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In Between: Experiencing Liminality + Interview, Statement, Artwork


Reconstruction of a prehistoric settlement’s architecture to experience the rites of passage and liminality. Dragoş Gheorghiu, Vadastra, 2003–2008, clay, wood, reed and mineral pigments. Photo D. Gheorghiu, © Dragoş Gheorghiu.
Reconstruction of a prehistoric settlement’s architecture to experience the rites of passage and liminality. Dragoş Gheorghiu, Vadastra, 2003–2008, clay, wood, reed and mineral pigments. Photo D. Gheorghiu, © Dragoş Gheorghiu.

LEA Volume 19 Issue 1
Volume Editors: Lanfranco Aceti and Richard Rinehart
Editors: Ozden Sahin, Jonathan Munro and Catherine M. Weir

ISBN: 978-1-906897-20-8
ISSN: 1071-4391

In Between: Experiencing Liminality
+ Interview, Statement, Artwork

by Dragoş Gheorghiu and Livia Ştefan

The present paper is a study of rituality in art and daily life; its main subject is the detailed analysis of the rites of passage which de-contextualise the individual when s/he enters in contact with traditional architectural
spaces. Therefore, the paper proposes a close reading of the discontinuities of the spaces experienced by the individual, realised by means of art and Augmented Reality (AR). The authors intend (by means of relating
the creative act to digital technology) to put the spectator in a position of awareness of the physical and psychological discontinuity of a ritual space, which situates the viewer not here, not there in a stage of liminality.

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