As an article states, «according to terror management theory, increased self - esteem should enhance the functioning
of the cultural anxiety buffer and thereby provide protection against death concerns».
The Institute
of Cultural Anxiety: Works from the Collection.
Traveled to Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; and Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin (catalogue) Innovation: American Art of Today from the Misumi Art Collection, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan (catalogue) The Changing Image, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan (catalogue) Vehicle, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York 1995 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue) Richard Artschwager, Peter Cain, Vija Celmins, Chuck Close, Joseph Cornell, Robert Gober, George Stoll, Steve Wolf, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco Summer Group Exhibition: Richmond Burton, Peter Cain, John Chamberlain, Andreas Gursky, Roni Horn, Gary Hume, Andy Warhol, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York 25 Americans: Painting in the 90s, Milwaukee Art Museum (catalogue) 1994 Desire (Visionaire / DIFFA Benefit Exhibition), Charles Cowles Gallery, New York The Institute
of Cultural Anxiety, Works from the Collection, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (catalogue) 1993 Pittsburgh Collects, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue) Drawing the Line Against AIDS, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (under the aegis of the Venice Biennale)(catalogue) 1993 Biennial Exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul A Series of Anniversary Exhibitions: Part III, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Art, Money & Myth, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Lake Worth, FL Everyday Life, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles Slittamenti, Venice Biennale The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York.
1994 General Release: Young British Artists, Venice Biennale 1994, Scuola di San Pasquale, Venice, IT London - Nu, Kunstforeningen Gammel Strand, Copenhagen, DK The Institute
of Cultural Anxiety: Works from the Collection, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK Liar, Hoxton Square, London, UK Rien à Signaler, Galerie Ananlix, Geneva, CH Five British Artists, Andréhn Schiptjenko, Stockholm, SE Great Deeds Against the Dead, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, US
1994 Institute
of Cultural Anxiety, ICA, London, UK Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki, Finland; Kunstverein, Hannover, DE What Is in Your Mind?
1995 La Belle et la Bête, (Beauty and the Beast), Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, FR Better Living Through Chemistry, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, US Configura 2 - Dialog der Kulturen, Erfurt, DE Institute
of Cultural Anxiety, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, UK Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju Contemporary Museum, KR Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US Portalen, Copenhagen, DK Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, New York, US
The Institute
of Cultural Anxiety: Works from the collection.
It was also a sign
of cultural anxiety, each hashtagged, abusive tweet a hairline crack in the shifting landscape of games.
A lot
of our cultural anxiety about masturbation stems from 18th century theories, when the myths about illness and degeneration were first inscribed in advertising pamphlets parading as medical studies.
«We need to think deeper about why we seem out of touch to so many and understand the demands
of cultural anxiety as well as economic prosperity.»
Without
all of the cultural anxieties attached to it, menopause can simply be thought of as a transition in a woman's life.
These photographs speak
of the cultural anxieties provoked by surveillance which today has become so much a part of daily life.
Not exact matches
Similarly, few novelists have tapped into this era's motivations,
anxieties and
cultural eccentricities as Tom Wolfe's Bonfire
of the Vanities did in the eighties or Jonathan Franzen managed a decade later with The Corrections.
This
anxiety, Zhang says, stems from the
Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976), when friends and family members were pitted against one another and millions
of Chinese were killed in political struggles.
This new
cultural reality raises some
anxieties, but it also presents many
of us with an opportunity to rediscover Christian witness in a world that we do not control.
These wars have variously been understood as Western aggression against pacific Islam, a necessary defense against Islamic attack, a conduit for
cultural and commercial exchange, a form
of early colonialism, an expression
of collective religious identity or social
anxiety, and a symptom and vehicle
of economic expansion.
Another
cultural reason for the prevalence
of anxiety and insecurity is that the contemporary individual is no longer sustained by what Jung called the power
of the «consensus Omnium.»
Anti Muslim (and, sadly, anti-Sikh) bigotry in the contemporary west has its own easily identifiable historical and
cultural origins, as well — not least
of them,
anxiety and resentment over terrorism, and current wars.
Early medieval hagiographers often projected their
cultural anxieties onto swamps — fearsome landscapes full
of fearsome people.
Are we going to embrace the fear and
anxiety of this
cultural moment — not as a country, but as the Bridegroom
of Christ — and close our doors, our arms, our families and our hearts to people who are far from God and in their deepest desperation?
Our country, being democratic, sends its
cultural elites through cycles
of high
anxiety that the people will be duped into making some spectacularly bad decisions.
These include:
cultural beliefs and pressures (e.g.
anxiety about breastfeeding in public, beliefs about adequacy
of milk supply); lack
of availability
of trained support; legislation to protect women who are breastfeeding; and commercial pressures from marketing and advertising
of formula by manufacturers (Save the Children 2013).
I remember myself at the beginning
of this journey — the «need» for control in my parent - child relationship, the anger when my child didn't do as I thought she should have, the overwhelm
of realizing how much I didn't know about parenting, the
anxiety about whether I was doing it right or not, the complete lack
of knowledge about healthy child development expectations, the frustration
of realizing that I didn't know myself and how to handle my own emotions as much as I thought I did, the conflict between my mothering instincts and
cultural advice promoting detachment and emotional distance.
