Sentences with phrase «at sociopolitical»

D.H.: My approach is to look carefully at sociopolitical and economic concerns and the ways in which they're lost.

The trend is most visible during social media outrage at sociopolitical events.

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But these male and female bodies with which we are concerned are living at this historical moment and in the present sociopolitical context.

In my SBL presidential address and in my convocation address when beginning my tenure at Harvard Divinity School, I argued that theological disciplines and institutions must explicitly reflect on their rhetorical, public, sociopolitical functions.

But while I value their sociopolitical analyses and share their anger at the complex forces that make sane mothering almost impossible these days, I find little in their books to give me strength and hope for the journey — the strength and hope that are exactly what mothers need to resist the powers the authors describe.

So, if the mass murder at the Sikh temple is not referred to as an act of «terrorism» by virtually every member of our American media and sociopolitical elite, the only message that this will send to millions of people of color across America is that the term «terrorism» has been co-opted and shall apply only when brown bearded men are the shooters, not when they are the tragic victims.

The main difference between Fascism and Nazism is rooted in the socioeconomic and sociopolitical climate of their country of origin, at the time they were developed, Italy and Germany respectively, which is deeply imprinted in both of them.

Given that the title character is a Mexican immigrant and that the guest of honor at the small soiree to which she's become a last - minute addition is Doug Strutt (John Lithgow), a billionaire real - estate and resort mogul with Trump - ian characteristics, one might think that this has all the makings of the kind of broad, pained farce where every character is a mouthpiece for over-determined conflicts of sociopolitical opinion.

At one point, if press reports are to be believed, «World War Z» was supposed to have a sociopolitical subtext.

What could be a relentlessly grim procedural (again, «The Killing») is instead a compelling drama that works (so far, at least) on a number of levels: as a mystery, as an idiosyncratic buddy story, and as a textured sociopolitical treatise.

Comedy Central's sketch show Key & Peele was groundbreaking for a number of reasons — the impeccable comic timing of Keegan - Michael Key and Jordan Peele, director Peter Atencio's pitch - perfect, feature - quality direction, and its breathless combination of committed lowbrow humor and incisive sociopolitical digs at race, gender, relationships and politics.

At the other, comparably hilarious end of the sociopolitical spectrum is Paul's alternative school, where he teaches his kids to build irrigation systems from hewn logs and has Portia help him deliver a breached calf.

Showing at Panic Fest this weekend in Kansas City, «The Cured» starring Ellen Page, is a zombie movie as sociopolitical allegory.

Paul Greengrass (United 93, Green Zone) and screenwriter Billy Ray adapt Phillips» book «A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, NAVY SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea» and opt for a straight and conventional retelling of these events, rather than expanding and deepening any broader philosophical and sociopolitical goals.

This franchise often plays around with explosive sociopolitical ideas only to put the pin back in the grenade at the end, lest one of the world's most profitable properties be shaken beyond repair.

The lack of sociopolitical context and even - handed perspective minimizes the contemporary relevance of this straightforward thriller chronicling an armed standoff involving hostages at the Iranian embassy in London.

A loss - and - revenge potboiler with Relevant Sociopolitical Pretensions, elevated beyond all reason by Diane Kruger's wounded beast of a great performance, which won her best actress honors at Cannes.

XENIA is a heartfelt road movie that traverses through Greece at a time of sociopolitical crisis, with Koutras exemplifying this instability through the experiences of two brothers.

Pynchon's books happen at moments of profound cultural and sociopolitical change, only half - understood by the players.

Christmas day becomes a hellish homecoming in Craig Anderson's RED CHRISTMAS (International Premiere), an unusual Australian horror / comedy gorefest starring beloved genre vet Dee Wallace (HILLS HAVE EYES, THE HOWLING, E.T.) that's at once an over-the-top rollercoaster of a slasher film and a confrontational sociopolitical hand grenade.

But this line, though it reveals its characters, who were once at odds with one another, as nuanced individuals able to find a singular kind of intimacy, is indicative of the aforementioned sociopolitical and cultural limbo that the whole of the Hall exists in.

Yet, while engineering / CS students at UC Berkeley (and in the US more generally) are not known to be particularly engaged in sociopolitical issues, engineering students at the University of Tehran have historically been at the forefront of freedom struggles in Iran.

Culturally competent educators intentionally take into account the sociopolitical realities that affect students and their families at each developmental stage of their lives.

I like to think that I have had at least a little to do with this current stance, while not ideal but reasonable given the current sociopolitical circumstances of my state.

With his background, Daniel is particularly skilled at understanding sociopolitical risks that affect the financial markets.

Well, when biologists, educational specialists, or sociopolitical researchers at Hildesheim University in Germany are teaching, this campus cat will roam the hallways and join the human students.

Part portraiture, part collage constructed of disinherited consumer «waste» collected in nearly fifty countries, part sociopolitical archive, but wholly humanist, Currier's work has been featured in numerous solo shows, including a major solo exhibition at the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Embassy in Washington, DC.

In My American Dream, his first solo museum exhibition, artist Keith Mayerson offers a distinctive view of the American Dream at a critical moment in our sociopolitical landscape.

Part portraiture, part collage constructed of disinherited consumer «waste» collected in nearly fifty countries, part sociopolitical archive, but wholly humanist, Currier's work has been featured in numerous solo shows, including a major solo exhibition at the Bolivarian...

