Sentences with phrase «on narratives»

The exhibition presents works by 20 artists reflecting on narratives of migration, and was conceived as an itinerant project taking place in Zimbabwe, Uganda and Germany, artistically exploring perspectives on the multitude of migration processes in and from southern and eastern Africa primarily through the eyes of artists from these regions.

Compelling features of the Winter Show include one of artist, Kara Walker's 2009 films — which are based on narratives from the archives of a bureau established in 1865 to assist African Americans with the transition from slavery to freedom — featuring the artist's signature black - silhouette cut - out figures, which almost impossibly convey the complexities of race, gender, sexuality and power in their stilted and evocative movements.

«We wanted to focus on narratives that broaden the idea of a «black experience,» with the aid of new media and technology,» says Christovale.

Working across media, Viti's art is confrontational and high - spirited in its focus on narratives of the body, HIV, and sexual subcultures.

This session convenes a group of artists and cultural figures interested in creating or reflecting on narratives through various artistic practices, from the creation and study of archives and collections, though the completion of stories and rumors.

Working across photography, film, sculpture and more, Moroccan artist Yto Barrada draws on narratives of the bandit, magician, underdog and

Compelling features of the Winter Show include two of Walker's 2009 films — which are based on narratives from archives of a bureau established in 1865 to assist African Americans with the transition from slavery to freedom — presenting the artist's signature black - silhouette cut - out figures, which almost impossibly convey the complexities of race, gender, sexuality and power in their stilted and provocative movements.

The processes involved in making the work changes depending on these narratives that I construct or reconstruct.

Working across photography, film, sculpture and more, Moroccan artist Yto Barrada draws on narratives of the bandit, magician, underdog and smuggler for her first major London commission in The Curve.

Infrastructural mistakes, environmental campaigns, unreliable figures of Irish construction labour and seemingly out - of - control trees all spur on his narratives and investigations.

In fact, if AC: Rogue didn't come along I'd have assumed Ubisoft had given up on narratives altogether.

Significant work from recent years focuses on the narratives that preservice and in - service teachers tell to make sense of, as well as facilitate their development (e.g., Draper, Puidokas, Schoafsma, Tendero, & Widmer, 2001; Fleischer, 1996; Vinz, 1996;).

Final Verdict: Annihilation is a crazy, spooky journey that is bigger on narratives than scares, but still delivers an impacting experience.

RD: I'm involved in all of the casting decisions on the narratives I produce.

Writer - director Roland Joffé has built a career on narratives of white men in foreign territories, with films like The Killing Fields, The Mission, and City of Joy being notable (and tiresome) examples of a distinctly middlebrow breed of the historical drama that locates subaltern longing through an imperialist lens.

Sessions after lunch will center on narratives for change and will include breakout discussions on helping seniors live healthy, independent lives; helping immigrants and refugees thrive in their new community; and helping children and families escape poverty, among other topics.

But beyond the plot, what impressed me was how the show took risks and focused on narratives and formats that we don't normally see with conventional TV shows.

It's often suggested that happy endings are simply pandering: tidy bows we put on narratives for reassurance.

Because the SEC always gets first dibs on the narratives, the main story of bowl season seems to be that the self - proclaimed «It just means more» league is 1 - 4 so far, but that's a bit unfair since the losing team was an underdog in three of those four losses.

So he is able to take the first step on the way to understanding the essential nature of the gospels, by recognizing the determinative character of the influence of early Christian conceptions on the narratives.

New Testament letters are put into the context of synoptic Gospel narratives about Jesus and construed as comment on those narratives drawing practical implications regarding who the church is and what appropriate response to God's presence is.

But the bigger notion of having an experience built on a narrative does not.

All of these stories depend on the narrative Musk feeds — that he's not into details, doesn't care if Tesla keeps its short - term promises, and that long - term screw - ups on which short sellers are counting are just a series of short - term messes the boss is already too proud to clean up.

Based on his narrative, one could list a few more ironic truths about international power politics that resonate in our own time:

But glad to see Pete and Carl posting on how conservatives are getting whipped on the narrative or «branding» front.

I'm hoping to push back hard on this narrative that has dominated the evangelical landscape for some time now.

Tyerman writes almost like his medieval sources, describing a few events and then heading off on narrative tangents.

It fixates on narrative cleverness, and that approach can leave people feeling distant from the characters.

I began to prepare for a homily on this narrative by noting the repetitions of «the LORD» in the chapter.

In surveying the horizon for contemporary educational reflections on narrative methodology, one is first struck by the relative absence of such reflections.

While teaching in Asia I became aware how often Western readers tended to see the truth of Scripture in abstract terms, while Asian readers tended to focus on narrative and concrete images.

Eichenwald also focuses on narrative «contradictions» in the biblical account in order to undermine appeals to Scripture; specifically, the Christmas story, the Easter story, the Flood narrative, and the Creation accounts.

I was also predisposed to welcome, at a much later date, the work of my Yale colleagues Brevard Childs and Hans Frei on canonical reading and on narrative and figural scriptural interpretation, respectively.

In other words, the intelligibility of an action depends on the narrative continuities in an agent's life.

Both of these points, that early statements were based primarily on the narrative of Scripture and the behavior of believers, will become critical later in this chapter for understanding how we as twenty - first century followers of Jesus can stand up for the truth without the damaging and destructive statements of doctrine that have divided Christianity for so long.

For reasons best known to Derrider, basing his thesis on the narrative about the destruction of the tower of Babel as a result of God's judgement on mankind.

First, Hauerwas learned his emphasis on narrative primarily from Christian theologians such as H. R. Niebuhr and Hans Frei, and only secondarily from (secular) literary criticism.

That initial work on narrative prose was greeted, at the time, as a breath of fresh air in what many considered a stuffy environment.

We are concerned with their effort to be metaphoric in their reflection, staying close to the parabolic form with its insistence on using common language in novel ways to evoke insight, with its emphasis on the narrative quality of believing, its foundation in experience, and with both language and belief rooted in a total life - style.

In a college course on narrative art, Van Doren introduced his students (or reintroduced in Wakefield's case) to the New Testament.

(But see Schillebeeckx's argument below and Sheehan's on narrative structure.)

Most fans are banking on this narrative and superstition to have an effect, but one thing I believe will be unique about us is the drive that will lead guys like Wentz and Peters when they step on the field, after having their seasons end short.

You may wonder, who is this Stan who insists upon intruding on the narrative?

«In order for things to change, society as a whole would have to lighten up on the narrative,» Astro says.

The emphasis on narrative arcs didn't preclude seizing on emotion and the moment, however.

Despite this, many self - described Labour moderates seem keen on this narrative of a hostile, hard left takeover.

The EAL report clearly had a profound effect on the narrative surrounding the illegal wildlife trade.

It will likely place a very different picture on the narrative that has been written thus far.

Whether this inconvenient truth will ever register with commentators hooked on the narrative that Cameron is in serious trouble with precisely those Tory members the party relies on to deliver its ground game is a moot point.

These two games are part of a new focus on narrative across the board.