Cf. Söderblom, Missionens Motiv och kulturvärde in ur religionens historia (Stockholm, 1915), p. l94: «Mission means that the
encounter between the great human
cultural types, that is the great povvers of human ideas, becomes as deep and central and manysided as possible.»
Also noteworthy, in the category of cinema ruled by
cultural concerns and actual political events, was Carlos (d. Olivier Assayas), which kept a packed auditorium of critics in their seats for over five hours with a glossy, but intelligent action film version of the 1970s exploits of a terrorist born Illich Ramirez Sanchez, but known internationally as the Jackal, also by the code name Carlos; and Des Hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois), a film, elegantly minimalist in design, based on a real - life
encounter between Algerian fundamentalist Islamic terrorists and a community of ascetic Christian monks.
2008 Selective Knowledge, Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought, Athens, Greece Zones of Conflict, Pratt Gallery, New York, NY Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, organized by Parsons School of Design and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New York, NY Crossroads: Interfaces
between rock and contemporary art, Domus Artium Museum / Center of Contemporary Art of Salamanca, Spain 2008 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Proyecto civico / Civic Project, CECUT, Centro
Cultural Tijuana, Mexico 8 Bienal de Arte de Panamá, 8th Panama Biennial, Panama 16th Biennale of Sydney: Forms that Turn, Sydney, Australia Close
Encounters, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C. Freedom, Stichting Den Haag Sculptuur, The Hague, Netherlands Ohio, curated by Brad Killam and Barb Wiesen, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL Peripheral vision and collective body, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bozen, Bolzano, Italy The Old, Weird America, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX Since we last spoke about monuments, Stroom den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands Jeremy Deller: Marlon Brando, Pocahontas, and Me, Aspen Art Museum.