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Houston's weirdest night ever? Get a load of the wonderfully insane art orgySoulstice
Transporting us back in time to experience theater's ceremonial and ritualistic attributes, Kevin Holden's Soulstice— part performance art and part primitive bacchanal — provided an opportunity for Houstonians to get in touch with their inner raw instincts Saturday night. The Silo, where art cars go to die, was the quixotic post-apocalyptic setting for the art orgy.
Beginning with a pseudo-pagan cleansing with smoking sage, guests morphed into "tribals" while wallowing in a mud pit, body painting, getting wet, drumming, dancing and imitating their own versions of sacraments from many moons ago.
Accompanied by atmospheric projections and led by a shaman, Holden, Space City Gamelan, lighting designers Jeremy Choate and Clint Allen, guitarist Danny Painter, CORE Performance Company artist and freestyle pole dancer Blake Dalton (courtesy of FrenetiCore) and actor Xzavien Hollins pulled off a unique art feat.
CultureMap brings you exclusive footage of the affair.