Spirit house : hauntings in contemporary art of the Asian diaspora /
"Co-published with The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, this book accompanies Spirit House, a significant exhibition related to the museum's Asian American Art Initiative (AAAI). Spirit House takes as its conceptual launch point the omnipresent san phra phum, or spirit houses, of...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Stanford, CA : New York, NY :
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University ; Gregory R. Miller & Co.,
2024
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| Summary: | "Co-published with The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, this book accompanies Spirit House, a significant exhibition related to the museum's Asian American Art Initiative (AAAI). Spirit House takes as its conceptual launch point the omnipresent san phra phum, or spirit houses, of Thailand. Spirit houses are small devotional structures found throughout Thailand rooted in Buddhism, Brahmanism, and animist beliefs. They serve various purposes, including providing space for the spirits of the land's original occupants and honoring one's ancestors. Importantly, spirit houses provide shelter to spirits and produce them, imbuing these vernacular sites of everyday ritual with forces that collapse the distance between the past and present. The exhibition uses the spirit house as an interpretive framework to understand how contemporary artists of the Asian diaspora are grappling with issues related to ancestral presence, animism, haunted histories, and speculative futures. How might works of art function as material representations of prayers, wishes, and invocations? How do they serve as structures to hold, exorcise, produce, and honor personal and historical ghosts?"-- |
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| Item Description: | Published on the occasion of an exhibition curated by Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander and presented at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, September 4, 2024-January 19, 2025 "Asian American Art Initiative"--Colophon |
| Physical Description: | 186 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-185) |
| ISBN: | 9781941366738 1941366732 |