Sentences with phrase «black conceptual practices»

The panel also considers the impact of past exhibitions that examined black conceptual practices and questioned what constitutes a «black aesthetic.»

Not exact matches

Seeking to define African American art practice as more than theater or folk art, Cassel Oliver has opted to locate recent art by black artists within a conceptual framework.

While the works created by these artists have previously been contextualized in terms of associations and movements ranging from Fluxus to Conceptual Art to the blanketed arena of contemporary art practice, in Radical Presence they will be presented along a trajectory providing general audiences and scholars alike, a critical understanding of the significance and persistence of black performance as a stand - alone practice.

For an artist who borrows so much from contemporary black culture epitomized by the milieu on 125th street, Simmons's current work in this context makes a strong case for the transformative (and potentially stultifying) effects of conceptual artistic practices.

Providing a critical history beginning with Fluxus and Conceptual art in the early 1960s through present - day practices, Radical Presence chronicles the emergence and development of black performance art over three generations, presenting a rich and complex look at this important facet of contemporary art.

E. Jane's practice represents the voice of an individual who has a clear image of their person, artist, sound designer (sometimes called DJ), conceptual artist, female, black woman and queer, which is presents throughout her oeuvre.

It is the first time that there will be an intergenerational and international dialogue between two important black female conceptual artists with performance - based practices.

Lorraine O'Grady Crossing disciplines including performance, criticism, photography and video, Lorraine O'Grady's meditations on Black identity and women's representation have positioned her as a fore - bearer of conceptual and activist practice.

Conceptual artist Paul Stephen Benjamin's practice is defined by the color black.

It's not a practice dissimilar to that of his Black Dada Reader (Koenig Books, 2017), a 350 - page volume that brings together historical and contemporary writers in the same conceptual space, including Hugo Ball, W.E.B. Du Bois, Stokely Carmichael, Sun Ra, and Adrian Piper, as well as Ad Reinhardt, Joan Jonas, William Pope.L, and Thomas Hirschhorn.

Through «listening as a conceptual practice,» Jones renders visible these abstract black artists left out of the aesthetic sphere.

Presenting a rich and complex look at this important facet of contemporary art, the exhibition chronicles the emergence and development of black performance art across three generations, beginning with Fluxus and conceptual art in the early 1960s through present - day practices.

Providing a critical history beginning with Fluxus and Conceptual art in the early 1960s through present - day practices, Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art chronicles the emergence and development of black performance art over three generations, presenting a rich and complex look at this important facet of contemporaryBlack Performance in Contemporary Art chronicles the emergence and development of black performance art over three generations, presenting a rich and complex look at this important facet of contemporaryblack performance art over three generations, presenting a rich and complex look at this important facet of contemporary art.