Unmasterful Spirituality: Challenging Ancestor Worship

Kristýna Ilek
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This essay explores the spiritual and performative practice of ancestor worship as revisited by Czech-Vietnamese queer artist Lê Thị Hoài. The essay unpacks the power dynamics at stake in Lê Thị’s practice and introduces spirituality as a challenge to established power hierarchies. Lê Thị’s artistic work is inspired by her experience of the entanglements, complexities, and conflicts that her heritage—personal, cultural, social, and political—brings to her. The essay draws on Julietta Singh’s rethinking of “mastery” to interpret Lê Thị’s work as “unmasterful.” It looks at the symbolism, form, material, and function in Lê Thị’s work and juxtaposes the contradictory political, social, and economic beliefs that she strives to overcome. The author argues that the subversiveness of performative revision of traditional rituals is constituted through not only challenging an established system of values but also bringing to the forefront the ambiguity between the politics of private and public spaces and understanding spiritual force as an equal element in the art piece.
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无节制的灵性:挑战祖先崇拜
本文探讨了捷克-越南酷儿艺术家Lê thnguyen Hoài重新审视的祖先崇拜的精神和表演实践。这篇文章揭示了Lê thong的实践中利害攸关的权力动态,并介绍了灵性作为对既定权力等级的挑战。Lê thong的艺术作品的灵感来自于她对她的遗产——个人的、文化的、社会的和政治的——给她带来的纠缠、复杂和冲突的经历。这篇文章借鉴了Julietta Singh对“精通”的重新思考,将Lê thong的作品解释为“不精通”。它着眼于Lê th阮作品中的象征、形式、材料和功能,并将她努力克服的相互矛盾的政治、社会和经济信仰并列在一起。作者认为,对传统仪式的表演修正的颠覆性,不仅是对既定价值体系的挑战,而且是将私人空间和公共空间的政治模糊性以及将精神力量理解为艺术作品中平等的元素。
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