Sentences with phrase «performative act»

Similar signs were used during the museum's 2006 «Into Me / Out of Me» exhibition, which focused on the «imagined, descriptive and performative act of passing into, through and out of the human body,» and featured the works of such artists as Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar, Cindy Sherman, and Abramovic.

The notion of painting as process and activity, or even as performative act, is explored in moving images.

The hosiery layers are artifacts of a private performative act in which the artist wraps herself in hosiery material to enact a series of precise body positions, recorded while sleeping, into pools of acrylic paint on a canvas.

As is typical of Street's painting practice, the barn's painted shadow is made from stretched yards of hosiery and is an artifact of a private performative act.

«A nation is a super - individual that is a phenomenological constant resulting from performative acts in which individuals communicate and pool positively charged substance, including the charged space of territory and the charged story of the past.»

How do you put a price on a fleeting performative act?

Primarily a painter, he has also extended his practice to mount large performative acts in public spaces.

Each painting is a carefully orchestrated performative act in which Covert conducts a highly ritualized version of printmaking.

Exploring the use of language and visual imagery in powerful performative acts, Tania Bruguera and Karen Finley track a creative process stemming from discomfort and intellectual resistance.

Into Me / Out of Me gathers work focused on the imagined, descriptive and performative acts of passing into, through and out of the human body — explorations and visualizations of the wet and the dry, the inner and the outer — and the physical exchange of the body with the material world.

In recent years, a host of cultural practitioners has been interrogating relationships between food and environmental, economic and social concerns, as well as notions of cooking and eating as performative acts and of dishes, recipes, and cookbooks as oft - contested markers of cultural memory.

P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center presents Into Me / Out of Me, a group exhibition about the imagined, descriptive, and performative act of the passing into, through, and out of the human body.

In contrast to Rosenberg's conception of painting as a performative act, Greenberg's theory, influenced by Clive Bell and T. S. Eliot, was essentially a formal one — in fact, it eventually evolved into what would be called «formalism.»

Luna, whose heritage is Pooyukitchm (Luiseno) / Ipi (Diegueno) and Mexican American, recreates himself in the aptly titled James Pollock, reversing through this performative act a moment in the colonial appropriation of Native peoples.

Olek uses crocheting as a performative act.

Stepping aside from performance as a medium and the performative act of production, best characterised by Mota's studio - based compositions, her recent exhibition at the gallery, marks a major shift in the practice of the artist, materialising a new form of sculptural animism and a new agency, while shifting the instrumentalization of the performative into a series of coincidental and strictly conceptual acts.

The works on view remind us that art captures and contains as much it reveals — be it the passage of time or the performative act of creation itself.

It is in this manner, for example, that Jessica Warboys «Sea Paintings» came into existence — a performative act between her and the tides of the sea — in which she allows the waves of ocean to interact with the pigments upon a canvas.

The material took on the shape of the space around it, serving as a document of the performative act of the work being made.

Moreover, the brushstroke and the choreography of shapes attest to what can be described as a performative act, one that offers a navigable experience for the viewer pointing to the legacy of abstract expressionism.

As a kind of performative act — a «maintenance action,» as he called it — he not only cleaned the house but also removed window trim and baseboards, sanded the floors, and preserved cracks and discolorations in the walls with polyurethane, to expose the house's skeleton and excavate its history.

Her own self - portraits, a performative act for Marcus, featured the artist in varying roles and guises.

For me, landscape painting extends beyond observation and formal concerns, drawing on bodily sensations, energy from the nervous system, time awareness, muscle memory, an education in twentieth - century art, and the performative act of mark - making.

Bross» relationship with her subjects becomes a performative act of photographing.

Infusing a poetic sensuality into Minimalism's legacy, Gabriel Orozco's works vary from sculptural triumphs to more ephemeral, performative acts, such as rolling a huge ball of plasticine, of exactly his own body weight, through the streets in order to «get an impression» of the world around him.

They will present a one - evening series of performative acts as well as a group show with works by James Hoff, Franziska Lantz, Deborah Ligorio, Mara Ploscaru, Nicolò Russian and Priscilla Tea, which will open the same night.

This exhibition will include three divergent projects from artists Nina Barnett, Marissa Lee Benedict, and Allison Rowe that explore the regional - cultural presence of the subterranean, the socioeconomic infrastructure surrounding sites of excavation, and the performative act of the dig.

The projects presented by Benedict, Rowe, and Barnett each explore and complicate dual conceptions of the dig as a performative act and its application to the production and accumulation of cognitive and tangible stock.

Sound becomes a medium for performing history and, in turn, listening a performative act.

Ross - Ho collapses the life cycle of the creative process through the performative act of embedding the gallery with the energy of production.

By MATTHEW NASH Andrew Mowbray is a sculptor in the tradition of Joseph Beuys, whose objects exist to facilitate a performative act, and remain as tangible evidence of that experience.

Nicholas Hlobo would translate the isiXhosa phrase Zawelela ngale as «They have crossed to the other side» and by this he describes the performative act of transgressing, crossing a border, or things that have transcended onto another state.

Sound becomes a medium of performing history and, in turn, listening a performative act.

Often taking the form of performative acts that extend from or relate to a particular space or place, Maxime's projects conceptually engage in chronotopic explorations that excavate and interweave layers of histories, forms, relations, and meanings embedded within geographies, while underscoring latent and evident power dynamics.

KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin presents «Into Me / Out of Me», a group exhibition about the imagined, descriptive, and performative act of the passing into, through, and out of the human body.

This exhibition considers listening as a performative act and the role of sound in the documentation of history through oral traditions, music and ambient noise.

In his solo exhibition TOGETHER APART at Kunstverein Braunschweig he concentrates on a central aspect of the performative act: the spoken word.

Maybe monumentality shifts from stone to performative acts, when an archive of interventions argues against the legacy and authority of white supremacy.

Each print, priced at $ 2,500, has three iterations in which the image is increasingly obliterated — a trace of a performative act, which also makes each piece unique.

It extended the work into the realm of a performative act, in which the process of making it is as important as the finished piece.Understanding that the advent of the written word arrived as the capacity of human memory deteriorated situates the portraits as a kind of documentation that might extend the reach of collective memory and historical consciousness.

Specifically, Echoes & Reverberations explores sound as a medium for performing history and listening as a performative act.

Entitled Echoes & Reverberations, this exhibition explores sound as a medium of performing history and the nature of listening as a performative act through the work of seven artists, including four new commissions.

Matta - Clark transformed architecture into sculpture and installation via a performative act, resulting in a final photographic documentation.