Sentences with phrase «cultural displacement on»

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.

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.

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.

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.

Her current research focuses on a redefinition of contemporary art history through postcolonial theories and the genealogy of cultural displacement; she also works on feminist art and theory of the 1970s.

Yinka Shonibare MBE's new site - specific installation explores the impact of immigration on all aspects of British culture and considers notions of territory and place, cultural identity, displacement and refuge.

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.

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.

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.

Her practice, which comprises drawings, works on paper, textile design, photography and printmaking, attests to her understanding of cultural hybridity, belonging and displacement.

Most commentators on Mona Hatoum (Edward Said among them) invoke figures of exile and displacement, and not without reason: Explorations of national and cultural identity preoccupy the work of this London - based Palestinian artist.

2755 miles is primarily based on video research and forms of experimental documentary practice that engages with issues of migration and displacement by concentrating on the cultural and communal worlds of clandestine Pakistani refugee workers residing at the outskirts of Athens.

Others focus more on issues like gender identity, racial integration and sensitivity, and cultural displacement.