Table of contents : Praise for Art, Ritual, and Trance Inquiry Foreword Series Editor Preface Preface Trance to Meet My Writing Double Acknowledgements Contents List of Images Author Biography Chapter 1: Introduction: An Earth-Based Sensual Spirituality of Art, Ritual and Trance Sensual Spirituality Art as Compassion Invitation into Ritual Following the Spirit of Art into Matrixial Borderspace(s) Wit(h)nessing Eyes Close(d) Lifting the Veil Overview of Chapters References Chapter 2: A/r/tography as Ritual and Dreaming in Matrixial Borderspace(s) A/r/tography as Ritual and Radical Relationality Ritualizing Dreaming Dream Matrixial Theory and Healing Becoming a Woman Artist Communicaring Through Performance Ritual Matrixial Gift Economy References Chapter 3: Trance, Sacred Place and Collaboration Trance-Based Inquiry Trance-Based Learning Sacred Place Tree Earthvox Artist Collaboration A Collaborative Aesthetic Ma Aesthetic and Collaboration Artist Collectives References Chapter 4: Artists and Trance Woman Artists and Trance References Chapter 5: The Gestare Art Collective: With Nané Jordan and Medwyn McConachy The Dialogue References Chapter 6: Attending to Ancient Voices Sound, Art and Healing Voicing the Stones: A Performance Ritual21 Wendalyn Bartley: A Healing Journey with Art Baba Yaga Soundwalk37 The Shamanic Artistry of Tanya Tagaq References Chapter 7: Performance Ritual: With Tannis Hugill Dream The Dialogue4 References Chapter 8: Dreaming into Lines of Matrixial Time The Day Between the Worlds Women ‘Enduring Freedom’ Art as a Gift of Testimony References Index