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Sacred Images and Magical Things with Dr. Laurel Kendall
Sacred Images and Magical Things with Dr. Laurel Kendall
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Length:
63 minutes
Released:
May 10, 2021
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Podcast episode
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May 6, 2021 - Statues, paintings, and masks—like the bodies of shamans and spirit mediums—give material form and presence to otherwise invisible entities, and sometimes these objects are understood to be enlivened. Dr. Laurel Kendall explores how magical images are expected to work with the shamans and spirit mediums in contemporary South Korea and compares the use of these shamanic images with similar practices in Vietnam, Myanmar, and Bali. The question of empowered images concerns not only what they are expected to do but how they are fabricated, marketed, cared for, disposed of, and sometimes transformed into art-market commodities and museum artifacts. For more information, please visit the link below: https://www.koreasociety.org/arts-culture/item/1494-sacred-images-and-magical-things
Released:
May 10, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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