Sentences with phrase «disparate cultural phenomena»

In lieu of a press release, Berlin - based scholar and critic Diedrich Diederichsen — who organized the show in collaboration with Galerie Buchholz codirector Christopher Müller — provided a feature - length work of art - historical exposition drawing comparisons among historically and geographically disparate cultural phenomena, fleshed out by loosely schematic displays of pertinent art and ephemera.

The book finds parallels between the works of luminaries such as Jean - Luc Godard, Joseph Cornell, Elizabeth Price, Joyce Wieland and Jeff Wall, tracing the lasting impact of such seemingly disparate cultural phenomena as voguing, hacking and the use of audio and film as a kind of a globally available, open source language in art that deals with the mass proliferation and dissemination of images and knowledge brought on by digital technologies.