Sentences with phrase «current cultural movements»

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Would either the suffragist movement of the last century or current feminism have emerged from another sort of cultural climate?

DIE WELT ALS LABYRINTH, the title of MAMCO's current exhibition on the Letterist and Situationist International movements, refers to an «unfulfilled project for a Situationist exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1960»: «How to exhibit in a museum people who were systematically opposed to cultural institutions?

Using theory, philosophers, current affairs and pop cultural figures as alibis to help her write, and casts of arguing characters to help her perform, Spooner produces plotless novellas, disjunctive theatre plays, looping monologues and musical arrangements to stage the movement and behaviour of speech.

The discussion will open up a broader examination of current social / cultural movements that mirror our contemporary entrapments.

The exhibition presents a range of artworks in a variety of mediums that reflect upon numerous art movements and current trends in artistic practice to collectively demonstrate the performative potential of materials to actively disrupt and transform fixed cultural perceptions.

The direct appeal to the senses is unabated — in this book, the catalogue for a current exhibition at Danish Louisiana Museum of Modern Art — the movement's place in (pre-digital) cultural history, its heritage in contemporary art and the appeal it still holds is discussed in essays by Tine Colstrup, Matthieu Poirier and Joe Houston.

Visitors will have the opportunity to explore the cultural and artistic riches of a country whose contributions to art not only have enriched the most important international artistic movements, but also have influenced the currents of the modern age through a vision that incorporated inherently Mexican elements.

Pop art was a descendant of Dada, a nihilistic movement current in the 1920s that ridiculed the seriousness of contemporary Parisian art and, more broadly, the political and cultural situation that had brought war to Europe.