#globalization #museums #access #representation #decolonization #history A recent conference at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, «Collecting Geographies — Global Programming and Museums of Modern Art,» invited participants to question the responsibilities accrued to arts institutions when they present works of global
cultural production as a response to market interest.
The jabbering, edgeless context of the Internet inevitably hovers over such work, as it does contemporary
cultural production as a whole.
Not exact matches
The 225,000 - square foot
production facility in Collingwood, Ontario functions
as a custom fabrication shop, supplying glass to a variety of
cultural, residential, commercial, and retail projects including over 100 Apple Stores in North America.
This means not only that we are approaching the texts
as fully human
productions — I point out that statements of divine inspiration are statements concerning ultimate origin and authority, not method of composition - but even more that we take seriously that aspect of literature of most interest to
cultural anthropologists: how it gives symbolic expression to human experience.
By setting his, discussion in the context of a dialectic (externalization, objectification, internalization), he has in effect stressed the importance of social interaction for the
production and maintenance of religion but at the same time he has recognized the independent capacity of religion to exist
as a
cultural system and to shape individual thoughts and attitudes.
What we have, then,
as a general framework implicit in these studies is a three - factor model of
cultural production.
If understanding is a closure of meaning that includes an encounter with the alterity of the text, how can the
production of meaning comprehend the complexity of the text
as both a «
cultural speech performance» (29) and a code of linguistic signs?
An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain
cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture
as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).
It also could provide a means whereby other influential factors could be investigated and addressed, such
as differences in the social and economic purposes of broadcasting, the social sources of violence and how media portrayals interact with those causes, how the restraints and traditions of media
production cause the media to pick up particular
cultural images while ignoring others, and how particular audiences respond to and use media images.
By implementing organic farming
as an alternative
production system, growers may substitute
cultural and biological inputs for synthetically - made chemicals and fertilizers... Continued
As agricultural researchers, we need to utilise our skills in communication and
cultural literacy, to implement supply chain efficiency and improved
production processes that fit within the community we are working in.
Also at 9:30 a.m., the Lehman College Center for Human Rights & Peace Studies hosts its eighth annual conference, Artist
as Witness:
Cultural Production, Conflict, and Human Rights in Syria, Lehman College, 250 Bedford Park Blvd. W., East Dining Room, Music Building, the Bronx.
These include food
production, alongside supporting services such
as soil development, regulating services such
as pest control and climate regulation and
cultural services such
as the use of the grassland for recreation.
Once they learned to grow enough food to nourish those not directly involved in its
production, it was not far to civilization — broadly defined
as a society endowed with government, social classes, urban centers, extensive trade, and widespread
cultural influence.
And, anchored by gorgeous
production design and the pop naturalism of its performances, How to Make It in America dramatizes this particular
cultural moment with uncommon style and a little grace
as well.
While Lelio admits that the subject matter alone required substantial research and
as many
as 10 consultants throughout
production («At the beginning it was a bit paralyzing... because we wanted to really get it right in terms of the
cultural texture and all the
cultural nuances»), in the end, it simply came down to the emotional truths of these star - crossed women onscreen.
This definitive release recycles Altman's excellent DVD commentary and adds enticing new features, such
as a rare - for - Criterion retrospective documentary where the likes of actors Rene Auberjonois and Keith Carradine reflect on the film's
production and its
cultural moment.
The Sundance Institute Theatre Program works in «the space in - between» an artist's idea and a project's
production as well
as opening up new spaces of aesthetic,
cultural and geographic exploration
The disappointing level of
production in Cuban cinema was mitigated by the award - winning director Carlos Lechuga's Santa y Andrés (Santa and Andrés, Carlos Lechuga, 2016); a low budget
production (
as most current independent Cuban films are), which came to fill a gap in Cuba Cinema, a return to our essence and roots through a commitment to the
cultural soul of the nation.
