Thursday, June 19, 2014
Is Performance Art the New Religion?
According to a Pew Research study, if you count people
who change from one type of Protestantism to another, “44% of American
adults have either switched religious affiliation, moved from being
unaffiliated with any religion to being affiliated with a particular
faith, or dropped any connection to a specific religious tradition
altogether.” This “very competitive religious marketplace” promises to
only get more competitive, as percentages of young people either
unaffiliated with a faith or totally unaffiliated being even higher. Why
are these people taking their faith to the marketplace? What are they
looking for? Is it some kind of different or higher experience? With the
stir surrounding Marina Abramović’s current performance art piece, Marina Abramović: 512 Hours at the Serpentine Gallery
in London, England, being described frequently as a “religious
experience,” is it possible that performance art—the most often
ridiculed, poorly understood, but perhaps most vibrant art form
today—could be the new religion? Please come over to Picture This at Big Think to read more of "Is Performance Art the New Religion?"
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