Chamunda dancing on a corpse, Madhya Pradesh, Central India, 800s. Tantric culture and tradition are as alive as ever today, as the comprehensive and exhaustive exhibition at the British Museum shows. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London 1999-2003 and at the Royal Academy Schools London 2004-06. The myth of Bhairava . ( Log Out /  London: Arts Council of GB. She’s upside down, legs in the air, so he can devote himself to tonguing her […] An early ‘Tantra’ from Nepal. Tantra’s triumphant feminine power at the British Museum The influential Indian spiritual tradition is celebrated in an exhibition touching on life, sex and death ... About halfway round the British Museum’s new exhibition is an object that makes me feel very weedy indeed. 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. 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. British Museum British Museum exhibition to challenge 'salacious stereotypes' around Tantra. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. A Tantra exhibition is set to open at the British Museum and promises to 'be about more than just sex and yoga.' London Tourism; ... Just remember to arrange general admission before the allotted time slot to the Tantra exhibition. The British Museum has reopened with a very interesting exhibition about Tantra. They have dedicated a small space to some fascinating artefacts of historical Tantra and the mood and effect are mesmerising. It’s especially rewarding to see many familiar pieces from the BM’s Hotung Gallery displays retagged and juxtaposed here. 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. The British Museum’s tantra exhibition. London: Thames and Hudson. 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. Ramos, Imma. 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. Rachel Campbell ... cultural and political establishments that this exhibition charts. It is the very first time the British Museum – which houses one of the biggest and most comprehensive collections of Tantric material in the world – will explore this subject in an exhibition. London: Bloomsbury. Tantra first arose around 500 AD, and its core assertion is that the material world is infused with divine feminine power. ‘Tantra: enlightenment to revolution’ exhibition at the British Museum until 24 January 2021. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. It is not all about sex, but predictably, it is a lot about sex. ‘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. In the Image of Man. [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. We went to the Tantra exhibition. Venice, Italy 409 contributions 180 helpful votes. Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century. Explore the radical force that transformed the religious, cultural and political landscape of India and beyond in this landmark exhibition. What she calls ‘softcore’ is the disapproving official view in India today- that it’s all symbolic. [Tantra, Arts Council of Great Britain, p.5] Turning now to the ongoing British Museum exhibition, it is largely based on their own collection and a few loan items from other Western collections on Tantra, and seems to be organized without any very significant input from India. A Tantra exhibition is set to open at the British Museum and promises to 'be about more than just sex and yoga.' ... ©The Trustees of the British Museum. Rawson, Philip. Michell, George et al. The Bloomsbury Companion to Hindu Studies. ( Log Out /  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 Trustees of the British Museum. Tantra (British Museum) enlightenment to revolution Imma Ramos. ©The Trustees of the British Museum. It is open from 24th September 2020 – 24th January 2021. As well as the unparalleled joy of keeping the publication alive, you'll receive benefits including exclusive editorial, podcasts, and specially-commissioned music by some of our favourite artists. 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 Chakrasamvara (Wheel of Bliss) Tantra, India, AD 700–800 . 1973. ( Log Out /  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 counterculture. Change ), Religion and Collections is dedicated to the care and interpretation of religious collections – in museums, places of worship, faith organisations, schools and elsewhere. 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. 2011. Tantra at the British Museum A short review of the exhibition 'Tantra: enlightenment to revolution' which is currently on at the British Museum. They were letting people queue and enter regardless of time slot once inside it was super crowded and packed. Catskill, NY: Siglio Press. This is the kind of exhibition the BM can do almost entirely from its own collections and those of     the British Library, but there are some exciting loans here also. Tantra – the Indian cult of ecstasy. 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… To find out more, click here. Please whitelist our site in order to continue to access The Quietus. Tantra is not independent of Hinduism and Buddhism but has pervaded and transformed both traditions from its inception. 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. This exhibition and its book help us understand why and how it is alive today. Frazier, Jessica [ed.]