They represent the culmination of a
cultural change that began
as the 1980s indie film movement shifted control of American film
production away from the major studios to the entrepreneurship of individual (not necessarily «independent») outsiders.
We are aware that
as a response and reaction to the predominant presence of social theories rooted in the West, there is a growing recognition of and movement towards understanding theories through the wide range of diverse contextual and
cultural perspectives available in the East, and that the
production of local theories have started a long time ago.
Yorkville was a place where, potentially, you could develop a more discerning eye for understanding the
production of culture and sometimes come to recognize the coincidence between mass
cultural production and the regression of one's own intellect,
as bikers, greasers, hippies, teenyboppers, and sometimes political organizers, congregated in the coffee shops and flop houses, or just hung out on the streets, all pretending that we were creating a new society free from the normative shackles of conventional morality and lifestyle but basically we were looking for drugs, sex and rock and roll and our twenty minutes of fame.
Despite Gutenberg's
cultural status
as the forebear of the modern book
production process — Time magazine named him «Person of the Millennium» in 1999 — relatively little is known about the details of his life.
Tezuka Productions — the Japanese
production studio founded by the Father of Manga, Osamu Tezuka, and brought to the anime and manga fandom famous works that stirred controversial, political and
cultural awareness to the masses since the 50's, for such titles
as Astro Boy, Unico, Budda, Blackjack, etc. — specifically appointed the Digital Manga Guild to localize their library to English, and then eventually to other languages.
Comprised of a range of works on paper
as well
as two large - scale sculptures previously shown at last year's Venice Biennale, Moran explores the intersection of American history with that of
cultural production — namely jazz and art.
As the consumption cycle of advanced multinational corporate capitalism was sped up in order to sustain the
production of luxury goods,
cultural production became more and more mass - commodity
production.
Made in Germany is being organized
as a project that will — for the first time in this regard — demonstrate artistic
production in Germany
as an interdependent network of national circumstances, differing biographical and national specifics
as well
as the ensuing
cultural exchange.
She is continually exploring what it means -
as an artists - to take the role of an observer, and how that type of action can be documented and presented in the context of
cultural production.
One argument of Merge (IV) could be that the aesthetic of a natural process can be a
cultural production; one must be
as suspicious of assumptions of the natural
as those of the synthetic.
With a focus upon contemporary art since the 1960s, MUMA seeks to establish the museum
as a dynamic site for
cultural production, pedagogy and participation — through exhibitions, collection development, curatorial research, publishing, and academic and community engagement.
Through living and working in Detroit, Barr and Rice have identified Detroit's collapsed economy
as the first post-industrial American city, yet simultaneously a breeding ground for new strategies of
cultural production.
The program offers a wide range of voices in dialogue, exploring the topics of contemporary art, theory, and
cultural production by emerging and established visiting artists,
as well
as members of UCSB's faculty and graduate students.
Some employ making
as a form of politics, others explore how race and
cultural production affect aesthetics, while still others combine these methods or create their own.
As you will see in the exhibition, each of these artists successfully melds formal aesthetics and personal experiences with
cultural production.»
After one year in the space they shut down operations, and from 1981 until they ceased activities in 1996, Group Material constituted a flexible membership of three to five artists who organized projects in the public sphere — function
as a medium for collective
cultural production and public address.
Harlem Postcards is an ongoing project that invites contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem
as a site of
cultural activity, political vitality, visual stimuli, artistic contemplation and creative
production.
Sietsema is not interested in trompe - l'oeil for the sake of showing off; at the end of the day, his paintings and works on paper are a highly considered critique of the
production of
cultural objects and the roles that they play
as they circulate.
While there is no theme this year
as such, we're hunting for work that experiments and explores in general, crossing disciplinary boundaries, challenging established notions of time and space,
cultural production, and the objet d'art itself.
While Mike Kelley took this up in the 1980s, and artists such
as Sheila Pepe, Sheila Hicks, and Josh Faught have plotted other trajectories of textile in the expanded field, Susan Cianciolo's work reopens these questions surrounding the matriarch, the amateur, artisanship, and collectivity in the context of the accelerated speed of contemporary
cultural production.
