Valley of Quest

the birds must cast aside all preconceived beliefs, dogmas, and doubts.

︎Conference of the Birds
graphic novel
Ava Salzman, Matthew Blumberg & Kythe HellerCambridge, MA & Philadelphia, PA, 2021

︎Firebird (mattress under the overpass)
video poem
Kythe Heller, Grace Jackson, Andrew Stauffer,
Nicholas Denton Protsack & Lise King
Philadelphia, PA; Cumbria, UK; Kelowna, BC; Provincetown, MA, 2021

︎Dreaming the Phoenix
lucid dreaming research project Eliza Yvette Esquivel, Tziporah Rebbeck & Biliana Angelova
New York, NY; Somerville, MA; Lexington, MA, 2021

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Valley of Love

reason must be abandoned for the sake of love.

︎Firebird
spoken text and flamenco dance video Kythe Heller, Anya Yermakova & Marizó SillerPhiladelphia, PA; Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; Woodside, CA, 2021

︎Phoenix of the Sea
soul song to whales & interspecies communication Anneka Bowman & Joshua Bowman
Kapaau, HI, 2021

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Valley of Knowledge

intellectual knowledge is revealed to be utterly useless.

︎Phoenix Conspires
sound collage
Andrew Stauffer
Kelowna, BC, 2021

︎Fire and Silk: An Arachnologist’s Homage
experimental lecture
Sarah Karikó
Cambridge, MA, 2021

︎Firebird Singing
film
Kythe Heller, Anya Yermakova & Max Bowens Philadelphia, PA; Chicago, IL; Cambridge, MA, 2021

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Valley of Detachment

all cravings and aversions for worldly things are left aside. Here, what is assumed to be “reality” vanishes.

︎In the Refuge of a Cave
music composition
Nicholas Denton Protsack
Kelowna, BC, 2021

︎QPublic: Crazymaking
a prosocial conspiracy theory
Erling Hope
Long Island, NY, 2021


︎Firebird
a book of poetry
Kythe Heller
Philadelphia, PA, 2020

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Valley of Unity

the birds intuit that everything is connected and the Simurgh is beyond everything, including harmony, multiplicity, and eternity.

︎Phoenix
woodblock prints & graffiti
Annie Silverman
Somerville, MA, 2020-2021

︎Murmurations
video interviews
Grace Jackson
Cumbria, UK, 2021

︎I Am You
nascent social movement / sermon
James Venable
New Haven, CT, 2021

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Valley of Bewilderment

entranced by the beauty of the Simurgh, the birds become perplexed, and, steeped in awe, find that they have never known or understood anything.

︎Firebird
super8 film
Marizó Siller, Farida Amar & Kythe Heller Death Valley, CA, 2020

︎In the Nave
a conversation in soundscapes Fanny Howe & Sue Schardt
Cambridge, MA, 2021

︎Mending a Crask in the Sky
documentary film
Roble Issa & Zach Jama
Toronto, BC, 2021

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Valley of Annihilation and Rebirth

the birds’ egoic selves dissolve, and the birds become timeless, existing in both the past and the future of every moment.

︎Firebird
album of spoken voice and experimental music Kythe Heller, Andrew Stauffer & Nicholas Denton Protsack
Philadelphia, PA & Kelowna, BC, 2021

︎Story of Sati
vaiṣṇava (वैष्णव ) discourse, meditation and tantric paintings
Sahaj Kaur 
Groton, MA, 2021

︎Gong
performance
Dharam Singh
Millis, MA, ∞