Another sequence on the theme
of identity transformation takes a corridor upstairs, by a collective identified only as Valie Export.
To say she is not contributing to society through a more normative sense of responsibility would be too preachy for this film, but Complete Unknown does not shy away from showing us Alice in her eerily quiet moments
of identity transformation.
But at the same time identity is complex and so we have room for many approaches — from views
of identity transformation to identity reconciliation (meaning one reconciles oneself with one's identity).
Not exact matches
The result has been a nuclear - like
transformation of the industry in which companies have combined, split and recombined at a breakneck pace, emerging with all new
identities and properties.
This form
of segregation would be temporary or provisional either to allow women to form a metapatriarchal
identity and then to re-enter patriarchal society with renewed personal integrity or to await the
transformation of patriarchy into postpatriarchy (provisional is a better descriptor for the latter purpose, since no feminist expects the imminent collapse
of patriarchy).
3 The receiving
of influence from another may result in the enlargement
of one's
identity or the creative
transformation of one's freedom.
This means that all phenomena are identical in their constituent self -
identity; all are in a state
of constant
transformation; and there are no absolute differences between human nature and the natural order, body and mind, male and female, enlightenment and ignorance.
This book constitutes a sophisticated
transformation of the intellectual puzzle
of the mystery; like Oedipus, Philippa Rose Palfrey, the adopted daughter
of a nonbelieving social scientist who is also a television personality, decides to seek out the
identity of her natural parents.
This continuing dialectical
transformation moves toward a culmination in Christian atheism precisely because authentic Christian tradition must reflect the dialectical movement
of God, who emptied himself into Christ and by the death
of Christ became universally immanent in cosmos and consciousness and continues there to move on toward the final
identity of opposites in which God will be all in all.
An
identity transformation of this type occurred among many Roman Catholics in the U.S. following Vatican II, and it may happen to the next generation
of Protestants if lower levels
of childhood involvement in the church result in a different interpretation
of what it means to be a Christian and an «active church member.»
Satyagraha (the apprehension
of truth), ahimsa (the inviolability
of all life), paratma - samata (the
identity of all alien spirits), paratma - nirvana (the self -
transformation into an alien soul), mahamaitri (great, all - encompassing love), and maha - karuna (great compassion) are age - old religious ideals which Indian saints realized centuries before Christ and which Gandhi put into practice anew in our century.
As Rob Ford has shown in other work, one
of the social changes they have been left behind by is a massive generational
transformation in attitudes to race, mixing and migration, with younger generations significantly more comfortable with mixed, inclusive, civic
identities.
Communities on the island were exposed to the earliest waves
of European impact during a critical period
of transformation and the forging
of new
identities.
By not giving the Counselor a name, audiences understand his
identity is connected through his job and that it will lead to his dehumanizing
transformation at the end
of the film.
A chance sighting
of a 1958 Plymouth Fury that's for sale changes Arnie's life: Obsessed with this car that was named Christine by its previous owner, he purchases the vehicle and instantly undergoes a
transformation, shucking his nerd status for a new
identity as a self - centered and casually cruel bad boy.
The moment
of each
transformation, moreover, becomes impossible to pinpoint, because the
identities do not strictly mutate but overlap or interface — rather like the colored geometric shapes that traverse the screen in the film's beautiful opening credits.
Abstract: This qualitative research from a feminist paradigm, inquire, question, reflect and analyze, the process
of transformation of subjectivities and gender
identities subject to the policy
of de Soacha's Mothers setting.
«Theater is an art
of transformation because it gives people a chance to take on roles they've never played before — to try out new
identities, to redefine themselves — and sometimes what happens on stage can be a rehearsal for new ways
of looking at the world off stage in real life,» he says.
Featuring clips from the film Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness, along with lesson plans and historical background readings, this collection invites students to connect Aleichem's life to the larger
transformation of traditional Jewish
identity in late nineteenth - and early twentieth - century Eastern Europe.
When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's
transformation from a naïve medical student «possessed,» as he wrote, «by the question
of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life» into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human
identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.
The building presents a fresh
identity for the new organization, while preserving and adding to the century - old building's history
of transformations from a theater, a department store, and a local art center to a highly refined exhibition space.
The physical manipulation
of biomaterial into an abstract, aestheticized form is a concept that runs through the work on display, with references to the ongoing
transformation and rehabilitation
of bodies, landscapes and the
identities embedded within them.
That decision laid the groundwork for many
of his works that explore issues surrounding
transformation, time, memory,
identity, and death.
Both Istanbul and New Orleans have existed as exotic relics
of a colonial past, and both have undergone extraordinary
transformations over the past 100 years, which have brought them back from a marginal position to centrality in world culture with completely new
identities shaped by the global economy.
On Being Black is an excellent multilayered and highly nuanced remix
of an ongoing conversation in contemporary art about
identity, power and
transformation.
His works offer reminders
of the ideas that shape
identity — exploring its limits and possible
transformations.
