Dr. Adrian Gor

Contact information

Email:

adrian.gor@concordia.ca

Website:

Adrian Gorea

Biography

Dr.

Adrian Gor completed his PhD in the Humanities Doctoral Program:Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada in April 2015.

His doctoral research, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholarship), combined studies in Visual Arts, Theology, and Art History. It built upon Adrian's monastic practice as a Byzantineiconographer in Eastern Europe, where he has learned how religious paintings (icons)perform in rituals to induce an iconic vision (a feeling that somethingpowerful and invisible is present in the physical space).

Thesis title

The image-maker’s symbolic realistic manual: how to craft a Contemporary Byzantine Iconic Vision from the media spectacle

Supervisors
Dr. Lucian Turcescu
Prof. Tim Clark
Dr. Cecily Hilsdale

Research interests

Theories and Practices of Contemporary Art
Research-Creation
Art and (Byzantine) Theology
Eastern Orthodox Icon Painting
Corporate Aesthetics of Commodities

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Teaching activities

Undergraduate courses

ARTH 383 Contemporary Art, Philosophy and Religion: The Interrelations of the Sacred and Profane
THEO 242 Art and Theology

Publications

Gorea, Adrian. “Performing the icon in the midst of contemporary iconoclastic gestures” Journal of Religion and Culture, (Department of Religion, Concordia University, 23rd volume, March, 2013). http://artsciweb.concordia.ca/ojs/index.php/jrc/issue/view/30/showToc

Gorea, Adrian. “Consuming Icons and Identity Creation: Byzantine and Visual Criticism,” KannenBright, (Department of Theology, Concordia University 2nd Edition, 2012).

https://artsciweb.concordia.ca/Ojs/index.php/kanbri/issue/view/23

Art catalogues and reviews

Loren Lerner. “Rejection and Renewal: Art and Religion in Canada (1926-2010),” Journal of Canadian Art History, Vol. XXXIII:2 (2012): 21-53.

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