Sentences with phrase «performative gestures»

In a projection on the opposite wall the artist is engaged in a series of performative gestures which test the limits of what constitutes socially acceptable public behavior and seek out the point at which moral sense and social justice intervene.

Using an alla prima technique, Yossifor works within the durational limitations of the liveliness of the oil medium, as well as a set of self - imposed restrictions that relate to the action of painting and her sense of the works as performative gestures, indexed to the artist's presence.

The works are built with performative gestures and unusual materials.

Tamara Johnson's sculptural interventions and performative gestures whimsically explore the cultural dynamics at work in the landscape, merging public and private notions of space.

Through performance and performative gestures online, including her Instagram profile where she staged a four - month - long performance entitled Excellences and Perfections, 2014 that explored the culture of extreme makeovers, the artist blurs the distinction between herself and the objects of her scrutiny.

The artist generates the atmosphere of these works using performative gestures, and her paintings reference an embodied self, reflected in the thickly textured, punctuated surfaces.

In his performance Choreograph Me, 2016, Offeh invited visitors to use his body as a material to produce a series of collectively choreographed performative gestures, exploring the question of how the artist's labour can be made useful to an audience.

Its controversies lie in the intimacy, radicalism and affection of Ulay's performative gesture retained within the photographic documentation.

Even in the early days of the Sony Porta - Pak, artists explored the television monitor as a revolutionary new form in space ---- from the simple performative gestures that delineated the limits of both the screen and the body captured on tape (as in Vito Acconci's Centers, 1971), to more complex installations that rely on close - circuit setups to produce lags in time and space (like Dan Graham's Time Delay, 1974).

Choreograph Me is an ongoing project in which artist Harold Offeh invites audiences to use his body as a material for the production of a series of performative gestures.

Her performative gestures and abstract signs create a striking visual clarity, as image and event unfold on the surface.

Organized by Yuval Etgar, The Ends of Collage approaches to collage both as a performative gesture and an alternative mode of thinking.

The «Breathing Panels» are large - scale abstract works on copper that include the imprint of the artist's making: Ward creates them by applying darkening patina to the bottom of his shoes and stepping on the copper panels, leaving a trace of his performative gesture.

Jacir has built a complex and compelling oeuvre through a diverse range of media and methodologies that include unearthing historic material, performative gestures and in - depth research.

In Breathing Directions, Ward leaves a louder trace of his performative gesture within his sculptures — puncturing geometric patterns into copper and applying patena to the soles of his feet, before stepping onto the sculptures.

By protracting the individual frames from the original scene, Arnold exposed the performative gestures and emotional cues that lay hidden in the actors» choreography.

Recontextualized via ritual organization and performative gesture, Guzmán's sculptures function as mobile sites of reflection, contemplation, and activation, moving both performances and viewers towards ecstatic catharsis and fellowship.

Presented alongside The Border, The Ship (2010), the exhibition will highlight Hubbard's increasingly complex videos that engulf viewers with bold colors, performative gestures, and evolving compositions.

His decision to expand his practice of performative gestures and collaborations to include performative sculptures, objects, and assemblages was pivotal.

In Light Giver Light Taker and Chalk Bike, Rhode expands the idea of what can be used as a drawing instrument by utilizing unconventional objects to make marks, here in sweeping, performative gestures, on the gallery's walls and floor.

Her research interests are focused on highlighting the performative gestures and responses in live and visual performance art — referencing individual and collaborative practices and also choreographed movements in public and private space.

This performative gesture is one example of Oppenheim's unique ability to collapse time in her work, manifesting long extinct matter, past events, or antiquated processes into a material present.

Most recognized for projects in which he has focused on the performative gestures and self - fashioning of young black men on the streets of America, he also makes evocative portraits of lovers, close friends, and strangers.

Sara VanDerBeek uses photography, sculptural forms, and performative gestures to explore the construction of images and the passage of time.

Adopting the stance of an observer, his interest in labor has both a political and a formal aspect, exploring the relationship between the human body and the materiality of the labor it performs as both an expression of class and identity, and as a performative gesture.

Yet Sarmento's protagonists and their performative gestures are also restrained by a kind of stylistic formalism that recalls late Nineteenth - century impressionist figuration — Edgar Degas Little Dancer Aged Fourteen c. 1880 comes to mind — which is present in his three - dimensional works, in particular, his sculptures of female body parts.

Furthermore, performative gestures and practices - in the context of private, public and civic space - have been subjected to forms of aesthetic, ethical and political critique that, to date, see them in isolation from the evolving global contexts that underwrite international developments in performance art.

From 1997 to 2005, the artist made a series of images («One Minute Sculptures») that are both works in their own rights, as well as documents of performative gestures that mark fleeting, «one - minute» sculptures.

Avoiding a single point of focus, he constructs his videos in layers, engulfing the viewer with bold colours, performative gestures and evolving, all - over compositions in which movement is multi-directional and time appears to be non-linear.

Other times she will begin with a grid structure then work within that structure, incorporating organic, performative gestures and expressive brushwork.

For this lecture, organized in conjunction with «Simone Leigh: The Waiting Room,» artist Chitra Ganesh will draw upon her recent visual research on the aesthetics and performative gestures of protest,...