Sentences with phrase «for cultural memory»

Young's project, as well as the other three, emphasized architectural place as a touchstone for cultural memory; stressed community involvement in the construction and reception of the work; and reflected upon how a historically black neighborhood has consistently and creatively attended to its own needs despite meager resources and the continued trauma of structured inequality.
And a thousand years from now, if someone is wondering about what we twenty - first century humans were like, searching for our cultural memories, they might turn to our sitcoms, documentaries, and reality shows for answers as records of shared experience.

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In this hope, instead of merely co-existing with the Babylonians, gnawed by memories of former cultural acceptance, the Jews in Babylon were to strive for the good of their city, the growth of the people of God, and their resulting testimony to the glory of God.
As Gutjahr puts it, «a text that had provided the nation with a source of shared cultural memory and language for nearly two centuries would find itself increasingly «ghetto «ized» among specific, more Protestant segments of the nation's population.»
Most often, we do not even know that a battle for our mind is underway, but our minds are constantly bombarded from every direction, through our five senses, through the spiritual realm, through cultural and social pressure, through memories and imagination, and through a wide variety of other sources.
The inventory for privatization now includes the accumulated knowledge and memory of the people, the cultural and religious wisdom as well as symbols and people's ability to find pleasure are reduced as a commodity in the market place.
By accepting from Austin and Holmes an overly sharp distinction between law and morality, by largely abandoning the search for the common good, and by permitting individual liberty or equality to trump most other values, mainstream American law may have had a part in fostering a set of cultural conditions inhospitable to communities of memory and mutual aid.
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To distance Huawei's meetings from the still - fresh memories of humiliating public denunciations during the Cultural Revolution, Ren likened Huawei's practice of self - criticism to «hitting yourself with a soft pillow: though the blows are gentle, they will remind you to constantly strive for better performance.»
Erie County's 2015 budget, proposed last month by County Executive Mark Poloncarz and approved with minor amendments by the legislature in one of the least contentious budget processes in memory, includes about a 1.4 percent increase in funding for local cultural organizations.
«These findings - and others from the same project which show how important places are for our personal and cultural memories, and for enabling us to stay connected socially - have implications for the way we design for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities so that going outdoors in younger years becomes a lifelong passion for getting out and about.»
From pop - stars to monster trucks, My Little Pony to Power Rangers, the act of taking cultural motifs and, literally, sticking them to our belongings is a fond childhood memory for millions, including Hindmarch.
Once T'Challa's true challenge is revealed, «Black Panther» becomes something deeper than the mere formation of one superhero, engaging such subjects as: the legacy of colonialism; collective memory and interior geography; the tension between autonomy and social conscience; and the need for solidarity within an African diaspora at political and cultural odds with itself.
In The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory and the Digital Dark Age, Paolo Cherchi Usai noted that the Zapruder tape sold in August 1999 for $ 16 million, at that time making it «the largest amount ever paid for a motion picture artefact» 2 Eight years earlier, Oliver Stone made this material the centrepiece of his Oscar - winning blockbuster JFK.
Useful revision resource for computer science which covers the following topics: System Architecture Memory Storage Wired and Wireless Networks Network Topologies, Layers and Protocols System Security System Software Ethical, Legal, Cultural and environmental concerns All topic have a range of exam style questions taken from previous exam papers to support with revision.
We are providing a 21st century approach to its observance not just by recharging memory, but through an artistic reflection with a balanced affirmation of Hispanic heritage and indigenous traditions for collaborative new routes of expression from ancestral roots focused on the concerns of UNESCO: Cultural Rapprochement, Biodiversity, Ocean Care and Seafaring, Climate Change mitigation through sustainable energy, reforestation, gender equity and health issues.
This short getaway combines renowned icons and gorges of the region with a unique Aboriginal cultural experience that will etch the Kimberley into your memory for years to come.
With one week in Bhutan, you can explore the cultural heart of this country, making memories that will last for a lifetime.
As cultural centre of the Zhejiang province and famous for its natural beauty and historical and heritage sites, Hangzhou is a prime destination in China that will provide pleasurable stays and memories.
The exhibition, which features installations as well as drawings, examines the Russian artist's «lifelong research and quest for preserving cultural memory within the undefined terrains of the Antarctic Circle,» according to a press release.
We discuss, among other topics, about photography in the Middle East with Peggy Sue Amison, artistic director at East Wing; net art and networked cultures with Josephine Bosma, Amsterdam - based journalist and critic; urban digital art and criticality in the media city with curator and researcher Tanya Toft; art and technology with curator Chris Romero; the politics of surveillance and international security with political scientist David Barnard - Wills; art and architecture with Maaike Lauwaert, visual arts curator at Stroom, an independent centre for art and architecture in the Netherlands; the intersections of art, law and science with curator and cultural manager Daniela Silvestrin; the architecture of sacred places with curator Jumana Ghouth; the historical legacy of feminism today with Betty Tompkins and Marilyn Minter; hacktivism and net culture with curator and researcher Tatiana Bazzichelli; culture, place and memory with Norie Neumark, director of the Centre for Creative Arts in Melbourne; anthropology and the tactical use of post-digital technologies with artist and philosopher Mitra Azar; or feminism and the digital arts with curator Tina Sauerländer.
He painted his first flag in 1955, only a year after Senator McCarthy's censure, with memories still fresh of cultural figures grilled on Congress — and he would not consent to a public display for three full years.
