Sentences with word «postcolonial»

His research and teaching interests include: aesthetics and migrant subjectivity, art history and contemporary visual analysis, and the relevance of postcolonial theory for media studies.

These circumstances increased interest in postcolonial theory as one of the means to understand neocolonial dynamics.

From the exiled Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic — a magisterial comic novel that is certain to take its place as a landmark of postcolonial African literature.

The exhibition's staging creates a web of relationships and connections across the related fields of postcolonial studies, cultural migration, and social geography.

That's the first of many transformations in a protean film that shifts gracefully from ironic postcolonial critique, to essay on the cinema as a means of appropriation and reincarnation, to thwarted love story.

While Thor's bastardized version of Norse mythology may not seem like the ideal playground for this director's specific sensibilities — if anything, Nordic symbols and modern Odinism / Asatru tend to be co-opted by white supremacists, owing to their Germanic origins — the malleable nature of Marvel's cultural remixing proves palatable for Waititi's sleight - of - hand abilities, resulting in a film that's part superhero farce, part straight - faced treatise on postcolonial identity.

She also took full advantage of the course offerings, enrolling in classes in postcolonial history and diasporic studies in addition to art.

She consciously works within and transgresses the framework of the colonial and postcolonial archive to unmask the process of oblivion, through her reflections expressed in pencil and brush.

Second, Jewett adopts whole - cloth the latest fad in New Testament scholarship, which broadly terms itself as postcolonial, and reads virtually everything in the New Testament as a coded critique of the Roman Empire and especially of its claims of cultural superiority elaborated in the civic cult of the early empire.

There were scarcely any gunsmiths during the entire colonial and postcolonial periods.

Fusco's nuanced and considered writing on the topic, as well as her continued artistic practice, will undoubtedly prove a benchmark for moving the needle on discussions of postcolonial identity politics for years to come.

Other artists, on the contrary, used the disquieting and unsettling effect of objects in motion to reflect on the negative consequences of progress and modernization, the position of women in postcolonial society, the increase in social and economic inequality, and so on.

Johannesburg based artist Clifford Charles» evocative ink drawings, chart new visual and physical spaces in post-apartheid South Africa bearing witness to the slippage, multiple layers and forgetfulness in the lived experience of postcolonial Africa.

Fusing Nigerian and American source materials, histories and cultural references her intricately layered scenes reflecting the rich complexity of contemporary lives shaped by postcolonial African cosmopolitanism and global, hybrid identities.

A burgeoning postmodern discourse provided context for the institution's ardent engagement with feminist, anti-racist, and postcolonial politics, as well as a more generally anti-authoritarian — and deeply self - reflexive — approach to curatorial work.

Praised by others for their invocations of contemporary postcolonial discourses of globalisation and migration, accusations of dilution, capitulation and betrayal persist.

Curatorial Fellowship: Postcolonial Perspectives on LBTIQ Heritages Within the framework of the International Museum Fellowship program run by the German Federal Culture Foundation, the Schwules Museum is proposing a Curatorial Fellowship.

Influenced by his personal experiences in a newly liberated nation and its former colonial ruler, the artist calls himself a «postcolonial hybrid.»

Each weekend has a specially curated focus, from postcolonial cinema to digging for sound.

Her current research focuses on a redefinition of contemporary art history through postcolonial theories and the genealogy of cultural displacement; she also works on feminist art and theory of the 1970s.

Tuberculosis control in postcolonial South India and Southeast Asia: Fractured sovereignties in international health, 1948 - 1960

[148] Rajat Neogy, Christopher Okigbo, and Wole Soyinka, were among the writer who «repurposed modernist versions of aesthetic autonomy to declare their freedom from colonial bondage, from systems of racial discrimination, and even from the new postcolonial state».

A catalogue with texts by Hanru, Ayad Akhtar, Claire Brandon, and Vasif Kortun should shed light on the ways in which Sikander complicates postcolonial narratives by identifying new forms of symbolic exchange.

But to be honest, I felt like the only parts of the exhibition reserved for postcolonial critique were Gordon Bennett's cutting sketches of the oppression of Australian Aboriginals (Notepad Drawings, 1992), or Gaganendranath Tagore's depiction of colonial economic misery in British India (1917 - 30)-- both now historic works, and both framed drawings.

