Panel Presentation: The ongoing dialogues, discussions, and meaningful exchanges within the Spiritual Healing and Art working group have culminated in the creation of a dynamic panel. This panel brings together a rich tapestry of perspectives, including a...
Workshop: Seeing the earth as comprising inanimate objects, as an it, we are deprived of experiencing the earth as the spiritual, bountiful place that it is. This workshop offers art as an opportunity to blur the boundaries and experience relationship...
My presentation examines alternative spiritualities within contemporary art museums, drawing from ongoing qualitative PhD research. By investigating how individuals who identify as nonbelievers encounter and construct notions of the sacred within...
Artist Talk: The act of witness is a spiritual practice. Making art in response to a traumatic event, public or private, community or global, involves elements that we traditionally associate with prayer. Exploring this topic through two projects, one...
The recent phenomenon of proliferation of spiritually-oriented contemporary art exhibitions attracts attention. To understand its possible cultural and social impact, this paper will investigate the agencies at stake: first, the role played by curators...
In 21st century the study of the relationship between art and spirituality has become an important area of research. It is curious, however, why so few consider the art of Central and Eastern Europe. In socialist countries, the practice of spirituality...
Kumpo masquerades reside in sacred forests in The Gambia and Senegal. These masquerades, supported by the indigenous Jola ecosophy, challenge anthropocentric privilege by presenting their spiritual power as the more-than-human and demand reverence and...
Exploring the importance of creation, revelation and occultation in séance art, this paper examines the ways in which Spiritualists utilised artistic agency and expression for spiritual-meaning making. Central to nineteenth-century Spiritualism was the...
Artist Talk: When depictions of the sacred seldom mirror our own image, how do we come to recognize ourselves in the divine? This poetic, participatory workshop explores the impact of colonized religious imagery on Black spiritual identity—and offers...
