Sentences with phrase «as performative act»

Entitled Echoes & Reverberations, this exhibition explores sound as a medium of performing history and the nature of listening as a performative act through the work of seven artists, including four new commissions.

Specifically, Echoes & Reverberations explores sound as a medium for performing history and listening as a performative act.

In Opie's work, gender is presented as a performative act; her sitters often blur the boundary between male and female by assuming signifiers, from traditionally gendered clothing to facial hair.

In Opie's work, gender is presented as a performative act; her sitters often blur the boundary between male and female by assuming

Moreover, the brushstroke and the choreography of shapes attest to what can be described as a performative act, one that offers a navigable experience for the viewer pointing to the legacy of abstract expressionism.

The notion of painting as process and activity, or even as performative act, is explored in moving images.

Olek uses crocheting as a performative act.

In contrast to Rosenberg's conception of painting as a performative act, Greenberg's theory, influenced by Clive Bell and T. S. Eliot, was essentially a formal one — in fact, it eventually evolved into what would be called «formalism.»

Not exact matches

One way of thinking about critical pedagogy in these terms is to think of it as both a way of understanding education as well as a way of highlighting the performative nature of agency as an act of participating in shaping the world in which we live.

Stepping aside from performance as a medium and the performative act of production, best characterised by Mota's studio - based compositions, her recent exhibition at the gallery, marks a major shift in the practice of the artist, materialising a new form of sculptural animism and a new agency, while shifting the instrumentalization of the performative into a series of coincidental and strictly conceptual acts.

The works on view remind us that art captures and contains as much it reveals — be it the passage of time or the performative act of creation itself.

The material took on the shape of the space around it, serving as a document of the performative act of the work being made.

As a kind of performative act — a «maintenance action,» as he called it — he not only cleaned the house but also removed window trim and baseboards, sanded the floors, and preserved cracks and discolorations in the walls with polyurethane, to expose the house's skeleton and excavate its historAs a kind of performative act — a «maintenance action,» as he called it — he not only cleaned the house but also removed window trim and baseboards, sanded the floors, and preserved cracks and discolorations in the walls with polyurethane, to expose the house's skeleton and excavate its historas he called it — he not only cleaned the house but also removed window trim and baseboards, sanded the floors, and preserved cracks and discolorations in the walls with polyurethane, to expose the house's skeleton and excavate its history.

An accomplished musician, Biggers often incorporates performative elements into his sculptures and installations, resulting in multilayered works that act as anecdotal vignettes, full of wit and clear formal intent.

Often collaborating with other artists, or enlisting large groups to create «reality directed» performances and video works, Althamer has traveled around the world, staging major performative events that range from obviously constructed spectacles to more subtle interventions like Motion Pictures, in which he hired actors to perform everyday acts, such as greeting a friend, in a public square.

Infusing a poetic sensuality into Minimalism's legacy, Gabriel Orozco's works vary from sculptural triumphs to more ephemeral, performative acts, such as rolling a huge ball of plasticine, of exactly his own body weight, through the streets in order to «get an impression» of the world around him.

They will present a one - evening series of performative acts as well as a group show with works by James Hoff, Franziska Lantz, Deborah Ligorio, Mara Ploscaru, Nicolò Russian and Priscilla Tea, which will open the same night.

Initially conceived for the 13th Baltic Triennial - Prelude, CAC, Vilnius in September 2017, the performative installation investigates the act of reading as an intimate experience, holding the potentiality to become public performance through the «outlouding» of words.

«In linguistics, a speech act is defined as an expression that serves a performative function — it both describes and shapes reality.

Since 2000 she has written extensively on the documentation of performance art (After the Act: The (Re) presentation of Performance Art, 2006) and performative curatorial practices and has curated numerous exhibitions and performance series in Europe as well as North America, including the series After the Act, Again and Against and Push and Pull (2005 - 2011) at the Museum of Modern art (MUMOK) in Vienna and TATE Modern in London.

Despite their abstraction, West's films are highly referential, even documentary in nature, acting as a record of the specific time, place, location, participants and performative actions involved.

«OTMA's Body,» on view until February 25th at Gavin Brown's Grand Street location in New York's lower east side, acts as a retrospective of sorts, showcasing garments previously worn during performative fashion shows, alongside patchwork furniture and oversized plush toys.

These often generative projects grow with time and require continuous input, resulting in performative acts as part of the work.As a Polish artist whose formative years were divided between communist Poland, refugee camps in Denmark, and post-unification Germany, the intersections of economic and political structures are integral to Wisniowski's practice.

By MATTHEW NASH Andrew Mowbray is a sculptor in the tradition of Joseph Beuys, whose objects exist to facilitate a performative act, and remain as tangible evidence of that experience.

Adelita Husni - Bey's «Frangente / Breaker» at Museo del Novecento is a performance in three acts that combines a site - specific project with a performative reinterpretation of a sound work from 2013 and a public action, brought together as a single reflection on authorship, on barriers, borders, and nationalism, and on the perception of otherness.

Drawers act metaphorically perhaps, but also offer a performative aspect to the paintings, the placement of the drawer itself as well as the hiding and revealing of the body, and like Himid's earlier «paintings on wood», these works offer the possibility of being looked at in different ways by placing the draw this way or that.

Through the act of permission, Grokhovsky shared the maker's privilege of accessing the work physically, as well as the experience of pleasure in making it, juxtaposing the visual pleasure of viewing versus physical experience of performative actions.

Nicholas Hlobo would translate the isiXhosa phrase Zawelela ngale as «They have crossed to the other side» and by this he describes the performative act of transgressing, crossing a border, or things that have transcended onto another state.

Each orb was formed from a single exhalation of the glass - blower, making each a fragile representation of the act of breathing, drawing a strong relationship to the body and via this, generating a performative self - awareness in relation to the work physically in the visitor as they tread delicately through the gallery.

«Both artists utilize the act of self - portraiture as an exercise of agency through performative self - creation.

As if acting as the underbelly to the rapacious actuality in EAPR # 34, the vignette captured in EAPR # 35 exposes the ensuing trauma that occurs in the wings as we strive to fulfill our socially performative roles — most of which remain immutably out of reacAs if acting as the underbelly to the rapacious actuality in EAPR # 34, the vignette captured in EAPR # 35 exposes the ensuing trauma that occurs in the wings as we strive to fulfill our socially performative roles — most of which remain immutably out of reacas the underbelly to the rapacious actuality in EAPR # 34, the vignette captured in EAPR # 35 exposes the ensuing trauma that occurs in the wings as we strive to fulfill our socially performative roles — most of which remain immutably out of reacas we strive to fulfill our socially performative roles — most of which remain immutably out of reach.

It extended the work into the realm of a performative act, in which the process of making it is as important as the finished piece.Understanding that the advent of the written word arrived as the capacity of human memory deteriorated situates the portraits as a kind of documentation that might extend the reach of collective memory and historical consciousness.

We first saw Khan's work at NADA Miami in 2017, where she exhibited her handmade «psychedelic prayer rugs,» in which the repetitive patternmaking acted as a performative exploration of emigration and displacement.