[NetBehaviour] On art and art-making and needs

[Alan Sondheim]

On Sun, 16 Jul 2017, Johannes Birringer wrote:
>
> The psychological origin story, I sense, takes us back to an 
> anthropology of ritual or shamanic practices, am I correct? and thus to 
> religious or spiritual needs. They can't really be linked to childhood 
> or a need for patterns, can they?
>
> regards
> Johannes Birringer
>
They can be linked, though, to an anthropology and ethnopoetics of the 
body, which is where I was starting from in a sense - all that 'muck' - 
and shamanism itself is so often involved in muck itself!

Best!, Alan