Sentences with phrase «political nature of our work»

But as chefs and restaurant owners, we can no longer ignore the political nature of our work.

As related in a framing device in which Chan looks back on his life, his uncompromising artistic integrity and the defiantly political nature of his work derailed his career, and most of his later efforts went unpublished.

Discussing the political nature of her work, she says, «As a citizen I am deeply disturbed by recent events, but as an artist I feel all I can do is bear witness.

I like the political nature of his work, this «Hydrofrackers» is spot on with all the insanity going on in the Gas Lands.

remains officially unendorsed by the administration, and that due to the political nature of our work, the exhibit was omitted from the regular EOYS: SHOW UP program.

Broaching the political nature of the work via text could certainly have provided additional dimensions in which to consider other works within the show as well.

While initially visiting for personal reasons, she soon found that the interdisciplinary and political nature of the work by the artists she met there started to change how she thought about her own creative practice.

My argument has been that scientists in the schema might not recognise the political nature of their work, or the presuppositions their work proceeds from.

Please note: Donations made to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund are not tax - deductible because of the political nature of its work.

Gifts to the Action Fund are not tax - deductible because of the political nature of its work.

Gifts to the PAC are not tax - deductible because of the political nature of its work.

Not exact matches

The nature of the FBI, and the nature of its work, requires that it not be the subject of political consideration.»

I guess I've started to see political, religious, economic, and social aspects of our world in very evolutionary terms - it works, but nature is cruel.

Networks working in this direction are many and diverse in nature, ranging from radical political militancy to forms of moderate, reformist or humanitarian voluntary civil associations.

Thus, if Christians are to imitate Christ (a favorite theme of Sojourners), they must carry forward that work of renewal in all spheres of life, including the political arena, even while recognizing the partial, imperfect nature of their efforts.

He explained: «At the core of our work is the children themselves who are very often, never the cause of violence - especially of a political nature but always the victims.»

Rieff convincingly argues that the very nature of humanitarian work in crisis areas is profoundly affected by larger political agendas.

This development has opened a Pandora's box of political dilemmas and — in the opinion of David Rieff — altered the very nature and integrity of humanitarian work.

The only profound work of political philosophy on the nature of the American polity was written by a Frenchman.

Two notions help to illustrate the political nature of MSF's work: the ethic of refusal and témoignage.

It's true that it can be extremely difficult for the ordinary person to understand how the political process works, the scope and nature of corruption and conspiracy, etc..

First, it's a piece of music intended to make a political point about a modern conflict, one inherent in the nature of networked digital communications — authors and copyright holders have long profited from creative works by charging to distribute them, but in a digital world, books, music and movies can be made in unlimited copies and shared essentially for free.

The issue - specific nature of school board work makes the leap to broader political representation tough, Oxley added.

The government introduced into evidence audio recordings between Silver and various political reporters, including the New York Post's Fred Dicker, Capital Tonight's Liz Benjamin and POLITICO New York's Jimmy Vielkind, that included nearly identical statements by Silver regarding the nature of his outside legal work and the type of clients he represented.

Its objective is to encourage work of great value to humanity, of a mainly scientific, educational or artistic nature, and to reward such work by means of prizes or study grants, excluding any profit motive and regardless of political, trade union, philosophical or religious convictions.

When her big firm boss (Sam Waterston) tries to strong arm her into working with the NRA to quash the proposed gun - control legislation... encouraging her to «get women excited about guns»... she quickly takes her competitive nature (and most of her staff) to the opposition, resulting in escalated political warfare.

I do think the multi-year nature of contracts is one reason states and districts must work to do something the political process normally makes almost impossible to do — multi-year thinking about solutions.

This organization works closely with ALEC and the Koch Bros. / Americans for Prosperity to promote passage of model legislation and influence political outcomes, so it was natural that after ALEC came under fire for its secretive nature, participants sought shelter within the SPN.

There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how this influences the ways in which evidence will be used (or misused) within political areas.

While some works in the volume are overtly political — Ai Weiwei's irreverent CCTV Spray (2012) guides readers in making a spray - can device that can block out surveillance cameras — others more subtly reference the complex nature of cultural exchange in a rapidly globalizing world.

