Color photographs and video clips presented by Emory faculty, students and alumni which chronicle research conducted during recent trips to India will be exhibited in the Schatten Gallery September 14 December 31, 2001. The focus of the exhibition is ritual activity found within the diverse religious landscape of India. Rituals preserve and bring sacred realities into the lives of their participants and transform their material, social and spiritual conditions. At the same time rituals are deeply embedded in aesthetic, political and economic contexts. The third eye is the eye of the beholder, both the visiting Emory scholar and his or her camera. Many Indic traditions hold that both divine and human beings have a third eye, an eye that sees through the distortions of our ordinary perceptions and guides us to the truth. The images presented here represent attempts by members of the Emory community to provide glimpses of this alternate reality in Indian ritual life.
In celebration of the opening of the exhibition there will be an opening event held in the Jones Room from 4:00 to 6:00 PM on Sunday, September 16. A short carnatic vocal performance by Prema Bhat will begin the festivities, followed by brief comments by each of the exhibition contributors on the impact of photography on their field work. This will be followed by a reception that will feature Indian refreshments. All are invited to attend.
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Delhi:
The Dargah of Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia
