Then there are mithuna carvings of couples in erotic poses, which aren’t explicitly Tantric but evoke its divine sensuality: lovers caressing each other, lips suspended in the moment before a kiss. Even Mick Jagger was a fan. The ego needs to be trampled underfoot. Good to see that the British Museum has reopened after the Covid19 lockdown. ... to the check in crew for not only the main admission but also the special Tantra exhibition. The British Museum’s tantra exhibition. In between we are taken by the hand and led through a potentially overwhelming thicket of ideas practice and imagery; and we glimpse the spread of Tantra across Asia in Tibet and Japan. Untitled, Ghulam Rasool Santosh, Delhi, India, 1970s. What's on Exhibitions Tantra: enlightenment to revolution. The paintings they create range from anatomically dubious to absurdist, and the whole charade inserts a dose of exoticism into the culture of individualist self-love off which neoliberal capitalism profits, and for which scripted “reality” television acts as an aperture. Emeryville, CA: Ten Speed Press. The exhibition draws connections with Sufism, a form of Islamic mysticism that possesses similar concepts of self-obliteration through ishq, or divine, fervent love. Reclaiming the body from shameful associations is a worthy endeavour, and the urgency of environmental and anti-capitalist activism of course should not be denied. ( Log Out / British Museum has announced new exhibition 'Tantra: enlightenment to revolution'! The Art of Tantra. London: Thames and Hudson. He and Kali combine in Tantra: she is often astride his inert form as in the exhibition image. 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The exhibition showcases over 100 objects including masterpieces of sculptures, paintings, prints and ritual objects, depicting the history and evolution of tantric philosophy since AD 500 -- when it emerged in India for the first time. Today, 200 years of shifting interpretations have left many misconceptions about what Tantra is, or what it actually involves. You can see the appeal. Reviews 'This wonderful catalogue is not merely a supplement to the exhibition - or even a replacement for those who had to miss it in the lockdown - but a great resource, a gateway to learn more about the wider context of Tantra… The myth of Bhairava . ‘Tantra: enlightenment to revolution’ exhibition at the British Museum until 24 January 2021. [Michell et al, 1982] Indefatigable and controversial Hinduist Wendy Doniger characterises writers like Rawson and David Gordon White as ‘hard core’ believing that what is described in texts and art actually happened whether involving corpses, ashes, bodily fluids or endless ecstatic sex. Tantra: enlightenment to revolution review — sacred sex, subversion and, phew, no sign of Sting British Museum. Chakrasamvara (Wheel of Bliss) Tantra, India, AD 700–800 . The aesthetics of Tantra mirror this celebration of the flesh. Steps outside the exhibition, trinkets ‘made in India,’ perfumed candles, and dyed tote bags are for sale, intimations of our answer. There are several prints by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, a multimedia outfit that created sexual imagery drawing from Tibetan Buddhist yab-yum symbology in service of psychedelic sublimation. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Tantra Song: Tantric Painting from Rajasthan. Stilte Desember 3, 2020 Desember 3, 2020 London: Arts Council of GB. The show explores ‘the radical force that transformed the religious, cultural and political landscape of India and beyond’. Tantra at the British Museum A short review of the exhibition 'Tantra: enlightenment to revolution' which is currently on at the British Museum. The British Museum, London: Hours, Address, The British Museum Reviews: 4.5/5. Frazier, Jessica [ed.]. Last Updated 23 January 2020 Ever since Sting boasted that he could go for “four or five hours” by practising tantric sex, the Indian philosophy has been linked with amorous pop stars.The British Museum gave the musician a Electric turquoise and royal blue shroud a warm embryo of fuschia, orange, and yellow, a chromatic apotheosis. All rights reserved, DACS 2019, At the end of the first season of Netflix’s raunchy reality series Too Hot to Handle, which saw attractive singles living in a beachside Mexican resort attempt the purportedly herculean task of restraining their sexual impulses to win a $100,000 cash prize, the six final women participate in a ‘yoni puja’ workshop. Tantric culture and tradition are as alive as ever today, as the comprehensive and exhaustive exhibition at the British Museum shows. Tickets cost £15 and booking ahead is recommended. The iconography of Hindu goddesses makes these political connections explicit and is featured prominently throughout the show. 1982. ‘Tantra: enlightenment to revolution’ exhibition at the British Museum until 24 January 2021 ‘Before you drink from a skull’ said Manisha Ma Bhairavi, ‘you must first find the right corpse.’ That is the arresting start of William Dalrymple’s account of Tantra in his ‘Nine Lives: In search of the sacred in modern India.’ [Dalrymple 2009]… If you love what we do, you can help tQ to continue bringing you the best in cultural criticism and new music by joining one of our subscription tiers. The exhibition -- Tantra: enlightenment to revolution -- is scheduled to take place at the British Museum from September 24, 2020, till January 24, 2021. The 1974 painting evokes the Bindu chakra, the underlying seed of creation. British Museum, LondonEmbraced by the 60s counterculture including the Rolling Stones, the ancient spiritual philosophy of Tantra finds enlightenment not just in sex but death On a stone relief from 11th-century India, a moustached man is enthusiastically pleasuring his lover. Chamunda dancing on a corpse, Madhya Pradesh, Central India, 800s. The reverence attached to sexual imagery underscores one of the show’s most emphatic messages about Tantra: pleasure is tapped into for a higher purpose, and is not an end in itself. The British Museum 4 Sep 2020–24 Jan 2021. If you are looking for insights into Sting and Tom Hanks’ favourite love practice you’ll be disappointed because this is more a showcase of the ancient philosophy behind the contemporary practical spin. A glance at Amazon confirms that a full spectrum of books on Tantra is readily available today, from the French poet Franck Andre Jamme’s Tantra Song – Tantric Painting from Rajasthan 2011to books such as Barbara Carrellas, Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century 2017. Tantra (British Museum) enlightenment to revolution Imma Ramos. A new philosophy emerged in India from about 500AD, defined in Tantras, religious dialogues written down in Sanskrit, some of the oldest copies of which are in the British Museum… DHA have recently completed work on the British Museum’s latest exhibition – Tantra: enlightenment to revolution. One of the many achievements of exhibition, book and online resources is to acknowledge the controversy around Tantra but to move rapidly on and concentrate on what is a highly demanding task – presenting a phenomenon which has so many particularly western layers of prejudice, over excitement and ignorance to unpeel. She’s upside down, legs in the air, so he can devote himself to tonguing her […] Explore the radical force that transformed the religious, cultural and political landscape of India and beyond in this landmark exhibition. We needed a fresh look: the last exhibition on Tantra in London was 50 years ago so this new show at the BM is very welcome. Instead, it asserts that women embody Shakti, the energy that comprises the entire universe. You'd never know we are in the middle of a pandemic. ... About halfway round the British Museum’s new exhibition is an object that makes me feel very weedy indeed. Tantra hasn’t lost its appeal either to downtrodden women or western orientalism. Tantra today. Rawson, Philip 1973a. An early ‘Tantra’ from Nepal. Please whitelist our site in order to continue to access The Quietus. Medium: oil, acrylics, pencil, collage, white tape on paper on canvas. British Museum British Museum exhibition to challenge 'salacious stereotypes' around Tantra. The novelist and activist Arundhati Roy explores many tantric themes in her novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness 2017] much of which takes place in a graveyard. The philosophy then spread throughout Asia by both diplomatic means and pilgrimage, as travellers returned from its eastern Indian epicentre bearing material objects – sculptures, texts, devotional items – that facilitated ideological dissemination, as Tantric schools appeared in China, Tibet, and Japan. ( Log Out / Tantra: enlightenment to revolution does raise critical questions for the roles that spirituality and pleasure play in our lives, given a workday that attempts to regulate and homogenise our desires into a framework of illusory countercultural individualism. A philosophy originating in medieval India, Tantra has been linked to successive waves of revolutionary thought, from its sixth-century transformation of Hinduism and Buddhism, to the Indian fight for independence and the rise of 1960s… £35.00. Tantra exhibition review: An enjoyable journey on the road to enlightenment. Thus, attain enlightenment by applying oneself most diligently to the activity of erotic play. Tiny manuscript images are kept to a minimum. Tantra: enlightenment to revolution runs 23 April-26 July 2020 at The British Museum. Tuis blogs Die tantra-uitstalling van die British Museum. 2011. A … Nine Lives: In search of the sacred in modern India. London: Bloomsbury. Please review and manage your cookie settings. Let’s get one thing straight — it’s not all about sex. But the exhibition’s underlying promotion of Tantra’s contemporary promise betrays a circular irony, fraught with its premise of redressing the philosophy’s twentieth-century orientalist misunderstanding. The British Museum takes us into the world of Tantra in a fascinating blockbuster exhibition that’s filled with stunning artefacts — though there's … Source material for this can be found earlier in the exhibition. ‘Housewives with steak knives’ by Sutapa Biswas is an astonishing image from Bradford of a multi armed young Indian woman on the warpath with white haired head dangling from one hand, steak knife brandished aloft, and intriguingly in another hand a postcard sized image that turns out to be by Artemisia Gentileschi who famously showed graphic violence to men, having herself suffered at their hands. 