Goodoo

Posted: June 4, 2011 | Project: Sanatorium | Tags: Brooklyn, Goodoo, Guggenheim, NYC, Sanatorium, Sociatry, Therapy | Leave a comment »

 

Voodoo doll, or what in Haiti is called pwen, are magical surrogate for an intended target of sorcery whether for boon or for bane. This therapy is a positive iteration of the Voodoo doll, thus called “Goodoo”. Here we take a generic cloth doll and personalize it for it to resemble someone to whom you want to go some good. Then we use diverse materials, charms or tokens on different parts of the body to cause the specific good to that person. If you want someone to be kind at heart we may introduce a small bottle of honey in the chest of the Goodoo doll. If you want someone to finish a marathon we may add wings to his Goodoo doll shoes, etc.

 

 

 

 

Goodoo Report from Pedro Reyes on Vimeo.

 

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