Sentences with phrase «arts as a point of departure»

The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) uses the visual arts as a point of departure for exploring new artistic production across a variety of disciplines.

Taking her book Aesthetics of Installation Art as a point of departure, Juliane Rebentisch will reflect on the politics of curating via addressing the relations of aesthetic autonomy, institutional critique, and the public today.

Taking applied arts as a point of departure, speakers examine the politics at play between the handmade and the industrially produced, and the way in which the idea of uniqueness impacts on what something might be worth.

Not exact matches

I use both natural and abstract elements as my departure point to create a collection of items that combines my interests in bold, graphic woodcut / relief art, the craft of sewing, and, in particular, nature, giving a nod to mid-Twentieth Century design too.

A translation should always take its «original» as a point of departure from which to build a whole different work of art, not as a sacred text to be faithfully respected and imitated.

The major group exhibition Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits takes as its departure point the art of forgotten Victorian - era Spiritualist Georgiana Houghton (1814 - 1884), and features contemporary and historical painting, sculpture, video and photography that both explore and adopt Spiritualist practices and methodologies.

Taking the use of the age - old measurement unit the cubit (the length of a forearm) in ancient art forms as a point of departure, this show features artists who have developed their own systematic approaches to artmaking.

Using Still's storied relationship with critics as a point of departure, Smith and Saltz will explore the realm of art criticism today, sharing insights about their work, process, and criticality in looking at art.

Drawing from the British context as point of departure, and the wave of exhibitions by Black British artists — highlighting the recurrence of the issues they addressed in the 1980s and demonstrating the continued relevance of their art to this day — this project is the result of ongoing conversations with artists who have always been alert to the fragility of democracies and concerned with the pockets of exclusions that exist in the so - called «Free World».

Wiley, as is central to his practice, draws on the historically Eurocentric Western art canon as a point of departure for Trickster.

Patricia Fernández Points of Departure (Between Spain and France) April 14 — June 28, 2014 Main Gallery Reception: Saturday, May 17 from 6 — 9 pm As part of 18th Street Arts Center's core program, the Artist Labs series, Spanish - born, Los...

Tyburn Gallery is dedicated to international contemporary art, exhibiting and championing established artists and younger talents from a global range of evolving art scenes, with Africa and its diaspora as a point of departure.

While earlier exhibitions used horse racing as a point of departure and a metaphor, perhaps, for the handicapping aspect of the art world, «FROM HERE,»...

Taking the commercial colour chart as its point of departure, the exhibition emphasises a radical transformation in the post-War Western art that is characterised by the departure from such notions as originality, uniqueness and authenticity.

Curated by Katy Siegel, Pretty Raw took the work of the artist Helen Frankenthaler (1928 - 2011) as the point of departure for an alternative version of modernist art over the past 50 years, a story usually written as a series of male masters.

Prince's rephotography uses appropriation as its own goal — the artist simply needed the works of others in order to choose a departure point for his own art.

That she selected a 17th century painting of a vase of flowers as the point of departure for her investigations reflects not only Steir's interest in art history but her predilection for painting flowers.

Pretty Raw takes the work of the artist Helen Frankenthaler (1928 - 2011) as the point of departure for an alternative version of modernist art over the past 50 years, a story usually written as a series of male masters.

This event forms part of our exhibition IN / DI / VISIBLE taking Achiampong and Blandy's work as a point of departure for artists» exploration of subjectivity and art's potential to represent new ways of being and becoming.

This conversation coincides with There is nothing I could say that I haven't thought before, Daignault's current solo exhibition at The FLAG Art Foundation (on view through May 13, 2017), for which the artist used online indexes as her point of departure, exploring the inherent aesthetics and politics in these purportedly neutral platforms.

Vicario contributes an essay that explores how notions of «site» are mobilized between and across the fields of art and architecture, taking Mies van der Rohe's apartment buildings and the surrounding area in Newark as a point of departure.

Using the residency as a departure point, Leguillon curated «Codex» along with students from the Fine Arts Department of Haute école d'art et de design (HEAD) in Geneva, Switzerland in conjunction with the Wattis Institute and students of California College of the Arts.

The use of ceramics and folkloric, artisan objects is a common point of departure for the art community in Guadalajara, as seen in the work of artists Eduardo Sarabia, Gonzalo Lebrija, Milena Muzquiz and Cynthia Gutiérrez.

At times, her vessels allude to the historical depiction of severed heads, using the myth of Medusa as a point of departure to address the terror of female sexuality as it is represented throughout art history.

There are points of departure that are all about international contemporary art, but we can lead the conversation as it pertains to our region.

Len Lye's «Trilogy: A Flip and Two Twisters» serve as a point of departure for the rest of the exhibition as performance and theatrics commingle with art and engineering.

The exhibition takes as one of its points of departure the critical legacy of the first half of twentieth century ethnography and the continued fascination in contemporary art with exploring ethnographic poetics.

Like Life thus provides a point of departure for examining historical and contemporary preconceptions of what constitutes a work of art, as well as emotional, physical, and aesthetic responses to the human body across time.»

This talk will take the Public Program of the newly reopened Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam as a point of departure to invite the graduate students to discuss several issues around public and discursive programming in the modern and contemporary art museum.

