Sentences with phrase «cultural displacement in»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

After reviewing the theories of Malinowski, Freud, Girard and others on the role of fatherhood, Steinmetz uses the story of Oedipus to illustrate the problem; a father wants to insure immortality by passing on all of his «self» (both material and cultural) to an heir, but in so doing insures his own mortality and displacement.

Like her previous films, it gave specific focus to cultural displacement and racial conflict, themes that would be further explored in J'ai Pas Sommeil (I Can't Sleep, 1994).

In touching upon issues of cultural displacement and substance abuse, Sen imbues the film with an undeniable sense of naturalism that comes with casting locals from the area.

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).

In the accompanying lesson (see link above), students explore the themes of cultural displacement, human rights, and resilience through classroom discussions.

If we're going to get to the heart of hate speech in America today, we must remember that significant elements of our cultural history were built on inequity — from the founding of the country and displacement of indigenous populations to the Civil War and slavery.

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 through conversations with local artists engaged in political activism, and through workshops with local Santa Monica youth and adult participants.

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.

Transcending ideas appropriated to loci of analogous geopolitical status, Socratous» visual language surveys notions of displacement, national and cultural identity, socio - economic and historical discourse to challenge the topical subject of migration and the shifting ideologies recurring in today's political habitat.

In recent projects Ai has addressed the international refugee crisis, the theme of displacement of particular relevance due to his being raised in exile after his father, the Chinese poet Ai Qing, was denounced during the Cultural RevolutioIn recent projects Ai has addressed the international refugee crisis, the theme of displacement of particular relevance due to his being raised in exile after his father, the Chinese poet Ai Qing, was denounced during the Cultural Revolutioin exile after his father, the Chinese poet Ai Qing, was denounced during the Cultural Revolution.

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.)

Earlier audio - visual installations range from Baltimore (2003), which, in part through the stylisations of black action movies from the 1970s, looks at the histories, divisions and intersections of black and white cultures, through to his trilogy comprising True North (2004), Fantôme Afrique (2005) and Western Union: Small Boats (2007), all of which deal with themes of voyaging and cultural displacement on both a local and global scale.

Each work in the exhibition carries a unique and often personal history of human rights violations, from massacres to ethnic cleansing, cultural displacement to missing persons.

Splitting his time between Paris and his native Cluj, Mircea Cantor makes work that centers around themes of cultural history, memory, and displacement, echoing his upbringing in Romania during its tumultuous transition from state socialism to liberal democracy.

Murillo frequently invokes his cultural heritage in his practice and broader issues of migration, sub-localities, and displacement inform many of his works.

Influenced by the cultural milieu of inter-ethnic relations in Indonesia, Leonard Suryajaya's work explores intricate and complicated layers of selfhood in the context of cultural background, intimacy, sexual preference, and personal displacement.

The list, put together by Artistic Director Trevor Schoonmaker, (of the Nasher Museum in Durham North Carolina), includes 73 artists from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the European powers that colonized New Orleans, and will address themes of identity, displacement and cultural hybridity.

Suh, who lives and works in London, New York and Seoul, has continued to express feelings of cultural displacement through sculptures and immersive installations of domestic architecture and household items.

Having recently completed a Master's course at Christie's Education in Modern and Contemporary Art, her thesis focuses on themes of cultural hybridity and displacement.

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.

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

Underlined by the concept of displacement, the show encourages a dialogue on differences in societal and cultural values, notions of domesticity, and the impact of globalisation.

In «The Mountain Without a Shadow» themes of displacement and cultural heritage permeate Anja Marais» work.

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.

The screen printing workshop and POCI Figure Drawing class provide two examples of the ways Electric Machete carries out its stated mission of «[intervening] in cultural displacement and racial inequalities by offering alternative spaces, counter narratives and community building opportunities.»

Born in Hong Kong, raised in England, and based in Miami since 1992, Handforth revels in the skewed perspectives and unintended consequences that result from cultural migration and displacement.

In this exhibition, Purcell examines issues of migration, cultural displacement and the socio - political constructs that form / transform identity and links them to a globalized economic system.

He revels in the skewed perspectives and unintended consequences that result from cultural exchange and displacement.

The triennial exhibition, spread across seventeen venues in New Orleans, will feature seventy - three artists from «North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and the European powers that colonized New Orleans, addressing issues of identity, displacement, and cultural hybridity within the context of the celebration of the city's tricentennial,» according to an announcement from the event's organizers.

This early work sets the stage for Mutu's ongoing investigation of cultural hybridization and displacement, featuring symbols and strategies that will continue to figure in her subsequent practice.

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].