Sentences with phrase «cultural memory»

I am interested in both individual memory and the larger cultural memory of societies.

An examination of architecture and art as a screen of vital cultural memory that considers museum culture, visual technology, and the border of public and private space.

[At this point, we all enjoy fond cultural memories of the»70s, but forget it was much less fun then trying to make a living.

Here the role of the artist is the role of cultural memory keeper.

What these wankers are saying is that they believe in cultural memory - in the heritability of learned behaviours.

Yet, far from an autobiographical study, the work evokes varieties of collective cultural memory, the contrasting ways in which different inhabitants of the landscape identify with its idiosyncratic character and atmosphere.

Young's project, as well as the other three, emphasized architectural place as a touchstone for cultural memory; stressed community involvement in the construction and reception of the work; and reflected upon how a historically black neighborhood has consistently and creatively attended to its own needs despite meager resources and the continued trauma of structured inequality.

Sophie Michael is a London based artist and filmmaker whose technically adept and aesthetically rich works explore cultural memory, colour, abstraction and expanded notions of animation.

The exhibition, which features installations as well as drawings, examines the Russian artist's «lifelong research and quest for preserving cultural memory within the undefined terrains of the Antarctic Circle,» according to a press release.

One of the leading artists of her generation, Lorna Simpson (born 1960) came to prominence in the mid-1980s through her photographic and textual works that challenged conventional attitudes toward race, gender and cultural memory with a potent mixture of formal elegance and conceptual rigor.

Using a variety of media, the artists explore the evocative potential of different sounds — such as field recordings, hymns and story - telling — as well as their ability to both conjure and challenge cultural memory, and connect the past to the present.

In an amalgam of ancient cultural memory there is a tiny thimble containing all the alternate universes, events, and possibilities that have not yet occurred, the majority of which may never occur though, in fact, one may never know what unknown occurrence will not occur.

Presenting both large - scale installations and works on paper, Stored in Ice, examines the artist's lifelong research and quest for preserving cultural memory within the undefined terrains of the Antarctic Circle.

The three themes that emerge from this show suggest a deep involvement with the mechanisms of memory: how personal memory persists, how cultural memory persists, and the mapping of experience that allows impressions to form memories in the first place.

From Terry Svat's work that is a reminiscent of Lascaux cave pictographs by creating the idea of packing up, moving on, a new freedom, Pauline Jakobserg and her constructing narratives that confront cultural memories, Felisa Federman depicts nature connected with folk legends, Miguel Perez Lem landscapes evoking the grandeur of the Andes Mountains and Nancy Nesvet beautifuly paints the threatened future of glaciers and wildlife.

Now those legendary works from his first solo exhibition are on view again, raising intriguing questions about cultural memory and the vicissitudes of art world taste.

This parallels the themes of genocide and substandard poverty which are juxtaposed with images from the Egyptian and Mesoamerica civilizations and highlights their further connection to Afro Futurism and cultural memory loss.

Not only is it relevant to the period it is based, but playfully acknowledges layers of cultural memory associated with the wild west.

Maybe in another 150 years, Jewish children will run away from the «P.C. police,» but today cultural memories of the danger to Jewish families once posed by the Catholic Church still run deep.

This is the moment when hidden images and cultural memories become visible and intelligible, when the vernacular becomes a universal language.

Divided into sections such as «About Press Prints,» «Expanded Vision: Magnum Photos and the Book,» and «Magnum Photos and the Art World,» this exhibition speaks to the importance of Magnum, cultural memory throughout the world, and the enduring power of documentary photography.

One novel investigation into the way celebrity and cultural memory intersect is Keith Edmier's installation Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett (2000).

The artists wrestle with complex topics such as the veracity of history, the nature of interpretation, subjective versus objective truth, and the ways in which objects and images from the past embody cultural memory.

Profile Picture portrays a specific cultural memory as well as identity analogy that weaves Asian modernity and globalization after World War II, Japanese photo sticker culture, and the growing importance of online profile photos.

An international figure in architecture and urban design, the architect Daniel Libeskind is renowned for his ability to evoke cultural memory in buildings of equilibrium - defying contemporaneity.

Drawing the viewer into a spellbound theatre of inner narratives and overlapping cultural memories, the images of Angelika Sher reveal a hypnotic yet profoundly dislocated interior universe.

Their simultaneous presence and absence within the works connotes the violence associated with erasing a disturbing or painful cultural memory while still having them identifiable for posterity.

In this way, these five artists bring cultural memory to contemporary thought and relate the disappearance of animals depicted in cave drawings to the possible extinction of present agricultural, botanical and animal life.

While Kahraman's work is intertwined with the histories of the Iran - Iraq and Gulf Wars, it is also invested in the idea of feminine collectivity, identity, belonging, and diasporic cultural memory.

Organized by SFMOMA's Deena Chalabi, Dominic Willsdon, and Stella Lochman, «Public Knowledge» addresses recent shifts in the Bay Area resulting from the technology industry boom and how those changes affect cultural memory.7 The boom has led to rising socioeconomic inequality, pushing families from their traditional communities and pricing out cultural spaces.

In the latter view, it is as if Schnabel has built something new from a fallen civilisation, incorporating disparate cultural memories and past techniques into a multifaceted conglomerate image.

Mauri's forthcoming London show, opening in December, focuses on the series «Picnic o Il buon soldato» (Picnic or The good soldier), a sobering, poetically reflective body of work depicting the repercussions of conflict on collective cultural memory — a theme that proliferates his work.

As Gutjahr puts it, «a text that had provided the nation with a source of shared cultural memory and language for nearly two centuries would find itself increasingly «ghetto «ized» among specific, more Protestant segments of the nation's population.»

The artworks employ different sonic strategies to both conjure and challenge cultural memory.

In his book, The Outline of History, H.G. Wells suggested that an ancient cultural memory of the Neanderthals may have survived as the ogres and trolls of folklore.

The exhibition features large - scale installation and works on paper which examine the preservation of cultural memory within the undefined terrains of the Antarctic Circle, a lifelong quest and interest of the artist.

As art melts into spatial construction and architecture mobilizes artistic vision, Bruno argues, a new moving space — a screen of vital cultural memory — has come to shape our visual culture.

Terry Svat by imaging pictographs reminiscent of Lascaux cave drawings, Pauline Jakobsberg by constructing narratives to confront cultural memory, Felisa Federman by depicting folk legend concerning natural and landscape, and the negation of people's personalities by standardization, Miguel Perez - Lem who paints contemporary landscapes relating to agricultural memory in Latin America, Nancy Nesvet who paints seascapes of degrading glaciers and animals whose future is threatened.

Opening: «Amie Siegel: The Spear in the Stone» at Simon Preston Gallery An award - winning filmmaker, Amie Siegel makes conceptual films and multichannel video installations about cultural memory and the portrayal of place.

One of the leading artists of her generation, Lorna Simpson came to prominence in the mid-1980s through her photographic and textual works that confronted and challenged conventional attitudes toward race, gender, and cultural memory with a potent mixture of formal elegance and conceptual rigor.

«Each language has a palette with a finite amount of colors, which have evolved from the cultural memories and common experience of its users.