Broken Boxes Opening Weekend Friday Program
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As part of Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue exhibition, artist Guadalupe Maravilla is offering a free healing sound ceremony. He learned about the healing properties of sound ceremonies during his treatment for cancer. He regularly offers free communal healing sound ceremonies as a form of mutual aid and care.
To create a healing sound ceremony, Maravilla plays gongs, bells, and percussive instruments in hypnotic sequences that build into an immersive soundscape in and around the artist’s sculptures. “Human bodies are over 70% water, and the vibration of the gongs can help balance emotional, psychological, and in some cases physical pain,” explains the artist.
The healing sound ceremony for Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue is specifically intended for persons who have lived the experience of migration, persons who are fighting cancer and their family & friends; persons who have survived cancer and their family & friends; and persons mourning a loss due to cancer.
The sound ceremony will last for one hour. Participants will be given a yoga mat and are invited to sit or lie down in the gallery space. A limited number of chairs will also be available. Please note that the Albuquerque Museum North Gallery floor is wood, and the sound ceremonies involve sustained noise that can get loud or intense. Visitors are welcome to bring additional yoga mats or blankets of their own. Visitors of all ages are invited to participate. The Sound ceremony is free to attend. Please note: the Albuquerque Museum North Gallery will not be open to visitors outside the Sound Ceremony experience.
“Sound as medicine is nothing new. Sound as medicine has been used for hundreds of years on all continents. For example, Tibetan throat singers use vibration to heal, shamans in Latin America use flute and singing and many other instruments, and percussion instruments used in Africa are some of the examples of how sound is used as medicine.”
– GUADALUPE MARAVILLA
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Guadalupe Maravilla. Photograph by Rowan Renee.