Sentences with phrase «contemporary global crises»

The exhibitions seek to bring attention, knowledge, debate and reflection on this contemporary global crisis as well as the issues of the migration system in Denmark.

Not exact matches

The global media almost never depict contemporary Africans in ordinary situations; images of crisis frequently eclipse other representations.

The topicality of the global migrant crisis was evident elsewhere in the activities at this year's Frieze London: a series of Frieze Talks invited speakers and the public to discuss the meaning of» Borderlands», while the Collections Fund at Frieze, supported by the Contemporary Art Society, enabled the UK's Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art to make acquisitions at the fair of works specifically addressing themes of migration and displacement by John Akomfrah and Kader Attia.

All the characters, such as the Artist, the Art Dealer or the Hedge Fund Manager explore their relationship with the global financial crisis and the role of contemporary art in it.

Although many artists did experience a significant drop in total sales volume in 2009, as the overall art market responded to global financial crisis, many female artists were able to quickly rebound, as the Post-War and Contemporary market saw consistent growth in the past two years.

Her research and curatorial projects are determined by the specific socio - political conditions: OtherIS (2011 - ongoing) is a curatorial platform of video art relating to the US - sanctioned countries; Avant - Guide to NYC (apexart, 2009) redressed historical referents of art in the city within the present; Custom Car Commandos (Art in General, 2009) cross-sectioned the auto industry in crisis with the image industry; Soap Box Event by Pia Lindman (Federal Hall National Memorial, 2008) practiced performance of free speech; among numerous other projects since 1995, when she curated the Third Annual Exhibition of Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Vilnius, Lithuania (1995) in the post — Soviet conditions at the emergence of global networks.

Gordon Cheung is a contemporary artist whose work captures the mood of the global collapse of civilization — or a dystopian, prophetic vision of it — where moral, economic and environmental crises have spun out of control.

Focusing on contemporary issues like natural disasters, the breakdown of the American political system, global tragedies, and the Los Angeles housing crisis, the film stars Stosh, a.k.a. Pig Pen, a close friend of Opie's who has appeared in many of her photographs, as a struggling artist who is obsessed with landmark midcentury modern architecture.