"NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith" Exhibition
MOMA PS1
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This exhibition brings together an intergenerational group of artists who address ritual in the artistic process, and the wider implications of spirituality in contemporary art. Visual artists have for centuries engaged in a dialogue with ritual, drawing from the traditional shamans and griots, or oral historians. The term HooDoo, which originated in nineteenth-century North America, refers to folkloric magic or healing. In the 1970s poet Ishmael Reed explored the idea of NeoHooDoo as a spiritual practice outside of any definable faith or creed. In his poems “Neo-HooDoo Manifesto” and “The Neo-HooDoo Aesthetic,” Reed adopts artistic expression as a means of innovation and improvisation outside the norms imposed by society.
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Schedule
from October 19, 2008 to January 26, 2009