“Barbara McCullough’s Shopping Bag Spirits and Freeway Fetishes: Reflections on Ritual Space (1981) is a study of ritual and its influential role within the improvisational and assemblage practices developed by black artists in Los Angeles in the late 70s and early 80s. The film features artists like Betye Saar and David Hammons, reflecting on their own artistic rituals; in Saar’s words, it’s not just a rite, but what feels “right”.”

– This text appears in Spike #61 . You can buy it in our online shop

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