306 - The Search for Participation in Contemporary Art

Apologies for the audio quality.In this lecture, I take you through contemporary art history and its desperate search for a proper means of participation in a desacralized world. This talk is a follow-up to a previous video I did, The End of Desacralization in Art. This time I want to explore with you some specifics on how contemporary art has to confront alienation, power dynamics, and the minimization of yet yearning for ritual, participation, and community.Original YouTube version of this lecture: https://youtu.be/EWc7TKm9jhoThis lecture follows up on a previous video lecture I posted, The End of Desacralization in Art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WYh20sYBsQ&t;=813s---Timestamps:0:00 - Preview0:59 - Intro music1:24 - Introduction2:27 - The pendulum swing of deincarnation3:12 - Brancusi: Find the essence5:41 - More examples: Kandinsky and Mondrian8:59 - Opposites attract: Idealism and constructivism12:38 - Alienation of the art object17:53 - One extreme calls the other19:10 - Remember participation21:12 - Marina Abramovic28:56 - Resembling rituals31:55 - Eating as ritual participation36:37 - Joseph Beuys: Atonement43:51 - Anselm Kiefer: The weight of history47:02 - Trapped in the art world50:55 - Hope---