Sentences with phrase «of cultural consumption»

On Sunday, Performa 13 bestowed its Malcolm Award — named in honor of the late punk impresario Malcolm McLaren — to the artist Ryan McNamara for his «Meem: A Story Ballet About the Internet,» a performance that audaciously sought to transfer the multi-tab, multitasking mode of cultural consumption that the Web encourages to the august medium of dance by approximating the mashed - up experience of watching clips of a series of historical ballet performances on YouTube.

Over the past decade, Morrison has investigated the aesthetics and potentialities of political protest and subculture and the processes by which radical and oppositional impulses become subsumed within normative commodities and habits of cultural consumption.

Her research focuses on the participation of art activities in the wider context of cultural consumption.

Director of Critical Studies and MA / PhD programs in UCLA's Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Sylvia Lavin engages artists, architects, and curators in a series of lively discussions on how cities are increasingly molded by images rather than buildings; on whether art and architecture are converging to form an integrated type of cultural consumption; and if the concept of the masterpiece has finally been destroyed by the sheer quantity of global design production.

Not exact matches

Rainey comes bearing the new, academically orthodox, message that «modernism... is a strategy whereby the work of art invites and solicits its commodification, but does so in such a way that it becomes a commodity of a special sort, one that is temporarily exempted from the exigencies of immediate consumption prevalent within the larger cultural economy and instead is integrated into a different economic circuit of patronage, collecting, speculation, and investment.»

Such processes deny all cultural memories and reduce the richness of life into images of mass consumption.

They also attribute negative intent — or at least uncritical cultural consumption — to everyone from conservative Christians (who are determined to «return all women to the barefoot - and - pregnant era of world history») to leftist attachment - parenting types (who are making «homemade baby lotion out of elderberry extract»).

John Schwenkler is fond of arguing that a return to real appreciation for the preparation and consumption of food will be a key part of the cultural regeneration we hope to effect.

They perceive this change as the summum of cultural refinement and they do their best to make it as conspicuous as the former consumption.

«Consumption of milk is a cultural issue, not only because of economic reasons but also because of lack of information,» Vallejo admits.

We work and look for a global society with life quality, with informed happy citizens exercising their rights and duties, based on the principles of sustainable development and democracy; integrated; upholding values of solidarity, equity and justice; open to changes; respectful regarding traditional knowledge and cultural diversity; committed with the production and consumption of organic and biodiverse products.

To promote a cultural change in society in the consumption of alcohol beverages through education for health care and life.

Dr Withington says that while he has the utmost respect for the statistical analysis upon which the recent policy initiative rests, the Government should also take into account the historical and cultural factors which shape the consumption behaviour of different groups.

Yet our manipulation and consumption of alcohol led to profound physical and cultural effects — and helped make us who we are

The second quantity we do not know is the level of consumption that provides all basic necessities and enough security and leisure to allow a reasonable cultural life.

«Because thinness is not consistent with dominant cultural standards of masculinity, young people who conform to masculine norms may be more likely than other youth to engage in unhealthy behaviors such as high - calorie food consumption, overeating and sedentary behaviors,» explains Dr. Austin.

«Water quality is of great concern to California's Tribal governments not only for personal consumption, but also for the long term health and restoration of cultural habitats for traditional plants and animal life, ecosystems for healthy fish population, and access to traditional plants for food and ceremonial use,» adds Anecita Agustinez, a Tribal Policy Advisor at California's Department of Water Resources.

I think the idea of animal consumption is more cultural than anything, especially a requirement for optimal health.

As a Dutchie it's very much part of my cultural background (we're second only to the US in peanut butter consumption, IIRC).

Take Magazine features in - depth stories of people in New England who are making culture happen in the fields of visual art, music, design, literature, film, dance, food, fashion, and theater as well as the timely information you will need to plan your cultural consumption throughout New England.

In that way the movie, which also peppers its all - Latino voice cast with turns by Alfonso Arau, Edward James Olmos, Selene Luna, Cheech Marin and Luis Valdez, both honors the rich aesthetic heritage of Mexico and keeps these cultural markers from looking like they were merely dusted off and computer - generated for mass consumption.

Then came the nerd - cool days and the high tech revolution, a status - obsessed culture of consumption, more sophisticated and devastating U.S. imperialist wars, purblind postmodern doxa, and, of course, the trend towards cultural studies in the academy.

Skills like collaboration, communication, strategizing, cooperation, empathy, compassion, leadership, cultural literacy, creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, critical consumption of information, socially conscious decision - making, critical thinking, adaptability, flexibility, networking, resilience, persistence, and the list goes on.

«It also reminds them how important cultural consumption is, both for enriching yourself as a person and strengthening the fabric of our society.»

