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Reinventing Ritual

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Contemporary artists around the world are exploring Judaism as a vital, multicultural, and contradictory force. They seek common values and authentic experiences to render Jewish practices open and inclusive. The process of reinventing ritual is defined by the urge to strip rituals down to their essentials and reconceive them to speak to contemporary issues—creating everything from a comix version of the Book of Esther to video prayer garments to an environmentalist synagogue building. In these works the dominant style is hybrid in nature, a result of the remixing of ritual and everyday life. Related exhibition: Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life, September 13, 2009 - February 7, 2010. Related blog: http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/blog