Sentences with phrase «contemporary cultural relationships»

Saxelby creates participatory installations that investigate contemporary cultural relationships to women and feminine identity through ritual practices and sacred spaces.

Not exact matches

San Francisco, Calif., February 14, 2017 — On view at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts from March 16 through May 14, 2017, the exhibition Black Light converts the gallery space into a forum for conversation with a series of free public events that address the relationship between cultural institutions and black artists.

From their Parisian studio, M / M has worked and developed strong relationships with musicians (Bjoerk, Madonna, Benjamin Biolay, Jean - Louis Murat...); contemporary artists (Philippe Parreno, Pierre Huygue, Liam Gilick, Sarah Morris, Francois Curlet, Dominique Gonzales - Foerster...); fashion designers (Yohji Yamamoto, Jil Sander, Balenciaga, Givenchy, Stella McCartney...); and magazines (Vogue Paris, i - D, Purple Fashion, Arena Homme +, Interview, Frog, eDEN, Documents sur l'art); and with cultural institutions (Palais de Tokyo, Musee d'Art Moderne and Centre Pompidou in Paris, Le Consortium in Dijon, The Desde Foundation in Athens, the Serpentine Gallery in London...).

This gallery will provide visitors with a rare glimpse into the historical and cultural development of contemporary Chinese art by revealing its parallel and conflicting relationship with mainstream Chinese culture.

The mission of the museum includes «weaving a continuous exchange between its own historical works and today's cultural debate, and setting a close relationship for its exhibition program between contemporary and historical collections.»

Quinn's sculpture, paintings and drawings often deal with the distanced relationship we have with our bodies, highlighting how the conflict between the «natural» and «cultural» has a grip on the contemporary psyche.

The department provides a platform for innovative artists for the production of their work, and a forum for the larger community to examine the most recent developments in contemporary art and their relationships to broader cultural contexts.

The audience is presented with not only a new way of experiencing contemporary cultural production but with a new framework for seeing artifacts from our social and historical narratives and resignifying our relationship to them.

Together, the works help illuminate the relationship between contemporary art and China's cultural heritage.

In creating new forms in this ancient medium, Liu brings into question the contemporary Chinese artists» relationship with cultural antecedents.

Interested in transformative possibilities Dennis merges various movements throughout the western art historical canon with modern tropes in order to create clever, provocative and symbolic contemporary paintings that play on our psychological, cultural and spiritual relationships.

Mona Hatoum's work is both deeply personal and quietly political, investigating her individual and cultural relationships with contemporary social injustices.

As always, the symposium takes as its starting point the relationship between art and new media with a series of events examining the «current state of contemporary cultural production in relation to new technologies», with a selection of participating artists, curators, philosophers, and researchers delivering papers, performances and keynotes.

His works center around the relationship between form and content: often using several layers of paint, resin, glitter, collage elements, and occasionally, elephant dung, Ofili enlists sexual, cultural, historical, and religious references to create uniquely aesthetic and physical works that expose the darker undercurrents of society, while also celebrating contemporary black culture.

Exhibitions • Capturing critical and audience acclaim, our art exhibitions and Day With (out) Art programs contemplate the deep cultural history of AIDS activism and examine the relationship between HIV and contemporary culture.

Mutual cultural interactions and relationships is the theme of Eagles and Doves, an exhibition of works by contemporary Slovak and German artists.

This push - pull relationship between audio and raw materials references contemporary experiences of displacement in connection to the instability of current global political, social, economic, and cultural climates.

Her projects focus on human relationships, cultural codes and their impacts on contemporary society.

Her work is focused on examining the relationship between art infrastructure and artistic production, urbanity, cultural politics of food and art, and contemporary art from the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

Starting from the idea that abstracted knowledge is stored in cultural goods and artefacts, Vulsma's works reflect the interaction of historical relationships - such as India's leading role in the history of textile production, the rapid development of a European market and the desire to copy the Indian form language for Europe's own production - and the contemporary hierarchies in an unequal global distribution of labour.

Art and Black Los Angeles 1960 — 1980, this full - day symposium explores the relationship and parallels between the African American artistic communities in Los Angeles and New York through examining the social and cultural atmosphere of the 1970s in both cities, the significance of the Just Above Midtown artist space to the New York community, and the influences these artists have on their contemporaries.

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.

Spelman College Museum of Fine Art's exhibition, Africa Forecast: Fashioning Contemporary Life, on view through December 3, documents Black women's relationship with fashion — the cultural tendency to not simply think of it as a way of dress, but a determinant of a way of life.

Contemporary sculpture has opened the relationship between painting and sculpture considerably, and it has expanded beyond the formal issues expounded by Judd to include political, social, and cultural content.

Her research interests are in interdisciplinary relationships of contemporary art and in cultural phenomena with regard to historical, economic, and political contexts.

-- Stuart Hall's work on culture and representation — Artistic and / or curatorial practice — Filmmaking and media analysis — Cultural histories — local and diasporic — Literary Studies including criticism and theory — Researching visual archives — The relationship between contemporary visual art and cultural Cultural histories — local and diasporic — Literary Studies including criticism and theory — Researching visual archives — The relationship between contemporary visual art and cultural cultural politics

In new sculpture and installation work, the artist continues to evoke specific cultural traditions while exposing complex relationships with contemporary global commerce.

Previous works have looked to the contemporary media sphere and its relationship to the visceral body, the degenerative aspects of pervasive new technologies, to cultural forms of fanaticism and cults, to ideas of attraction and repulsion, body horror, the defamiliarisation of the human body and cartoon abjection.

To serve an audience that is multicultural, young and old, general and specialized, the museum presents programs that recognize the variety and complexity of cultural experience and explore the relationship between traditional expression and contemporary practice.

Shirin Neshat is a contemporary Iranian artist best known for films such as Rapture (1999), which explore the relationship between women and the religious and cultural value systems of Islam.

If Scotland votes yes to their independence from the United Kingdom — each will split ending a 307 - year - old union — a separation that could also include the re-appraisal of cultural and artistic relationships which could change the face of the contemporary art scene in Britain and -LSB-...]

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.

Their conversation will consider Koons's complex relationship with art history and contemporary art and his current cultural relevance.

Explore the cultural shifts that are shaping relationships today and master new approaches for working effectively with contemporary couples.