21 Jan 2021 [Doniger 2009] Her revisionism is put in context in Frazier 2011:224-6 for example. Tantra: enlightenment to revolution, a new exhibition at the British Museum that runs through 24 January 2021, attempts to add nuance and context to Tantra’s Western interpretation through an impressive array of aesthetic and devotional objects spanning over a millennia. A new philosophy emerged in India from about 500AD, defined in Tantras, religious dialogues written down in Sanskrit, some of the oldest copies of which are in the British Museum’s first new exhibition since lockdown. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. The British Museum today released tickets to its first two new exhibitions to open since lockdown. Curators said Tantra is associated with sex in the West, with rock star Sting’s comments about seven-hour lovemaking sessions partly to blame. It’s especially rewarding to see many familiar pieces from the BM’s Hotung Gallery displays retagged and juxtaposed here. The goddess’s neck is adorned with a garland bearing the heads of dictators. Tantra: enlightenment to revolution will be the first major exhibition in the UK focusing on the history of Tantra and its global impact. First major exhibition in the UK focusing on the history of Tantra, a radical philosophy that transformed the religious, cultural and political landscape of India and beyond. Ramos, Imma. Tantra encourages veneration of the body in its many forms and states, often incorporating matter that might otherwise be considered taboo: alcohol, bhang, sexual fluids, blood, human remains. Supported by the Bagri Foundation, Tantra: enlightenment to revolution (April 23 to July 26, 2020) will chart the rise and spread of Tantra, a set of beliefs and rituals that first emerged in India around AD 500. New British Museum exhibition to show Tantra is about more than sex Safety measures such as reduced capacity, increased cleaning and a one-way route around the … 2011. Poor old Sting: while Jagger makes the catalogue for Tantra: Enlightenment to Revolution, a conscientious new exhibition featuring around 130 artefacts at the British Museum… Visitors cluster around objects with the highest Victorian shock-value – like a Tantric temple frieze sculpture carved of stone, with the dynamic, arched form of a woman receiving oral sex (an actual example of yoni puja). 2020. Doniger, Wendy.2009. It is not all about sex, but predictably, it is a lot about sex. Some of the show’s highlights are Indian Neo-Tantric works like Prafulla Mohanti’s Kalika. Tantric culture and tradition are as alive as ever today, as the comprehensive and exhaustive exhibition at the British Museum shows. ‘Yoni,’ a Sanskrit word, roughly translates as vulva, and ‘puja’ as worship. A RADICAL philosophy that transformed the religious, cultural and political landscape of India and beyond will be explored in a landmark new exhibition at the British Museum.. To find out more, click here. ‘Tantra: enlightenment to revolution’ exhibition at the British Museum until 24 January 2021 ‘Before you drink from a skull’ said Manisha Ma Bhairavi, ‘you must first find the right corpse.’ That is the arresting start of William Dalrymple’s account of Tantra in his ‘Nine Lives: In search of the sacred in modern India.’ [Dalrymple 2009]… Dimensions: 2450mm x 2220mm. The tradition of Tantra, as we learn from a newly opened exhibition at the British Museum (until 24 January 2021), has always been transgressive. [Rawson 1973, 1973a] In the ground breaking exhibition at the Hayward Gallery ‘In the Image of Man’ in 1982 however Tantra doesn’t figure at all as such although many objects relate to it. As a wholly independent publication, we rely entirely on our ad bookings to keep The Quietus going. 2004. Review ‘Going with the flow’ TLS May 21. Yet in our age of globalist neoliberalism, given an increasingly conservative, patriarchal Hindu nationalist trajectory in India (set in motion by Britain’s colonial legacy), there’s an overwhelming tone-deafness to the Museum’s assertion that “The rebellious spirit of Tantra remains ripe for the reimagining.” Perhaps it’s unsurprising for an institution that still refuses to repatriate blatant spoils of colonial plunder. There is an essential ambiguity also about gender at the heart of Tantra: men made much of the art and wrote many of the texts; they worship Tantric goddesses yet clearly and not surprisingly can also feel threatened by Tantra and its potential for powerful women in everyday life, not least their own homes, especially when wielding steak knives and supported by yoginis and the reassurance of goddesses like Kali and Durga, triumphing where male gods had failed. ©The Trustees of the British Museum. The philosophy challenged orthodox Hindu and Buddhist bifurcations of the world into categories of sacred and profane, along with patriarchal understandings of the female body as an impediment to enlightenment. Chakrasamvara (Wheel of Bliss) Tantra, India, AD 700–800 . Date of experience: October 2020. A philosophy originating in medieval India, Tantra has been linked to successive waves of revolutionary thought, from its sixth-century transformation of Hinduism and Buddhism, to the Indian fight for independence and the rise of 1960s… A British artist of Balinese descent, Sinta Tantra was born in New York in 1979. Tantra at the British Museum . The texts are exemplary and the selection visual rather than archaeological. The British Museum has reopened with a very