P024 Life and Art

COSMIC BOWLING

Cornela Hoogland & Ted Goodden

Airdate Dec. 27 2021 - January 9, 2022

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The collaboration between poet Cornelia Hoogland and artist Ted Goodden, who live on Hornby Island off the west coast in Canada, began as a life partnership.

Now it’s expressed through their interwoven artistic responses to the 64 archetypes, or hexagrams, of the Chinese Book of Changes, or I Ching, the oldest system of classical divination, and one of the oldest books in the world.

Imagine 64 wise texts informing AND responding to Ted Goodden’s sixty-four small clay figures of a naked man holding a ball, embracing a ball, leaning on a ball, throwing a ball, and so on.

Imagine Cornelia Hoogland responding to both sculptures and hexagrams in the context of her own life with sixty-four six line poems.

First an exhibition, now a book: Cosmic Bowling

Cosmic Bowling is available through Guernica Editions, your favourite bookstore, or online retailers.

You will also enjoy the 4 minute video made by film maker Ed Carswell for the launch of Cosmic Bowling.

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