Back from its powerful debut at the 2023 Wild Goose Festival in Union Grove,North Carolina!
The Relic-Query
a traveling installation for unbinding the dry bones
The Relic-Query Installation is a sacred balm reaching down into the deepest parts of ourselves to offer love, acceptance, and tenderness. Having this kind of an installation at a spiritual event ought to be mandatory. It is a sacred space away to push pause, a chance to get in touch with our own healing and growth, and a place to feel tended to without needing to interact or exhaust ourselves with more extroversion. The Relic-Query Installation was the most memorable space at the Wild Goose 2023.
Cassidy Hall, author, filmmaker, podcaster
Historically, reliquaries were highly ornate containers for all manner of dead, holy things, often the actual bones, body parts or sacred objects of holy or martyred persons. While most prominent in medieval Catholicism, every religious expression has some form of containing and revering sacred objects.
This portable installation is a different take on the traditional reliquary. It is a contemporary, contemplative, personal interactive refuge for reflecting on and unbinding your dry bones, the places that feel diminished, dusty, tired, frightened, dead in your in your heart, your body, your spiritual or faith life.
The Relic-Query asks:
What might you need to relinquish, lay down, unbind yourself from; those ideas, practices or thoughts that keep you dry, static, bound?
This portable installation is a different take on the traditional reliquary. It is a contemporary, contemplative, personal interactive refuge for reflecting on and unbinding your dry bones, the places that feel diminished, dusty, tired, frightened, dead in your in your heart, your body, your spiritual or faith life.
The Relic-Query asks:
What might you need to relinquish, lay down, unbind yourself from; those ideas, practices or thoughts that keep you dry, static, bound?
The Relic-Query will lovingly and honorably hold all things: your hard questions, the pain of exile, the tyranny of shame, your bone-tired striving, the many shapes of loss, the quiet knowing that it is time to move on. You are invited to lay them down in the Relic-Query and unbind yourself.
As you leave the sacred space of the Relic-Query, you will find words of unbinding to take with you out into the world fully and authentically into your belovedness.
As you leave the sacred space of the Relic-Query, you will find words of unbinding to take with you out into the world fully and authentically into your belovedness.
I would love to bring the Relic-Query to your indoor or outdoor professional or denominational conference, your institution of learning, your public art event, festival, vigil or social justice action, to your retreat center, to your group. As a ritual of unbinding, it is powerful for many kinds of specific audiences.
For more information about how to bring the Relic-Query to your event, contact Susannah at [email protected].
For more information about how to bring the Relic-Query to your event, contact Susannah at [email protected].
