In the digital video work, Journey to the Lower World (two screen video installation), Coates documents his recent attempt to engage the mystical and transformative power of Shamanic ritual to assist the tenants of Liverpool’s Linosa Close, a 24-story council tower block scheduled for demolition. With their homes condemned, Coates asks a group of residents to participate with him in the recreation of a Siberian Tuvak Shaman ritual, so that animal spirits, via the medium of the artist, might offer them guidance for the uncertain times to come.
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