Astro Noise at the Whitney Museum of American Art showcases
disorienting works by journalist and filmmaker Laura Poitras.
Add to this, the fact that most of us are continuously living a life full of stress or with
a disoriented work / life balance.
Black - and - white - patterned chevrons are stacked haphazardly in «Untitled (016),»
a disorienting work whose elements seem to vibrate off the canvas.
Not exact matches
But both men, intelligence officers
working under diplomatic cover, would later say they heard sharp,
disorienting sounds in their homes at night.
Of course there are other reasons for my sporadic blogging this year: a surprise new baby coming which completely
disoriented us, a new book to finish writing (and I will share all about that in January), travelling and speaking all over North America, stewarding the message of Jesus Feminist throughout her first year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home, marriage, church, friends, life,
work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?!)
This class of people rarely feels
disoriented by rapid changes in the demographic makeup of society because they see the system
working for them.
In partnership with the City of Boston and leading building owners and managers, Mass Audubon is
working to turn off Boston's architectural and window lighting at night, saving energy, money, and the lives of migratory birds that can become fatally
disoriented by artificial lights.
During the pre-birth course «breastfeeding» wasn't on the agenda so I was totally
disoriented, but three day after birth (when I was giving up) a midwife
working in the hospital was very helpful.
This usually doesn't
work, and kids who do wake are likely to be
disoriented and confused, and may take longer to settle down and go back to sleep.
This is due to the fact that
working out on a full stomach stimulates the abdominal muscles and could cause stomach contents to rumble or be
disoriented in a way.
Special video effects supervisor Michael Lennick reports that the extremity of the material left him feeling «
disoriented» at day's end, but Irwin offers a flip - side observation: «It was no different than anything else, because, again, we were
working with special effects.
While there are standout examples — like Darren Aronofsky's
disorienting, eye - opening Requiem for a Dream, or the achingly beautiful narratives of animated animal - people addicts in BoJack Horseman — sagas like this one usually
work better on the page than on the screen; the brief gloss of film can make drug use seem rather too appealing, while the idea of spending eight TV seasons with an addict seems rather unappealing.
Sometimes it
works, sometimes it's
disorienting.
This
disorienting prose style is the true strength of Day; in fact, it's the key that makes the entire story
work.
It is
disorienting, certainly, and I'm still
working on getting all my digital bearings.
Tabs were not
working and pages pulled up all
disoriented.
Camera angles when switching to first person view are a bit
disorienting, but
work well and can be crucial to your tactical plans.
The first few times you use the OFF system, you will feel a little
disoriented as you scrabble to
work out where you are and what you are actually trying to achieve, but once you get used to it the OFF system is the only way to get past some of the more elite enemies thrown your way in later levels.
In a three - part retrospective that spans the country, James Turrell will transform museum spaces with
works composed of spatially
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While these
works» even, all - over expanses learn from Abstract Expressionism, Celmins» astutely chosen figurative subjects conjure compelling,
disorienting tensions.
Employing both found and made material, her
work makes satirical and exaggerated use of de - and re-contexulized, unassuming fragments extracted from or mimicking the internet and the quotidian, speaking of an emerging, and in ways increasingly
disoriented, generation born into an information matrix that tells the story of who they are and what they desire.
The exhibition's four
works, Krafttremor (2011), Uterusman (2013), Wrathful King Kong Core (2014), and Lu Yang Delusional Mandala (2015) offer an overview of this emerging Chinese artist's distinctive practice, which consistently interweaves a broad range of motifs and references into
disorienting and striking compositions.
His
work frequently combines elements of the everyday with the fantastic, all rendered in psychedelic colours, giving his images a
disorienting and surreal feel.
From the uninhabited spaces of the Pagano paintings and prints to the blunt edges and
disorienting palettes of the Jennings color fields to Dayton's «rocket» missiles, the selected
works seem to be a collective reminder of the frailty of our senses, perhaps the vulnerability of our species itself.
The CCA's inaugural exhibition presents three major video
works by the artists Fiona Tan (
Disorient, 2009), Zarina Bhimji (Yellow Patch, 2011) and Trinh T. Minh - ha (Surname Viet Given Name Nam, 1989) under the title Paradise Lost.
These
works may employ
disorienting illusions of depth and flatness, intensely affecting color, or synesthetic auditory and haptic stimuli to introduce new kinds of sensory experience that in some cases suggest a utopian vision of the future and in others embody critical or ambivalent attitudes towards contemporaneous reality — social, political, and technological.