. The iconography of Hindu goddesses makes these political connections explicit and is featured prominently throughout the show. ... ©The Trustees of the British Museum. Inside religious practice, Tantra has inspired many people to a certain style of greatness. 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… London: Thames and Hudson. 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. by alixgeddes 15th Oct 2020 14th Oct 2020. Buy. 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. The tradition of Tantra, as we learn from a newly opened exhibition at the British Museum (until 24 January 2021), has always been transgressive. 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. 1982. Medium: oil, acrylics, pencil, collage, white tape on paper on canvas. 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Tantra: enlightenment to revolution is at the British Museum, London, until 24 January 2021. Centring on the power of divine feminine energy, Tantra inspired the dramatic rise of goddess worship in medieval India and continues to influence contemporary feminist thought and artistic practice. Tantra today. You'd never know we are in the middle of a pandemic. He and Kali combine in Tantra: she is often astride his inert form as in the exhibition image. 2011. 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. 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. Untitled, Ghulam Rasool Santosh, Delhi, India, 1970s. The exhibition -- Tantra: enlightenment to revolution -- is scheduled to take place at the British Museum from September 24, 2020, till January 24, 2021. Tantra exhibition review: An enjoyable journey on the road to enlightenment ... New British Museum exhibition to show Tantra is about more than sex. Tantra: enlightenment to revolution review — sacred sex, subversion and, phew, no sign of Sting British Museum. 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. Nine Lives: In search of the sacred in modern India. Tantra exhibition review: An enjoyable journey towards enlightenment. The aesthetics of Tantra mirror this celebration of the flesh. Tickets cost £15 and booking ahead is recommended. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Yoni puja is really a devotional practice from the medieval Indian philosophy of Tantra, and its appropriation on Too Hot to Handle exemplifies its constant misinterpretation in the West, along the same homogenizing lines that have charged sacred Indian practices like kama sutra with orientalist impressions of hypersexual hedonism. Jamme, Franck Andre. 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. Yoni puja, the women are informed, is about “truly owning who you are in this very moment, feeling good about that, and drawing inspiration and power from it.”. The Art of Tantra. Created as a ‘space to sit and read and be,’ library of exile is an installation by British artist and writer, Edmund de Waal. 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. 1 /8 Tantra: enlightenment to revolution at The British Museum. It ranges from stone friezes of Durga slaughtering the buffalo demon Mahisha, thought to provide rulers with similar battlefield success, to more modern works, like Sutapa Biswas’s Housewives with Steak-Knives, a 1985 painting of a goddess Kali dressed in a printed tunic, her body unconventionally naturalistic. At its inception, Tantra had crucial political implications. Dalrymple, William. The British Museum's major exploration of Tantric art and iconography hovers uncomfortably between aesthetics and exoticism, finds Nicole-Ann Lobo, Sutapa Biswas, Housewives with Steak-Knives, 1985. The ego needs to be trampled underfoot. Source material for this can be found earlier in the exhibition. 27 Aug 2020 - 12 Jan 2021 Find out more about Edmund de Waal: library of exile Very … The goddess’s neck is adorned with a garland bearing the heads of dictators. Buy. Explore the radical force that transformed the religious, cultural and political landscape of India and beyond in this landmark exhibition. 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 Bagri Foundation is pleased to be lead supporter of Tantra: enlightenment to revolution, an exhibition which explores the wider, lesser-known philosophies of this belief system and its impact throughout history. The texts are exemplary and the selection visual rather than archaeological. Stilte Desember 3, 2020 Desember 3, 2020 The British Museum today released tickets to its first two new exhibitions to open since lockdown. Tantric culture and tradition are as alive as ever today, as the comprehensive and exhaustive exhibition at the British Museum shows. Doniger, Wendy. 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. 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]… Tantra at the British Museum . ... We went to the Tantra exhibition. 2004. Review ‘Going with the flow’ TLS May 21. Tantra: enlightenment to revolution will be the first major exhibition in the UK focusing on the history of Tantra and its global impact. Thus, attain enlightenment by applying oneself most diligently to the activity of erotic play. Political leaders who drew upon Tantra were attracted to its twofold promise of material and spiritual wealth. The British Museum has unveiled plans for a Tantra exhibition – insisting it will be about more than sex and yoga. ‘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] It reflects one end of the spectrum of Tantra as seen in the West. Tantra set out to shock and to offend the prudish, the powerful and conservative, and continues to do so. The exhibition draws connections with Sufism, a form of Islamic mysticism that possesses similar concepts of self-obliteration through ishq, or divine, fervent love. 