Sentences with phrase «occupying public spaces»

As an active participant in his visual surroundings, his natural curiosity leads him to notice forms, compositions, colors and other sensory impressions occupying public spaces.

The established religion that he critiques, however, «occupies public space [but] is essentially a parasitic destroyer of the public realm.

Zanele states, «I am producing this photographic document to encourage individuals in my community to be brave enough to occupy public spaces, brave enough to create without fear of being vilified, brave enough to teach people about our history and to rethink what history is all about; to reclaim it for ourselves, to encourage people to use artistic tools such as cameras as weapons to fight back.»

BP: I have very often used street furniture in my sculptural works — such as crowd barriers and street bollards — as they are objects that occupy public space, and structure the way we move through it.

Within the art world, discussions in its wake revisited conversations initiated by artists such as Adrian Piper and VALIE EXPORT, whose practices question the conditions under which women are allowed to occupy public space.

Overpolicing — For example, police targeting of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for behaviour in public spaces and / or minor offending; many of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (ATSILS) clients occupy public spaces in a more visible way than non-Indigenous people, due to high rates of homelessness and overcrowding.

Not exact matches

But despite this new space for a major public debate about fundamental change, serious political challenges to the system — from «Occupy» protestors, community activists, environmentalists and others — have thus far been contained by the continuing sense of a lack of viable alternatives.

«Local authorities, landlords, retailers and the public need to work together to really animate the spaces they occupy; re-imagined as destinations for retail, socialising, culture, health, wellbeing, creativity and learning.»

Charter schools are publicly funded but privately operated, and many occupy space in public school buildings.

Moreover, in those rare cases when citizen energy is vested in voicing dissent it has little impact; the Occupy London movement left those yielding power unscathed with business back to normal after the protesters were evicted from what is literally a public space.

First, she argues that public schools need the space that charter are currently occupying free of rent.

Tsui sets his avoidance dances in confined spaces (tiny apartments, backstage dressing rooms), but To's are set out in the open: a fountain in a public park, a street corner, a sidewalk (a similarly choreographed scene plays out as well early in Romancing in Thin Air, itself a kind of compendium of all of To's romantic comedies, where Sammi Cheng and Louis Koo wander outside the grounds of the hotel, oblivious to each others» presence despite occupying the same film frame).

«In close alliance with but never subordinate to the Protestant churches, the common public school occupied a «sacred space» where its mission was beyond debate and where to question it was a kind of blasphemy.»

Waypoint Public now occupies the same space.

The 326 - room Westin will occupy the top 10 floors of the building as well as public space on lower levels, and will have a separate entrance on Elm Street.

Located in the center of the city at Quai des Bergues 15 - 17, the new space will occupy 333 square meters and provide Pace a platform to further strengthen its engagement with the region's cultural institutions, collectors and public audiences.

Home in which participants eat, drink, and discuss what it means to «occupy» the most private spaces of our own kitchen tables; and Theaster Gates will host a dinner and a public talk and performance with the Black Monks of Mississippi, an experimental music ensemble of Chicago - based vocalists and musicians founded in 2008.

Susan Hefuna's mashrabiyas isolate the interstitial space between public and private life that libraries so often occupy.

Compassion: A Paradox in Art and Society aims to show what space an artwork can occupy in the public domain, and whether it can use this position to activate compassion in the world.

Extending beyond the screen, The Drawing Project continues into the tangible world in the form of public programs including a series of webisodes, talks, panel discussions and events, inviting the public to experience the project in a multitude of forms and make their own decisions regarding what defines line and what spaces it can it occupy.

Best known for his intricate sculptures that defy conventional notions of scale and site - specificity, Suh draws attention to the ways viewers occupy and inhabit public space.

Organized by Kultura Medialna and curated by Maria Veits for their annual Construction Arts Festival, the exhibition draws on the current political and cultural concerns of Dnepr, the largest city in proximity to the occupied Ukrainian territories and Crimean annexation and addresses disputable territories, belonging and ownership of the public space and its reshaping by various social groups, urban planning and attempts to create a dialogue in and about public spaces between communities, governments and activists.»

Barlow's work is anchored in an ongoing and thoroughly sculptural concern with volumes and their infinite pliability and, in the years since her retirement from teaching in 2009, has occupied ever - larger spaces, physically and symbolically, in terms of both public visibility and blue - chip art world approbation.

Using the Art Center as a model for how an arts institution can occupy the space of the middle to foster intercommunity connectivity and spur creative production, public programming and a printed catalogue will accompany the exhibition to offer analyses of how mid-sized organizations can serve and engage audiences.