interesting exhibition about Tantra. You can see the appeal. Exhibition: Tantra – Enlightenment to Revolution Duration: 24 September 2020 – 24 January 2021 Location: The British Museum (The Joseph Hotung Great Court Gallery), London, UK Explore the radical force that transformed the religious, cultural and political landscape of India and beyond in this landmark exhibition. This isn’t just erotic art – it’s a religious masterpiece. But the exhibition features clearly appropriative paintings by artists like Penny Slinger, who had no actual training in the divine philosophy of Tantra and were interested solely in its transgressive aesthetics, the provocative sensuality it exudes. In the 1960s, artists and musicians did draw from Tantric philosophy through the free love movement, anti-capitalist activism, and environmentalist fervor. Tantra: Enlightenment to Revolution The British Museum, London, 24 September — 24 January 2021. 2009. Siva is shown here in one painting as part male and female for example. Both exhibition and the associated publication by curator Imma Ramos [Ramos 2020] aim to ‘offer new insights into a philosophy that has captured our imagination for more than a millennium.’ She succeeds admirably in addressing an unruly subject in a fairly cramped space, where less is usually more, and at greater length in the profusely illustrated book. As a worldview, philosophy and set of practices, Tantra is as alive as ever. Please review and manage your cookie settings. 1 /8 Tantra: enlightenment to revolution at The British Museum. From the press release for the exhibition:. We went to the Tantra exhibition. ©The Trustees of the British Museum. Rachel Campbell ... cultural and political establishments that this exhibition charts. London: Bloomsbury. What she calls ‘softcore’ is the disapproving official view in India today- that it’s all symbolic. Print depicting the goddess Kali, Calcutta Art Studio, Kolkata (Bengal, India), about 1885–95. The British Museum 4 Sep 2020–24 Jan 2021. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Tantra: enlightenment to revolution is at the British Museum, London, until 24 January 2021. They have dedicated a small space to some fascinating artefacts of historical Tantra and the mood and effect are mesmerising. The Bloomsbury Companion to Hindu Studies. London: Thames and Hudson. Reviewed 4 weeks ago . Tantra figured strongly in the counter cultures of the 60s and in exhibitions like that created by Philip Rawson at the Hayward Gallery in 1971 and expanded in his books in 1973. Each woman stands naked in a wooden cubicle with nothing but a hand mirror, as an intimacy coach encourages the group to examine their vaginas, to vocally observe what they see before painting them. To find out more, click here. ( Log Out / Venice, Italy 409 contributions 180 helpful votes. ... We went to the Tantra exhibition. The women delight in the gimmick, giggling while struggling to pronounce ‘yoni puja’ (it’s not particularly non-phonetic). Very … Inside religious practice, Tantra has inspired many people to a certain style of greatness. A Tantra exhibition is set to open at the British Museum and promises to 'be about more than just sex and yoga.' London: Penguin. At the more figural end, paintings by the Kashmiri artist Ghulam Rasool Santosh embody the union of Shiva and Shakti, combining the transcendental nature of Tantric sexuality with a geometric reduction of form. Exhibition Reviews Kyoto to Catwalk at the Victoria & Albert Museum. © Sutapa Biswas. The Hindus: an alternative history. Exploring the art of Tantra today In this discussion led by the Royal College of Art's Rebecca Heald, hear contemporary artists explore the influence of Tantra in their work. From the press release for the exhibition: Tantra: Enlightenment to Revolution The British Museum, London, 24 September -- 24 January 2021 Curated by Imma Ramos A radical philosophy that transformed the religious, cultural, and political landscape of India and beyond is explored in a landmark new exhibition at the British Museum. Amy Butterworth illustrates the commonly misinterpreted term, Tantra and the framework in which its exhibition was developed Upon my first delving into the Tantra movement, following the announcement by the British Museum on their exhibition showcasing the ancient philosophy, I couldn’t help but think: why is everyone talking about Sting? Tantra first arose around 500 AD, and its core assertion is that the material world is infused with divine feminine power. 27 Aug 2020 - 12 Jan 2021 Find out more about Edmund de Waal: library of exile Yet the show’s curation seems to suggest that due to its underlying revolutionary spirit, Tantra possesses some latent key to our contemporary period of political unrest. The last two exhibits would give a Victorian archdeacon in Calcutta serious palpitations and one wonders how his wife might have reacted to such ferocious images of female power. The book is dedicated aptly to The Unconsoled. It’s derived from the sacred instructional texts, the Tantras, which offer insight into certain anti-establishment, transgressive rituals that – when carried out correctly, and with guidance from a guru – can grant access to this power, manifested both temporally and supernaturally, like longevity and spiritual enlightenment. 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