Sentences with phrase «dominant narrative»

Using the media to change dominant narratives and support grassroots organizing.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, de la Loza's work disrupts dominant narratives of Los Angeles as she simultaneously explores the potential of culture to affect the everyday through archival, research - based, documentary and interventionist projects.

Polygraphs explores how artists create alternative discourses to question dominant narratives in identity, politics and history.

This exhibition brings together artists that not only continue to use Chicano aesthetics but also uphold the use of art as a means of challenging dominant narratives.

Her current book project analyzes Surrealism's reception in the U.S. and argues that Surrealism worked as a powerful agitator to disrupt dominant narratives of modern and contemporary art in the United States.

I leverage sculptural installations, experiential technology collaborations, olfactory art and participatory performances to shift dominant narratives.

She will use her time here to expand on a her Black Lunch Table and Wikipediathons performance pieces to document the agency it affords the participant, questioning dominant narratives and creating alternatives to them.

Equally engaged with social and political histories, and the history of art, Colescott, Marshall, and Thomas have created works that at times poignantly and satirically critique dominant narratives and posit alternatives.

Two of the most dominant narratives in college football right now are a) the SEC is awesome, and b) SEC defenses are even more awesome.

The resulting dominant narrative of scientific engagement with these communities emphasizes techno - centric constructions of the issue.

«[I] n spite of his personal political commitment to openness,» the reviewers write, «Delfanti elegantly dismisses dominant narratives that portray open science (in particular, open biology) as an up - to - date version of the traditional Mertonian norms now endangered by corporate neoliberalism.

Students engage in a unit on media literacy, extrapolating dominant narratives and creating counter-narratives.

Consistent with this background, the collective uses its work to propose new mythologies that combat dominant narratives: it challenges perceptions of Vietnam held in the American imagination and explores the relationships between memory, history, and the present.

I am interested in not only creating a site - specific liminal space for personal reclamation but also in unpacking dominant narratives and creating alternatives to them.»

98weeks A Program Schedule November 4 — 6th, 3 — 7 pm: On the city, a selection of videos and works that disclose urban narratives on contemporary Beirut, revealing aspects of the city and its history that have not yet been subsumed under dominant narratives or popular clichés.

Gaitán's curatorial statement, for example, talks about how the process of the post-Cold War development of Berlin «reflects a larger tendency around the world to mobilize history in order to reflect certain dominant narratives».

Re-examining social responsibility and cultural agency, this exhibition will survey a conceptual and visceral people's history with power structures, navigating dominant narratives and representation, and possibilities for resistance.

The highlighted films were selected based on their contemplative views of the Syrian crisis and their engagement with the history of cinema as a means of subverting dominant narratives.

Cameron's use of textiles, with its gentle irony and humour, critiques culturally dominant narratives of the virgin / whore dichotomy by conflating them.

Through nearly 100 objects, the show aims to upend dominant narratives of the period and to unearth rich stories by examining watershed cultural moments from the Hairy Who to the Wall of Respect, from the Civil Rights movement to the AfriCOBRA, from vivid protest posters to visionary outsider art, and from the Free University movement to the radical jazz of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

Irreverent perhaps and potentially off - piste for contemporary systemic family therapy but enriched by our other dominant narrative of valuing multiple perspectives.

Organizations that communicate about violence, on the other hand, focus on one single dominant narrative, thereby missing opportunities to explore the breadth of the issue.

He voiced his reservations about the «dominant narrative of heroic achievement and disability bravely overcome», arguing that it was unfair to take Paralympians as representative of disabled people, many of whom suffer «pain and loneliness», which we collectively are unwilling to confront.

Candidates from these three parties would challenge the dominant narrative that the two conservative parties are the only contenders in the next provincial election.

The WHY is the dominant Narrative of a market, the set of tectonic plates on which investment terra firma rests.

They're not anti-Semites, oh no no no, they're just asking questions, probing the evidence, raising matters for consideration, exploring anomalies in the data, pointing out problems with the dominant narrative — just being good (if continually misunderstood) historians.

I remember that resisting the church's dominant narrative is still a hand - slappable offense.

If Romney had had a good debate performance last week, the dominant narrative out of the major network news would have been to question whether Romney's aggressive performance had been racist or merely racially insensitive.

So long as the dominant narrative of individual choice aimed at the satisfaction of appetite and consumption dominates in the personal or economic realms, the ethic of liberalism will continue to dominate our society.

But my sense is that the «three dimensional» narrative I propose has a lot more to offer long - term, even though it's harder for devotees of the dominant narrative to accept short - term.

I think there has been a minority report in the West — St. Patrick, St. Francis, Duns Scotus, the Anabaptists, liberation theology, black theology, feminist theology, eco-theology, postcolonial theology - and they're providing alternatives to the dominant narrative that I think is inherently dangerous.

And there is a real lack of resources for people who don't fit the dominant narrative of Christian marriages for whatever reason, too.

At least we leave open the thought that Satan acts subtly and by indirection, perhaps by including us in a dominant narrative that makes promises about security and happiness that can not be kept.

Up until the point that you get married, the dominant narrative in our society is that (A) true love exists, and (B) everything is worth ditching in exchange for getting true love.

«Up until the point that you get married, the dominant narrative in our society is that (A) true love exists, and (B) everything is worth ditching in exchange for getting true love,» Astro says.

Some individual Democratic candidates have begun to use the Affordable Care Act as a positive in their campaigns, but most seem to have internalized the chattering class's dominant narrative, that Obamacare is a Democratic albatross.

[ii] Yet, the dominant narrative is the standard post-9 / 11 justification of fighting the terrorists abroad before we have to fight them at home.

At the same time, the growing legitimacy drawn from neurosciences in understanding and explaining political phenomena has served to address shortcomings of the dominant narratives of the 20th century (Marxism, psychoanalysis, Kantian rationalism in political theory).

Some of the governor's allies have already hinted that corruption — not legislation — is (once again) the dominant narrative out of Albany this year, dragging down Cuomo's numbers.

Throughout the campaign — and up until the very last round of election polls — the dominant narrative of the election outcome predicted another coalition government, this one with Ed Miliband as the prime minister.

Articles made comparisons to mundane, low - level forms of radiation; defined the risks as unknowable, given the lack of long - term studies; and largely excluded concerns expressed by experts and residents who challenged the dominant narrative.

The dominant narrative, constructed by wartime Dutch - US physicist Samuel Goudsmit, was that the «unfree society» of the Nazi physicists closed them to the necessary information.

The dominant narratives in our society paint a picture of happiness and ease, and fashion, beauty, weight loss, and pharmaceutical industries make a lot of money telling you there's something wrong with you if you're not calm and / or happy all the time.

Well, in the dominant narrative at least.

Looking back to celebrate these groundbreaking storytellers reframes and expands the dominant narrative typically recounted about American independent film.

Do movies work in tandem with the press, or challenge the dominant narratives?