Sentences with phrase «of diaspora»

Then again if I was marooned there instead of being part of the diaspora I'd be advocating secession or revolution.

Over the course of more than three decades, artist and cultural critic Lorraine O'Grady has won acclaim for her installations, performances and texts addressing the subjects of diaspora, hybridity and black female subjectivity.

The Cape Town exhibition presents work by African artists within Africa — many of whom are still based in their country of origin — as opposed to working in the context of the diaspora.

In collaboration with Target Gallery's Passages exhibition, Kayleigh Bryant - Greenwell, discusses the effects and influence of diaspora in African - American art.

Lorraine O'Grady (b. 1934) combines strategies related to humanist studies on gender, the politics of diaspora and identity, and reflections on aesthetics by using a variety of mediums that include performance, photo installation, moving media, and photomontage.

Zeitz MOCAA, located in Cape Town, South Africa, is the first public institution to be devoted solely to contemporary African art (and art of the Diaspora) on the entire, 54 - country continent.

Diaspora Pavilion is an exhibition showcasing nineteen UK based artists whose practice expand, complicate and destabilise our understanding of diaspora, while highlighting the continued relevance that diaspora as a lived reality holds today.

A total of 19 artists came together under the banner of the Diaspora Pavilion to create a living testament to what it means to house many nations within one's body, psyche, and practice as an artist, and to question the trust and loyalty that those with more stable national narratives place on the nation state.

Lorraine O'Grady's work as an artist, writer, and critic presents hybridized notions of beauty and identity to rediagram the politics of diaspora.

Paul Maheke, «The River Asked for a Kiss (to Pateh Sabally)», 2017 as part of the Diaspora Pavilion, Venice - courtesy of ICF, Galerie Sultana and the artist, image: Francesco Allegretto and Paul Maheke

Supported by the British Council, curators David Bailey and Jessica Taylor have brought together a group of both established (Sokari Douglas Camp, Isaac Julien, Hew Locke, Yinka Shonibare) and emerging artists (Kimathi Donkor, Paul Maheke, Erika Tan and others) to reflect on the experience of Diaspora.

Basquiat looked for a new sense of identity in the culture of diaspora, even as the art world rewrote his story as the traditional rise and fall of an outsider.

This includes the founding The Angry Asian Feminist Gang (AAFG), a collective of Diaspora cultural producers; Soul Train Electrical Circus Living Room Dance Party at the Art Gallery of Ontario, where she played the role of a DJ to occupy the Art Gallery of Ontario's historic Walker Court alongside dance troupe HATAW and artists of colour; Internet Tab Guitar Jam, a happening inside Alexandre David's sculpture where shy non-musicians taught each other to play and sing together; andKaraoke Afterparty, commissioned by painter Marlene Dumas to take over Wong's studio.

«She had an energy about her,» said fellow artist Ray Fiasco, who exhibited alongside Saye as part of the Diaspora Platform at the Venice Biennale — a pavilion curated by David A Bailey to showcase young racially and culturally diverse emerging artists.

In a year of creeping and suffocating nationalisms, the creation of a Diaspora Pavilion is a particularly effective way of foregrounding global networks and displacement, trans - nationalisms and cross-cultural exchange, creating a contrast to the rather anachronistic notion of national pavilions.

Shuttling between India and USA, Niyeti has exhibited widely in India and abroad, the significant ones being — «Weaving Shards» Gallery Latitude 28, New Delhi, «Drawing Notes», Studio X, Global Network Initiative GSAPP Columbia University, Mumbai; «A Script for a Landscape» — Site specific Wall Drawing, Queens Museum of Art, New York (2011); Reconstructing (White) 3, curated by Himali Singh Soin, The Loft at Lower Parel, Mumbai (2012); IAAC Erasing Borders 2009, Group Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora, Dowd Art Gallery, Elizabeth Foundation for Arts, Queens Museum of Art, New York (2009).

Shonibare's The British Library installation forms part of the Diaspora Pavilion at the 57th La Biennale di Venezia.

Diaspora Platform brings together ten UK - based artists and ten mentors, all from diverse backgrounds and whose work engages with the topic of the diaspora, over the next 22 months.

The main problem of the concept of diaspora, is the general misconception that people belong to a certain territory when historically, people have always moved around.

Throughout her career, O'Grady has blended ideas of personal and political identity, and combines strategies related to humanist studies on gender, the politics of diaspora and feminism, and reflections on aesthetics by using a variety of mediums that include performance, photo installation, moving media, and photomontage.

The featured guest roster was an all - star lineup of diaspora talent: Jidenna and Derrick Adams, Santigold and Mickalene Thomas, Jojo Abot and Renee Cox, DJ April Hunt and Hank Willis Thomas — to only list a few.

Another link with the Caribbean is the chairman of inIVA's board, the world - renowned Jamaica - born cultural theorist Stuart Hall, who stresses the importance of engaging with the work of these diaspora artists.

