Sentences with phrase «by cultural theorist»

One piece is by text - based artist Barbara Kruger, who shows a video inspired by the cultural theorist Homi Bhabha, while Kara Walker shows a video inspired by the civil war and the life of a Virginia slave named Sally Hemings, believed to be the mother of six children with Thomas Jefferson.

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The academic theorists of the cultural left - those who have been distracted by «mostly apocalyptic French and German philosophy» at the expense of political economy — must recognize that they now need as allies «what remains of the pre-sixties reformist left.»

They point to other destructive aspects of television that have been stressed by television researchers and theorists; the privatization of experience at the expense of family and social interaction and rela - tionships; (33) the promotion of fear as the appropriate attitude to life: (34) television's cultural levelling effects which blur local, regional, and national differences and impose a distorted and primarily free - enterprise, competitive and capitalistic picture of events and their significance; (35) television's suppression of social dialogue; (36) its distorted and exploitative presentation of certain social groups: (37) the increasing alienation felt by most viewers in relation to this central means of social communication; (38) and its negative effects on the development of the full range of human potential.

Gender theorists believe, as Simone de Beauvoir said, that «one is not born a woman, one becomes a woman» by assuming certain «gender characteristics» that are, for the most part, cultural constructions that these theorists denounce.

Gender theorists believe, along with Simone de Beauvoir, that «one is not born a woman, one becomes a woman» by assuming certain «gender characteristics» that are, for the most part, cultural constructions that these theorists denounce.

However, the view that government is an outgrowth of society (including cultural, religious, and moral views) is echoed by Edmund Burke (the theorist behind conservatism).

The name is taken from the book «Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play - Element in Culture,» by the Dutch historian and cultural theorist Johan Huizinga, who claimed that the act of playing (ludus) is what makes human beings human — and that it predates culture.

It features essays by the noted Harvard cultural theorist Homi Bhabha and the exhibition curator and noted writer on Modern and contemporary art, Sean Kissane.

With speakers Elvira Dyangani Ose (Lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths and Senior Curator at Creative Time) and Sepake Angiama (Head of Education at documenta 14) and Melanie Keen (Director of Iniva), moderated by George Shire (cultural theorist and historian of ideas).

Panel discussion with Julieta Aranda (artist, Berlin / New York), Boris Buden (cultural theorist, author, Berlin), Fulya Erdemci (curator, author, Istanbul), Simon Sheikh (Programme Director Goldsmiths, University of London, Berlin / London), moderated by Ingo Arend (author, critic, Berlin).

In 1984, literary theorist Fredric Jameson wrote his essay Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, arguing that art had been colonised by commerce.

Exhibitions during the anniversary celebration include Opener 29: Arturo Herrera (through August 23, 2015), featuring new works from the Berlin - based artist's recent body of abstract paintings for which he manipulated small books found at flea markets; Machine Project — The Platinum Collection (Live by Special Request), (September 19, 2015 — January 3, 2016), which will feature a series of interventions, performances, and happenings created for the Tang by Skidmore alumnus Mark Allen in collaboration with his Los Angeles - based collective Machine Project; Affinity Atlas (September 5, 2015 — January 3, 2016), inspired by the work of pioneering cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg, charts an exploratory path built upon idiosyncratic treasures and contemporary art culled from the Tang's and Skidmore's collections; and Alma Thomas: A Retrospective (February 6 — June 5, 2016), which will explore the work of this influential but sometimes overlooked artist in the first museum survey of her work since 2001.

Recent works include the three - screen installation The Unfinished Conversation (2012), a moving portrait of the cultural theorist Stuart Hall's life and work; Peripeteia (2012), an imagined drama visualising the lives of individuals included in two 16th century portraits by Albrecht Dürer and Mnemosyne (2010) which exposes the experience of migrants in the UK, questioning the notion of Britain as a promised land by revealing the realities of economic hardship and casual racism.

In the Focus, Slovenian cultural theorist and philosopher Renata Salecl takes an in - depth look at Holzer's Lustmord series, which was precipitated by the events in the former Yugoslavia and boldly addresses the atrocities committed in war.

The exhibition will also include The Unfinished Conversation (2012), Akomfrah's complex reflection on the life and ideas of cultural theorist Stuart Hall; Expeditions — Signs of Empire (1983), the first work produced by Black Audio Film Collective; and a new version of Akomfrah's Transfigured Night (2013/2018), a two - channel work looking at the relationship between the US and post-colonial African history.

