Kosovo - born Sislej Xhafa's first exhibition in Germany speaks to the artist's concerns
around identity politics and his birthplace
He completed an MA Art Practice from École nationale supérieure d'arts de Cergy (2011) and was an Associates of study at Open School East's Programme of study, London, UK (2015), with a focus on research and public engagement
around identity politics and new subjectivities, dance and the body as political and affective archive.
The six installations included in the show were created at a time when earnest discussions
around identity politics in liberal intellectual circles were causing a backlash from conservatives, straight white men, shock - jocks, gross - out cartoonists and moviemakers, as well as bad - boy contemporary artists such as Rhoades.
This iconic photolithograph was originally featured on the cover of Gober's Newspaper (1992 — 93), exhibited in the groundbreaking 1993 Whitney Biennial centered
around identity politics.
Not exact matches
While Bannon dismissed his would - be allies in the alt - right or ethnonationalist right, he still argued for the importance of focusing
politics around race: «The Democrats, the longer they talk about
identity politics, I got»em.
If this is true, then the
identity politics around which much of the secular left has refashioned itself become as meaningless as the sense of self materialism suggests is illusory.
These statistics alarmed Jewish liberals and secularists who fear that an American Jewish
identity revolving
around secular philanthropy, liberal
politics, and cultural modernization is about to be engulfed by an insular, antiquated, homophobic, and misogynistic religion.
In Laclau's (1996) terms, one can argue that in Islamist
politics, Ummah acts as an «empty signifier»
around which different particularities are organized to claim a common universal
identity.
The ESRC Genomics Forum has a commitment to promote social research on the contemporary life sciences
around issues including designer babies, synthetic blood, DNA profiling,
identity politics, personalised medicine, stem cell research and synthetic biology.
By emphasising difference over commonality,
identity politics also makes it harder for the left to establish a mass
politics based
around shared economic interests.
By seeking constantly to divide people up into smaller and smaller groups,
identity politics forestalls the creation of a sense of unity
around issues of economic justice.
Some might call this discussion «
identity politics» — and indeed this is the same argument that swirled
around the left last year and remains one of its biggest problems.
For over a decade, Helen Johnson (b. 1979, Melbourne, Australia) has used painting as a tool to investigate issues
around the legacy of colonialism, the construction of national
identity, personal history, and contemporary
politics in her native Australia.
The exhibition offers an overview of art made in the United States between 1989 and 2001 — from the fall of Communism to 9/11 — and is organized
around three principle themes: the so - called «
identity politics» debates; the digital revolution; and globalization.
A Global Gathering presents the diversity and thematic hallmarks of 21c's permanent collection, with works in a broad range of media looking at contemporary conditions through a lens of power and
politics, the environment and the evolution and decay of the natural world, intersectionality and the nature of gender, and portraiture and
identity, from both emerging and established artists from
around the world.
Since then, using a wide range of media including video, sculpture, performance, installation, and works on paper, she has generated an artistic practice centered
around issues of ritual, race, consumerism, and the
politics of
identity.
Their research and artwork centers
around queer
identities, the Filipino American diaspora, post-colonial Asian American tropes and stereotypes, and
politics of visibility in the context of social justice.
Her work raises questions
around the
politics of
identity and presents counter-narratives.
Some relief from the recurring anxieties
around environmental crisis, technological entanglement and
identity politics is offered by the paintings of Serge Charchoune.
Her work addresses ongoing debates
around traditional gender roles, body
politics, and
identity.
Especially as the competition between national schools of abstract painting escalated, breaking out in arguments and even punches in the case of Kline and the French painter Jean Fautrier, it would follow that the internal competition within these national schools also intensified.27 This was certainly true on the French side at the Venice Biennale: in a very unusual move, two artists — Fautrier and Hans Hartung — were awarded Grand Prizes in painting, whereas normally only one was given, because the jury could not decide between the two contenders.28 Within the context of the
politics internal to the movement of abstract expressionism, Meryon could thus be seen as a reassertion of Kline's original, breakthrough style as his own and thus a defence of his personal artistic
identity, after Kline himself had turned to colour,
around 1955, and left it up for grabs.
A significant figure in the discourse
around abstract painting, conceptual art, and
identity politics, Howardena Pindell has explored the potential for abstract painting and process - based practices to address social issues throughout her career.
Bayjoo's personal art explores questions
around identity, displacement,
politics and being a Londoner whilst having family in Maurituius.
Yinka Shonibare MBE's works bring together disparate cultural references and material to explore issues
around colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalisation, as well as issues of national and racial
identity and class and cultural
politics.
The work of contemporary artists Cindy Sherman, Rashaad Newsome and Radcliffe Bailey coalesce
around the
politics of feminism and sexual
identity, the issues of multiculturalism and social reform, as well as concern for the environment and natural resources.
Described by the gallery as a «significant figure in the discourse
around abstract painting, conceptual art, and
identity politics, Pindell has explored the potential for abstract painting and process - based practices to address social issues throughout her career.»
His practice revolves
around the
politics of formation and representation of
identity and the conflict between Western European and African cultural references.
As a follow - up to last week's Clubland Q&A, Mark answers more questions from Mark Steyn Club members
around the planet on the politicization of everything, the straitjackets of
identity politics, and whether John Lennon ever wrote a song with Paul McCartney.
An hour of questions from Mark Steyn Club members
around the planet on various aspects of
identity politics, from micro-aggressions at the University of California to macro-aggressions in Telford and Rotherham...
~ On Tuesday Steyn hosted another Clubland Q&A taking questions live from Mark Steyn Club members
around the world on the broad theme of «
identity politics», as manifested everywhere from Telford to the University of California.