Reversal of passage
Reversal of passage
I tend to associate rites of passage with some kind of payoff and also with group approval/status elevation. This led me to the thought of a human life like an onion, layers upon layers of initiations surround what was once a impressionable child.
I would like to make a rite of passage that returns people to their infantile status.
I haven't decided whether I will take a comical or dangerous approach.
The comical would consist of a Doctor Seussish "Star Bellied Sneetches" machine where the participant exits wearing nothing but a large cloth diaper fixed with a giant safety pen.
The dangerous would be a giant vagina, about 7 feet tall and 3 feet wide. Attached to a pole in its interior would be about 20 feet of bunjee. At the end of it there would be a vest which the participant puts on. The vest would be fastened in such a way that it would take someone at a fast jog to run and break free from.
I guess I could combine the two and people could charge out of a vagina and break the cord dressed like a giant baby.
I would like to make a rite of passage that returns people to their infantile status.
I haven't decided whether I will take a comical or dangerous approach.
The comical would consist of a Doctor Seussish "Star Bellied Sneetches" machine where the participant exits wearing nothing but a large cloth diaper fixed with a giant safety pen.
The dangerous would be a giant vagina, about 7 feet tall and 3 feet wide. Attached to a pole in its interior would be about 20 feet of bunjee. At the end of it there would be a vest which the participant puts on. The vest would be fastened in such a way that it would take someone at a fast jog to run and break free from.
I guess I could combine the two and people could charge out of a vagina and break the cord dressed like a giant baby.
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As puberty is a definite right of passage, a friend came up with this idea...A giant Maxi Pad made out of foam...If you wanted to be nasty it could be colored to look like a used maxi pad. Just placed out on the playa for people to climb and jump on.
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When I read the subject I thought of a succession of rooms, a funeral home replete with casket, nursing home communal room with some geezers playing checkers, others playing canasta and others staring vacantly at a tv test pattern, a retirement party, walking the bride down a church aisle, a living room where a nervous boy stares mouth agape as a teen in a prom dress descends the stairs, a maternity ward, a honeymoon suite, a college graduation, a garage w/ tricked out Camaro, a classroom, a playground, crawling INTO a 7ft vagina, and culminating with a waterslide shooting participant out a ginormous penis...... but that's just me.
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Sic Pup wrote:When I read the subject I thought of a succession of rooms, a funeral home replete with casket, nursing home communal room with some geezers playing checkers, others playing canasta and others staring vacantly at a tv test pattern, a retirement party, walking the bride down a church aisle, a living room where a nervous boy stares mouth agape as a teen in a prom dress descends the stairs, a maternity ward, a honeymoon suite, a college graduation, a garage w/ tricked out Camaro, a classroom, a playground, crawling INTO a 7ft vagina, and culminating with a waterslide shooting participant out a ginormous penis...... but that's just me.
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Malcom in the Middle already did it huh? Dang, that kind of takes the wind out of my labia... Regardless, I want to provide people with a reversal of passage. Sic Pup I like your idea of a reversal time line, it could be done in an interactive drama/obstacle course fashion. Thanks for the feedback and banter; I will keep thinking (thats a threat).
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The classic rite of passage is death and rebirth into a new phase of life. Very Joseph Campbell...
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In 2003 AstroPups (I think) had a party where you went down a slide styled to look like a giant penis to get in.
I think many variations of this idea have been done- but just because something has been done doesn't mean it can't be done better.
If you like this idea refine it and make it your own.
I think many variations of this idea have been done- but just because something has been done doesn't mean it can't be done better.
If you like this idea refine it and make it your own.
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Pepe Ozan's piece in '99(?) was a very large vagina with a slide; nearby was a matching, huge lingam... the 'opera' performance on Friday night was participants 'man'ouvering the two structures into the appropriate formation for consummation (this was quite a logistical nightmare) - then setting the whole thing aflame...
There were some folks on the Esplanade this year (8-8:30?) who had something like a giant basketball net attached to some scaffolding in such a way that you could climb up, get in, and slowly slide through a tight space head first. They were calling it a rebirth experience, at least in part because it was difficult to keep any clothes on while doing it, I suppose. No doubt it could be reworked and re-decorated to become a birthing experience.
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