Super!Giant!Jump!Star!
Symposium / Celestial Ceremony
Zuzana Ernst
Invited by George Ferrandi, artistic director of Jump!Star
17.-19. October 2025
Richmond, Virginia, USA
A culminating premiere of a ten-year experiment in celestial ceremony
Super!Giant!Jump!Star! transformed a local park into a constellation of illuminated sculptures, ethereal music, futuristic food and joy-filled, experimental dance. Over the last decade, artists, musicians, dancers, scientists, as well as hundreds of volunteers and fellow dream-stormers have helped bring this ceremony commemorating the eventual transition of our north star to life.
On the closing day, Zuzana Ernst was invited to contribute at the Supernova Ceremony by guiding a sonic meditation as a ritual of gratitude, release, and transition. After the ceremony participants were invited to extract artifacts from the sculptures — a gentle beginning to the collective dismantling. What might have felt like destruction instead became a meditation on how the ending of any thing is the beginning of some other thing.
11.11.2025
