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- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Copyright
- © 2009 Edmund B. Lingan
- Subject
- Art and the Spiritual
- ISSN
- 1520-281X
- eISSN
- 1537-9477
- DOI
- 10.1162/pajj.2009.31.1.38
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
ART AND THE SPIRITUAL Ansuman Biswas, Theatre, from Body States: The Pilot Project, 2005. Photo: Courtesy Franc Chamberlain. THE ALCHEMICAL MARRIAGE OF ART, PERFORMANCE, AND SPIRITUALITY Edmund B. Lingan his special section of PAJ, entitled “Art and the Spiritual,†concerns a surge of interest in spirituality that currently informs the creation of art across a wide range of disciplines. In the fields of performance art, film, sculpture, video installation, multimedia performance, dance, music, and theatre, numerous contemporary artists are directly engaging with dimensions of the spiritual. Between October 19, 2008 and January 26, 2009, for instance, the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens is presenting an exhibit featuring the work of twenty-nine artists (none of whose work is discussed here) entitled NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith. This exhibition “grew out of a desire to explore the multiple meanings of spirituality in contemporary art,†and it includes over fifty works of sculpture, photography, assemblage, video, performance, and other media from North, South, and Central America.1 This is not the only exhibition dedicated to contemporary art and spirituality that has been organized in recent years, and more are sure to come. The purpose of this section is to respond
Journal
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art – MIT Press
Published: Jan 1, 2009