Susan Hiller – Resounding
(Infa-red)
Francis Alys
When Faith Moves Mountains
Description: Linear Geological Displacement & real-life Miracle – moving of mountain 4-inches
Fabiola
- Faith as a investment in concrete utopian possibility
- Heightened awareness of religion shaping politics in present day society
- Conflicting sources of religious belief – e.g. Christianity vs. Islam
Renee Stout
- Explores contemporary hoodoo (also known as hexing and spell-casting), an amalgam of African folkloric practices and the folk magic of the African Diaspora, by means of an alter-ego named Fatima Mayfield. Conjure tales and traditional hoodoo practices in New Orleans by inserting herself into the narrative of those practices — Stout creates her own personal and artistic anthropology with the two alter-egos she adopted to provide a means to examine, cope with and even laugh at personal issues while informing her exploration of broader, historic sources of inspiration important to her work.
- Slavs and Tartars:
Slavs and Tatars is an art collective and “a faction of polemics and intimacies devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia”.Founded in 2006, the group’s work is centered on three activities: exhibitions, books and lecture performances.
- Looked at the Berlin Wall and China
- History written by the ‘victors’ as a Western construction
- Marginal (societies) history as ‘overlooked’
- Redemptive Quality – has the message that the object can be something different
Michael Ayrton
Skull Vision
- Strand of Romanticism and the Gothic
- Modernist (after the Renaissance and the beginning the Enlightenment) and the irrational undercurrents that accompanied it – look at British Modernism and Folk law or Tales
Knowledge and the Irrational/The Mythic and the Objective
John Russell
Bill Viola
Universal Message within Christian Art?… and an exploitation of the legacy of history with contested messages
Ernesto Netto
Anthony Gormley
- Narsasistic Notion of Himself as/of God
(Narcism)
Iron Baby (1999)
- Issue of Humanism – Narsasistic and Universalisation of human beings
Paul Chan
Kris Martin
[Reductive and Infantile]
*Pitt Rivers Museum
The Pitt Rivers Museum is a museum displaying the archaeological and anthropological collections of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England.
- Belief of supernatural form is refracted into other forms – institutional (museums), technological, modernity etc.
Olivia Plender
Spiritualism – Form of Christianity and Social Justice on Earth (7 stages, 6 after death)
- Ben Judd
Marcus Coates
Spirit Guide and Social Engagement
- Grounding in Social Reality as Political – Oblique form of Politics but means to be challenging
- Ernst Bloch – Utopia and Utopianism – Radical Atheism and Religion as concrete, realistic utopianism
- The desire to construct utopian lies within religion that needs to be addressed by atheism
- Atheism as nothing leading to nihilism
- Do away with the dogma of religion – Dogma and Atheism
- Burning away with the illusory paradise of religion and what remains leaves to the ‘new world’.
- Future orientated force in religion?
- Religion as reassuring which is not good – pushes backwards
