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Woo Woo Workout. The Commodification of Spirituality in Expanded Sculptural Practices

dc.contributor.advisor Stevens, Grant
dc.contributor.advisor Milledge, Clare
dc.contributor.author Wong, Min
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-17T00:45:53Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-17T00:45:53Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.description.abstract Concepts and practices of spirituality have recently undergone significant shifts as they become increasingly incorporated into the homogenising and commodifying mechanisms of contemporary life. This has coincided with a renewed interest in esoteric practices, institutes, cultural products, and themes in contemporary art, with a range of contemporary artists using expanded sculptural practices to critically engage with the commodification of spirituality. Here, the visual language of ‘spirituality’ becomes a vehicle for artists to respond to commodification, through diverse approaches, including the adopted practices of shamanism, animism, Zen Buddhism, and the occult, to ritualising spaces and personal spiritual explorations. This research examines how key selected artists adopt and adapt the language of spirituality in contemporary art contexts. Using practice-led research, which resulted in a written thesis and body of artistic practice, this project argues that artists can engage, creatively and critically, with spiritual ways of understanding the world, to offer possible alternatives to the dominant narratives of contemporary life. Furthermore, this project charts how certain artistic strategies and tendencies in this field illustrate a renewed desire, not only for individual spiritual exploration, but also for social and cultural transformations that promote alternative narratives for possible futures.
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/100166
dc.language English
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher UNSW, Sydney
dc.rights CC BY 4.0
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.other sculpture
dc.subject.other installation
dc.subject.other spirituality
dc.subject.other speculative future
dc.subject.other immersive
dc.subject.other esoteric
dc.title Woo Woo Workout. The Commodification of Spirituality in Expanded Sculptural Practices
dc.type Thesis
dcterms.accessRights open access
dcterms.rightsHolder Wong, Melinda
dspace.entity.type Publication
unsw.accessRights.uri https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
unsw.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/6993
unsw.relation.faculty Arts Design & Architecture
unsw.relation.school School of Art and Design
unsw.relation.school School of Art and Design
unsw.subject.fieldofresearchcode 360602 Fine arts
unsw.thesis.degreetype Masters Thesis
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