Marion Laval-Jeantet

Iboga's Travel: questions raised by shamanic experience as a project of artistic exploration

Technoetic Arts December 1, 2003 Marion Laval-Jeantet

Iboga's Travel is the title of a global project which was conceived after a Gabonese initiation into ‘Bwiti’. The Bwiti is one of the few secret shamanic practices forced to open itself to the outside world by the disappearance of the Equatorial forest. Its traditions remain alive in Gabon, but it has to adapt to the changes brought by cultural globalization. The Bwiti is a rite in which the...