Dead Bird Blues at Healer Indianapolis

Join us at Indianapolis' extremely psychedelic all-ages DIY enclave Healer for two participatory mindfulness experiences combining yoga, meditation, and immersive video installation. Led by artist Daniel Chamberlin, this slow and low sequence of asanas is complemented by the new video work Dead Bird Blues (2019). The practice will also feature a soundtrack of New Age, ambient, drone, dub, and “cosmic metal,” as heard on the Inter-Dimensional Music broadcast on WQRT Indianapolis and Marfa Public Radio in Far West Texas.

Dead Bird Blues (2019) is a slowly turning mandala composed entirely of Chamberlin’s photographs of a Northern Parula, a migratory warbler that died in a collision with a high-rise bank window in downtown Muncie, Indiana. The mandala completes one sequence each hour. The work takes its name from the 2005 August Born album from Ben Chasny and Hiroyuki Usui.

Chamberlin’s practice takes concepts from yoga and Zen and emphasizes their implications for radical body acceptance and use as a tool for escaping false binaries. This is the body we have today, the only body, the ultimate body, the every body. This happening is an opportunity to feel gravity pulling our bodies apart, a celebration of the infinite flux of life, and a chance to drift and sink into the flow of our fluids.

These sessions are intended to be accessible to all bodies and experience levels: First timers are most welcome. Please bring your own yoga mat. For more information contact cosmic.chambo@gmail.com or visit daniechamberlin.com. First come, first served but it's cool to let us know you're coming by clicking "interested" on Facebook.

Inter-Dimensional Music
99.1 WQRT FM Indianapolis + Marfa Public Radio Far West Texas

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🎥: Daniel Chamberlin | ID Music 20190927 Flyer (ask the trees about the shedding of the world), 2019 | Digital video | 10s