Every year, Feral Magazine reflects on the notion of public space from the perspective of artistic practices in touch with today's socio-political emergencies.

It collects and extends the reflections exchanged during Feral festival, which brings together artists, thinkers and activists around a common theme. From the relationship between urban and rural (2022) to water solidarity (2023), it is the ritual that set us collectively to work this past year.

Rituals for the city and its fringes examines the growing importance of rituals in the contemporary performing arts. Its pages explore a range of reflections and practices that lie at the intersection between the performing arts and public space. Funerary rites, Carnivals or tools for collective healing and hospitality, the ritual speaks of what we wish to summon, visible or invisible, at the heart of our intimacies as well as in the public sphere.

This third edition was fashioned by Emmanuelle Nizou (editor-in-chief), Murielle Lô (drawings) and Lucie Caouder (graphic design).

A free paper version of this publication is also available in French. Pop by our office at La Bellone (Rue de Flandre 46, 1000 Brussels) to get your copy.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Edito p.4

Emmanuelle Nizou & Cifas, And if We had to Invent an Artistic Ritual for the City, What Would it be?

Rites of the Intimate p.8

Stacy Makishi, Walking and Talking Each Other Home p.10

Alphonse Eklou Uwantege, How I Talk to my Dead p.12

Élie Guillou / Coopérative funéraire de Rennes, The Making of Funeral Rituals p.14

Maryne Lanaro, Practice as a Belief of Intention p.17

Counterpoint: the Fruits of the World’s Disenchantment p.22

Mohamed Amer Meziane, Notes on the Rites of Art

“Carnival is a Celebration the People Throw for Themselves.” p.26

Carnaval Sauvage, La Voix des Sans-Papiers, La Consœurie des Connasses & Anaïs Vaillant, Who Can Change Carnival? p.28

Anaïs Vaillant, Experiences of Collective Transformation through Carnival Rituals p.34

Threshold: Unbewitching the Fiction of the City of the Future p.36

The Laboratory of Insurrectional Imagination, Unbewitch Finance & Inter-Environnement Bruxelles, An (Anti)Speculative Tour

The Ritual, Theatre of Magic? p.40

Nolwenn Peterschmitt, Dance, Disorder, and Contemporary Ritual: the Case of UNRUHE p.42

Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi / crazinisT artisT, Performance as an Act of Radical Resistance p.45

The Laboratory of Insurrectional Imagination & Unbewitch Finance, From Artivism to Animism: Becoming the Territory and Unbewitching the Narratives of Late Capitalism p.48

Welcoming Gestures, Hospitality Rituals p.54

Bienvenue – Diversity Welcome, p.56

Anyuta Wiazemsky Snauwaert & Anna Czapski, A Ceremony for New Belgian Citizens p.58

Back2SoilBasics, Returning to the Earth to Care for the Margins p.61

Horizon: A Ritual Journey Through the City and its Fringes p.64

Emmanuelle Nizou, The Ritual, an Act of Perception and Transformation

Bios p.67

Credits & colophon p.70