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 the check in crew for not only the main admission but also the special Tantra exhibition. Tantra: enlightenment to revolution. 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. £35.00. This is an art of shock and awe, of violence, bloodshed and ecstatic laughter. British Museum has announced new exhibition 'Tantra: enlightenment to revolution'! Chakrasamvara (Wheel of Bliss) Tantra, India, AD 700–800 . Imma Ramos sits in the middle: she talks rather of right hand [symbolic] and left hand [literal] interpretations and comments that the literal and the symbolic co-exist and the tensions between them make Tantra unique [Ramos 2020: 273]’One cannot attain liberation by means of soothing and pleasing antidotes’ we are sternly informed by a Tantric text [ibid: 165] and Ramos observes that ‘It is clear that sexual rites were also performed literally’ in certain contexts [ibid: 145]. The Hindus: an alternative history. Good to see that the British Museum has reopened after the Covid19 lockdown. 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. Electric turquoise and royal blue shroud a warm embryo of fuschia, orange, and yellow, a chromatic apotheosis. The women delight in the gimmick, giggling while struggling to pronounce ‘yoni puja’ (it’s not particularly non-phonetic). Steps outside the exhibition, trinkets ‘made in India,’ perfumed candles, and dyed tote bags are for sale, intimations of our answer. Review of The British Museum. Please review and manage your cookie settings. The British Museum, London: Hours, Address, The British Museum Reviews: 4.5/5. Ask Sian248 about The British Museum. Curators said Tantra is associated with sex in the West, with rock star Sting’s comments about seven-hour lovemaking sessions partly to blame. As a wholly independent publication, we rely entirely on our ad bookings to keep The Quietus going. The British Museum has reopened with a very interesting exhibition about Tantra. The British Museum: fantastic - See 72,633 traveler reviews, 37,869 candid photos, and great deals for London, UK, at Tripadvisor. Doniger, Wendy.2009. You can see the appeal. Some of the show’s highlights are Indian Neo-Tantric works like Prafulla Mohanti’s Kalika. Tantra hasn’t lost its appeal either to downtrodden women or western orientalism. Siva is shown here in one painting as part male and female for example. Carrellas, Barbara .2017. 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. 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. Even Mick Jagger was a fan. [Doniger 2004] She discusses Tantra and related sects at greater length in The Hindus: an alternative history. Instead, it asserts that women embody Shakti, the energy that comprises the entire universe. There are also court paintings of couples having sex, adorned with jewelry and headdresses on lavish furniture, set against backdrops of rolling, verdant green hills and white-carved buildings. What's on Exhibitions Tantra: enlightenment to revolution. 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). 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. You need to pre book a ticket-easy as website works smoothly Take care to arrive at the allocated time- then entry is smooth and easy. It reflects what another Indian woman artist has asserted: ’woman-hatred is entrenched in the…framework of most societies and pervades most cultures to the point of being celebrated’ [Jagit Chuhan in ‘Beyond Frontiers’ eds Ghosh and Lamba, Saffron 2001]. The British Museum takes us into the world of Tantra in a fascinating blockbuster exhibition that’s filled with stunning artefacts — though there's … Tuis blogs Die tantra-uitstalling van die British Museum. 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… Exhibition Reviews Kyoto to Catwalk at the Victoria & Albert Museum. The British Museum takes us into the world of Tantra in a fascinating blockbuster exhibition that’s filled with stunning artefacts — though there's still plenty of sex. 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. Whilst the British Museum may seem an unlikely place to hold a Tantra Exhibition, I was impressed with their effort and found the exhibition compelling. As a worldview, philosophy and set of practices, Tantra is as alive as ever. The show explores ‘the radical force that transformed the religious, cultural and political landscape of India and beyond’. A … Tantra exhibition review: An enjoyable journey on the road to enlightenment. 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. 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 … 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. ©The Trustees of the British Museum. Reviewed 4 weeks ago . The British Museum is currently holding an exhibition in Tantra that shines a light on the various styles and forms that have evoked the raw power of the theories. … Tantra ( British Museum exhibition to challenge 'salacious stereotypes ' around.... 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