Not exact matches
Among the
questions: «How do you
define your
social class?»
I take this to mean that the whole psychophysical organism is a complex structured society providing a favorable environment for its component societies.1 The
question is whether the soul retains
social order, and so its dominant
defining characteristics, apart from the body.
These
questions lead more directly to
questions about whether we are willing to allow women to
define their own place in society, or are we going to just keep feeding them a line of
social expectations for women, then keep asking them to measure up against it.
Good luck with the «Jesus Christ is a
social object» line It does seem to beg the
question about whether
social objects can be entirely abstract, and whether they need to have common (socially
defined) meaning.
The artists will reflect on cultural constructions and
social frameworks in the special context of China and how all these form individual identities and artistic practices as well as
define relations in the system that we urgently need to
question.
«Mark Bradford has emerged as one of the
defining voices of his generation, and through his deep engagement with the political and
social issues of our time he invites us to
question and rethink history,» she said.
Stephen Prina's The Second Sentence of Everything I Read Is You: Mourning Sex (2005 — 7) has all the markings of a work of institutional critique, that loosely
defined genre of contemporary art that seeks to evaluate and
question the position of art in relationship to various cultural and political contexts.4 Looking beyond the frame of the artwork itself, works of institutional critique recognize that art exists within a discursive field and grapple with the concentric or overlapping circles of spatial, temporal, cultural,
social, economic, and political structures — or «institutions» — that «frame» the work in other ways.