GEORGIA WALL

Georgia Wall is a ceremonialist who works with the mediums of performance, video, paper, song, time, and composition. A School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) graduate, Wall has been commissioned to return to Chicago to provide personalized ceremonies for participants to respond to and receive from the energies of river, lake, or ocean water in order to more powerfully actualize their wishes.

As a Ceremonialist, she works in the medium of transitions & time, ceremony & composition.  People throughout time and across the world have lived by ceremonies to honor, celebrate, mourn, and process. A birth, a move, a marriage, a divorce, a graduation, a death, a name change, a career change, a gender change, a birthday, a departure, a breakup, a commencement, an anniversary …Wall speaks of the creation of ritual and ceremony as essential in frameworks to integrate new knowledge and connect with one another, ourselves and the land.

Georgia Wall states “as a Ceremonialist, I do not work within a specific practice or lineage; instead, I seek to uncover the specific inner ceremony that an individual or a group carries within them -- the ceremony that is necessary and arising for the given moment, born from lived experience. I do not arrive with objects (no sage or crystals in my bag) or predetermined notions of what a ceremony looks or feels like. The ceremonies I co-create, with the people I am privileged enough to work with, are born out of an emergent process of deep conversation, listening, reflecting, and imagining. A ceremony is a reverent and intentional act that brings us closer to our innermost sense of knowing, always with the aim of honoring our own humanity as well as the humanity of all people.”