Sentences with phrase «between utopia»

With the dazzlingly cataclysmic sunsets and portentous musical soundtrack nearby bleeding into her performance, this improbable political commentator takes on a phantasmagoric presence: a talking head belonging to a world on a knife edge between utopia and dystopia.

Her exhibition «Moment» reveals a darker facet of Lina Selander's oeuvre but is nevertheless part of her ongoing analyses of the oscillation between utopia and collapse.

«There is this constant tension between utopia and dystopia that happens in the world,» the artist says, «and my intention is to talk about this world, but from a place of resistance.»

The crystallised model becomes the physical yet ghostly rendering of a missing building, highlighting the deterioration and decay of the city due to government neglect, and thereby reveals the fragile line between utopia and reality.

Entitled Cellular World, the exhibition will bring together new commissions and existing work by artists examining the interface between humans and technology, reacting on how our current situation sits on a precipice between utopia and dystopia.

At the same time, we are at a historical moment where the future frequently appears as a precipice between utopia and dystopia.

For most of his career, Starr viewed the California experiment benevolently, as a phenomenon balanced between utopia and reason.

► Acknowledging the distance between utopias and social realities, Not Here, Not Anywhere presents twenty works by the visual artist Domènec that reflect upon the political strategies of historical memory and social empowerment.

Domènec's work is articulated around issues such as the distance between utopias and social reality; speculation about the public dimension of architecture and the ideological precepts that determine it; socio - historical mechanisms and how they are interfered with; and about what conditions memory and oblivion.

He goes on to state that «between utopias and these quite other sites, these heterotopias, there might be a sort of mixed, joint experience, which would be the mirror.»

Not exact matches

Nevertheless, in spite of the great advances made by workers and in spite of having seen that socialism can not offer them a worker's utopia or even an alternative to working for someone else, we must take note that there are still a couple of very troubling aspects to the division between owners and workers.

Refusing to accept the ethical postulate conjoining self - realization and the social good which was at the heart of Dewey's ethics throughout his career, Rorty has argued for a «liberal utopia» in which there prevails a rigid division between a rich, autonomous private sphere that will enable elite «ironists» like himself to create freely the self they wish — even if that bares a cruel, antidemocratic self — and a lean, egalitiarian, «democratic» public life confined to the task of preventing cruelty (including that of elite ironists).

History is neither an inevitable progression to utopia nor a fatalistic spiral into destruction, but a path filled with conflict between good and evil.

However, those who imagine a utopia of a world led by women are influenced by another, supposedly progressive, form of differentialism: the alleged natural differences between the sexes can be used to improve not just female condition but also strive towards a more just society.

The additionally fraught relationships between the protagonists seem to correlate with the fragmentation of the global metropolis: speedy shots of Barcelona now render the city all the more hostile and discomforting, and the utopia has generally become a dystopia.17

Both halves feature production designer Mark Friedberg's meticulous re-creations of bustling cityscapes — from the beautifully grimy multicultural wonderland of Ben's New York to an equally textured evocation of Rose's monochrome, pre-Depression urban utopia — and Haynes and editor Affonso Gonçalves shift between them with abrupt cuts and sound bridges that produce a textured, sensory experience of the city.

Typically, most our groups come between June and September, and our surf camp is a welcoming utopia for like - minded bohemian surfers and Yoga enthusiasts.

Columbia was founded to be an Expressionist paradise, a utopia of patriotism, but a conflict arose between the government of Columbia and a group called Vox Populi.

Drawing on Fritz Lang's film Metropolis (1927), Bercea's images oscillate between dystopia and utopia.

Meanwhile, the sharp contrast between the formal language of the works and their content creates a dynamic that is a perfect metaphor for the artist's quest for utopia within the spiritual ruins of contemporary consumer society.

Join us for a conversation between artist Beatriz Santiago Muñoz and psychoanalyst Patricia Gherovici on feminist utopias, the possibility of developing new languages to describe ourselves, and psychoanalysis's role in propelling and undermining strategies of resistance.

Raised between Paris and San Francisco, the 31 - year - old Frenchman now lives in Berlin but spends more than half the year traveling, searching for inspiration and adventure in the form of destruction and decay — the remnants of failed utopias.

