Performance Art as a Ritual of Reviving Pagan Religions
Performance Art as a Ritual of Reviving Pagan Religions

Author(s): Elif Dastarlı, İlkay Canan Okkalı
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, Politics and religion, Sociology of Religion, Politics and Identity
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Performance; Art; Ritual; Reviving; Pagan; Religions; Druidism; Tengrism; Reactivations; Ancie; Spiritualities; Religions; Identity; Politics; Taaraism;
Summary/Abstract: After the Second World War, the departure from modernity led to the emergence of various interpretations of paganism, a religion that regards and idolises the beings of nature as gods and demigods in art. This period reflects the rise of conceptual thought in art. Although its foundations are rooted in performing arts and in many examples of performance art as a medium of production in the field of visual arts by highlighting its spirit made of plants, trees, rocks, wind, and such, we can particularly see the resurrected traces of animistic shamanism.

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