Sympoisum
Seeing the Unseen: Spirits in Asian Popular Religious Traditions
Lenart Auditorium Fowler Museum at UCLA
Saturday, October 28, 2017
10 am – 4:30 pm
Spirits and spirit mediums are central within the practices and rich visual cultures of many Asian popular religious traditions. With the use of paintings, costumes, musical instruments, and other elaborately detailed objects, priests and shamans manifest spirits that influence and guide human fortune. This one- day symposium gathers national and international experts to examine multiple traditions from Vietnam, Laos, Korea, India, China, and Myanmar, as well as the ways contemporary cultures and diasporic movements are transforming and sustaining spirit practices.
The symposium is presented in conjunction with the exhibition How to Make the Universe Right: The Art of Priests and Shamans from Vietnam and Southern China, at the Fowler Museum from July 30, 2017 – January 7, 2018.
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