Sentences with phrase «cultural consumption»

Her research focuses on the participation of art activities in the wider context of cultural consumption.

The purpose of this experiment is to learn about how seeing live performances with their school may affect student understanding of great works of dramatic literature as well as influence their values (particularly tolerance and empathy) and their taste for future cultural consumption (e.g., going to the theater in the future, going to art museums, participating in theater, choir, etc...)

They also attribute negative intent — or at least uncritical cultural consumption — to everyone from conservative Christians (who are determined to «return all women to the barefoot - and - pregnant era of world history») to leftist attachment - parenting types (who are making «homemade baby lotion out of elderberry extract»).

«It also reminds them how important cultural consumption is, both for enriching yourself as a person and strengthening the fabric of our society.»

Nowhere is the absurdity of our gross cultural consumption more apparent than in Mahalchick's work.

explores the relationship between cultural consumption and social class.

-- first performed in 1991 at the gallery American Fine Arts, in New York — is focused on class distinction and legitimation vis - à - vis cultural consumption, and is deeply influenced by Pierre Bourdieu's work.

Dancing through their own perceptions of middle - class cultural consumption, McMillan and Wilson's exhibition investigates the overlap of creativity and labour.

But he goes further, saying that as local and regional ties have loosened their hold over the past century, and racial and ethnic differences have become less contentious, our identities have come to be defined primarily by what we buy, where we eat, how we shop and other markers of cultural consumption.

We found significant benefits in the form of knowledge, future cultural consumption, tolerance, historical empathy, and critical thinking for students assigned by lottery to visit Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (see «The Educational Value of Field Trips,» research, Winter 2014).

Director of Critical Studies and MA / PhD programs in UCLA's Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Sylvia Lavin engages artists, architects, and curators in a series of lively discussions on how cities are increasingly molded by images rather than buildings; on whether art and architecture are converging to form an integrated type of cultural consumption; and if the concept of the masterpiece has finally been destroyed by the sheer quantity of global design production.

His small gouaches, for instance, are painted from photographed arrangements of items that often refer to petty vices (a pack of cigarettes) or cultural consumption (VHS or cassette tapes).

Controversial issues surrounding citizenship, cultural consumption, discrimination, race, and poverty build the narratives that Ward articulates in rubber, string, metal, and other detritus.

My performances 25 years ago in museums and galleries were less about money than about class, taste, patronage, and cultural consumption.

Over the past decade, Morrison has investigated the aesthetics and potentialities of political protest and subculture and the processes by which radical and oppositional impulses become subsumed within normative commodities and habits of cultural consumption.

Ward examines contemporary issues that include citizenship, cultural consumption, discrimination and poverty.

Examining the aesthetics of political protest and counterculture, and the processes by which radical impulses are subsumed within commodities and cultural consumption, Morrison's work troubles notions of authenticity, particularly when the «authentic» is absorbed into the mainstream.

Nari Ward (b. 1963, St. Andrews, Jamaica) examines contemporary issues that include citizenship, cultural consumption, discrimination, and poverty, which reflects his experiences and observations growing up in Jamaica and his working life as an artist in Harlem.

She is interested in ways the digital vernacular affects current and future modes of production, shifts in socio - economic concerns, cultural consumption / participation, and the inevitable environmental consequences of these forces.

By borrowing and manipulating familiar material, artists explore issues such as the non-transparency of language and the cultural consumption of imagery.

On Sunday, Performa 13 bestowed its Malcolm Award — named in honor of the late punk impresario Malcolm McLaren — to the artist Ryan McNamara for his «Meem: A Story Ballet About the Internet,» a performance that audaciously sought to transfer the multi-tab, multitasking mode of cultural consumption that the Web encourages to the august medium of dance by approximating the mashed - up experience of watching clips of a series of historical ballet performances on YouTube.