Curators' introduction to Feminine power: the divine to the demonic
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- čas přidán 25. 05. 2022
- Join this online illustrated talk presented by British Museum curators of our new Feminine power exhibition, Belinda Crerar and Lucy Dahlsen.
They introduce the scope, range, themes and highlights of the exhibition. Taking a cross-cultural look at the profound influence of female spiritual beings within global religion and faith, they ask how different traditions view femininity. Explore with them the significant role that goddesses, demons, witches, spirits and saints have played - and continue to play - in shaping our understanding of the world.
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Image credit: Terracotta gorgon, Italy, about 500 BC. © The Trustees of the British Museum
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This is a great presentation. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much, for this online well illustrated talk and for the exhibition which hopefully I will visit..
Wish I could have the chance to visit the exhibition. Thank you for the introduction and much success for the showing.
Hello, Sir. How are you doing?
Loved this! Thank you ❤
Thank you 😊
I was pleasantly surprised at the openness the presenter had to an equivalent project on masculinity. I enioyed this presentation and while i cannot attend the exhibition i hope such a project is able to happen, though i understand the present political climate may not allow for it.
I agree with the other commenter about the problematic nature of plucking "archetypal" symbols out of their cultural context and presenting them as equivalent to our own culture. However i think the real value of a project like this comes from showing the limitations of our own cultural perspective. By showing these pieces we see the limits of our own perspective and gain an appreciation for how we might be viewing (or failing to view) the proper nature of our own humanity. Thank you for the excellent lecture 😊
Thank you~☆
I thought the gauzy outfit Circe is sporting is a lure and nothing more. But my favorite thing was the Lilith statue. To me she is giving the impression of no longer being human, except for the eyes. Now demonized, bowed and forced into subjugation she definitely attempts to raise her gaze upon her punishers. A testament to her unjustified punishment. You know the old saying “Hell hath no furry like that of a woman scorned.” I only wish some of the Neolithic Venus figures could have been included in the collection. Giving feminine power close to 10,000 years of representation.
Great job to everyone involved. A beautiful presentation.😊
Nice 👍
The invitation to look at this figures out of the original historical, symbolical and cultural context and used as a means of experiencing (or even psycho-analysing and inquiring gender power and political power and the locus of the "female" on society and culture) that relates with the contemporary experiences of gender is questionable in regard to what such images actually represent in their factual historical context. The mere compilation of flat informations that doesn't untie the very indoctrination upon such images made by modern society, and further now, being used in this manner where in which people relate with them in ways that has no relation to the very purpose and original context. What is the point?
Give voice to contemporary cultural "trends" while obfuscating the past. The expropriation of context is outrageous.
What is the point? For the viewer to draw conclusions based on psychoanalitical impressions? So, they have the power to draw their own conclusions on themes they made up, which has no relation to the context of such deities in their cultural context? How about the compilation of those informations being a flat overview of the context in the past?
What is the point?
Positive directions: Make a broader consideration of how each culture relate with the female deity and the Goddess Herself as the very force of the cosmic domain-a valuable study- to actually have a real perspective of the ignorant times we live today about anything female-male related (and the misconceptions done in modern times about it).
Avoid: the indulgence in precipitated assumptions or drawing anticipated conclusions that reinforce the very ”victim consciousness” that is the disease of modern culture and society- this is what needs CURE.
Oh this looks so GREAT!!!! Is this going to tour?! I think it’d be a great one for The Kimble.
At 22:46 in " piercing eyes made of blue glass to give a life like appearance" is what I heard you say but the captions reads "piercing eyes made of blue glass to give a life LGBTQIA+ appear" What would AI make of that I wonder and is it not important that the curators delivery is accurately recorded. Or does the reset take precedence over all that.
Hi Luis, thank you for spotting that, the captions are provided live by our partners Stagetext and MyClearText, unfortunately on occasion there are typos, we prefer not to rely on autocaptions because they are much less accurate. We hope you enjoyed the presentation.
@@BritishMuseumEvents Anytime and thank you I thoroughly enjoyed the presentation.
Will it come to the Netherlands?
No.
"Love" ... is passive .... really I guess in the context of "non violenr" but ....passive uhhuuhh not so sure
Painfully awkward at times. "um...um...um..." Maybe a read-thru or rehearsal would have helped?
i like the royal game of ur try it its great
@ 8 minutes - but this is a delivery (purposeful choice of verb - women deliver - babies are born - why make it soft and fluffy and deny women's work their labour) position determined by men - traditionally Louis XIV - this woman is in a self imposed lithotomy position. And so the analysis is wrong - this woman is not labouring naturally, physiologically, she is stuck, immobile....
No she is an image of a Goddess submitting to the Adam & Eve story of shame over nudity .... the fig leaf ...