While blurring the traditional distinction between fiction and reality — and revealing the experience of fiction to be as palpable as anything in daily life — Huyghe's playful work often addresses complex social topics, such as the yearning for utopia, the lure of spectacle in mass media, and the impact of Modernism on contemporary values and belief systems.

Through video, new media and audio, the artists explore the tension between access and denial, utopia and catastrophe, enlightenment and failure.

Drawn to modernism's ideals, contradictions, and historical failures, Gaillard has risen on his ability to seek out and create tensions between stability and precarity, utopia and ruin, beauty and entropy, memory and amnesia.

Through a series of concrete and abstract geographies and their latent meanings, in A Staggering Territory Asbjørn Skou offers a critical perspective on contemporary urban planning and its consequences which are presented as a precarious terrain balancing between disaster and utopia.

Join us for a conversation between artist Beatriz Santiago Muñoz and psychoanalyst Patricia Gherovici on feminist utopias, the possibility of developing new languages to describe ourselves, and psychoanalysis's...

Oiticica's works form a bridge between painting and sculpture; furthermore, they connect the Modernist utopia of the 1950s with the more fractured period of social and political tensions of the 1960s and»70s.

Among those who worked in geometric abstraction at this time, a certain balance and visual tension was perpetuated between spiritual (mystic) expression and social utopia as evidenced by the containment of form within these artists» works.

Saucy and ironic, Sam Durant's works address utopias and their failures, crossing events from the recent American past to create relationships between the art historical, pop cultural, and political phenomena that have come to define popular culture over the past 35 years.

Through my images I was inspired to create striking juxtapositions between the ruins of modern civilization and a futuristic ecological utopia.

Entitled Studio Imaginaire, the exhibition presents new painting, relief and sculpture by the artist that invite exploration of the studio as a space between workshop and utopia.

Whose Utopia suggests a perpetual disparity between the confinement of an industrial lifestyle and the individual utopia.

Painting in Italy 1910s - 1950s: Futurism, Abstraction, Concrete Art relays a complex historical account of the fraught relationship between art and politics in Italy during the interwar and postwar period, attesting to the bumps, curves, utopias and traumas experienced by an eclectic group of artists working to assert a new pictorial language by challenging the dominant tenets of their culture.

Topics range from history and criticism, to the art market and utopia; «the talks will draw on the distinctions and affinities between the socially engaged artistic, curatorial, writing and administrative practices of the two geographic regions.»

While utopias and powerful rhetoric can express and reveal themselves through architecture, it is only in everyday life and the lived experience that boundaries and spaces between the self and the other, between the individual and the community, can be defined and thus become tangible.

From Lucy with love invites visitors to a limbo between modern utopia and a surrealist dream in the form of a monumental sculpture.

He curated an exhibition last year at Cal State L.A.'s Luckman Gallery that drew a link between the region's wide - open vistas and themes of illusion, utopia and apocalypse.

(Limerick, Ireland) The 36th edition of EVA International, Ireland's Biennial of Contemporary Art, focuses on the struggle between the tides that pull the present towards romanticisations, utopias, ideologies, and nostalgias; and the tides that attempt to push it beyond those limitations and towards an unknown, a desire for something that remains too complex to determine today — this edition's theme is Agitationism, curated by Bassam El Baroni.

While utopias and powerful rhetoric can express and reveal themselves through architecture, it is only in everyday life and the lived experience that boundaries and spaces between the self and the other, between the individual and the community, can be de ned and thus become tangible.

This vision of Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation, the architect's communal utopia, and one of the most important modernist buildings of all time, recalls the work of Cezanne, Mondrian and Richter, simultaneously blurring the distinction between dream and memory.

In the exhibition space, however, she constructs fictitious micro-perspectives: she creates imaginary images, between dystopia and utopia, which could be presented in extreme enlargement on a screen only as coarse pixels.

The body of work on display is extremely diverse and moves back and forth between abstraction and figuration, utopia and kitsch, technological fascination and amorphous materials, an accurate reflection of the enormity of Fontana's life work.

The exhibition, presented in collaboration with the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, highlights the diversity of his work, between abstraction and figuration, metaphysical quest and incarnation, utopia and kitsch, technological fascination and amorphous materials.

between progress / conservation and utopias / realities of city developments.

Oh yes, because «by definition», absolute global might - makes - right lawlessness and anarchy between nations is an axiomatic utopia.

I agree that the way forward likely lies somewhere between dystopia and utopia.