Kouoh has made it her life's work to bring African artists and practices of the diaspora into international focus.

The exhibition takes its theme from the 1983 KBS live broadcast Finding Dispersed Families, as it empathetically looks back on the remaining traces of the diaspora that is inevitably fading away over time.

Lorraine O'Grady is an artist and critic whose installations, performances, and texts address issues of diaspora, hybridity, and female subjectivity; her Biennial work is an installation of photographs and photo - collage that deals with issues of appropriation and cultural identity.

He's now set for even greater attention with two solo shows opening within a week of each other (Arnolfini, Bristol, 16 Jan to 10 Apr; Lisson Gallery, NW1, 22 Jan to 12 Mar), the West Country outing being a UK premiere of Vertigo Sea, a grand, three - screen film work that takes the ocean as a symbol of diaspora, tragedy and hope.

Examining race, identity, cultural memory and the experience of diaspora through a lyrical aesthetic narrative, his recent films are at once politically engaged and poetic.

What are the new terms of reference for curatorial and artistic practice framed by the experience of the diaspora?

This struggle and exile from his homeland has influenced the content of Miko's personal films which explore themes of diaspora, colonialism and Americanization.

Ghazel's work, however, is explicit in democratising thematic enterprise, and it is this plain - spoken and sensitive treatment of diaspora and exile that has made her latest solo exhibition, Mea Culpa (Latin for «my fault») so successful.

Their connection to the continent might be one they have inherited from the history of slavery, or from the displacements of Diaspora and exile.

WESTERN UNION: Small Boats (2007) is an immersive, multi-screen experience through which Isaac explores multiple themes including notions of diaspora and transnational identities.

In line with the curatorial focus of DIASPORA: Exit, Exile, Exodus of Southeast Asia, a group exhibition of contemporary art from Southeast Asia about the movement of people in the region since the Vietnam War, and its related aspects of migration, displacement, return, and hybridity, and in support of MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum's dedication to research and education, we are pleased to present a specially curated screening programme on 14 and 15 April.

She's a producer, DJ and co-founder of NON Records, a collective of African artists and artists of the diaspora, using sound as their primary media, to articulate the visible and invisible structures that create binaries in society, and in turn distribute power.

The exhibition is part of the long - term goal of the Art Museum of Estonia and the Adamson - Eric Museum to map and study the art and culture of Estonians living abroad, and to introduce artists from different generations of our diaspora to audiences in Estonia.

Lorraine O'Grady is an artist and critic whose installations, performances, and texts address issues of diaspora, hybridity, and black female subjectivity.

The pavilion also forms part of the 22 - month, joint ICF and UAL project «Diaspora Platform», which is designed to deliver mentoring and professional development by eleven selected mentors for twelve UK - based emerging artists whose work engages with the topic of the diaspora.

In a broad - ranging conversation covering the diversity of contemporary African art as well as the growth in its market, we also discuss the challenges of bringing more recognition to artists who have lived or worked on the Continent or been part of its diaspora.

The work of artists Ellen Gallagher and Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA) are included as part of the Diaspora Pavilion, and Charles Atlas» work is featured in the Biennale's exhibition Viva Arte Viva.

David Hammons, Elizabeth Catlett, Faith Ringgold, Adrian Piper, and many other US artists have been singularly uninterested in producing work that addresses the experience of Africans of the diaspora beyond the boundaries of the US.

Featuring numerous works from a variety of mediums, the exhibition is a sophisticated survey of multiple visual languages devised to determine what it means to be people of a diaspora.

Citing bam leader Amiri Baraka in a new book that accompanies the recent exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, «The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now», art historian Rebecca Zorach writes that «pure forms» of diaspora culture such as music, dance and religion resisted objectification and were best suited to «reconstructing or excavating black identity».

Perpetual Peace invites the public into a dense and layered experience of the postcolonial diaspora in the Phillipines, where shifts in space and time expose a complexity of psychic and social effects of diaspora and a nuanced and thought - provoking perspective on economic globalization.

Ghazel's work, however, is explicit in democratizing thematic enterprise, and it is this plainspoken and sensitive treatment of diaspora and exile that has made her latest solo exhibition, Mea Culpa (Latin for «my fault»), so successful.

One of his main concerns are the notions of diaspora and black representation in art.

Zarina's oeuvre explores themes of diaspora, nostalgia, and memory.

The group challenged the traditional parameters of moving image in the 1980s, working across television, cinema and gallery spaces as a way of examining the multiple identities of diaspora in Britain.

I'm grateful for artists of the diaspora who came before me; they paved the way and made it possible for me to envision being an artist.

Home, family and the artefacts and trappings of diaspora are recurring motifs.

In her current practice she explores tensions and challenges of diaspora as a way to reach towards places and identities that can't be articulated by words.