Sentences with phrase «how cultural objects»

Currently on view at American Contemporary, New York is «The Cardboard Lover,» a group exhibition that explores how cultural objects reflect the subjective experiences and objective styles produced by the late capitalist organization of labor.

Not exact matches

Each chapter in the book is devoted to one of five objects and each builds on the cultural relevance of materials, exploring the connections between artists» materials and their everyday life; showing how materials could be used philosophically and playfully.

Solis» research focuses on children's cognitive development, specifically how young children play with each other and with objects to understand and build theories about the world around them, and how this is shaped by their cultural context.

Organized around the concept that inanimate objects and inert cultural artifacts are conduits for narrative histories, the program considers how artists use moving images to extend the life of things and materials that would otherwise appear to be stable and resolute.

She explores the possibilities of performance art as a way to continue her research on the relationship between people and objects, and to further investigate the commoditization of culture, assimilation, and how cultural meaning is transformed in the multicultural urban environment and is absorbed into new social contexts.

How does art differ from other events or cultural objects?

By refusing to make it mythic, Lynch gave it a theatrical, living quality — providing, in the process, an object lesson in how we might handle the relics of a charged cultural heritage.

This is the second panel in a three - part series investigating how the map can be understood as a metaphor, both as material artifact and cultural object as well as an artistic tool.

Jillian Mayer: Slumpies a body of sculptures that function as utilitarian objects, presented on PAMM's outdoor terrace as well as in the Vattikuti Learning Theater on the museum's first floor Routes of Influence juxtaposes artworks in a manner that maps how aesthetic concepts move fluidly across traditional, national or cultural lines, how «influence» in art is understood today as multi-directional, rather than linear in character.

He depicts these notions through the use of found domestic and utilitarian objects and materials to form sculptures, drawings, and prints that generate visual puns and cultural overtones, while also aiming to highlight how these objects portray and mimic language, specifically Spanglish — the rhythmic convergence of two languages spoken in Latin - American homes.

Nicole Killian's work uses graphic design, publishing, video, objects and installation to investigate how the structures of the internet, mobile messaging, and shared online platforms affect contemporary interaction and shape cultural identity from a queer perspective.

With over 100 objects, «From a diamond made from roadkill to a vending machine stocked with DNA, a golden crown for ecclesiastical use to traditional military tailoring, this exhibition addresses how luxury is made and understood in a physical, conceptual and cultural capacity.»

Indifferent Matter: From Object to Sculpture explores how matter can be both indifferent and contingent on encounter, exploring the malleability of meaning and the ways in which objects are accorded cultural and historical value.

I appropriate familiar objects and social events, which are universally recognisable within specific cultural contexts (games, souvenirs), to invite audiences to take a look at the society that they live in, often revealing underlying belief systems, drawing audiences into a series of questions that ask «how do we come to know what it is that we know» — Yara El - Sherbini, 2015

The sculpture is a masterful example of how to incorporate readymade items like the bracelets into cohesive artworks that benefit from the objects» cultural context without entirely depending on it, a balancing act some artists twice his age still seem to be struggling with.

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Together, tactics of queerness such as humor, subversion, caricature, exaggeration, and others, can be used to disorient objects themselves: to see them anew, to give them new context, to understand how they perform as socio - cultural representations.

Urban investigates the space between art and design by creating objects and installations that directly engage the viewer and how they imbue products with meaning, both cultural and personal, concrete and abstract.

This eco-concept project appealed to the Turner judges, who liked how «he transforms and reframes existing objects using a rigorous process of research» and admired his «unique ability to create poetic narratives which draw together a wide range of cultural, political and historical narratives».