Sentences with phrase «cultural displacement as»

Both artists create work that draws from their experiences of social and cultural displacement as first generation North Americans.

Not exact matches

The political import of interrogating the conception and representation of rape in film and film criticism is flagged in Russell's introduction, as she notes that to dismiss the question of rape «is to collude with the displacement and obscuring of violence that naturalizes it in our cultural imaginary» (p. 2).

The exhibition draws upon the Wolfonian's collection to explore issues of identity — personal, corporate and national — as well as the impact of cultural displacement on the history of design and the role of commercial art in the modern city.

Guirguis seeks to address problems of displacement, environmental destruction, and cultural and historical memory loss in her work, as well as through conversations with local artists engaged in political activism, and workshops with local Santa Monica youth and adult participants.

The Zwirner show, in particular, addresses Murillo's feelings of geographical and cultural displacement (he emigrated to the U.K. from Colombia at the age of 10) and, to a lesser degree, the potentially life - transforming side effect of his rapid ascent (he's not yet 30, and is only a few years removed from his former, low - key life as an office cleaner and a gallery installer.)

the almost weightless wire structures are an extension of his study of themes surrounding cultural displacement, the establishment of relationships within new environments, and memories as both physical and metaphorical manifestations.

The painting's surface is used to transform energies and refabricate the body with suggestions of contamination, connectivity and displacement, reflecting Kocsis» cultural history as a Hungarian, Romany and Canadian.

When his family moved to London, settling in the East End, he spoke no English and described the adjustment as «an astonishing cultural displacement.»

«Non-Western» denotes to a broad realm including terrestrial references as well as cultural ties; therefore this exhibition limits the term to the artists who have connections to the broad geography of the non-West but who speak of a certain kind of displacement, immigration, or a voyage due to their experiences.

The works show my attempt to present the adaptive aspect of cultural identity symbolized by international airplanes, as it is altered and expanded through cultural displacement in a global nomadic culture.

Artist Statement As a culturally displaced artist myself, I have been drawn to the theme of cultural displacement and identity and to social psychological and cross-cultural studies that are heavily influenced by immigrant experiences and by the interaction between people and space.

Inspired by the Kongos» (of the Democractic Republic of the Congo) power figure nkisi nkondi, Destierro (Displacement, 1998 - 99) represents the spirit of the Cuban people who awakens in order to make good on the promise of revolution that has yet to happen; even without this specific cultural context, the artwork haunted me as a symbol of a popular consciousness, political betrayal, and a building hunger for change.

Schendel's early experience of cultural, geographic and linguistic displacement is evident in her work, as is her interest in religion and philosophy.

Civil Society, 2008, an affecting three - channel video by Michelle Dizon, the daughter of Filipino immigrants, directly addresses cultural displacement in a narration that accompanies devastating images of the 1992 Los Angeles riots as well as footage of the 2005 uprisings in the suburbs of Paris.

Perhaps the fire frequency was a function of population density, cultural practices innovations, or other human - based factors that had nothing to do with temperature, such as war, peace, displacement, entrenchment, food preference shifts, food availability changes, evolution in customs, advances in ecological knowledge, population growth, etc..

Furthermore, weak identification with one's heritage and mainstream cultures (i.e. marginalisation) is correlated negatively with life satisfaction [55], SWB [56], mental health [57], self - esteem [58], sociocultural adaptation (defined as how well an acculturating individual adapts to daily life in a new cultural milieu), psychological adaptation [59], and continual displacement and loss in personal narratives [60].