In this sense many works on view can be understood as explorations
of concepts like «surface» and «skin» translated as sites
of transformation, in the form
of the skin
of a building, the skin
of a painting as a material entity, or the artificial skin
of a latex mask that makes it possible to assume multiple sexual
identities.
death, drawing, film, Haus der Kunst,
identity, Jonathan Bepler, Matthew Barney, Museum
of Old and New Art, mythology, narrative, Norman Mailer, Okwui Enwezor, photography, premiere, rebirth, reincarnation, sculpture, symphonic, transcendence,
transformation
And to a mathematician, that is itself a kind
of map — the «
identity transformation,» or a mapping
of the gallery onto itself.
Notions such as self and
identity, once unquestioned and safely maintained by tradition, have undertook an irreversible process
of transformation that responds to the changes brought by processes
of globalisation.
Disturbing Innocence features over fifty artists using surrogate imagery such as dolls and mannequins to pose questions regarding the «social constructs
of youth, beauty,
transformation, violence, sexuality, gender,
identity, and loneliness.»
She also co-curated the exhibition Fatal Love: South Asian American Contemporary Art Now, as well as coordinated two editions
of Corona Plaza: Center
of Everywhere, which commissioned eight artists to develop public art works that engage local residents on issues
of neighborhood history and
identity as well as tensions around its various
transformations.
Constantly inquiring into transitional qualities
of time and space and the correlative
transformation of identities, locales and (hi) stories Esther Shalev - Gerz has produced a body
of work that simultaneously records, critiques, and contributes to our understandings
of the societal roles and value
of artistic practice.
Pierre Huyghe: As a major retrospective
of his work opens in Paris, ArtReview asks the French artist about issues
of identity, leakage,
transformation and the essence
of things, by Christopher Mooney.
The rural and urban landscape reflect the mental state
of society, in these works I approach scenarios which for me have an «anonymous» aspect, sites that have lost their
identity and express disinterest,
transformation and the failures
of ideologies.»
The exhibition is structured in chapters whose themes are the man - eating outsider or non-human; the relationship with others and construction
of an individual and group
identity through a dual movement
of incorporation and rejection; the body as an organism capable
of transformation, and which feeds on and feeds others; eroticism and all - consuming passion; violence and horror; ritual and sacrifice; and images from childhood, derived from tales and legends.
Permeated by an aura
of eroticism and decadence, and loaded with codes and double - meanings, the works further point to the intricacies
of self -
identity, while celebrating moments
of transformation — the ordinary becoming extraordinary.
Constantly inquiring into transitional qualities
of time and space and correlative
transformations of identities, locales and (hi) stories, Esther Shalev - Gerz has produced a body
of work that simultaneously records, critiques, and contributes to our understandings
of the societal roles and value
of artistic practice.
Seen together, they suggest that the body itself is a mutable terrain, both endlessly varied and potentially infinite, with shifting boundaries allowing for the
transformation of shape and
identity and the oscillation between familiar and strange, self and other.
Nitarudi Ninarudi expresses the complexity
of longing for a place that is alive in the memory in a very different way than in the physical reality — a place as evasive and fleeting as the
identities one negotiates when they are relocated, bringing into play issues
of transformation, translation, and even personal survival.
In the process
of migration and reconfiguration
of the work, the artist and the curator have brought up issues
of identity and communal experience, and
transformation in the act
of re-presenting and re-reading.
Nearly Real Things explores, literally or metaphorically, the act
of transformation within contemporary consciousness,
identity, society, and class by carefully investigating our relationships to current biological or technological metamorphoses.
They explore the notions
of the simulacrum and the symbol, memory and immanence, devotion and superstition,
transformation and metamorphosis (
of the body,
identity, language and the forms themselves
of representation and expression).
Extensive in scale, Esther Shalev - Gerz's exhibition «Factory is Outside» at the Serlachius Museums in Finland, comprises four interweaving series
of works that investigate how cultural
identities are constructed and examine the role and status
of traditional professions in a world that is global and undergoing a rapid digital
transformation.
The participating artists: Janine Antoni, Andrea Bowers, Patty Chang, Abigail DeVille, Ana Mendieta, Catherine Opie, Adrian, Piper, Genesis Breyer P - Orridge, Cindy Sherman, and Martha Wilson, expand on the possibilities
of gender expression and fluidity, they make clear there is no single approach to feminist
transformation, aside from the agency to engage with sexual
identity on their own terms.
The topic
of gender
identity is often polarizing and over sensationalized; in opposition, Cohen presents this self -
transformation in a series
of poetic portraits with exquisite details.»
The effect
of the blown - up image in Abstraktes Bild is not simply the increase in size, but the
transformation of the
identity of the initial reference image and the subsequent impact on the viewer.
Describing his newest work, Campins stated: «I approach scenarios which for me have an «anonymous» aspect, sites that have lost their
identity and express disinterest,
transformation and the failures
of ideologies.»
Each series questions the link between place,
identity, and memory connected to a specific site, where water is the pervading element
of transformation.
This body
of work illustrates Carrillo's masterful ability to capture the mood
of his home country in an era
of cultural
transformation and an evolving national
identity.