Goshka Macuga also makes extensive use of
existing cultural material.
Not exact matches
So, the term «extended breastfeeding» assumes that the specific
cultural and
material conditions that middle - and upper - class contemporary Westerners experience — widespread misunderstanding and stigma surrounding women's breasts and children's biology; widespread availability of commercial formula; clean water to prepare it with; the time and space to wash, sterilize, and store bottles, and so forth — are «normal,» while literally everything that has ever
existed outside of this limited
cultural experience and relatively short, unique period in time is somehow abnormal.
As a solution, she suggests that teachers and students should consider themselves researchers who expose the flaws of
existing curricular
materials and generate their own
materials through archival research, oral histories,
cultural exchanges, and visits to multicultural communities and institutions.
Since 1975, you have taken
existing materials and presented them on a different plane, encouraging viewers to look at the
material or remnant not only as a poetic image, but as a doubling of reality in a physical and
cultural sense, as Germano Celant described it in «Object and Display» (2015).
In Sui Jianguo's hands, however, stone is a
material that
exists independently of any
cultural baggage.
Across his work, Locke's ability to fuse
existing material and historic sources with his own political or
cultural concerns, whether via visual juxtapositions or through the re-working of a pre-
existing object or photograph, leads to witty and innovative amalgamations of history and modernity.
Kennedy uses elements of Brooklyn neighborhoods as
materials (as one sees in Coat of Arms), and as microcosmic examples that bring light to the power and socio -
cultural issues that
exist worldwide.
The videos I have in mind would either discuss novel
material within
existing theoretical approaches (scenario A), or little - known / obscure
cultural practices, so both should be new contributions in some sense, which will hopefully pass Youtube's «filters».