2011 Kessler conversations: In Memory of Monique Wittig, Simone Leigh and Chitra Ganesh, CLAGS, November 28, 2011, moderated by Dean Daderko, CUNY Graduate Center Caribbean Cultural Production, The Caribbean Epistemologies Symposium, March 29, 2011, Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center Parsons School of the Arts, Visiting Artist Lecture organized by Coco Fusco
«When artists are battling for space in the cultural memory, omission — or even worse — eradication becomes a kind of murder,» Hershman Leeson says in her 2010 film!
For a public symposium held on January 19, 2018, Miguel de Baca further explores ideas first introduced in his book Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture by considering Truitt's oeuvre in the context of the cultural practice of historic preservation and the idea of the 20th - century «monument.»
Historic, cultural and personal memory represents, for a few of them, an impulse towards new researches, that seem to respond to the quote of the American psychologist Burrhus Frederic Skinner, «Culture is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten».
Her recent «O King» project was included in 2006 Women's Caucus for Art National Conference panel on «Public Memory» and exhibited as a solo exhibition at The Cambridge Multi Cultural Center in Cambridge, MA.
A public garden and cultural center located in the Bronx, Wave Hill's spring show acknowledges the continued need for activism and cultural production that builds bonds across lines of identity and difference, informing and empowering individual and collective memory.
In that sense, discarded materials involving collective memories constitute the catalyst for a political and aesthetic reflection on cultural renewal and social activism.
Additional support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Milton and Dorothy Sarnoff Raymond Foundation in memory of Sandy and Lynn Laitman; the Amelia Peabody Foundation; Holly Swett; the Feigenbaum Foundation; John Hancock; the Massachusetts Cultural Council; the C & P Buttenwieser Foundation; the Berkshire Bank Foundation — Legacy Region; Price Chopper's Golub Foundation; the Gateway Fund and the William and Margery Barrett Fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation; and an anonymous donor.
Over the past three decades, Steinbach has become known for his sculptures that place ordinary objects on display — some purchased, others borrowed — to explore the intersection of our personal desires, memories, and cultural values.
After the recent seeming destruction of the iconic Eduardo Paolozzi mosaic arches at Tottenham Court Road station, by Transport for London — an act that Artlyst believed to be one of the greatest acts of cultural vandalism in recent memory — It would now appear that the iconic work was in fact removed to a -LSB-...]
They also draw on contemporary American art, the kind with too short a memory for art history or cultural anthropology.
In collaboration with the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, we have trained community volunteers to document cultural resources, memories, and histories in the Pico neighborhood of Santa Monica.
For sculptural works, using materials such as steel plates, cubes and horizontal stone slabs, Khan sandblasts the surface with templates of musical scores or prayers, continuing his investigation into the ways in which cultural, visual, cinematic and temporal memories coalesce into a dense, synesthetic whole.
At the same time, she exposes societal norms and cultural memory for what they are: collective and constructed.
It was both a cultural symbol and a shared memory for many generations.
Through audio and images, the installation considered specifically the arts as a system for connecting knowledge, ideas, and cultural memory.
Now for his solo show at OUTLET, Berman brings us splices of artistic cultural influence from Japanese Ukiyo - e prints to Aztec myths, with an interplay between fact, memory and fiction, reflecting upon his own history of displacement and relocation.
An international figure in architecture and urban design, the architect Daniel Libeskind is renowned for his ability to evoke cultural memory in buildings of equilibrium - defying contemporaneity.
Their simultaneous presence and absence within the works connotes the violence associated with erasing a disturbing or painful cultural memory while still having them identifiable for posterity.
According to Benzant, «Afrospanglish explores and develops many of the original, ideographic, visual strategies of the Signatures series but also incorporates the idea of conflating personal cosmology and abstract - figuration that generate compositions characterized by large heads which function as conduits or metaphors for cultural / personal memory, inner - worlds, ancestors, spirits or universes akin to the cosmology of Bakongo - derived ritual charms known as nkisi.
Presenting both large - scale installations and works on paper, Stored in Ice, examines the artist's lifelong research and quest for preserving cultural memory within the undefined terrains of the Antarctic Circle.
Zarina Bhimji is a photographer and filmmaker renowned for her haunting images that interweave geopolitics, cultural memory, and personal narrative.
This collection of more than 100 works spanning from Baselitz's earliest years to the present day offers an unparalleled overview of his oeuvre, as well as insight into the subtle changes that have come to his work as he has matured: In recent years the distinctive visual universe that grew out of the artist's study of art, myth and literature has expanded to make room for the personal, for memories of an upbringing in the German and Slavic cultural borderland, for everyday life and his family and for revisiting works by himself and others.
Allison Smith is known for creating large - scale installations that critically engage popular forms of historical reenactment, along with crafts and other traditional cultural conventions, to redo, restage, and refigure historical memories.
2 JOHN AKOMFRAH, THE UNFINISHED CONVERSATION (HAUS DER KULTUREN DER WELT, BERLIN) There is something to be said for historical returns, the way past events play on our memories, and Akomfrah's soaring, mesmerizing film says it all, paying homage to Stuart Hall, that renegade humanist, pivotal figure of the New Left in postwar Britain, and founder of cultural studies.
For more than twenty years, Esther Shalev - Gerz has participated in contemporary art debates relating to questions of place, democracy, cultural memory and citizenship.
Originated by Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, this exhibition traces Rauschenberg's innovations at Gemini with over 50 editions of images inspired by memories from the artist's own life as well as events from the broader cultural landscape that changed with increasing rapidity after World War II.
His works, impressed in our memory for their visual idea and meaning, manage to suggest both personal and universal perspectives on our shared cultural experience.
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