Anthony Padgett
Racovian Heresy Sawing Trick 2 - 2004 by Anthony Padgett
2003-5 Postmodern Religious Art Rituals
Build Your Own Religion 2003-4
CARDBOARD PLACE OF WORSHIP
In this performance people in Leicester at “Seen 04” I invited the audience to build an interreligious structure out of cardboard and then put on clothing in preparation for an interreligious disco dance (birdie song meets different prayer forms). People are then invited to do a GOD? shout, where they all shout out together what the word means to them, whether good or bad. Images of the performance are from Leicester and Peckham but I dont have any of the dancing yet. The performance was also at Peckham Square in London (top right) and at the Association of Teachers of Religious Education near Glasgow 2005.
B’Y’O’R’ PLAYSET
A boxed set of a collection of religious figures and buildings. The Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Tribal, etc etc figures are cut in 2 and can be combined in different ways as can the buildings.
They can also be put onto scalextric cars and have races. This is the original pic and mix religious playset. First exhibited in the Quaker Gallery, London, March 2003.
This was the beginning of the development of “Divinityland”
Interreligious DSS Art Flat 2003-4
WORLD CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOUS ART - The Launch of Morecambe as a tourist destination for the 21st century.
Artists were invited to come and stay in Morecambe at Padgett’s live in gallery-studio-study-centre-monastery-type-thing. All they needed to do was to give a call to arrange a date for pilgrimage/holiday. They would help furnish the flat with art, craft, furniture, videos, books, food etc on a theme of contemporary religious dialogue - sacred and secular.
Images below are from the opening party on 30 December 2003. There was belly dancing, poetry from John Hindle, a biscuit man pilgrimage to religious sites and the interreligious disco dance.
The traditional catchment area for Morecambe was Bradford and surrounding areas. These places have a large mixed race population so this new initiative of artist Anthony Padgett welcomes people of all faiths. For fun in the sun that also creates world peace. Anthony invites artists from all faith communities to stay at his DSS flat and transform it into a public interreligious centre.
Beauty surrounds and health abounds is the motto of Morecambe and nothing can be more beautiful than bringing together people of peace in such a world class setting.
INTERRELIGIOUS ART FLAT WALLPAPER 2004
Wallpaper from the travelling interreligious art flat - exhibited at Tullie House Gallery, Carlisle.
Starting from the rainbow swastika is Hindu, Zoroastrian, Jewish, Shinto, Jain, Buddist, Daoist, Orthodox Christian, Muslim, Sikh, Protestant Christian, Wiccan, Bahai and finally nuclear power.
Interreligious Races 2004-5
Races were held in Slupsk (Poland), Schindler's Factory (Poland), at Liverpool Biennial 04 and a commemorative painting was made of a race behind the Midland Hotel (Morecambe). In Slupsk and Krakow (as part of the Castle of Imagination Live Art Festival 2004) Buddha, Jesus, a Rabbi, Krishna, Mohammed and a Witch raced. The winning divinity was prayed to. The Witch won both races. In Slupsk the racing vehicles were tied to a candle phallus on Padgett’s head and he charged around a central plinth. The winning deity was placed on a plinth and prayed to as the candle was lit. In Krakow members of the Divinities were cardboard cut-outs fixed to chairs which members of the audience pulled in across the factory floor.
"Divinityland Races" 2004 -Acrylic on canvas 60 x 120cm
Racovian Sawing Trick 2004
In Bielsko-Biala, Poland 2004 Padgett annointed himself with water filling an upturned statue of Jesus Christ whilst he put on Jewish pants (IN NOMINE PATRE - in the name of the Father), Christian Robes (ET FILIUS - and of the Son), Muslim Hijab (ET SPIRITUS SANCTI - and of the Holy Spirit).
He sawed the statue in half. Then placed each part of clothing with a body part of Christ and with a vessel containing water that had filled the statue.
