Ritual, ritualization, and religion in the work of Kazakhstani artist anvar musrepov
Yessekeyeva E. Venbrux E.
October 2021MDPI
Religions
2021#12Issue 10
This article contributes to the study of ritual in art, which is an unconventional setting for ritual studies. It concerns ritual, ritualization, and religion in the oeuvre of the up-and-coming Kazakhstani artist Anvar Musrepov. We discuss the prayer ritual, the process of ritual erasure (by covering in black), consumption rituals, and a cleansing ritual with a drone and ritualization with computer-generated imagery. Musrepov seeks to reimagine Kazakhstani national identity. His art, we argue, draws on what Alfred Gell has called the technology of enchantment.
Anvar musrepov , Art , Consumption ritual , Cyberritual , Kazakhstan , Prayer ritual , Ritual erasure , Technology of enchantment
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Department of Religious and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Philosophy and Political Science, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, 050040, Kazakhstan
Department of Comparative Religion, Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, Radboud University, Erasmusplein 1, Nijmegen, 6525 HT, Netherlands
Department of Religious and Cultural Studies
Department of Comparative Religion
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