Shrines in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Reflections on Gonkar Gyatso's "Buddha's Picnic"

22.01.2019 18:30 - 20:00

Melissa R. Kerin | Washington and Lee University, Lexington, USA

In Buddha’s Picnic, Tibetan artist, Gonkar Gyatso, has created a fully immersive and community-minded installation that asks viewers to engage the space through sound, taste, feel, and sight. This paper analyzes this shrine construction – an assemblage of Buddhist “kitsch” including electric prayer wheels and brightly lit Buddha sculptures alongside images of Xi Jinping and Buddhist monks – within the context of actual shrine forms and functions within the Tibetan cultural zone. Gonkar’s work provides a lens through which we can understand the development of the role of mechanization and mass production in the creation of contemporary shrines.

Organiser:

CIRDIS

Location:

Seminarraum 1 des Instituts für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde, Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2.7, 1090 Wien

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Shrines in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Reflections on Gonkar Gyatso's "Buddha's Picnic"

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