Sentences with phrase «art as a political tool»

At the gala the next evening, Marco Roso, Dis cofounder and cocurator of the forthcoming Berlin Biennale, and I sit and discuss the readymade, the replication of capitalist systems, the capacities of art as a political tool.

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The guide begins with an introduction to the internet as a medium for political change and eight simple rules to get you started, and then moves on to cover topics as varied as political websites, online fundraising, internet video, social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter, email advocacy, viral marketing, online advertising and the subtle art of search engine optimization.

For me, illustration and art is a powerful (political) tool and I want people to reflect on things that we might ignore, such as gender inequality and hidden racism,» says Alva Skog.

This exhibition seeks to correlate directly with How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney's Latin America and Latin America's Disney at MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House and The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State L.A., through the idea of creating identity and using iconography as political and cultural tools to represent the experiences of the people who have most suffered from corporate imperialism.

The underlying rationale of its program is a firm belief in visual arts as a potent tool capable of shifting perspectives, and to ignite engagement for art practice as a viable path for social and political transformation.

The 1960s New Tapestry Movement saw fiber art as a tool of political or feminist expression; many women artists, such as Jagoda Buić and Olga de Amaral, followed by Annette Messager, dared to return to the craft and the decorative.

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Advancing the concept of arte útil (literally, useful art; art as a benefit and a tool), she proposes solutions to sociopolitical problems through the implementation of art, and has developed long - term projects that include a community center and a political party for immigrants, and a school for behavior art.

They will discuss artistic methodology and the use of the absurd as a political tool by these 20th century avant - garde groups and will look at art historical precedents for their work.

By absorbing various alternative influences, refereeing to an art history momentous phenomenon, and interfering with pop culture, Sterling Ruby has made quite an effort to position his art practice as the communication tool not just in the purely aesthetic sense, but in social and political as well.

A pioneer of body art and a leading performance artist and activist, Franko B uses his body as a tool to explore the themes of the personal, political, poetic, resistance, suffering and the reminder of our own mortality and vulnerability.

Leaving to one side ideas of nationality and regionalism, this exhibition focuses on London as a place of freedom and experimentation that enabled artists to produce radical works that engaged with issues of participation and collaboration, established new relationships with the public space and fostered art as an effective political tool.

I always thought the Intelligence community and industrialists like Hearst and Rockefeller were unnerved by the power of art as a tool of political change.

This issue explores the role of art in times of crisis, and how it both succeeds and fails as a call to action and political tool.

This debut retrospective of one of India's most important artists, whose work did not privilege the market, represents political art as a tool that holds up a mirror to society.

Worthless as a radical political tool, non-figurative art was, in the Marxist playwright's eyes, little more than aesthetic scaffolding supporting upper - class pleasures.

The marriage of a utilitarian political tool such as a PAC and a work of art may, at first, seem unorthodox.

First, the reinterpretation of Abstract Expressionism as a political movement, an idea that the writer Serge Guilbaut pioneered with his contention that Abstract Expressionism was a tool of Cold War politics; and, second, an obsession with bodily evacuation as a key to the meaning of recent art.