Sentences with phrase «collective cultural identities»

We ask what artists can tell us about our collective cultural identities and the societies we live in today whilst considering the role artists can play in helping us remember, reflect and commemorate.

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These wars have variously been understood as Western aggression against pacific Islam, a necessary defense against Islamic attack, a conduit for cultural and commercial exchange, a form of early colonialism, an expression of collective religious identity or social anxiety, and a symptom and vehicle of economic expansion.

As a result of this cultural ambivalence, class has generally not been a good source of collective identity for political activity.

The worldviews held by these minorities are steeped in their religious and cultural life, which in turn reflect their collective identity.

Collective claims also imply provisions on cultural identity, on the recognition of cultural diversity and linguistic variety, or on the cultural autonomy of communities.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

The effects on survivors can be understood as a collective destruction of cultural identity, not an individualistic manifestation of psychological symptoms.

HANOI, APRIL 11 — Cultural archeology is a precious resource in forming collective memory and identity... The center opened its doors to a restoration laboratory where local technicians have already started experiments on how to best preserve and... -LSB-...]

Cultural or regional particularities do not come from outside, they are created by the people and are therefore in the first place dependent on the identity (individual and collective) of people, which's main state controlled part of creation takes place in school.

Each artist looks to cultural heritage to investigate how the relationship to traditions and collective experiences form cultural identity.

Students consider personal, collective, and cultural identity through an examination of paintings, sculptures, or photographs.

Her work examines tradition, collective identity, and the intersection of cultural practice and shifting economic landscapes.

Tangled Up by Kalup Linzy is an exercise in narrative, where the artist as storyteller weaves fragments of personal and collective memory to inform upon a sweeping, yet localized, account of identity - formation, selfhood and self - fashioning in the current cultural climate.

A public garden and cultural center located in the Bronx, Wave Hill's spring show acknowledges the continued need for activism and cultural production that builds bonds across lines of identity and difference, informing and empowering individual and collective memory.

Heidrun Holzfeind uses photography, documentary video and sculpture to explore individual and collective narratives that reveal the concept of identity as a social construct dependent on cultural and socio - economical circumstances.

There is an interest in defining a period of our collective history and cultural understanding through objects of symbolic meaning used for ritual and cultural identity.

The works unfold histories and cultural identities by opening dialogues with people whose testimonies elaborate on portraits of their individual and collective memories, desires, opinions and experiences amidst the construction of time.

Although different in form and ostensible subject matter, my works address the same overarching theme: they explore the role of historical circumstances, ideologies and cultural stereotypes in creation of personal and collective identities.

Working in a variety of media, Shalev - Gerz unfolds histories and cultural identities by opening dialogues with individuals, drawing upon their testimonies to elaborate upon their individual and collective memories, desires, opinions and experiences amidst the construction of time.

Öğüt often employs humour to address complex issues, weaving loose narratives that connect collective memories, local histories and cultural identities.

He questions the meaning of cultural and national definitions and he asks what constitutes our collective contemporary identity today while condemning the excess of destruction due to the humans excess violence against the Earth.

Megan is particularly interested in the way visual interpretations of trauma can create or recreate collective or cultural identity in the wake of catastrophe.

The two projects of the exhibition share an exploratory approach to the imagery and workings of individual and collective identity as it arises within social behaviors, sexual and legal ties, and linguistic and cultural contexts.

This era marked a shift in social and cultural life from a money - driven, individualistic ethos of the Reagan and Bush years, to a foregrounding of collective identities of communities that had been pushed to the margins, a period commonly cited as the rise of identity politics.

By bringing their collective work back to its geographic «source,» so to speak, the exhibition hopes to deal with themes of identity for those who have dual cultural allegiances, explore the melding and fusion of artistic influences, and foster the discussion of the work when brought into local context when comparing audiences in the East and West.

The project — conceived in collaboration with Kuwaiti architect and artist Aziz Al Qatami, founder of the architecture firm Atelier Aziz Al Qatami and member of the artist collective GCC, who was commissioned to create the Grand Opening Reception exhibition design — questions the role of «artistic positions in contemporary institutional marketing and the eventisation of cultural production in the form of local identity creation».

Lovell's poetic combinations «transgress cultural or racial boundaries» in their exploration of identity, heritage, memory, and our collective American past.

Tomorrow at 7PM at The Art Institute of Chicago, join Glenn Ligon, Studio Museum chief curator and director Thelma Golden, Lynette Yiadom Boakye, and Cauleen Smith for a discussion on their work and how it examines individual and collective histories along with questions of cultural, social, sexual, and racial identity.

It is here that contemporary art and other cultural practices can address the collective imagination of all of Palermo's residents, a diverse mixture of identities existing side by side in a syncretism rooted in the city.

We must instead continue to find ways in which Aboriginal people can participate fully in the economic, political, cultural and social life of Canada in a manner which preserves and enhances the collective identities of Aboriginal communities, and allows them to evolve and flourish in the future.

The cultural determinants of health originate from and promote a strength based perspective, acknowledging that stronger connections to culture and country build stronger individual and collective identities, a sense of self - esteem, resilience, and improved outcomes across the other determinants of health including education, economic stability and community safety.

(i) a profound relationship exists between indigenous peoples and their lands, territories and resources; (ii) this relationship has various social, cultural, spiritual, economic and political dimensions and responsibilities; (iii) the collective dimension of this relationship is significant; and (iv) the intergenerational aspect of such a relationship is also crucial to indigenous peoples» identity, survival and cultural viability.

The Declaration sets out the individual and collective rights of the world's 370 million indigenous peoples; calls for the maintenance and strengthening of their cultural identities; and emphasises indigenous peoples» right to pursue development in keeping with their own needs and aspirations.