Interdisziplinärer Workshop Nr. 4: How to (mis-)understand spiritual practice: beyond Western frameworks of the secular and the sacred 

How to (mis-)understand spiritual practice: beyond Western frameworks of the secular and the sacred

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Nummer und Typmae-mtr-101.23H.004 / Moduldurchführung
ModulInterdisziplinärer Workshop 
VeranstalterDepartement Kulturanalysen und Vermittlung
LeitungWendy Meryem Kural Shaw
Zeit
Di 9. Januar 2024 bis Fr 12. Januar 2024 / 9:15–16:45 Uhr
OrtAtelier Art Education ZT 4.T39 Toni-Areal, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zürich
Anzahl Teilnehmende6 - 24
ECTS2 Credits
Voraussetzungenkeine
LehrformWorkshop
ZielgruppenArt Education > Master Art Education
Transdisziplinarität > Master Transdisziplinarität in den Künsten
InhalteDuring the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, increased trade and diplomacy between Western powers and regions of Islamic hegemony laid the foundations for interest in the in situ material history of these regions, accessed through increasing tourism, as well as access to portable material culture that both circulated on the open market and entered museum collections with encyclopaedic aspirations. Art history became the primary discipline through which to apprehend such works within Western frameworks. Over the century and a half that the discipline of art history has shepherded the material culture of the Islamic hegemonic world into the orderly holding pens of museums, it has distinguished between art and craft, verbal and visual expression, and religious and secular agency. In its production of such categories, art history functions as an epistemic recoding agent, resituating work from lived towards historicised culture and establishing a paradigm of alienation through which to engage the arts produced under Islamic hegemony.

This workshop aims to invert this emphasis on historical over poetic, textual over sensory meaning. Instead of shamefully hiding behind positivism, sensory experience functions as a necessary basis for knowledge, both preceding and superseding information.

This workshop will introduce students to discourses and experiences of sensation in cultures of islamic cultural hegemony. Engaging with collections at the Museum Rietberg in ZH, it will consider sight, hearing, smell, and taste in Islamic discourses. The course will include theoretical texts, practical activities (drawing geometric forms, calligraphic practice, manuscript painting, and cooking), and discussion of contemporary arts that engage with Islamic sensory and intellectual traditions.
Leistungsnachweis / TestatanforderungPräsenz und aktive Teilnahme
TermineHerbstsemester 20222

Dienstag bis Freitag 9.–12. Januar 2024
jeweils 9.15 bis 16.45
Bewertungsformbestanden / nicht bestanden
SpracheEnglisch
BemerkungThe seminar will be held in English.
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