"When does an image migrate from the “iconic” to being an “icon”? How do we exemplify our attachments to image in an age of reproduction and AI? Through an exploration of the interweaving of sacred and secular imagery, this presentation will examine how and why we maintain images in close proximity to ritual.
In a modern society with fleeting attention spans and access to more visual data than ever before it is curious that we continue to create more images than ever before. What do our attachments to certain ritual images and not others relay about our own assumptions and/or ownership of others and even otherness? And, during an age where our own bodies are commodified - what do these images relay about the body as spectacle rather than a site for ritual?
With wonder at the center of this presentation, it will be imperative to examine our modern conceptions of attachments and icon worship (and by extension worship of contemporary selfhood) from a place of curiosity.
Essays, images, and writings explored will be by Praba Pilar, Alejandra Oliva, Grupo Proceso Pentágono, Simone Leigh, Hélio Oiticia, Lygia Clark, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, and Naomi Ricón Gallardo."
