It's galling for a movie that costs so much and takes up so
much cultural space to try to do so little, but it's a familiar disappointment, like the dull ache of a tooth that only bothers you when you bite down on it wrong.
Not exact matches
While it's hard to tell where the homage ends and genuine
cultural absorption begins with the Japanese and their (perfectly reasonable) obsession with Mobile Suit Gundam, I do find the use of Gundam as a reference point interesting, because
much as the mobile suit's use in Gundam is to provide a vehicle that can operate equally well in
space, under Earth's gravity, and in the artificial «gravity» of O'Neill cylinders, Vanquish is taking the commonly used Western term «
space marine» quite literally, as Vanquish's power armor seems to be designed both as a spacesuit and as body armor, used to infiltrate a structure floating in
space.
Inhabiting liminal
spaces heralded as
much by surrealism as by folk traditions, Nordström looks to the
cultural, psychological and physical margins of society.
2011 Ordem e Progresso: vontade construtiva na arte Brasileira, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Paradise Lost, Istanbul Museum of Art, Istanbul, Turkey (catalogue) The Luminous Interval, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain Measuring the World: Heterotopias and Knowledge
Spaces in Art, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria (catalogue) Pandora's Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA Mappa Mundi, Berardo Collection, Lisbon, Portugal Mexico: Expected / Unexpected, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, USA (catalogue) Vestígios de Brasilidade, Centro
Cultural Santander, Recife, Brazil (catalogue) Gigantes por su propia naturaleza, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain Experimental station, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain Semana de Arte do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Our Magic Hour: How
Much of the World Can We Know, Yokohama Triennale 2011, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan Keeping it Real: An Exhibition in Four Acts.
The presentation of Frances Stark's paintings, which employ text appropriated from the writings of musician Ian Svenonius, constitutes a vigorous defense of censorship on grounds of its necessity in equalizing political representation in
cultural spaces,
much as Black suggests.
The recent anti-cuts campaigns and protests that I have been involved in, have done
much to strengthen my interest and a sense of urgency in interrogating the relationship of art and activism and the place of artistic production in the current neoliberalisation of
cultural spaces and art education.
Turkey's extending of a ban on smoking in workplaces and public
spaces to cafes, restaurants, and bars has health impacts that are obvious and
cultural ones that are
much discussed.
Particularly, working in an Asian country, I think there is
much space to explore whether the concepts of positive psychology apply well in various
cultural contexts.