Sentences with phrase «contemporary cultural critique»

Through her lyrical videos, Behbahani stages a contemporary cultural critique by layering and juxtaposing allusions to past and present sociopolitical circumstances with a language that she draws from her experience as a painter.

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In his text - based pieces, Diaz uses incisive wit to critique cultural stereotypes, socio - political economies, and the world of contemporary art.

Ever - sensuous, Mutu's drawings are powerful critiques of contemporary media and cultural genocide.

His sculptures, installations, actions and performances critique the dominant structures of cultural production, questioning the politics, hierarchies and class systems that define contemporary life.

This panel will address some of the theoretical interventions at play when considering the ways in which Indigenous peoples have sought to overcome the contemporary life of settler - colonization and achieve self - determination through cultural production and critique.

While looking back, the new works underscore the long - lasting effects of Colonialism that remain prevalent in the contemporary art world, in spite of broad cultural progress since the early - 1990s platforms of institutional - critique and multiculturalism.

Verabioff's explicit references to land artist Robert Smithson are tongue - in - cheek and mount a sly back - door critique, perverting his titles and hijacking his term «cultural confinement» to expose the gender inequality and power structures ingrained in contemporary art and popular culture.

For his project «A work in situ», at REDCAT, John Knight revisits this relationship between two cohabiting institutions (Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater and Walt Disney Concert Hall), in today's highly developed «cultural corridor» of downtown Los Angeles, considering the relationship between space, architecture, contemporary arts and real estate.Since the late «60s, John Knight has pioneered the practices of site - specificity and institutional critique, always interested in interrogating the underlying geopolitical and economic systems implicit in everyday convention.

1997 Theories of the Decorative: Abstraction and Ornament in Contemporary Painting, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburg, Scotland; traveled to Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, USA (curated by Paul Nesbitt and David Moos) Primarily Paint, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA Pintura, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain; traveled to Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York, USA (curated by Lilly Wei) Intimate Universe (Revisited): Seventy American Painters, Robert Steele Gallery, New York, USA (curated by Michael Walls) Schilderijen: Reinoud Van Vaught, Fabian Marcaccio, David Reed, Jonathan Lasker, Gallerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, the Netherlands Wetterleuchten, Galerie Evelyne Canus, La Colle - sur - Loup, France (curated by Günter Umberg) Critiques Of Pure Abstraction, Independent Curators, Inc., New York, USA (curated by Mark Rosenthal)(traveled) Stepping Up, Andrew Mummery, London, England Relations Between Contemporary Architecture and Painting: Greg Lynn, Fabian Marcaccio, David Reed, Jesse Reiser / Nanako Umemoto, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria Some Lust, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA Installations / Projects, Institute for Art and Urban Resources / P.

His contemporary folk art approach plays with themes of cultural and political critique.

The broader residency programme at IMMA afforded me the opportunity to contextualise my practice in the wider contemporary world whilst aligning my personal philosophies with changes, critique and new ways of seeing; emerging through conversations and debate which fermented out of the cultural production of the IMMA programme.»

Stephen Prina's The Second Sentence of Everything I Read Is You: Mourning Sex (2005 — 7) has all the markings of a work of institutional critique, that loosely defined genre of contemporary art that seeks to evaluate and question the position of art in relationship to various cultural and political contexts.4 Looking beyond the frame of the artwork itself, works of institutional critique recognize that art exists within a discursive field and grapple with the concentric or overlapping circles of spatial, temporal, cultural, social, economic, and political structures — or «institutions» — that «frame» the work in other ways.