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  • Current
    • Runescores (2020)
    • Pattern Bald Patterns 2020-21
  • Projects
    • Artists in Residence >
      • Buinho Creative Hub
      • SERDE, Aizpute, Latvia
      • Vanha Paukku, Lapua Finland
      • Cowwarr Art Space 2016
      • Fulbright in Riga, Latvia
      • Arteles Residency - 2012
      • Arte Studio Ginestrelle
    • Theatrical Works >
      • Stories from the Park
      • Grass is Green
      • Rue for Ophelia
      • Double Blind Sided
      • The Rule of Life
      • Landscaping for Privacy
      • Shaking the Yoke
      • XY
      • On the Backs of Our Mothers
      • Migrant
      • Grudge Match
      • Grudge Match: ReMatch
      • Subcutaneous
      • Zaum: Beyond Significance
      • In God We Trust
      • world forgetting by the world forgot
      • Mystical Bedlam
    • Intermedia Performance >
      • Runescores (2020) >
        • Runescore 1 Mannaz
        • Runescore 2 Gebo
        • Runescore 3 Ansuz
        • Runescore 4 Othila
        • Runescore 5 Uruz
        • Runescore 6 Perth
        • Runescore 7 Nauthiz
        • Runescore 8 Inguz
        • Runescore 9 Eiwaz
        • Runescore 10 Algiz
        • Runescore 11 Fehu
        • Runescore 12 Wunjo
        • Runescore 13 Jera
        • Runescore 14 Kano
        • Runescore 15 Teiwaz
        • Runescore 16 Berkana
        • Runescore 17 Ehwaz
        • Runescore 18 Laguz
        • Runescore 19 Hagalaz
        • Runescore 20 Raido
        • Runescore 21 Thurisaz
        • Runescore 22 Dagaz
        • Runescore 23 Isa
        • Runescore 24 Sowelu
        • Runescore 25 Odin >
          • Runescore 25 Odin main >
            • Runescore 25 Odin - Griggs
      • Buinho Stop Motion Videos
      • LPL Modular Play >
        • LPL MP Process
        • LPL MP Text
        • Performance Iterations >
          • reactivating exquisite corpse
          • Virtually Real
          • Clusterflock Ritual
        • LPL MP Collaborators
      • SERDE Istabas
      • Time the great unleveler
      • Aizpute stop-motion videos
      • Nameless, but in sight
      • The Great Finnish Licorice Taste Test
      • The Place Where I Start
      • Ghost Town: Pareidolia
      • Laptop Performance Laboratory
      • Global Corporeality
      • Sometimes it works, Sometimes it doesn't
    • InterMedia Installations >
      • Illuminating Site Birdsong >
        • Illuminating Site Birdsong Lanterns
        • Illuminating Site - Birdsong Window Gardens
        • Illuminating Site Star Pasture
      • Illuminating Site - Messejana, Portugal >
        • Illuminating Site Lanterns
      • House of Morgado in a Jar
      • Birch Loops
      • Arteles Residency - 2012
      • Appartengono-Ginestrelle
      • Altars - Ginestrelle 2011
    • Site Specific Works
    • Site Specific Festivals >
      • Kontaining/Ptarmigan
      • Big Dance/Little Space
      • Headlines
      • Train
      • SiteWorks 2009
      • SiteWorks 2006
    • Photo Essays >
      • Pattern Bald Patterns 2020-21
      • The Great Finnish Licorice Taste Test
      • Cobblestones, Riga 2014
      • The Birds of Kuldīga, Latvia 2014
      • Soil, Finland 2012
      • Bogs, Finland 2012
      • Ice Rink, Finland 2012
      • Birch Grove, Finland 2012
      • Understory, Finland 2012
      • Orange Poles, Finland 2012
      • Birch Close Up, Finland 2012
      • Wall Blur, Finland 2012
    • Garibaldi Repertory Works >
      • Realm of Shades (2014)
      • Masquerade (2013)
      • Suits (2012)
      • Forbidden Fruit (2011)
      • Push (2010)
      • At the Threshold (2009)
      • Something's Fishy (2006)
      • Anticipatory Illumination (2004)
    • Zmolek Repertory Works >
      • InDecision (2016)
      • Alone Together (2016)
      • Songs of Europe (2015)
      • I hear the noise of many waters (2014)
      • Tombo e Guerreiro (2013)
      • Zaum Etude #7 (2012)
      • They Stole a Necklace of 5 Million Pearls (2011)
      • Home is Where You Are (2009)
      • Something's Fishy (2006)
      • Not Yet Become (2006)
      • virtually At this moment In real time (1999)
    • Academic Articles
  • Callous Thoughts (Blog)
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12 Wunjo
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Joy

Joséphine A. Garibaldi


Joséphine A. Garibaldi, co-artistic director of Callous Physical Theatre, is an interdisciplinary artist scholar dedicated to fostering collaborative art-making across communities, disciplines and cultures regionally, nationally and internationally through a dialogic practice of art-making and pedagogy. From environmental and performance installations, movement, sound and text based visual poetry, Garibaldi has collaboratively devised original performance, installation and digital works nationally and internationally for over 35 years.



I struggled with this rune. Drawn upright, Wunjo means joy, light and happiness. I certainly do not perceive myself as embodying these traits. Happiness is work, a conscious choice I endeavor.

Clearly this rune called upon my many memories of a lifetime of joy and love of living. The years of stress and struggle are mapped on my face and hands but there is light there and I am happy.
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I surround myself with all that embodies joy:
  • my daily relationship with my partner,
  • my love of the outdoors,
  • digging in the dirt,
  • watching the birds and the butterflies in the garden(s) we have created,
  • fat tire, single-flowy trails and strenuous uphill climbs,
  • chewy beer,
  • homemade dark sourdough rye bread,
  • Red-shouldered hawks, Pileated woodpeckers and frogs on our windows,
  • waking up to the sound of a herd of elk grazing in the high mountain park next to our backcountry camp in the Wind River Range,
  • frigid cold that freezes your wet hair when stripping off the sweaty layers after a morning's cross-country ski in -15 below temperatures in Decorah,
  • fresh prosciutto and sheep's cheese on a warm summer's day at our first artist residency in Assisi,
  • hearing the sublime song of the lyre bird in the Tarra Bulga Rainforest in Gippsland,
  • shopping at the Rīgas Centrāltirgus and celebrating the midsummer festival Ligō in Latvia,
  • enjoying a much deserved sauna with Sahti after working all day on our Birch Loops installation in Hameenkyrö, Finland,
  • building and living in our performance and art space Barefoot Studios at the end of the Thea Foss Waterway in Tacoma,
  • breakfasting with a family of moose that walked casually into and then rested at our backcountry camp site in the Tetons,
  • coming of age in San Francisco in the 70s and 80s,
  • our cats Fatty Arbuckle and Miss Becky,
  • my '75 VW camper bus,
  • grandma's attic...
the list goes on in perpetuity.

The images of Wunjo I pulled from my storage of unused footage from past projects and travels. The sound is from field recordings of a rusty windmill and sheep's bells layered with grasshopper song captured while walking on a country road near Messejana, Portugal.

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