With the early Arts and Crafts movement and the Bauhaus vision of art integrated with everyday life as its historical point of departure, the Art and Craft department seeks to elaborate on the relationship between art and life, on matters of materiality (production, sustainability, globalisation), on design and architecture, and on artistic practice in social and political contexts in a contemporary perspectiart integrated with everyday life as its historical point of departure, the Art and Craft department seeks to elaborate on the relationship between art and life, on matters of materiality (production, sustainability, globalisation), on design and architecture, and on artistic practice in social and political contexts in a contemporary perspectiArt and Craft department seeks to elaborate on the relationship between art and life, on matters of materiality (production, sustainability, globalisation), on design and architecture, and on artistic practice in social and political contexts in a contemporary perspectiart and life, on matters of materiality (production, sustainability, globalisation), on design and architecture, and on artistic practice in social and political contexts in a contemporary perspective.

Drawing on the use of elliptical conversations in the 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais as a point of departure, the exhibition features works of art that utilize various cinematic conventions, such as editing, character development, narrative, mise - en - scène and montage, to reveal how our understanding of reality is often mediated by those very cinematic techniques.

as a departure point, Ikon's exhibition explores Flavin's straightforward rejection of illusionism whilst asserting the importance of the context of artistic experience over art for art's sake.

Marco Scotini, artistic director of the FM Centre for Contemporary Art, will curate «The Szechwan Tale: Theater and History,» which will use the German playwright Bertolt Brecht's play The Good Person of Szechwan (1940) as a departure point.

From May 17 to September 7, 2015, The Museum of Modern Art presents its first exhibition dedicated exclusively to the work of Yoko Ono, taking as its point of departure the artist's unofficial MoMA debut in late 1971.

This newly commissioned installation by American artist A.K. Burns (b. 1975) for the Harvard Art Museums takes the life and art of David Wojnarowicz as a point of departuArt Museums takes the life and art of David Wojnarowicz as a point of departuart of David Wojnarowicz as a point of departure.

In 2009, at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, he curated the exhibition «Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969 — 2009,» which will serve as a critical point of departure for the 11th Taipei Biennial.

In keeping with the theme of the radical art practice of the 1970s and 80s, Two steps to the Left... takes US artist Adrian Piper's groundbreaking interactive performance Funk Lessons (1982 - 85) as a point of departure, to explore dance and movement as a political act; asking what role does dance and music play in the creation of momentary communities, of dissent and assent.

The Evolving Collector: Collecting as a Beginning - at Art Basel Hong Kong 28 March 2018, 13:30 - 15:00 Through a consideration of collecting as a point of departure, this conversation, moderated by Delfina Foundation Associate Curator Rose Lejeune, hopes to chart what is becoming an expanded — and creative — practice by bringing together a group of individuals who have each taken a path that has somewhat diverged from the traditional notion of what a collector is and does.

Let's Connect begins with an open call inviting Philadelphia's artists to select a work of art in the Barnes collection to use as a departure point for creating their own work for submission.

During the Let's Connect open call, artists throughout Philadelphia were given free access to the Barnes and asked to select a work of art in the collection to use as a departure point for creating their own work for submission.

The Puppet Show takes as a historic point of departure one of the first episodes of avante - garde art history: Alfred Jarry's 1896 play Ubu Roi that was conceived as a puppet show.

In keeping with the theme of the radical art practice of the 1970s and 80s, Two steps to the Left... takes US artist Adrian Piper's groundbreaking interactive performanceFunk Lessons (1982 - 85) as a point of departure, to explore dance and movement as a political act; asking what role does dance and music play in the creation of momentary communities, of dissent and assent.

The exhibition Humans Come First takes as its point of departure the lesser known and researched tradition of performance art in Poland, starting in the 1960s and 70s.

Having trained in the conservation of Japanese decorative arts, Lorenz continues to employ traditional lacquering and gilding techniques as points of departure in her studio practice.

The space between the work and its reception, and the act of making public — as with the publication of a text, a public screening or the public exhibition of art — become central, revealing processes, points of departure that develop in diverse, indeterminate directions.

This talk considers the role played by the dissent, using the socio - political arts and cultural movements of the 70s and 80s as departure points.

Using the work of John James Audubon as a departure point, Dr Mark D Mitchell, Holcombe T. Green Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at Yale University Art Gallery, and author of Audubon to Warhol: The Art of American Still Life, will discuss the enduring vitality of the still life genre.

Works in the exhibition (including pieces by Christi Belcourt, Maria Hupfield, Cheryl L'Hirondelle, Isaac Murdoch, and Esther Neff) will serve as points of departure for Wednesday's conversation between three Indigenous women — Columbia University professor Audra Simpson, Columbia PhD candidate Crystal Migwans, and Tarah Hogue, a senior curatorial fellow in Indigenous art at the Vancouver Art Galleart at the Vancouver Art GalleArt Gallery.

The Quality of Presence is a group exhibition that employs Walter Benjamin's seminal text The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction as a point of departure, and extends Benjamin's argument of a diminishing «aura» of an artwork to the architectural space that encompasses it.

It was only a matter of time, however, before artists began to see this parallel, between the visual language of painting and that of commerce — between the visual language of painting and that of commerce — as the point of departure for a new kind of art.