Baselitz did not paint the figure normally and then turn his painting upside down when he finished, rather he actually painted the figure upside down, a spatially
disorienting method of
working.
This, when considering that the long running Western issue of grouping the large continent together as a whole, has the potential to
disorient the individual natures of the
works.
The only unifying thread amongst the
works is the age range of the artists who made them, resulting in an exhibition that is almost
disorienting in its wide stylistic and thematic breadth.
Visitors look up toward the ceiling, possibly
disoriented, yet the
work neither forcefully pushes them ahead nor puts them under the spell of a steady beat.
In an essay about Diggory's hybrid
work for the March / April (2015) issue of Adirondack Life Magazine, the poet Jay Rogoff describes her hybrid approach as «startling and
disorienting, as well as beautiful,» with «mysterious, absorbing blends.»
These tubes disrupt the notion of tableau in art and
disorient the viewer: Should the
works be framed mentally as paintings, sculptures, faces, or all three at once?
This clip was the stimulus behind Wolfson's virtual reality
work «Real violence» (2017, in which the manic brutality of a witness's iPhone video of real - life violence is translated into a heightened,
disorienting, and contextless experience.
Both injecting and taking advantages of these online - based specificities into their creative processes, Adam Ferriss, Jesse R. Fleming, Hsinyu Lin, Peter Lu, Neil Mendoza, and Theo Triantafyllidis unveil never - seen - before series of
works that breathe life into an intentionally
disorienting exhibition quasi-reminiscent of Richard Dawkins» theories.
«Skip - Ad; Play,» featuring the
work of many current and recent Glasgow School of Art MFA students and friends, covers the room in a charmingly
disorienting green screen - print, while a few floors below more textiles can be found and purchased in the the wearable art PEEL - EZ showroom.
Saliha Kasap's insect - like cityscape photo collages relate to Marcie Kaufman's
disorienting industrial images, and Elif Oner's videos depicting dreamlike, mystical, timeless spaces corresponds with land art by Australian artist Andrew Rogers whose
work is concurrently on display at the main gallery.
In each
work, he seeks to create an atmosphere that will draw the viewer into an intense and sometimes
disorienting perceptual experience.
On first glance these
works appear unfamiliar and spatially
disorienting, not seeming to align with any recognisable world, but on closer inspection biomorphic and geological scenes start to emerge on the compactly painted surface depicting rocks, trees, houses, traces of insects, birds and other elements native to his surroundings.
Interestingly, some of Knoebel's luminous,
disorienting black - and - white photographic
works from 1968 are similar to architectural slicings that Gordon Matta - Clark was conducting at that time.
For these
works Bickerton designs intricate stage sets and paints directly onto his models, their clothes, and props, photographing them and then editing the images during post-production to create hyper - realistic yet artificial and
disorienting scenes.
All of his important series of prints will be featured: the
work with Tamarind Lithography Workshop in the mid-1960s; a selection from his
disorienting series of maze - like lithographs; and all three volumes of «The Dennis Hopper One Man Show,» a series of etchings based on engraving collages.
Riley's
works were exploring the dynamism of sight, producing a
disorienting effect on th...
«Louis's
works explore the boundary between representation and abstraction, posing questions about how the human brain responds to images that are, at once, familiar and
disorienting.»
«Pepe's
work is an invasion of the exhibition space: it is a seemingly chaotic assemblage of insultingly «low» materials that
disorients the viewer and forces bodily interaction, including, at the very least, stepping around, stooping under, looking up, looking through, and exercising faculties of mind and imagination....
Charged with its own faculty, with intention and identity stripped away, the
work projects the
disorienting aura of vicarious hallucination.
The
works will range from wraithlike sculptural
works like Ground Control (2008), a black helium balloon that moves around slowly and freely in one of the gallery spaces, to video
works like Dream Machine (2006), in which the three primary colors alternate frame by frame at 24 frames per second, producing a jarring,
disorienting effect on the viewer.
Working in a variety of media including collage, sculpture and drawing, Baxter's goal is to
disorient and disrupt accepted boundaries as he questions common perceptions of the mundane.
The
work also functions as a visual echo chamber as it becomes
disorienting when many viewers are in the gallery and their silhouettes are confused by the scrims.
Serra's
work disorients you and compels exploration.
Much of her
work leads nowhere, so to speak, in that Sosnowska perpetually captures and explores the in - between: liminal, transitory, unstable, and
disorienting constructions that are as much about presence as the gaps or spaces they create in absentia.