Anthony Padgett
Business Messiah Pilgrimage
90 second excerpt from art movie
Business Messiah Pilgrimage
2005-8 PADGETT V TATE Religious Discrimination
PADGETT V TATE
Religious Discrimination
The Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003
Artist and academic Anthony Padgett took Sir Nicholas Serota and Tate Galleries to the Employment Tribunals over Religious Discrimination under The Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003.
This Tribunal case was also a piece of art. It is an attempt to take control of state funded art away from corporate collectors and commercial galleries by protecting artists/performers rights (disability, race, sex, sexual orientation, age and religion). The culture of multinational collectors and their spouses can be resisted even if the globalisation of their corporations is spreading
Padgett began proceedings on 20/9/5 following multiple incidents dating back to 2002, and culminating with the rejection of his most recent proposal (July) of a Business Messiah performance around a scale copy of the memorial to Sir Henry Tate at Norwood Cemetery, built in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, out of sugar cubes. Sir Henry Tate was a Unitarian and Padgett has founded the religion of Postmodern Religious Art, as an offshoot of Unitarianism.
The case was to establish that artists have the same employment rights as any other self-employed contractor and was to show that the art world is institutionally prejudiced against any positive treatment of religion. It will also show how Christianity has been singled out for negative treatment and that the contemporary art world also holds spirituality and Buddhism to be more valid than Christianity, Judaism or Islam.
Padgett held an exhibition next to Tate Liverpool in 2007, to coincide with the Turner Prize being held there. In the exhibition he constructed the sculpture that his performance would have been based around.
Earlier, in December 2005 - January 2006 - Padgett made a Pilgrimage to Jerusalem/Quds to Pray for Success in the Case. He wore cufflinks, tie pins, lapel badges and collar studs purchased in the Holy Land. He then visited the Western Wall (Jewish), the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Christian), the Dome of the Rock (Muslim), the Shrine of Bahuallah in Acco (Bahai) and McDonalds in Jerusalem. He filmed the pilgrimage on DVD.
BUSINESS MESSIAH
"The Business Messiah" is like a Business Guru but is religious rather than spiritual.
Transform your business by developing religious products to increase market share in religious countries. If small to medium enterprises market their religious connections they can undermine the irreligious practices of multinationals. In order to reduce this extremism multinationals will have to remove the poverty that creates the religious fundamentalism in the first place. Thus greater world equality is the result of inter-religious market forces.
Maslow's Triangle of needs. Modernist economic models put self-actualisation at the top of the pyramid. This model is replaced by the Business Messiah's Religious Model. When any area is deficient religion fills the gap. Social, economic and personal poverty is filled with appeals to God. This is not just self actualisation but actualisation of religion and God's will.
The poverty of the United States is social, through lack of state religious identity. This originates in Thomas Jefferson's 1st Amendment that ensured separation of church and state. Church and state should be conjoined but in a democratic system of free choice with education about religious consumer options. This would resemble the UK system of education.
My range of seminars and workshops for global businesses facilitate businesses in the transition from current management models to a new vision. Instead of internal, individual, spiritual staff development they relate to the development of the business structures.
The vision commodifies religion but keeps a link to critical thinking with radical consumption used as a strategy to overcome religion's use as an "opiate of the masses" and also a link to faith in Divine intevention to overcome unfair trading.
The presentations are ideal for Small to Medium Enterprises as well as multinational corporations and governmental agencies.
Business Messiah Pilgrimage
90 second excerpt from art movie
Business Messiah Pilgrimage
2005-8 PADGETT V TATE Religious Discrimination
PADGETT V TATE
Religious Discrimination
The Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003
Artist and academic Anthony Padgett took Sir Nicholas Serota and Tate Galleries to the Employment Tribunals over Religious Discrimination under The Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003.
This Tribunal case was also a piece of art. It is an attempt to take control of state funded art away from corporate collectors and commercial galleries by protecting artists/performers rights (disability, race, sex, sexual orientation, age and religion). The culture of multinational collectors and their spouses can be resisted even if the globalisation of their corporations is spreading
Padgett began proceedings on 20/9/5 following multiple incidents dating back to 2002, and culminating with the rejection of his most recent proposal (July) of a Business Messiah performance around a scale copy of the memorial to Sir Henry Tate at Norwood Cemetery, built in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, out of sugar cubes. Sir Henry Tate was a Unitarian and Padgett has founded the religion of Postmodern Religious Art, as an offshoot of Unitarianism.
The case was to establish that artists have the same employment rights as any other self-employed contractor and was to show that the art world is institutionally prejudiced against any positive treatment of religion. It will also show how Christianity has been singled out for negative treatment and that the contemporary art world also holds spirituality and Buddhism to be more valid than Christianity, Judaism or Islam.
Padgett held an exhibition next to Tate Liverpool in 2007, to coincide with the Turner Prize being held there. In the exhibition he constructed the sculpture that his performance would have been based around.
Earlier, in December 2005 - January 2006 - Padgett made a Pilgrimage to Jerusalem/Quds to Pray for Success in the Case. He wore cufflinks, tie pins, lapel badges and collar studs purchased in the Holy Land. He then visited the Western Wall (Jewish), the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Christian), the Dome of the Rock (Muslim), the Shrine of Bahuallah in Acco (Bahai) and McDonalds in Jerusalem. He filmed the pilgrimage on DVD.
BUSINESS MESSIAH
"The Business Messiah" is like a Business Guru but is religious rather than spiritual.
Transform your business by developing religious products to increase market share in religious countries. If small to medium enterprises market their religious connections they can undermine the irreligious practices of multinationals. In order to reduce this extremism multinationals will have to remove the poverty that creates the religious fundamentalism in the first place. Thus greater world equality is the result of inter-religious market forces.
Maslow's Triangle of needs. Modernist economic models put self-actualisation at the top of the pyramid. This model is replaced by the Business Messiah's Religious Model. When any area is deficient religion fills the gap. Social, economic and personal poverty is filled with appeals to God. This is not just self actualisation but actualisation of religion and God's will.
The poverty of the United States is social, through lack of state religious identity. This originates in Thomas Jefferson's 1st Amendment that ensured separation of church and state. Church and state should be conjoined but in a democratic system of free choice with education about religious consumer options. This would resemble the UK system of education.
My range of seminars and workshops for global businesses facilitate businesses in the transition from current management models to a new vision. Instead of internal, individual, spiritual staff development they relate to the development of the business structures.
The vision commodifies religion but keeps a link to critical thinking with radical consumption used as a strategy to overcome religion's use as an "opiate of the masses" and also a link to faith in Divine intevention to overcome unfair trading.
The presentations are ideal for Small to Medium Enterprises as well as multinational corporations and governmental agencies.