Such works created a nervous sense of how representation operates in the everyday world — almost subliminally much of the time, tapping into myths and illusions sunk deep in our brains, influencing the way we act, how we dress, behave in public, occupy space, choose and attract sexual partners, spend money, make friends and enemies.

Opened to the public in 1999 at the Soho branch of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, this exhibition of twenty - six paintings and thirty - six works on paper occupied the second floor of the Guggenheim's downtown satellite space for two years with major contributions from the Ayn Foundation, Brant Foundation, and the Andy Warhol Museum.

Last month in the space formerly occupied by American Medium, a new, Black - owned gallery opened its doors to the public.

«What interested me in recreating the form of these covered sculptures is the act of repetition or recreating itself, the relationship between public art and the spaces they occupy and transformation.

He is Artist In Residence at The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at NYU, has been invited to speak about art and collective cultural production by Harvard, Yale, Columbia, NYU, Parsons, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Arts and Labor working group of Occupy Wall Street, and been interviewed about art in public spaces by publications including The New York Times, Frieze, Artforum, and Bomb.

The dear old Phillips Collection is new once again after yesterday's public unveiling of its latest addition: a $ 27 million expansion to the north along 21st Street NW into space formerly occupied by a nondescript 96 - year - old apartment building.

Bringing together nearly 200 works from public and private collections, the exhibition will occupy the Museum's entire sixth - floor gallery space, totaling approximately 17,000 square feet.

Occupying an expansive building on the edge of RiNo, the space hosts as many as 10 to 15 residents at a time, and many actively participate with the community through artist talks, youth education and outreach, and other events meant to engage the public with visual arts.

The exhibition filled YBCA with everything his astronauts need to successfully complete their voyage — including the Mobile Quarantine Facility, Mission Control, the Apollo - era Landing Excursion Module (LEM), and special equipment for conducting scientific experiments — immersing the audience in a universe of sculpture occupying the entire downstairs galleries in addition to YBCA's public spaces.

It was the sixth edition of the festival and the first under the artistic direction of Sarah McCrory; as one has come to expect from such biennial undertakings, exhibitions and installations were spread throughout the city, occupying spaces ranging from major public institutions to such quirky, out - of - the - way venues as an underground parking garage, a vendor's stall in a dilapidated shopping center, and a crumbling Edwardian community bathhouse.

Both exhibitions featured newly commissioned work by the Seoul - and Berlin - based artist, who is known for her colorful and sensorial installations and sculptures that occupy the in - between spaces where public and private meet.

Featuring new and recent video installations, photographic series and sculptural work, the exhibition will occupy both floors and all four public gallery spaces.

Besides exhibiting the selected works, the Festival also features performances and public programs which jointly occupy several spaces at Sesc Pompeia up to January 2018.

The choice to occupy, rather than to march (and subsequently disperse), has led to debates about the use of public space and the right to nonviolent demonstration.

The demonstrators took over a parking space in Brooklyn, saying they wanted people to think «about whether $.50 an hour was a fair price for such a useful piece of public space, and whether that space should be occupied by cars at all.»

Although such organisations have been unsuccessful at reproducing their ideas in the public's mind, climate institutions have nonetheless multiplied to occupy a great deal of public space.

Sometimes the line between public and private space gets muddied, such as it did in New York's Zuccotti park during the Occupy Wall Street days.

Thus, in the Calgary decision, the possibility of applying for and receiving a permit to stay in the public area is the appropriate and reasonable method for allocating public space, which makes the City's legislation restricting the Occupy Calgary s. 2 (b) Charter rights just and appropriate in a free and democratic society.

This action was the last of a number of Canadian cities attempts to remove the Occupy movement from public spaces.

Read my previous posting on this issue at The Occupy Movement and The Government's Right to Allocate Public Space.

1047 Commonwealth Avenue is a class «A» boutique apartment complex that immediately abuts Boston University's main campus and is situated along the city's light rail public transportation system, known as «The T.» The property features a single - level parking garage, five floors of residential space and 2,890 square feet of retail occupied by the recently opened Caffé Nero.

For three of the five leading REITs, the percentage of occupied space was about 95 percent in the second quarter of 2017, compared to a year ago when just one of the REITs, Public Storage, was doing so well, according to analysis from Skyview Advisors.

Each of the bedrooms has a private balcony to step onto and enjoy the tropical sun before retreating to the public areas and «The Studio» — a space that was once occupied by Bowie's record - producing studio.