's photo series «Artist at Work» (1978 — 2017)-- in which the Croatian artist is seen lolling in bed, asleep or dreamy — and took the images as emblematic of an exhibition hopelessly unalert to its sociopolitical context.

To many in the artistic community, the name «Dana Schutz» is now synonymous with the images of black protesters blocking her characteristically - abstracted, yet uncharacteristically sociopolitical painting of Emmett Till this past year at the Whitney Biennial.

With Inherent Structure, Michael Goodson, Senior Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University, brings together 16 contemporary artists whose works reflect not just formal conventions exclusive to painting, but also the artists» particular material, psychological, and sociopolitical concerns.

[2] Perhaps most important for beginning to understand the diverse sociopolitical contexts prevalent in Poland at the time is: Piotr Piotrowski, In the Shadow of Yalta: Art and the Avant - Garde in Eastern Europe, 1945 — 1989, trans.

Meg Shiffler presented several past and future projects that she organized at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery that highlighted local communities or sociopolitical circumstances such as the yearlong engagement (exhibitions and public programs) around the fact that San Francisco is a «Sanctuary City» and is defiantly refusing to comply with the Trump administration's request for personal documents related to its immigrant populations.

In his second solo exhibition titled Py • r • o · glyph • s at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, artist Greg Haberny breaks away from his sociopolitical charged art to experiment with processes and assertions that are personal and introspective.

It will look at how we engage with our current sociopolitical climate and will explore / debate the tools and strategies needed to «radically challenge and provoke change.»

Like Young, Bradford represented his nation at last year's Venice Biennale and, in what was something of a monumental year for the American, unveiled Pickett's Charge, a suitably monumental suite of paintings (collectively measuring more than 100 linear metres) that reinterpreted one of the defining moments of the American Civil War (the subject of an 1883 cyclorama by French painter Paul Philippoteaux, itself reinterpreted in Bradford's work) in a work of cut, torn and scraped layers that reflects on the complexities of history, its interpretation and its impact upon the present sociopolitical climate in the US.

Sarah Schacht looks at how Luis Cruz Azaceta addresses sociopolitical issues through his abstract paintings.

Wilson, who was awarded the prestigious MacArthur grant in 1999 and represented the United States at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003, has never stopped finding new meaning in the color «black,» as both a sociopolitical concept and an esthetic entity.

As a teacher at Black Mountain College and a pioneer of Abstraction, Albers discussed these notions with his students, who happened to also be writers thinking about how to redefine language with a sociopolitical purpose, to push the boundaries of the classical, and to move into postwar experimentation.

Practitioners will talk about what they're most interested in at the moment, including the artists and the sociopolitical contexts that are shaping practices now.

At the same time, however, he charges his works with sociopolitical meaning.

The 42 - year - old Ali, whose work is often inspired by current events and often has a sociopolitical bent, will deliver the College of Fine Arts Contemporary Perspectives Lecture tonight at 6 p.m.

Combining luridly hand - drawn animations, paintings, mechanical sculptures and more, 2009 Guggenheim Video Art Fellow Federico Solmi continues to explore his controversial interests in sociopolitical affairs — last year his native Italy charged him with obscenity, blasphemy and offense to religion — in his second solo exhibition «From Uterus to Grave With No Happy Ending,» which opens tomorrow at NYC's LMAK gallery.

The exhibition explores ideas such as submission and revolt, both on a personal level — the dynamic of sexual relationships, for instance — and on a social level, where sociopolitical, economic and ideological power is at play.

Notable galleries for 2014 include: Kevin Kavanagh (Dublin), presenting a storytelling series by Sonia Shiel, current ISCP NY artist - in - residence and recipient of Ireland's 2014 Arts Council Project Award; Laura Bulian Gallery (Milan), highlighting career Conceptualist Vyacheslav Akhunov, whose cultural investigations were featured in dOCUMENTA (13) and the 2013 Venice Biennale's Central Asian Pavilion; contemporary Bahamanian art hub Popopstudios (Nassau), spotlighting «everyday» assemblages and mixed - media works by founder John Cox; Frederieke Taylor Gallery (New York), revealing environmental concerns of downtown stalwart Christy Rupp, whose seminal public art projects factored into the 2012 exhibition Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969 - 1989 at the New Museum; Galerie Heike Strelow (Frankfurt am Main), combining sociopolitical commentary and black humor via Florian Heinke, who curated System of Diplomatic Chaos at Kunstverein Wiesbaden last year; and CONNERSMITH.

The presentation of works from the collection at the MMK 2 will feature a spectrum of contemporary modes of expression ranging from sociopolitical photojournalism to forms of subjective, conceptual or staged photography.

Some galleries at the Frieze New York art fair (May 5 - 7) will attempt to tread a fine line between politics and commerce by tackling sociopolitical issues head - on.

If the artists of the 1960s — in addition to those already mentioned, the exhibition's standouts include Lee Lozano, Lee Bontecou, Paul Thek, Richard Lindner, William Eggleston, Roslyn Drexler, Nancy Grossman, Joel Meyerwitz, Bill Owens, Christina Ramberg, Christo, Billy Al Bengston, May Stevens and Jasper Johns — were raging against the status quo (both sociopolitical and aesthetic), they also seem to be quaking at the realization of their own impotence.

With the sociopolitical and environmental issues at the forefront of global thought, Walton's art feels urgently relevant.