{"product_id":"semi-tropic-spiritualist-guidebook-paperback","title":"Semi-Tropic Spiritualist Guidebook - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Semi-Tropic Spiritualist Guidebook\u003c\/em\u003e, brings together images, texts, excerpts of performance scripts, and printed ephemera from the Semi-Tropic Spiritualist's previous exhibitions. The book is organized as both a record of the project's Test Sites from 2012-2018, and as an idiosyncratic guidebook to California's spiritual history and geography. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSemi-Tropic Spiritualists began in 2012 as an ongoing series of performance works, objects and illustrated texts by Los Angeles-based artists Astri Swendsrud and Quinn Gomez-Heitzeberg. Their works explore the history of spiritual belief and metaphysical practice in Los Angeles through the Semi-Tropic Spiritualists, an organization that created a campsite meeting place outside the city limits of Los Angeles in 1905. Spiritualism has described itself as a science, a philosophy and a religion. The artists are interested in this system as a model for examining ideas of faith and skepticism, belief and charlatanism, as well as for the development of a space dedicated to investigation and the search for knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Semi-Tropic Spiritualists have exhibited their installations and performance works at Richard Telles Fine Art, Klowden Mann, The Vincent Price Museum, and Chime \u0026amp; Co. in Los Angeles; Shangri-La, Joshua Tree, CA; and Llano del Rio, CA among other locations. Their work will also be part of the upcoming exhibition \u003cem\u003eTotenpass \u003c\/em\u003eat Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles, in October 2018. Both artists received their MFAs from CalArts in 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51254816833759,"sku":"9781947322936","price":48.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/K-_FjFbGQi9781947322936.webp?v=1787500325","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/semi-tropic-spiritualist-guidebook-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}