\/a>
\n\u2022 Voodoo Macbeth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Better late than never mentioning this exhibition which has been running at Riflemaker, 79 Beak Street, London, since mid-January. The exhibition features those artists, writers and musicians who acknowledge the need to reach a heightened or ‘altered state’ in order to create their work. We look at the mystery of the creative act; not the … Continue reading “Voo-doo: Hoochie Coochie and the Creative Spirit”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3,16,44],"tags":[184,212,3731,295,185],"class_list":["post-4713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-music","category-occult","category-painting","tag-exuma","tag-jon-hassell","tag-macbeth","tag-mati-klarwein","tag-voodoo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1e1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}