Sentences with phrase «on identity constructions»

Examining the impact of time and space on identity constructions, places, and (hi) stories, these works record, critique, and expand the understanding of the social role of artistic practice.

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Milbank's intelligent and theologically informed analysis of what we mean by «the Other» gives us the resources to undo from within the work of the deconstructionists» those postmodern philosophers and critics who hunt down and denounce any construction of identity forged in opposition to others, and yet who depend on those wicked «other - using» others to forge their own identities.

On the contrary, regional identities in the North of England could be mobilised as part of an inclusive political project that seeks to nurture shared civic and democratic values and bonds — a plan that «speaks to the people» and aims at actively involve them in the construction of a better future for their region.

Georgia's foundering attempts at democracy and construction of a national identity have, in part, been beleaguered by this rejection, as have those of many of the new states on Europe's periphery.

What's more, the project embeds cross-curricular learning, integrating Religious Education themes on identity with Mathematics of Net Making and construction of 3D shapes.

Utilizing poststructural theories of language, identity, and power (Bourdieu, 1991; Norton, 1997, 2013; Weedon, 1997) in connection with the theoretical and methodological framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough, 1992; 2015), my dissertation centers on the ways in which English, and its socio - historical link to power within South African education, influences these women's (re) constructions of identity.

Sense - making is not an event, but is ongoing, focused on extracted cues, driven by plausibility and tied to identity construction (Conley, 2002; Weick, 1995).

«The crux was to explore how I could suspend race, and by extension identity, as an overlying component, and really focus on the construction of identity, particularly the construction of an image, and how often we as a society can fall into prescribed notions of individuals and groups of people as a whole,» she said.

He is currently completing A Distant Echo, a feature length film shot on 35 mm in various Californian deserts that explores themes of identity, culture and the construction of history in collaboration with musician Tom Challenger.

The slideshow cycles through pairs of images presented on a pair of monitors, and these looping still photographs show the Hollywood icon self - consciously posing, reflecting, brooding, and generating a model for the construction of identity through images.

By altering such iconic imagery Ruyter plays on the subjectivity of identity construction.

For the Zabludowicz Collection, Fitch and Trecartin will push their remarkable exploration of the impact of technology on communication, language and the construction of identity to new extremes.

Building on a growing interest in reassessing the role of the Black Arts Movement in the construction of contemporary ideas around race, national identity, gender and aesthetics, the conference asserts the continued and dynamic presence of the «Critical Decade».

Curator Raphael Gygax said: «Focused on artistic collaboration, this year's Projects explore «communitas» — the construction of collective identity — and society's relationship with the «Other».

In Identity Unknown, Donna Seaman brings to life seven forgotten female artists, among the best of their day: Gertrude Abercrombie, with her dark, surreal paintings and friendships with Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins; Bay Area self - portraitist Joan Brown; Ree Morton, with her witty, oddly beautiful constructions; Loïs Mailou Jones of the Harlem Renaissance; Lenore Tawney, who combined weaving and sculpture when art and craft were considered mutually exclusive; Christina Ramberg, whose unsettling works drew on pop culture and advertising; and Louise Nevelson, an art - world superstar in her heyday but omitted from recent surveys of her era.

The focus of the exhibition lies on Hershman Leeson's continuous engagement with identity, gender construction, sexual self - determination, and her progression of these ideas in close exchange with advances in technology, and science.

While Glenn Ligon focuses on the construction of «blackness» and «queerness» in his photographic rethinking of Robert Mapplethorpe's erotic images, Iñigo Manglano - Ovalle explores the notion of identity through the processes of genetic mapping in his DNA photographs.

Composed of works from the museum's collection made since 2000, including several recent acquisitions and works on view for the first time, the exhibition explores the prevailing correlations between the personal, the intimate, and the individual; constructions of identity, history, and culture; the instability of materials; and strategies to rediscover or recover the past.

Over and over again in the catalog, we read about Ligon's love for painting — de Kooning's Pirate (Untitled II)(1981) is a favorite, apparently — and how he, um, «opened up the semantic rules of identity and linguistic constructions between object - text and image - sign relations through the use of photography and text based on the appropriation of language, sign, text, and speech as material for his painting practice.»

