{"id":667,"date":"2019-12-28T17:57:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T17:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielchamberlin.com\/?page_id=667"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:43:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T23:43:04","slug":"dead-bird-blues-2019-ongoing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/danielchamberlin.com\/?page_id=667","title":{"rendered":"Dead Bird Blues (2019-ongoing)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"padding:100% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/376868327?loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dead Bird Blues<\/em> (2019) is a slowly turning mandala composed of Chamberlin\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A limited number of <em>Dead Bird Blues<\/em> banners are available for purchase from our <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmicchambo.bigcartel.com\/product\/dead-bird-blues-banner-1-of-4\">store<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/danielchamberlin.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Dead-Bird-Blues-Healer-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielchamberlin.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Dead-Bird-Blues-Healer-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/danielchamberlin.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Dead-Bird-Blues-Healer-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/danielchamberlin.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Dead-Bird-Blues-Healer-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/danielchamberlin.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Dead-Bird-Blues-Healer-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Basking in Gravity: Dead Bird Blues <em>at Healer, Indianapolis<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Basking in Gravity: Dead Bird Blues<\/em> is a participatory mindfulness installation that combines yoga and meditation with the Dead Bird Blues mandala as video projection and a series of textile banners. The installation also features a soundtrack of New Age, ambient, drone, dub, and \u201ccosmic metal,\u201d as heard on Chamberlin\u2019s weekly&nbsp;<em>Inter-Dimensional Music&nbsp;<\/em>broadcast on WQRT Indianapolis and Marfa Public Radio on the West Coast of Texas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chamberlin\u2019s yoga and meditation teaching 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. Our practice 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Basking in Gravity: Dead Bird Blues<\/em> has been installed at Healer (Indianapolis, IN) and Magick City (Brooklyn, NY). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dead Bird Blues (2019) is a slowly turning mandala composed of Chamberlin\u2019s photographs of a Northern Parula, a migratory warbler that died in a collision with a high-rise bank window in downtown Muncie, Indiana. 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