The future will never arrive
imagines history as being in a state of presence: always close, and always emergent.
HATCH Residents Andi Crist, Kiam Marcelo Junio, and Lily Dithrich mine their own relationship to objects and situations
through imagined histories, sometimes private but always painstakingly intimate.
Artists have responded by erecting and erasing borders both factual and fictional, by subverting stereotypes and clichés, and
by imagining histories that illuminate the paradoxes of the superregion.
SYMPOSIUM Imagining Histories, Performing Identities: Post-colonial African Art in Context Saturday, February 25, 1 — 4:30 pm Organized with the Frederick Douglass Institute for African & African - American Studies and the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Rochester, this symposium will contextualize the MAG's exhibition of Meleko Mokgosi's Pax Kaffraria within the current discourse on African art and culture.
Whether she's
imagining the history of an ancient manuscript, as in People of the Book, or an English town determined to survive the plague in A Year of Wonders, Pulitzer Prize - winning novelist Geraldine Brooks is a master at bringing history's little - known but fascinating stories to life.
Together these evoke performative states of impossibility, whether it be
through imagined histories, unrecognised languages, or narratives of dispossession.
Here are a few thoughts that
I imagine you history snobs have already processed but I'm just beginning to think about when it comes to what the characters of this drama represent to us as the Church.
If
we imagine the history of the chemical evolution of the Milky Way as a big jigsaw, then lithium from novae was one of the most important and puzzling missing pieces.
Imagine the history and the learning that has taken place here.
As the contemporary section moves back in time,
the imagined history moves forward.
The folder of executables itself is
an imagined history, a simulated world with worlds inside of it, using the familiar structure of your computer's operating system as a frame.
Placed at a corner of the L - shaped space, they create structures within the gallery structure laden with
an imagined history.
The imagined history of the found and crafted objects influence the direction of the work and assign a personality to the things themselves.
An afternoon panel discussion, Painting as Common Ground, led by Barry Schwabsky, American poet and the art critic for The Nation (the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States), will explore genre and painting as systems that organize, interpret, translate and
imagine history and experience.
Relatedly, St. Petersburg - based Sharon Norwood's doctored 19th - century images in which curly Black hair engulfs the faces and bodies of the all - white protagonists as if to show another,
imagined history.
Focusing on a specific site, his memories merge with research and
imagined histories to inspire a loose - knit narrative articulated through a time - based installation.
Nemett's work responds to the lived, remembered, and
imagined histories that have become the anecdotal anchors of aged buildings, and the possibilities of what (and who) might enter the skeletons of new constructions.
Together these films evoke performative states of impossibility; through
imagined histories the relationship between cinema and ritualistic activities.
Things Get Lost by Michaela Pilar Brown Identity Politics,
Imagined Histories, and Black Womanhood December 9, 2016 — January 28, 2017 Identity politics have taken on renewed importance the past few years with the polarizing presidential election and increased mainstream awareness of institutionalized violence on communities of color.
Her ethereal photographs revisit her early childhood in the Northern California, fulfilling her objective to
imagine history as it once was and question how it is fixed within the present.
The viewer must
imagine its history, and intention and it is here the artist brings together tiles, structures, sculptures and costumes, inviting the performer to explore their interpretation of the image.
Robert Hite,
Imagined Histories, at the Nassau County Museum of Art Inspired by vernacular rural architecture, Hite creates sculptures of rambling wood stilt houses, torqued towers and structures that appear to have been crumpled and then re-stretched like accordions.
Dexter Dalwood, conversely, reconstructs places or sites from collages of memory, cultural, political and painted and
imagined history.