It was formerly called the Discomfort Index until people connected with the N.Y.C. Summer Festival objected.
In certain rural festivals, phallic objects are carried through the streets to be joined with sacred vulvas produced from other shrines.
KERRVILLE Assembly Required At the Texas State Arts and Crafts Fair — the state's official fair of its kind, founded in 1972, in tandem with the Kerrville Folk Festival — the many objects of style and substance created by more than 125 artisans are not just made in the U.S.A. but also exclusively in Texas.
(Manohla Dargis) 'UPSTREAM COLOR' Shane Carruth's first feature, "Primer," was the festival-circuit cult object of 2004: a haunting, puzzling time-travel movie that explored a science-fiction conceit with daunting intellectual rigor and a minuscule budget.
A tall wooden structure called Ziggurat sits in the fields devoted to Russia's ArchStoyanie Festival, a celebration of 'landscape objects' created by artists from around the world.
The Woodland Trust is also objecting to the festival, which is selling tickets even though it hasn't yet obtained planning permission.
The change was made after Crown Heights residents objected to the festival being held in an 108-year-old armoury that's become the flashpoint for tension between the local community and city officials.
We will explore the Mexica civilization through their books, objects, buildings, and festivals, investigating topics such as communication, performance, religion and ritual, sacred landscapes, histories and origin stories, politics and empire, and other facets of society.
"At South Celebes," he writes, "rice is thrown on the head of anyone in whose honour a festival is held, with the object of detaining the soul, which at such times is in especial danger of being lured away by envious demons".
In his installation Balance from Within, shown at this year's FILE festival in Brazil, the everyday object of a sofa is transformed into something much more magical, seemingly achieving the impossible by balancing on a single point.