With postcolonial and newly globalized countries facing fundamentally the same transition two centuries later, Mitchell assumed they would want to hear about the solutions pioneered by the first country to face its uncertainties and disorientations.

A Fiction of Authenticity presents seminal moments for challenging prevailing notions about interculturalism and postcolonial subjects.

For over five decades, Frank Bowling's painting practice has been defined by an integration of autobiography and postcolonial geopolitics into abstract compositions.

The exhibition will unite for the first time works from her Predecessors series, an exploration of heritage and identity through intimate and complex portraits of her family, providing a powerful perspective on the African diaspora and an important counter-narrative of postcolonial culture.

Her work has been featured in numerous publications and magazines including Passages: Indian Art Today (Daab Media, 2014), Lines of Control, Partition as a Productive Space (Green Cardamom 2012), Unfixed: Postcolonial Photography in Contemporary Art (Jap Sam Books, 2013); and Manual for Treason: Sharjah Biennial (2011), and featured in the New York Times, New Yorker Magazine, Art India, Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, Vogue India, Artpapers, and Art Economist.

Mokgosi has received international attention for his finely rendered, mural - sized figurative paintings that explore the complexity of politics, history, and culture in postcolonial southern Africa.

Broken Voices: Postcolonial Entanglements and the Preservation of Korea's Central Folksong Traditions (Music and Performing Arts of Asia and the Pacific)

Many of the photographs are being exhibited for the first time and the gallery describes the selection as capturing «a pervasive sense of freedom and identity amongst youth in postcolonial Mali and continue to speak to a shared spirit of modernity and diaspora.»

The title, selected by Andrade, is an old Tupi word that translates to mean «the man who eats people»; it was this painting that inspired Andrade to write his «Anthropophagite Manifesto» celebrating Brazil's history of «cannibalising» other cultures — a landmark postcolonial text.

Europe without Frontiers Postcolonial cinema, Day Conference Information Sheet, National Film Theatre 8 - 13 October, 1990 Armet Francis, Children Of The Black Triangle, Information Sheet for new book with introduction by Djibril Diallo, 1990 Kara Walker Activity Space Flyer, Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, Liverpool, L3 4BB IN FOCUS, Horizon Gallery, 70 Marchmont Street, London, WC1N 1AB, -LSB-...]

Mounir Fatmi explores postcolonial memory through three artifacts from his childhood in 1970s Morocco

Much of Echakhch's work to date, such as For Each Stencil a Revolution (her 2007 installation of hundreds of sheets of carbon paper doused in solvent and bleeding blue onto the floor, its title a quotation from Yasser Arafat), has succeeded by generating friction between her art - historical precursors, particularly within Minimalism and Abstract Expressionism, and contemporary postcolonial cultural specificities, even if many of the latter are stereotypes rather than realities.

If Armando Mariño's earlier art looked at the outside world with a critical postcolonial eye, his recent paintings probe visceral states of being tinted by melancholy and framed by a directness that feels intimate.

(all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) If Armando Mariño's earlier art looked at the outside world with a critical postcolonial eye, his recent paintings probe visceral states of being tinted by melancholy and framed by a directness that feels intimate.

The fully illustrated monograph includes new critical writings on each of the works presented by venue curators Iwona Blazwick and Sabine Breitwieser; Michael Juul Holm, head of publications at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Harvard art historian Joseph Koerner; Denise Wendel, a writer interested in the relationship between art, theater and music; and influential Harvard postcolonial studies academic Homi Bhabha.

Another series, Redefining the Power, uses performance, photography and video to explore postcolonial identity and challenge the formation of a national consciousness.

While both address continued tensions of race, wealth and power in postcolonial England, the works just felt underwhelming once viewers entered the all - encompassing timeliness of The British Library.

Inspired by these contexts, the exhibition reflects the manner in which the International Style of art and architecture, developed in the 20th century, succeeded and failed in its ideal of fostering utopian conditions around the globe during the era of postcolonial liberation.

The two economic systems coexist and often overlap, with everyone participating in both, including foreigners, multinationals corporations, local government officials and foreign government officials (Mbembe traces the lineage of the informal economy in Francophone Africa to Gaullist practices during colonial and early postcolonial relations).