He employs strategies of the absurd to bring into sharp focus themes such as slavery and corruption, deftly revealing the underbelly of society whilst commenting on the construction of individual and collective identity.

Thomas's satirical and often on - the - nose work is a commentary on commodity, sports, popular culture and the construction of identity.

Maja Bajevic's work directly comments on prominent issues in recent history such as collective identity, tragedy, destiny, the construction and deconstruction of history, ideology, and sociology.

The exhibition spans three galleries within the Zaha Hadid - designed museum, anchored by overarching themes within each: «Shifting Identities» explores how a changing China alters constructions of identity; «Body as Site» focuses on the physical body as a literal and figurative site of discussion and debate; and «Confronting Tradition» highlights the ways in which artists draw inspiration from classical texts, teachings, and artistic practices to reinterpret and question evolving power structures and social norms.

The works unfold histories and cultural identities by opening dialogues with people whose testimonies elaborate on portraits of their individual and collective memories, desires, opinions and experiences amidst the construction of time.

Loosely based on vintage men's fashion magazine covers, the artist's most recent work depicts male «cover stars» surrounded by a choreographed array of artefacts, accessories and architectural elements that point to the idea of identity and meaning as being collage - like in their construction and dispersal.

Exploring the apparent increasing similarity between mediated reality and reality itself, the artists in the exhibition use humor, irony and subversion to investigate how our reality is constructed by media, advertisements and the products we consume, as well as the repercussions these may have on the construction of the self and identity.

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.

His artworks reflect on the paradoxes inherent in the construction of identity.

Consider Glenn Ligon's beautiful essay on Hammons's sly readymades, which Ligon uses as a means of reflecting on his own identity, writing, «If blackness is a construct, then we are all construction workers.»

This essay focuses on manifestations of narcissism in recent art that considers the construction and performance of identity in American culture.

Blackness in Abstraction features a mix of forty artists» — including Robert Rauschenberg, Carrie Mae Weems, Sol LeWitt, Glenn Ligon and Adam Pendleton — abstract meditations on a hue that exists socially and politically as one of the most charged constructions of identity and signifiers of a condition.

By over-dramatizing stereotypical and clichéd imagery of women, she rendered it critically perceptible — commenting both on the construction of identity and the strategies of media representation.

He combines the European approach to its own colonial past within the framework of World War I with struggles for independence on the African continent, with current migration politics and with mechanisms of identity construction.

Her work often draws on «living history» museums, battlegrounds, and most recently the Internet to explore gendered conventions of craft, constructions of national identity, and experiences of violence.

bi» bak engages with a variety of sociopolitical issues such as migration, discourses on mobility, the construction of identities, labor questions, and cultural memory.

On view through Dec. 16 in the Big Medium Gallery, Skin Thick references «certain material surfaces that have a specific relationship to the body» through which Ingram unites his printmaking and sculptural concerns, as well as creative writing and making objects, to question the process of identity construction.

Emotional Supply Chains, on view until July 17 at Zabludowicz Collection, London, addresses the construction of identity in the digital age.

By putting on display these symbols and clichés, which are the signs of African identity and black femininity as constructed by the Western world since colonisation — such as the presence of masks, naked, tattooed, and sexualized bodies — the artist intends to confront the public with these constructions head - on.

The artists will reflect on cultural constructions and social frameworks in the special context of China and how all these form individual identities and artistic practices as well as define relations in the system that we urgently need to question.

Celebrated for his experimental approach, which blurs the line between installation and photography, Attie has spent his career moving from one city to the next to explore the trauma and history of the marginalized and to reflect on social memory and the construction of identity.

A small house treacherously perched on top of the seven - story Jacobs School of Engineering building at UCSD, Fallen Star continues the artist's themes of displacement and identity, and the construction of space and memory.

Combined vision and creative talents with sound planning, construction project management, and general budget management strengths to consistently complete challenging projects — congruent with corporate identity — on time and within budget.

Enhanced knowledge of the widespread experience of removal and its psychological impact, particularly on the construction of identity, has not only deepened the understanding of individual cases but has assisted in the design and delivery of more effective community programs.