Continued EU membership can help address both economic uncertainty and
cultural anxiety — widespread fears that certain values and ways
of life are threatened by the forces
of transnational markets.
One
of the apps assesses measures
of mood and
anxiety; the other asks questions related to life issues including physical and mental health, addictions,
cultural factors and environmental stress.
Examples might be a manuscript that examines social - cognitive processes and their relevance to the etiology
of depression, a manuscript that examines how the interaction between two brain regions places people at risk for
anxiety disorders, or a manuscript that examines how
cultural variables shape the experience or expression
of schizophrenia (
of course, these are only three potential examples among hundreds).
Standards
of physical perfection brought on by
cultural demands can also breed stress and
anxiety over our appearance.
As Eric Klinenberg, Sociologist at NYU and author
of the book Going Solo, says, «There's so much
cultural anxiety about isolation in our country that we often fail to appreciate the benefits
of solitude.»
The missing footage was deemed too extreme and too provocative in its depiction
of gay S&M subculture for mainstream audiences, and so this bid at reenactment is ostensibly meant to confront that controversy head on and, in doing so, upend deeply held
cultural anxieties about gay male sexuality and sex.
Denis Villeneuve's hotly - anticipated sequel arrives a time
of heightened
cultural anxiety in the West.
One source
of anxiety for students has to do with negative
cultural stereotypes, which can be made salient to the learner when a negative
cultural stereotype about one's group applies to the testing situation (Steele & Aronson, 1995).
It is the belief that others may judge one's performance and believe the negative
cultural stereotype that creates the
anxiety that can undermine performance and lower a learner's sense
of efficacy.
Participating preservice teachers also expressed
anxiety over using GarageBand ™ within the context
of music education due to fear
of losing what Amy referred to as «our
cultural heritage.»
Certainly the terrorists
of Patchett's novel seem quite different from the ones occupying our news headlines and general
cultural anxiety.
As a master
of literary fiction in the American Gothic tradition, Jackson always subverted the trappings
of genre, using the classic tropes
of the haunted house and the mysterious villagers to illustrate deep
cultural and personal
anxieties.
Whether or not the monumental, 27 - panel work will cure the
anxiety of cultural identity, as Gu hopes it will, remains to be seen.
Referring to Doomocracy as an act
of «political catharsis,» Reyes leverages political, social, and
cultural anxiety — and fear itself — as the media for participation and
cultural critique.
A leading figure
of the burgeoning Cuban art scene, Capote creates psychologically resonant sculptural works in a myriad
of media that address a multiplicity
of themes - ranging from those
of the human condition (isolation,
anxiety, desire, claustrophobia, obsession) to
cultural identity, migration, politics and the economy.
Those familiar with the artist's online animated identity know that the themes
of cultural positioning, social
anxiety and peer pressure are hallmarks
of the concepts explored in the ongoing narrative he posts across a range
of social media.
Cultural nomads or archaeologists
of information, Lothar Baumgarten's installations, language and other systems
of categorization are turned inside out, revealing the
anxieties such nomenclature is designed to suppress.
This recalls romantic and transcendental themes while also nodding to
cultural anxiety about the «disappearance»
of religion in America.
Close Readings brings together practices that are by turns invested in uncovering the frailty
of language, prodding at
cultural anxieties and individual pleasures, excavating and refusing legacies, asking for tenderness, applying pressure, attending to the complications and vulnerabilities
of being together while we are implicated — politically, socially, personally — by artworks and their demands on us.
The question
of gender's intersection with
cultural constructions and racial
anxieties are revealed in economic and industrial language, as well as props and costumes that take tropes to their humorous extreme.
Inspired by the fear and panic engendered by the terrorist attack
of September 11, 2001, the Museum
of Art Rhode Island School
of Design's upcoming exhibition, Nancy Chunn: Chicken Little and the Culture
of Fear, is a series
of paintings that represents the media sensationalism infecting our current political and
cultural landscape, feeding our
anxieties and distracting us from dealing with real dangers.
The works expose the uncanny materiality
of our surroundings, revealing the absurd and comical nature
of reality and the nature
of our excessive entanglement within it, confronting us with a taste
of our own
cultural desires and
anxieties.
This exhibition is inspired by the vague sense
of insecurity and threat and shows the
cultural influence
of individual and collective
anxiety towards experiences and events.
Rich with ambiguity, the phrases resist interpretation, while pointing to some
of the psychological,
cultural, and political
anxieties at stake in present day Israel and Palestine.
«This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s» examines artists» responses to that decade's
cultural upheavals, including the rise
of gender politics, the fall
of the Berlin Wall, Cold War
anxieties, and President Ronald Reagan's malign indifference to the AIDS epidemic.
NYC - based artist Christopher Chiappa's first solo show in eight years, «High Fructose Corn Syrup,» boldly explores themes
of cultural degradation,
anxiety and industrialized sweeteners.
resist interpretation, while pointing to some
of the psychological,
cultural, and political
anxieties at stake in present day Israel and Palestine.