“IN NOMINE PATRE, ET FILIUS, ET SPIRITUS SANCTI. AMEN.”
This performance in Bielsko-Biala, Poland, related to the 17th century Racovian Heresy. The Unitarian doctrine that Christ is just a man. As opposed to the Trinitarian view that God, the Holy Spirit and Christ are one. Trinitarians persecuted Unitarians (eg of the Racovians in Poland and Unitarians who fled to the USA) and Monotheistic religions (Judaism, Islam and Christianity) remain divided still.
The statue of Jesus took its place on top of a racing car.
Interreligious
Gameshow & Cabaret 2004-5
Have a flyer. Welcome to Divintyland in Tullie House Gallery, Carlisle.
Contestants undressed mannikins in religious clothing then combined them in their own styles. Contestants were judged by the audience on their fashion and also on how well they did the Interreligious Disco Dance.
RELIGION CABARET
Performed at Magnet Bar as part of Liverpool Biennial, funded by the aFoundation. This included a Grand Prix where the audience constructed their own God and raced it on United Nations Humvee cars. The winning God was worshipped.
"Life is an Interreligious Cabaret old chum..."
"Religion makes the world go round, the world go round, the world go round..."
"Do the interreligious disco dance..."
biennial2004.blogspot.com/2004/09/disco-art-religion.html
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Disco Art Religion
"Just got back from the Magnet club having watched Anthony Padgett's live art performance. Not sure if he was celebrating religions or taking the piss, it was a good laugh but he seemed quite earnest that the audience should join in and pray to the little plastic doll. A couple from the audience dressed up and raced a mixture of gods round the room in remote control cars and we all joined in the inter-religious disco dance. People who are offended by a picture of a part of the body being hung from St Luke's church should definitely try and see this show. Except you can't because it was only for one night but he's showing 'DivintyLand' Interreligious Themepark at the Quakers Meeting House on saturdays.
posted by Ian Jackson @ 11:09 PM"
Edinburgh Fringe 2005
Racovian Heresy Sawing Trick 2 - 2004 by Anthony Padgett
2003-5 Postmodern Religious Art Rituals
Build Your Own Religion 2003-4
CARDBOARD PLACE OF WORSHIP
In this performance people in Leicester at “Seen 04” I invited the audience to build an interreligious structure out of cardboard and then put on clothing in preparation for an interreligious disco dance (birdie song meets different prayer forms). People are then invited to do a GOD? shout, where they all shout out together what the word means to them, whether good or bad. Images of the performance are from Leicester and Peckham but I dont have any of the dancing yet. The performance was also at Peckham Square in London (top right) and at the Association of Teachers of Religious Education near Glasgow 2005.
B’Y’O’R’ PLAYSET
A boxed set of a collection of religious figures and buildings. The Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Tribal, etc etc figures are cut in 2 and can be combined in different ways as can the buildings.
They can also be put onto scalextric cars and have races. This is the original pic and mix religious playset. First exhibited in the Quaker Gallery, London, March 2003.
This was the beginning of the development of “Divinityland”
Interreligious DSS Art Flat 2003-4
WORLD CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOUS ART - The Launch of Morecambe as a tourist destination for the 21st century.
Artists were invited to come and stay in Morecambe at Padgett’s live in gallery-studio-study-centre-monastery-type-thing. All they needed to do was to give a call to arrange a date for pilgrimage/holiday. They would help furnish the flat with art, craft, furniture, videos, books, food etc on a theme of contemporary religious dialogue - sacred and secular.
Images below are from the opening party on 30 December 2003. There was belly dancing, poetry from John Hindle, a biscuit man pilgrimage to religious sites and the interreligious disco dance.
The traditional catchment area for Morecambe was Bradford and surrounding areas. These places have a large mixed race population so this new initiative of artist Anthony Padgett welcomes people of all faiths. For fun in the sun that also creates world peace. Anthony invites artists from all faith communities to stay at his DSS flat and transform it into a public interreligious centre.