Facts and anecdotes examine the historic, scientific, economic, political, cultural, and literary aspects of coal, as well as the current debates about energy consumption, developing nations, and global warming.

I think that most of us who grow up with consumption as a social norm are used to thinking of our cultural artifacts, books, CDs, DVDs, as having value that needs to be preserved.

Take Magazine features in - depth stories of people in New England who are making culture happen in the fields of visual art, music, design, literature, film, dance, food, fashion, and theater as well as the timely information you will need to plan your cultural consumption throughout New England.

Anatomically, these specimens resemble the idealized physiques of Robert Mapplethorpe's bodybuilders; but Anderson's compositions are de facto de-compositions: dissecting both physical anatomy and the deeply ingrained cultural convention that limits the display of vulnerable male bodies for public consumption.

As the consumption cycle of advanced multinational corporate capitalism was sped up in order to sustain the production of luxury goods, cultural production became more and more mass - commodity production.

The title refers to a triangulated structure encompassing the fundamental linguistic link that the words Tableau Table Tavolo — despite their respective cultural associations — all share with the notion of consumption, in both a visual and metaphorical sense.

Through his distinctive pictorial approach, Erró explores social and cultural contradictions in a world of never - ending consumption.

Earlier exhibitions included Wood: The Cyclical Nature of Materials, Sites, and Ideas at the Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (2014), which explored links between wood in design and architecture and the economic, politi ¬ cal, natural, and cultural cycles that surround its production, circulation, and consumption.

His small gouaches, for instance, are painted from photographed arrangements of items that often refer to petty vices (a pack of cigarettes) or cultural consumption (VHS or cassette tapes).

One can see this in two bodies of work: cultural representation is the primary issue in The African American Flag Project, where «African American» flags were the subject of the paintings; and the Made in USA series of paintings touch on the politics of consumption through self - referential text and image.

It's a story that Prince perpetuates, the continuation and consumption of our cultural dreams, one that never stops writing itself.

Her latest video, Black Friday, exposes shopping malls as centers of capitalist control and cultural merging, while her installation of electronic devices, «The Litany,» addresses «a coded history of consumption, conflict, and desire.»

It speaks of a strong cultural connection, and of a conscious engagement with the creation and consumption of texts.

Blair McLaughlin is a British contemporary artist whose figurative paintings focus on the cultural differences in our consumption of violence and the aestheticization of violence in popular culture and media.

Stephen Prina's complex artworks examine the underpinnings of cultural production and consumption.

During the past decade there has been a proliferation of cultural practitioners interrogating the global politics and ethics of food production, distribution and consumption.

Johnson's recent work Mi» kwite» tmn employs various sculptural mediums to create consideration from her audience about aspects of intangible cultural heritage as it pertains to the consumption of traditional knowledge within the context of colonial institutions.

Blair McLaughlin is a British contemporary artist whose figurative paintings focus on the cultural differences in our consumption of violence.

TPG adopts the faux - persona of an advertising agency to create large - scale multimedia productions that address Vietnamese cultural and political changes while subverting the consumption of cultural content.

Group exhibitions include Dorm, The Model, Sligo; iPodism: Cultural Promiscuity in the Age of Consumption, Tulca, Galway; Frou - Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires, Colony, Birmingham; Frontier with Green on Red Gallery; and Artists / Groups, Project Arts Centre.

Themes include gender - specific production and consumption, physical and emotional protection, spirituality, social behaviors inside and out of the domestic landscape, and the void in which cultural palimpsests continue to rewrite history.

This idiom takes on special meaning when applied to the West's preoccupation with certain stereotypes in contemporary Chinese art — images of the Red Guards, Mao Zedong and panda bears — as well as to the fetishized mass - consumption of cultural objects that satisfy its imagination of a new China in transformation.

London Oyster Shells recalls Flood - Paddock's large - scale installation Gangsta's Paradise, presented in 2010 at the Hayward Gallery, which made connections between Lewis - Carroll's poem The Walrus and the Carpenter, the film The Truman Show (1998) and the cultural specificity of moral questions related to the consumption of oysters.

She addresses popular culture in her work, merging themes of mass consumption with notions of social consciousness as well as viewpoints on cultural standards and constructs.

Facilitated by the liberalizing of world trade, the internationalization of production and commodity consumption, and developments in transport and communications, offshoring has allowed nomadic capitalists, itinerant individuals, contemporary artists and cultural producers to scour the globe for resources and new markets, opening the world through displacing labor and circulating capital.

She is interested in ways the digital vernacular affects current and future modes of production, shifts in socio - economic concerns, cultural consumption / participation, and the inevitable environmental consequences of these forces.