Descriptions further refine
the context of your social object to entice visitors to view and circulate your content amongst their social graph.
Not exact matches
The daily lives
of toddlers are filled with
social contexts in which
objects are handled, such as mealtime, toy play and getting dressed.
Critical pedagogue Ira Shor defines critical pedagogy as: «Habits
of thought, reading, writing, and speaking which go beneath surface meaning, first impressions, dominant myths, official pronouncements, traditional clichés, received wisdom, and mere opinions, to understand the deep meaning, root causes,
social context, ideology, and personal consequences
of any action, event,
object, process, organization, experience, text, subject matter, policy, mass media, or discourse.»
This work can be interpreted in the simplest, most direct manner — as a stereotyped image
of China's food culture and painting traditions, but at the same time, its multiple references to various Chinese
social and historical backgrounds make interpretation much more difficult: the use
of objects to express morality in Chinese landscaping, satirical poetry mocking ostentatious refinement, and the imitation
of handwritten menus to capture a scene
of civil life... Viewers unfamiliar with the specific
context can easily find themselves lost in the smokescreen
of mysterious Oriental poetic calligraphy and bonsai art.
She explores the possibilities
of performance art as a way to continue her research on the relationship between people and
objects, and to further investigate the commoditization
of culture, assimilation, and how cultural meaning is transformed in the multicultural urban environment and is absorbed into new
social contexts.
The exhibition explored in depth the relationship
of radical politics to art, by providing visitors with factual
context in the form
of historical
objects that brought home the
social and historical realities the movement faced, interspersed with historic artwork that supported and reflected its circumstances and ideals, as well as contemporary pieces.
But in the hands
of curator Boris Groys the proposition turns ambiguous... «Specters,» as conceived by Groys, explores Russian «post-conceptual realism,» an artistic practice in which artists shift attention from isolated art
objects and performances to their
social and political
context.
Estranged from their original
context, the former lives
of these
objects and histories become transparent, yielding their political,
social or practical nature to an intimacy between the viewer and the visual experience where the form is observed without additional interpretation and description, nor the mediation
of «what we add to it from the outside.»
The Malaysian - born, London - based artist uses the overly precious setting
of the gallery space to pull
objects — cooking utensils, kitchen fittings, plastic tubs, sheets
of jute, etc — out
of their utilitarian
context in such a way as to force viewers to think about them as discrete
objects, or things in and
of themselves, while in the process challenging the assumptions we make about their functionality and attendant concerns such as, for example, the
social status
of the person who might own such an
object, its role in their lives and that relation in respect to one's own style
of living.
I'm also interested how you would approach a case when the
context does not favor the introduction
of a new
social object.
A while ago, I talked about «
Social Markers», a form
of «
Social Object» that places you in
context within a group.
When in the
context of a
social energy or dynamic, ie the
social or collective energy surrounding a piece
of art because it is well known and referenced etc - would then push the communication
object into a «community or
social» sphere resulting in a more
social - ized dynamic energy.
I think that
context (the authority
of the person who seeds the
social object, the culture, the time, the people who participate in the conversation, etc) influences the conversation and implicitly its effects.
In
social media, content and
context are packaged as
social objects and they serve as the catalysts for conversation, intelligence, and sharing, and hopefully, word
of mouth.
I appropriate familiar
objects and
social events, which are universally recognisable within specific cultural
contexts (games, souvenirs), to invite audiences to take a look at the society that they live in, often revealing underlying belief systems, drawing audiences into a series
of questions that ask «how do we come to know what it is that we know» — Yara El - Sherbini, 2015
His interests are directed toward the effects
of shifting cultural
objects across different
social and historical
contexts, investigating the role that artists and other art specialists have in these processes
of value - making.
The corporeal quality
of the chairs» form and function, the skins
of the elk, and the communal process
of hand sewing the elements together is compounded further by the resulting
object — a drum — which inherently implies ceremonial and
social contexts, movement and sound.
Cultivating unexpected beauty in the everyday, Feher's work engages viewers to expand their vision beyond what is in front
of them to instill an
object or set
of objects with an expanded
social and cultural
context.
Kaabi - Linke's installations,
objects and pictorial works are anchored in constellations
of cultural and historical,
social and political
contexts and refer to a certain place or coincidental events.
In Double Takes, join specialists as they offer views on
objects with a focus on red and the
social context, artistic interpretation, and ever - evolving meanings
of objects.
Estranged from their original
context, the former lives
of these
objects and narratives become transparent, yielding their political,
social and practical nature to an intimacy between the viewer and the visual experience.»
«Together these
objects reveal Deller's artistic interest in the
social connections around cultural icons and events, and his reinvestment in the histories and
contexts of their creation,» says Locks.
Luke Willis Thompson's practice explores sites and
objects that embody a sense
of historical, political or
social consequence to trace the fault lines
of race and class in his chosen
context.
Featuring seminal pieces at the forefront
of institutional and
social critique, the show gathers over 200 works, primarily from the 60s and 70s, tracing Broodthaers» ever - poetic texts,
objects, and installations as cemented within a twentieth century
context.
The general philosophy
of social objects (conversations /
context around
objects) is inspired from Bronislaw Malinowski's his observations on Kula, a ceremonial exchange system conducted in Papua New Guinea.
This «non-productive attitude,» as artist Josef Strau puts it in a catalogue essay for Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out
of Cologne, wasn't necessarily a refusal
of making
objects so much as a commitment to making
objects that reflected the
context of their production, and specifically, their producer and his or her
social makeup — institutional or otherwise.
Play - based learning is described in the EYLF as «a
context for learning through which children organise and make sense
of their
social worlds, as they actively engage with people,
objects and representations» (EYLF, 2009, p. 46).