German source homepage next page >> English translation of German text: The exhibition "Face OF the Gods" shows, how the altar traditions of the West and Central African cultures are continued by the descendants of the Yoruba and the Congo - in Haiti, Cuba, Brazil and Puerto Rico, in the black and latin North America. Thus it is the first large exhibition, which deals with itself with the contemporary influence of African civilization in the different sections of Americas. For the Yoruba the altars are the "Face of the Gods", which are to be calmed, their altars prunken with a mass of containers, which require clock and fine feeling by their fragility. The Congo peoples of Central Africa see against it the altar as a "crossing ", " wendemarke " to another world. Both conceptions pull this exhibition through as guidance motives, even if the altar art, which presents it, in which for "new world" developed. It merges African, indianische and Christian icons and ideologies in different form. Their beauty and mirror-image-ritual density, its strength and meaning can measure with the altars of the large world religions, and an understanding of the basic principles of the afro American altars inspires also a feeling for the mirror-image-ritual Essenz of the Christianity, Judentums and Islam. The exhibition "Face OF the Gods" was organized by the Museum for African Art in New York city. It supported of The national Endowment for the Humanities, The national Endowment for the type and The New York Council for the Humanities, the USA. Robert Farris Thompson, renowned scholar and professor for African and Afro American history of art , Yale University, conceived and curated the exhibition. Tree altar the Congo for the ancestors Altar of the Omolu Altar for the spirit Sarabanda Rompe Monte Saamaka altar Bottle tree Congo-Cuban altar for Lucero Mundo, Francisco and the Comision India Umbanda altar The infinite altar: The Atlantic Ocean Ojú Oxalà: Afrobrasilian altar of the creator God of the Yoruba      Texts (in German) to emphasize "dialog with the Gods." [www.systransoft.com translation into English] Face OF the Gods To the exhibition of afro American altars Eleanor Heartney In the face of the Gods Beginnings to a re-valuation of African art and culture Johannes Odenthal Trespasses beyond the border Bernd M. Scherer A SENSE OF Heaven's Glamour From an interview with Robert Farris Thompson, curator of the exhibition " Face OF the Gods " Conversion as aesthetic category To the development of a new performativen aesthetics Erika Fischer light The status of an infinite Potentialitaet From ritual forms a contemporary theatre language developed Koffi Kôkô in the discussion with Johannes Odenthal The people of the ritual Eugenio Barba (the texts were part of a special supplement in taz of 15.1.1998) Further InterNet resources to " Face OF the Gods ": The Voodoo server http://www.nando.net/prof/caribe/voodoo.html CyberAltars http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~maryc/Altars.html African American type on the InterNet http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aavawww.htm Vodun (or Voodoo) information Pages - Ausfuehliche information of über Voodoo http://www.arcana.com/shannon/voodoo/voodoo.html Vodou - Homepage of the Vodoo priest Mambo Racine Sans Bout. http://members.aol.com/racine125/index.html Orisha mailing cunning web site - Web page of the Orisha Mailing cunning - Project, which presents religious African traditions. http://members.aol.com/starkana/olist.htm Vodoun et Democratie - an argument in French language of über Voodoo in the today's Haitian society. http://www.cam.org/~interso/Vodoun/vodoun.html Caribbean Studies - Index to Caribbean Studies http://www.hist.unt.edu/09w-blk4.htm African American religion - General information about afro American religions. Further contains left. http://www.links.net/vita/swat/course/aar.net.html Sincretic religion OF Cuba - Homepage of the Eleggua project. Represents studies over the Diaspora of the African religions in Cuba. http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~maryc/Eleggua.html << go back |  next page >> German source homepage top