Events

Past Event

Shamanism, Environmental Preservation, and Collective Healing

November 22, 2022
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
America/New_York
Interchurch Center, 475 Riverside Dr., New York, NY 10027 308G

Shamanism, Environmental Preservation, and Collective Healing: A Conversation with A k u z u r u and Miguel Keerveld

 

Co-sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities, the Columbia Climate School, the Department of Anthropology, and the Department of Religion.

In the past decade, artists, curators, and art historians have been increasingly exploring performative and installation work tied to spiritual manifestations. The retrieval of Indigenous and Afro-Diasporic belief systems and cosmogonies has been at the heart of this discussion as the art world becomes more decolonized, de-centered, and polyphonic. This revamped spiritual turn in the arts signals an interest in building new, interconnected epistemologies with healing practices as a central source of concern. This conversation, with two leading figures in the Caribbean art world, will highlight how ritualistic and collective acts can provide us with tools to build more sustainable relationships with nature and with each other.

Please click here for more information and directions; Shamanism, Environmental Preservation, and Collective Healing: A Conversation with A k u z u r u and Miguel Keerveld — Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (columbia.edu)

Contact Information

Gabriella Lee