The exhibition has been curated by Shumon Basar (Cultural Projects director, Architectural Association) and Stephan Trüby (Stuttgart based architect / theorist).

Inspired partly by the French critical theorist Roland Barthes, who viewed mass cultural images as signs freighted with latent meaning to be deciphered, she first gained attention for a series of artworks starkly displaying newspaper snippets (headlines, photographs), forcing viewers to examine the way they responded to media's authoritative voice.

Volume I includes essays by writer and cultural theorist Stuart Hall and art critic Adrian Searle, a conversation between the artist and curator Thelma Golden and words by Beth Coleman.

Over the course of the symposium, the invited participants, ranging from artists to literary scholars, cultural theorists, and art historians, will bring into sharp focus the ways in which the «Black Atlantic» continues to inform the production of art today by a new generation of artists, in connection with Frank Bowling: Mappa Mundi.

According to Victoria Miro, Crosby's London gallery, the Nigerian - born artist is inspired by the post-colonial musings of theorist Homi K. Bhabha, who wrote of `'» the third space» a point of overlap, conflation and mixing of cultural influences specific to diaspora communities.»

Also included is a major new text by award - winning poet, novelist, humorist and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum, as well as texts on the artist by Rose Art Museum director Christopher Bedford, and author and theorist Julia Bryan - Wilson.

Pages created by the participating artists are accompanied by essays by Chantal Mouffe, Simon Critchley and other leading curators and cultural theorists.

In his landmark 1967 book, the Situationist philosopher and cultural theorist Guy Debord wrote that «the spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.»

Conceived of by artists Pavla Sceranková and Dušan Zahoranský, Apparatus for a Utopian Image borrows from cultural theorist Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas, an unfinished visual atlas that maps out how images of great symbolic, intellectual, and emotional power emerge and reappear over time.

Their presence is balanced by seasoned cultural purveyors, including Hungarian - Syrian artist Róza El - Hassan (INDA Gallery, Budapest), who represented Hungary in the 1997 Venice Biennale and enjoyed a major retrospective In - Between at Kunstmuseum Basel in 2012, in addition to her ongoing project Syrian Voices with activist Shadi Al Shhadeh; veteran color theorist Siri Berg (Hionas Gallery, New York), whose 1986 seminal show Black & White 1976 - 1981 at the American Swedish Historical Museum (Philadelphia) was recently restaged at the gallery.

The title of this exhibition is inspired by John Akomfrah's three - channel video installation The Unfinished Conversation (2012), which is included here and chronicles the life and work of the Jamaican - born British cultural theorist Stuart Hall (1932 — 2014).

Iniva operates as an arts publishing house, often working in collaboration with larger publishers and producing books by writers such as the cultural theorist Kobena Mercer, [11] curator and educator Sarat Maharaj, artist Sonia Boyce [12] the art historian Guy Brett, and the art critic Jean Fisher.

The project received a mandate from November 2004 until December 2008 from the Swiss Cultural Programme in South East Europe and Ukraine to undertake a critical examination and evaluation of the questions raised by contemporary artists, curators, architects and theorists in Macedonia, the Balkan region and beyond, in relation to contemporary society and the practice of art.

The title is inspired by Goldsmiths digital media theorist Luciana Parisi's rethinking of notions of sex and gender on biological and cultural terms and posits a «post-sex adequate to a radically expanded conception of what it is to be human».

The Otolith Group: Thoughtform Artforum International; January 1, 2011; Demos, T J; 303 words... Martínez Founded in London in 2002 by artists and cultural theorists Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar, the Otolith Group (a 2010 Turner Prize nominee) examines the nature of human memory and perception through a mesmerizing array of films, texts...

Other remarkable works include the installation The Unfinished Conversation (2012), a portrait of the cultural theorist Stuart Hall; Peripeteia (2012), a fictional drama on the lives of individuals in two 16th century paintings by Albrecht Dürer, and Mnemosyne (2010), which tells the story of migrants in the UK, questioning the idea of Britain as a promised land, where financial worry and casual racism can instead be real threats.

It offers the breadth of outlook required by sociologists, social psychologists, social and cultural theorists and others who are addressing healthcare issues that cross disciplinary boundaries.