Sentences with phrase «from performative acts»

«A nation is a super - individual that is a phenomenological constant resulting from performative acts in which individuals communicate and pool positively charged substance, including the charged space of territory and the charged story of the past.»

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To me, these were speech acts, typical ordinary language practices, performative utterances, that I knew all about from JL Austin's How to Do Things with Words.

What he and Monet share, that followed from his Rouen cathedral series and the exploration of light, is the gestural application of color and the performative element applied to the act of painting.

Stepping aside from performance as a medium and the performative act of production, best characterised by Mota's studio - based compositions, her recent exhibition at the gallery, marks a major shift in the practice of the artist, materialising a new form of sculptural animism and a new agency, while shifting the instrumentalization of the performative into a series of coincidental and strictly conceptual acts.

For me, landscape painting extends beyond observation and formal concerns, drawing on bodily sensations, energy from the nervous system, time awareness, muscle memory, an education in twentieth - century art, and the performative act of mark - making.

Often collaborating with other artists, or enlisting large groups to create «reality directed» performances and video works, Althamer has traveled around the world, staging major performative events that range from obviously constructed spectacles to more subtle interventions like Motion Pictures, in which he hired actors to perform everyday acts, such as greeting a friend, in a public square.

Infusing a poetic sensuality into Minimalism's legacy, Gabriel Orozco's works vary from sculptural triumphs to more ephemeral, performative acts, such as rolling a huge ball of plasticine, of exactly his own body weight, through the streets in order to «get an impression» of the world around him.

In Opie's work, gender is presented as a performative act; her sitters often blur the boundary between male and female by assuming signifiers, from traditionally gendered clothing to facial hair.

Adelita Husni - Bey's «Frangente / Breaker» at Museo del Novecento is a performance in three acts that combines a site - specific project with a performative reinterpretation of a sound work from 2013 and a public action, brought together as a single reflection on authorship, on barriers, borders, and nationalism, and on the perception of otherness.

Often taking the form of performative acts that extend from or relate to a particular space or place, Maxime's projects conceptually engage in chronotopic explorations that excavate and interweave layers of histories, forms, relations, and meanings embedded within geographies, while underscoring latent and evident power dynamics.

Each orb was formed from a single exhalation of the glass - blower, making each a fragile representation of the act of breathing, drawing a strong relationship to the body and via this, generating a performative self - awareness in relation to the work physically in the visitor as they tread delicately through the gallery.