Sentences with phrase «cultural narratives about»

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.

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They also showcase stories of Indigenous women and cultural knowledge through their products and facilitate a powerful and positive narrative about Indigenous women and their cultures.

This book is about the historical, cultural background to the birth narratives of Jesus in the Gospels.

The narrative provides stirring testimony that convictions about God's power conveyed in the literature of the Old Testament move well beyond what the ancient Israelites inherited from their cultural surroundings.

I, Tonya is about collective cultural abuse and how media - spun narratives can instantly blossom into infamous legacies.

And while Phi and Bui are telling a specific story about a Vietnamese American experience, there are many touchstones to other cultural experiences in the narrative, which will resonate more widely with readers and, hopefully, generate some much - needed empathy with others.

Whether you're scouting hotels and restaurants for a guidebook, blogging about your cultural faux pas on your website or selling a travel narrative to a national newspaper, the backbone of every great travel tale is solid base of on - location research...

If by «story» we're talking about the narrative material that occurs entirely outside of game play (such as cut scenes), then there is some truth to this, but even then it's all too easy to be distracted by personal or cultural prejudices.

Recently awarded a USA Artist Fellowship, Lynn Hershman Leeson speaks about cultural technologies, personal narratives and alter egos

While the exhibition's heart looks at the work of Chicanx artists in Los Angeles, it reveals extensive new research into the collaborative networks that connected these artists to one another and to artists from many different communities, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, and international urban centers, thus deepening and expanding narratives about the development of the Chicano Art Movement, performance art, and queer aesthetics and practices.

A combination of sculpture, painting, printmaking, video and installation bringing about various overlapping conversations and exploring the way we interpret cultural, religious and personal narrative in a way that gives the viewer a glimpse into something uncanny.

As complex and layered as memory itself, these artworks communicate personal histories, transmit or challenge social and cultural narratives, and reveal stories about their material lives.

Thomas Crow's paradigm - changing book, The Long March of Pop: Art, Music, and Design, 1930 — 1995, challenges existing narratives about the rise of Pop Art by situating it within larger cultural tides.

Dick Hebdige, recentMitchell Center Visiting Scholar, is a cultural critic who was invited to the campus for a series of three multimedia lecture performances, including the riveting X Syndrome: Vertigo and Autobiography, an intensely «personal» narrative about an ascent into and out ofmadness.

Park's (b. 1912) photographic narratives offer dialogues about the cultural, social and political tensions existing in America.

By replacing the typical European aristocrats depicted in those paintings with contemporary black subjects, Wiley is able to draw attention to the absence of African Americans from historical and cultural narratives and raise questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation.

One of the most thought - provoking catalogue narratives is Ligon's «Blue Black,» which discusses the challenges Ofili has faced (and continues to face) in attempting to transition from centralizing concerns about identity, «race,» and social exclusion toward more nuanced and entangled representations focused on cultural syncretism, creolization, and hybridity.

Comics in Art at the Museum fur Moderne Kunst in Bremen, Siemon Allen strategically cuts up, splices and erases original Tintin comic strips by Hergé to create a large single panel that raises questions about language, cultural perspective and the contingent nature of narrative.

Standouts include Carrie Mae Weems» holographic narrative about race, sex, and politics portrayed by ghostly characters on a burlesque stage; The Propeller Group's video that draws parallels between funeral practices in Vietnam and New Orleans, along with the collective's sculptures of tricked - out musical instruments, which were also photographed with members of Louisiana marching bands; Glenn Kaino's installation of water tanks that turn military machines into coral reefs; Jean - Michel Basquiat's paintings and works on paper that reference the cultural legacy of the Mississippi Delta and the South; Camille Henrot's video exploration of the universe by way of the storage rooms of the Smithsonian Institution; Tavares Strachan's 100 - foot long neon sign declaring «You belong here» from a barge on the Mississippi River; and Andrea Fraser's monologue, in which she recreated a heated debate by New Orleans city council members during a 1991 vote to racially integrate the Mardi Gras krewes — changing her voice and expression as she dynamically alternated between speakers, both black and white.

When the Mark Bradford show was at SFMOMA you and I talked about cultural expectations and the biographical narrative of an artist of color, and of course I've been thinking a lot about your work and the narrative that's becoming linked to your work.

Hamon compares the powerful lunar pull that prompted so many millions to look skyward Sunday night to a sustainability researcher's comment about the lack of a human «cultural narrative» for planetary care in my coverage of Pope Francis.

There's certainly as much need for skepticism about (at least) the «C» in CAGW (the major narrative component), as there is for say all religious narratives, or the social cross-coalition of Eugenics and anti-semitism in 1930s Germany, or Lynsenkoism (a cultural component of Stalinism).

== -LCB- So the difficult thing about embracing and properly considering all said factoids, is how to do this without prompting the emotional responses that immediately occur when people's cultural values are either challenged or promoted, which leads to endemic domain polarization and the emergence of cultural consensus based upon the winning narrative. -RCB-

So the difficult thing about embracing and properly considering all said factoids, is how to do this without prompting the emotional responses that immediately occur when people's cultural values are either challenged or promoted, which leads to endemic domain polarization and the emergence of cultural consensus based upon the winning narrative.

Even if individuals are not deeply knowledgeable about climate change, they can be motivated and engaged through cultural narratives.

I see that your cascade info comes from the the Stanford Law Review; the CAGW Memeplex also has a large section deriving from the legal domain, based on a paper from Duke Law, about how the law is partly about protecting us from cultural / narrative takeover, yet can also be subverted by such takeovers if they get past our defences.