Her work is socio - political in nature, and often explores themes of violence inside and outside our borders.

The work is geometric in nature and takes its cues from Constructivism, Suprematism, and Latin American modernism — art movements that came to being in order to address the radical changes of the modern era, be they political, social, visual, or otherwise.

There, the combination of political figures, pop culture and the grotesque nature of sex and death generated a powerful show that has since influences the context of his work.

Here, Artspace's Loney Abrams speaks with the artist about the influence of Abstract Experssionism, society's ever - changing conceptions of nature, and what it means to make work about the body and trauma during a moment in history when these topics are at the forefront of socio - political conversation.

The political nature of black hair has been addressed by observers from Malcolm X to Chris Rock, in his 2009 documentary, «Good Hair,» but Ms. Perry's work also suggests the vibrancy of spirit worlds, African dervishes and the lingering ghosts of history.

Through their work, they are searching for ways to make language testify to some socio - political injury that is otherwise structurally invisible most of the time: heteronormativity, media - bias, structural racism and sexism, psycho - normativity, the foundational nature of slavery to the US economy, and US - backed authoritarianism abroad.

Mediating between cultures, while setting man and nature in ambivalent relation to each other, his works are created in the knowledge that they are products of social, cultural, or political constructions.

Curator, Emma Dexter, explains the role of everyday, underappreciated artefacts in Hiller's practice as «the taking of things that are so familiar that you haven't analysed their political nature or how they work sociologically.

The works reveal a structured imprint of the everyday, in the exploration of the relationship of media to the psycho - geographical, social, and political nature of place.

Weaving together the socio - political, activist, mystical and animistic traditions, Geers creates works of art that are talismanic and totemic in nature.

The Ocean after Nature examines the ocean as a site reflecting ecological, political and economic realities through the work of more than 20 artists and collectives, including Ursula Biemann, Drexciya, Renée Green, Peter Hutton, An - My Lê, The Otolith Group and Ulrike Ottinger.

At least partially due to the political - collage nature of much of Thomas's own work, The Aesthetics of Matter is both philosophical and philosophically coherent.

Hancock's work has also been included in a number of significant group exhibitions, including Juxtapoz x Superflat, curated by Takashi Murakami and Evan Pricco, Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle, WA (2016 - 17), Statements: African American Art from the Museum's Collection, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX (2016), When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (2014), Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX (2012), The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Armory, Kiev, Ukraine (2012), Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2008), Darger - ism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY (2008), Political Nature, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2005), Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2002), Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2000).

Inspired by nature, by her own observations of earthly and celestial phenomena and by knowledge of recent discoveries in the sciences, her work is devoid of political content, and reflects her belief that modern art, at its best, transcends politics and temporal concerns.

Inspired by nature, by her own observations of earthly and celestial phenomena and by knowledge of recent discoveries in the sciences, her work is devoid of political content, and reflects her belief that «modern art, at its best, transcended politics and temporal concerns.»

That sense informed the ragtag, anxious nature of his early pieces, work that seems to gain political relevance with each passing year.

Her work has been included in many group exhibitions, including Non-solo Show, Non-group Show, Kunsthalle Zürich, Germany (2009); Berlin - Los Angeles: A Tale of Two (Other) Cities, Massimo de Carlo, Milano, Italy (2009); Political / Minimal, KW Berlin, Germany (2009); Momentum 2009, The 5th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway (2009); and After Nature, New Museum, New York, New York (2008).

Both exhibitions emphasize the plural nature of feminist art: art made all over the world by women of all different nationalities, classes, and cultural and racial affiliations, and presumably identified with both the «essentialist» and the «constructionist» brands of feminist theory and politics, not to mention the many strategies of feminist art, from craft work to political exposé to canon - busting to the deconstruction of gender mythologies to body - centered investigations.

The works explore themes of political and social injustice, identity, and contemporary conflicts between man and nature.

Other artists in the Limerick City Gallery of Art are political in a similar way to those above, but take a more romantic approach, working with storytelling and the evocative nature of old objects.