Beauty surrounds and health abounds is the motto of Morecambe and nothing can be more beautiful than bringing together people of peace in such a world class setting.
INTERRELIGIOUS ART FLAT WALLPAPER 2004
Wallpaper from the travelling interreligious art flat - exhibited at Tullie House Gallery, Carlisle.
Starting from the rainbow swastika is Hindu, Zoroastrian, Jewish, Shinto, Jain, Buddist, Daoist, Orthodox Christian, Muslim, Sikh, Protestant Christian, Wiccan, Bahai and finally nuclear power.
Interreligious Races 2004-5
Races were held in Slupsk (Poland), Schindler's Factory (Poland), at Liverpool Biennial 04 and a commemorative painting was made of a race behind the Midland Hotel (Morecambe). In Slupsk and Krakow (as part of the Castle of Imagination Live Art Festival 2004) Buddha, Jesus, a Rabbi, Krishna, Mohammed and a Witch raced. The winning divinity was prayed to. The Witch won both races. In Slupsk the racing vehicles were tied to a candle phallus on Padgett’s head and he charged around a central plinth. The winning deity was placed on a plinth and prayed to as the candle was lit. In Krakow members of the Divinities were cardboard cut-outs fixed to chairs which members of the audience pulled in across the factory floor.
"Divinityland Races" 2004 -Acrylic on canvas 60 x 120cm
Racovian Sawing Trick 2004
In Bielsko-Biala, Poland 2004 Padgett annointed himself with water filling an upturned statue of Jesus Christ whilst he put on Jewish pants (IN NOMINE PATRE - in the name of the Father), Christian Robes (ET FILIUS - and of the Son), Muslim Hijab (ET SPIRITUS SANCTI - and of the Holy Spirit).
He sawed the statue in half. Then placed each part of clothing with a body part of Christ and with a vessel containing water that had filled the statue.
“IN NOMINE PATRE, ET FILIUS, ET SPIRITUS SANCTI. AMEN.”
This performance in Bielsko-Biala, Poland, related to the 17th century Racovian Heresy. The Unitarian doctrine that Christ is just a man. As opposed to the Trinitarian view that God, the Holy Spirit and Christ are one. Trinitarians persecuted Unitarians (eg of the Racovians in Poland and Unitarians who fled to the USA) and Monotheistic religions (Judaism, Islam and Christianity) remain divided still.
The statue of Jesus took its place on top of a racing car.
Interreligious
Gameshow & Cabaret 2004-5
Have a flyer. Welcome to Divintyland in Tullie House Gallery, Carlisle.
Contestants undressed mannikins in religious clothing then combined them in their own styles. Contestants were judged by the audience on their fashion and also on how well they did the Interreligious Disco Dance.
RELIGION CABARET
Performed at Magnet Bar as part of Liverpool Biennial, funded by the aFoundation. This included a Grand Prix where the audience constructed their own God and raced it on United Nations Humvee cars. The winning God was worshipped.
"Life is an Interreligious Cabaret old chum..."
"Religion makes the world go round, the world go round, the world go round..."
"Do the interreligious disco dance..."
biennial2004.blogspot.com/2004/09/disco-art-religion.html
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Disco Art Religion
"Just got back from the Magnet club having watched Anthony Padgett's live art performance. Not sure if he was celebrating religions or taking the piss, it was a good laugh but he seemed quite earnest that the audience should join in and pray to the little plastic doll. A couple from the audience dressed up and raced a mixture of gods round the room in remote control cars and we all joined in the inter-religious disco dance. People who are offended by a picture of a part of the body being hung from St Luke's church should definitely try and see this show. Except you can't because it was only for one night but he's showing 'DivintyLand' Interreligious Themepark at the Quakers Meeting House on saturdays.
posted by Ian Jackson @ 11:09 PM"
Edinburgh Fringe 2005