Sentences with phrase «cultural narratives»

Writing activities similarly extended their family stories into cultural narratives as students continued to interview family members about their ethnic, linguistic, and social heritage.

New media have transformed all areas of education but especially how cultural narratives are accessed.

A strong cultural narrative says that healing means finding your authentic self and living out of that reality.

But in this larger sense, they are interchangeable characters in a single cultural narrative.

We also need to remember that there are many more «good schools» than our rankings - driven cultural narrative suggests.

Tracy Rose's work has consistently questioned and challenged the prevalent aesthetics of international contemporary art centres, as well as the emergence of a dominant cultural narrative of struggle and reconciliation in South Africa.

Through content that Semmel describes as having «been consistently fired by my desire for the work to impact and to help change the way women are perceived and how we perceive ourselves,» and formal explorations, her work has greatly contributed to the history of painting and feminist debates by confronting and subverting the dominant cultural narratives in Art History and Western society.

Working across a wide range of media, Connor used iconic imagery and footage in experimental films, challenging the viewer to contemplate the saturation of cultural narratives in our daily lives.

Whether focusing attention on the artists» personal beliefs and experiences, on shared cultural narratives, or on the overlooked, the works included in this exhibition illuminate the times in which they were made while also resonating in the present day.

I am interested in materialisms, in «things» and their social, cultural, political affects and how artistic practice can reimagine cultural narratives in relation to the increasingly entangled worlds of human and nonhuman.

She creates vibrant paintings that weave together personal and cultural narratives drawn from her experience as Nigerian and American.

«Now it's a lot harder, because the general cultural narrative is more expressive and inclusive.»

While rewriting a deeply - rooted cultural narrative may sound like a tall order, the campaign's ultimate aim is to reduce food waste — of which 89 million tons is generated every year by the European Union, according to the campaign.

Our common cultural narrative: Ughhhhhhh, those lazy millennials are so obsessed with their phones!

Instead of introspection, goes the theologian's cry, let us rake over historical artifacts, dive into ancient lexicons, reframe cultural narratives, negotiate our way around words, vague and obscure, like so many corporate hacks rewriting the law.

Some, indeed, are consoled by denying the existence of God — an easy appeal to a one - dimensional cultural narrative that asks nothing of them in return — but only insofar as it liberates them to act freely upon their desires, to live freely according to the ambiguous virtue of «being a good person,» to exist free from responsibility for the moral welfare of others.

I disagree that this «rapturous» perspective is the dominant cultural narrative around adoption at this particular moment in time.

«Flip the Script,» a new YouTube video by an adoptee writing collective, The Lost Daughters, attempts to combat the damaging cultural narrative that centers exclusively on shiny, happy adoption experiences.

«People are keen to assert biological connections,» she says, «but only in certain contexts, only if they fit predetermined cultural narratives of racial and familial certainty.»

«This focus is understandable given cultural narratives of death's negativity, but our results suggest that death is more positive than people expect: Meeting the grim reaper may not be as grim as it seems.»

We are gathering to raise our voices to advocate for an Earth - respecting cultural narrative, one of «restore, respect, replenish» and to replace the narrative of «domination, depletion and destruction» of nature.

How students use «critical thinking tools» (problem posing, multiperspectivity, reflective skepticism, systemic thinking and dialog) and «rhetorical tools» (positioning of self and others, invoking cultural narratives, justifications, challenges, resistance) provides insight into whether or not discussions deepen student's understanding of controversial issues and foster recognition across groups in conflict, she says.

«We have to figure out how to fix the horrible cultural narrative, which says that teaching black kids is at best rewarding and at worst impossible,» says Wilkins, who now works on civil rights issues at the College Board.

Without Amazon, our entire modern cultural narrative would be dramatically different.

The link between myths (call them «basic cultural Narratives») and dreams is vitally important to anyone who wishes to grasp how personal psychology manifests itself collectively, in society.

This issue features Exterminating Angel Press, the six - year - old independent book publisher with a big mission: to challenge the received cultural narrative.

«A rich destination with a deep cultural narrative, our newest resort property will provide guests with first - hand luxury experiences and unexpected discoveries in a captivating part of the world,» said Mitzi Gaskins, vice president, luxury brand management and guest experience at Marriott International.

It was at the birth of photography that people tried to actually use the medium itself for these denigrating cultural narratives, and that is in large part why Douglass was so keen to subvert that relationship with photography and race, and to use it as an ennobling enterprise, as much as it had been a denigrating one, to counteract it.

His solo exhibition at the List Center presents three major, interlocking projects that reflect on history and remembrance, and consider how specific national, cultural narratives change over time.

Simone Leigh takes the opposite tack, infusing a space customarily held for white cultural narratives with the boundless energy of Black community - building.

We Are Not Things borrows strategies from this early - twentieth - century fervor around machines and mechanization against the backdrop of a pervasive contemporary cultural narrative: the feminization of the future.

Using found footage of ubiquitous or iconic imagery, his films challenge the viewer to reexamine cultural narratives that have been oversaturated, often to the point of banality.

Genevieve Gaignard also turns cultural narratives and archetypes on their heads in her site - specific installation, a living room of ambiguous location and decade.

These artists were being placed in a conversation with Minimalism almost from its inception, and their inclusion in «Others» is characteristic of the post-colonial turn to recognise artists whose significance to certain cultural narratives was previously overlooked because of national affiliation; again, this is the same principle at work as in Part I.

Today, most painters who keep the practice current benefit from either appealing to mass media — as is the case with Kenny Scharf — or to reimagining the Western canon through alternative cultural narratives — as was the case with Basquiat.

But The Warhol's curatorial interests lead instead toward exhibitions that confront the complexities of America's international identity, and that foreground underrepresented cultural narratives in relation to Warhol's legacy.

Like much of history, our retrospective cultural narratives are predominantly told from the position of privilege, often to the exclusion of the oppressed and the marginalized who are left to navigate a history that continually posits them as the Other.

Augmenting them with make - up, wigs, glass eyes, as well as interactive sensors and audio components to simulate bodily processes and reactions, Hershman Leeson, like Thek, also encased her modular body parts in materials like Plexiglas or recycled them into site - specific installations, plugging the figures into larger cultural narratives about power, technology and gender.

Her recent work functions as a call to confront the dissonances of our own daily performances, considering how these re-performances of social icons (for example, the figure of the white woman) can become erasures of other cultural narratives.

In High Voltage modernist paintings become conceptual ready - mades into which new cultural narratives are interwoven.

Cultural narrative indeed...

The fairy - tales put out by religions, such dominant cultural narratives throughout history, are examples of powerful collective deceptions.

Look in my face... is a computer - generated montage of tens of thousands of images and sounds drawn from public archives, and is intended as a reflection on shared cultural narratives and memories.

Rowan University Art Gallery at High Street explores built environments, both external and internal, as emblems of a cultural past, present, and future with In / Dwelling: Meditations on Built Environments as Cultural Narrative.