Posts Tagged With: Buddhism
The Cultural Turn To The Material – Where The Crawdads Sing, Witches, And Japan, Part 2 (Marianne Kimura)
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Given the intense focus on the material and the deep and scientific knowledge of the material of the author in Where the Crawdads Sing, it is interesting to ask if there is a connection between…
Duchamp – A Liberating Lineage For Social Art Practice, Part 2 (Jacquelynn Baas)
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. My thanks to curator Mary Jane Jacob and artist Ernesto Pujol for their skillful editing of this text. Pujol originally proposed the topic of the essay, which will be published in 2018 as part of…
Hegel And The Buddha in Popular Culture and Art, Part 2 (Dion Peoples)
The following is the second part of a two-part series. The first installment can be found here. The Dhamma, when told to someone, conditions the mind of the artist, who then becomes conditioned and forms ideas according to his biases or other preferences. Hegel writes in the Phenomenology of Mind: “…spirit…
Hegel And The Buddha in Popular Culture and Art, Part 1 (Dion Peoples)
The following is the first of a two-part series. The second installment can be found here. In the world today all culture, all literature and art belong to definite classes and are geared to definite political lines. There is in fact no such thing as art for art’s sake, art…
Lost Horizon – (Dis)location And Identity In Contemporary Tibetan Art (Sarah Magnatta)
In 2011, artist Tenzing Rigdol surreptitiously moved over 20,000 kilograms of dirt from Tibet into the exile community of Dharamsala, India for an installation titled Our Land, Our People. Thousands of Tibetans in the area came to view and touch the land, some with memories of a Tibetan landscape…