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as: 315 Gallery, Aidan Alexis Koch, Alex Hovet, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Anna Sagström, Annie Rose, babycastles, Bailey Scieszka, brad troemel, Cecilia Salama, Chuck Charlotte, Clemente Soto Vélez
Cultural & Educational Center, Daniel Johnson, Diamond Stingily, DJ Wtchcrft, Elizabeth Englander, Elizabeth Jaeger, Erin Davis, Fatty Spice, Gabrielle Mertz, Galerie Richard, Greg Ito, Jacqueline Marie, JessAudrey, John O'Connor, joshua citarella, Keltie Ferris, La'Shaune Steward, Laura Marie, Lauren Marsolier, Lee Maida, Matthew Herrmann, Max C Lee, Mumbo's Outfit, New York Studio School, PervvyPanda, Phaan Howng, Phillip Vanderhyden, Pierogi, PS160, Rachele Cateyes, Rin Johnson, Rochelle Brock, Sam McKinniss, Shoog McDaniel, Sonya Belakhlef, Sophia Narrett, Steel Stillman, Stephen Grebinski, Tawni Staples, team gallery, Tetsumi Kudo, uv
production house, Wee Girls Club
A reference to fifty - four countries that constitute the African continent, the title of 1 - 54 establishes the parameters of the fair's ethos:
as a platform that strives to represent multiplicity and showcase the diversity of contemporary African art and
cultural production on an international stage.
In its inaugural year, the Southeast Queens Biennial: A Locus of Moving Points identifies movement
as an organizing principle for understanding Southeast Queens
as a gateway for travel and a source of
cultural production and exchange deeply rooted in its immigrant communities.
Playful in tone and less reliant upon the exploitative construct of the case - study scenario in such large scale video projects
as Them, 2007, and Repetition, 2005, Artur Zmijewski's earlier videos stand in contrast to these somewhat over-determined provocations; while recent Zmijewski
productions have adopted a nearly formulaic approach to positioning
cultural difference and conflict, and thereby seem to codify the subject
as «other» a priori — a risk that critic and art historian Hal Foster has insightfully called the «self - othering» of «the artist
as ethnographer» — three earlier Zmijewski works engage a simpler, more agile approach.
By bringing pivotal works to diverse communities, The Art
Production Fund hopes to reach wide audiences and reduce the physical
as well
as the psychic distance of
cultural, class, linguistic, racial and income barriers that hinder participation in contemporary art.
The mission of the Mark Morris Dance Group is to develop, promote, and sustain dance, music, and opera
productions by Mark Morris and to serve
as a
cultural resource to engage and enrich the community.
identifies movement
as an organizing principle for understanding Southeast Queens
as a gateway for travel,
cultural production and exchange deeply rooted in its immigrant communities.
The research project aims to investigate the heritage of documentary practices in contemporary art in relation to the history of film, documentary photography, television and video art,
as well
as to situate these contemporary documentary practices within current
cultural production.
1965 - 1975» depicts the energy of the
cultural environment of this American city
as a center for figurative
production,
as well
as the heterogeneity of the contributions of some artists known
as Chicago Imagists (Roger Brown, Ed Flood, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca and Karl Wirsum), who had identified the roots of their personal research in Surrealism and Art Brut, in a way that anticipated the new tendencies of the 80's and 90's, from Graffiti to Street Art, from wild cartoons to urban murals.
While delving into one of the most primordial and complex systems of communication, that of clothing, Huanca conveys distinctive and precise observations on the function of the garment,
as an ever evolving manner of language
production and a traditional form of
cultural transmission.
Duchamp's decision to show a urinal in a gallery would become known
as one of the most important gestures in what's called «Conceptual Art,» or art that asks us to question our most fundamental understandings of
cultural value and artistic
production.