Open AccessOur Land, Our People: A Reflection of Tibetan Buddhist Space in Contemporary Art
Author(s) -
Jay Daugherty
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
himalaya
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 2471-3716
pISSN - 1935-2212
DOI - 10.2218/himalaya.2021.6589
Subject(s) - dialogic , buddhism , space (punctuation) , reflection (computer programming) , politics , contemporary art , aesthetics , history , sociology , geography , visual arts , art history , art , archaeology , political science , literature , philosophy , performance art , law , linguistics , computer science , programming language
This article illustrates how a contemporary Tibetan artist disrupts expectations in the creation of his political art. Utilizing Robert Smithson’s dialogic of site and non-site, Tenzing Rigdol’s 2011 site-specific installation Our Land, Our People is interpreted as a reenactment of a culturally specific historical practice of moving space. This approach shares important similarities to historical cases in which physical spaces were relocated to and within Tibet, allowing for the application of 20th century theories arising in the spatial turn to contemporary Tibetan art.