Sentences with word «precarity»

Contemporary art and the transition to post-democracy, the occupation of time by the technologies and industries of culture (art among them), to precarity of work, control, surveillance and militarization are among the other key themes we find in her oeuvre.

Artist collective They Are Here transformed Studio Voltaire into Precarity Centre — a social project offering free workshops and activities.

Faced with precarity in the notional elites, Southgate is improvising.

Elsewhere, the musical theme continued with one of P. 4's commissioned works, John Akomfrah's multichannel video work Precarity, which dramatizes the life and times of a legendary early twentieth - century musician named Charles «Buddy» Boden.

Current and recent projects include «Immigrants and Precarious Employment» (with P. Landolt); the «Poverty and Employment Precarity in Southern Ontario» research alliance (directed by W. Lewchuck and in collaboration with the UWGTA); the «Agency Data on Migration» project (directed by A. Kim); and «Negotiating the Boundaries of Rights and Membership» (directed by P. Landolt).

The artist filmed Precarity on location in New Orleans, where it is featured in Prospect.4.

That's why unemployment lasts three times longer in highly regulated economies, compared to those with more precarity.

Research from a Poverty and Employment Precarity in Southern Ontario (PEPSO) project, which demonstrated the limitations of existing studies like Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey, show high levels of precarious work in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), with a range of negative impacts on workers, households and communities.

Yet it is his socially engaged pieces that, at their core, respond with sociohistorical specificity to the image and underlying slow violence (Rob Nixon) of the burning car — or in other words, the violence of economic precarity, racism, ghettoisation, and police harassment in the marginalised suburbs of major European cities.

«Zero hour contracts and things that are not defined as zero hour contracts but are of the same ilk, flexibility, availability, whatever — this is a kind of euphemism for precarity.

The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University is presenting John Akomfrah's three - channel video installation Precarity (2017 - 18), a work that it commissioned for its...

Utterly Precarious A project with Carolee Schneemann about precarity in art and life, with partner organization The College of Physicians Other Slought partners in conversation about performance: Symphony Space Performa

Hartt's portrait of the landscape shows it as defined by the reversal of urban to suburban migration patterns, an extreme concentration and stratification of wealth and power on the one hand and the marginalization and displacement of industry and the emergent precarity of environmental catastrophe on the other.

Macphee bought clothes and notions which she collaged together to create two outfits entitled The Precariats («a social class formed by people suffering from precarity, which is a condition of existence without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare.»

Presented as a triptych, Precarity includes simultaneous experimental narratives about Bolden, American culture, and the development of jazz around the themes of memory and the dynamic environment of New Orleans as a creative force.

More recently, Akomfrah debuted Precarity at Prospect 4 New Orleans.

As of 2016, the city of Hawthorne's per - capita income was $ 21,182, with 19.2 percent of residents living in poverty — an existence whose precarity would only heighten amid an influx of young tech professionals.

He may have masterfully exploited the despair of the precariat to his own advantage, yet it is the precariat, the working class struggling with chronic and manifold precarity, that is using him as a weapon against the invisible oppressive hand of neoliberalism that has ravaged the middle class since the late 1970s.

So why would we just do precarity and not also resilience?

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At any rate, even if SUNY Poly or FRMC were to increase their financial contributions to the city in some manner, such a proffer alone would likely not free Albany from fiscal precarity.

With its quietly picturesque landscapes of working poor America and focused gaze on those struggling within its interiors, many might draw comparisons to Andrea Arnold's festival favourite American Honey; but where fellow Briton Arnold's knack for portraying the nuanced humanisms of precarity translates across the pond with ease, Haigh's first U.S. - set picture falls short, stopping just shy of poverty porn.

McCaffrey's recent films are set in landscapes that convey precarity and flux.

Through archival imagery and newly - shot footage, Precarity follows the life of forgotten New Orleans jazz singer Buddy Bolden.

Rothschild's pavilion proposal will explore notions of political precarity and environmental shifts, forming an immersive piece that will invite the audience to consider how political change can be effected — «I want to create a situation that suggests multiple sculptural possibilities for rearrangement and reordering in which it becomes difficult to distinguish renewal from collapse» Rothschild commented.

But given artists like Kulendran Thomas» embrace of the inevitable in the Absolute Bearing collaborative exhibition with Annika Kuhlmann and Jesse Darling, and the concerns of urban displacement in the Woolley - curated K.I.S.S. group exhibition, the title's allusion to a sort of drill for the coming precarity might have something to do with it.

2nd Wednesday Precarity Centre launch and live performance: They Are Here & Mx World, Studio Voltaire, 7 pm — 9 pm Continue reading →

However, in the current turbulent political climate, it is surely the purpose of art to bear witness to the ensuing precarity.

The lack of dialogue, music, or narrative is reportedly deliberate, but Precarity frustrated as an extended, dreamy backdrop for a drama that never actualizes.

Informed by queer, feminist and Buddhist thought, Shah explores the interdependence of living organisms and the importance of care in times of spiritual and ecological precarity.

Eichhorn's withdrawal of the staff's labour can also be viewed in the context of the financial precarity of the organisation and of the sector.

by Shwetal A. Patel Amidst atmospheres of uncertainty and infrastructural precarity, the number and scale of biennales has seen an exponential increase over the last 30 years.

The Nasher Museum presents Precarity, a new three - channel video installation created by John Akomfrah, a London - based artist and filmmaker.

It was about painting as a way to find pleasure alongside precarity.

Precarity makes us all equal, visual artists like immigrants, elderly people, women or young people are all sharing similar experiences.

As a cohort, the works in Sing the Body propose a multiplicity of silent and pronounced ways in which our shared desire to create cohesion from experiential fragments underscores a tacit understanding of our own precarity.

What does it mean, in practice, to work on cultural programming in a state of permanent precarity?

It does seem like quite a coincidence that Hammons created two works involving the racialized and bodily precarity associated with illegal actions within pissing distance of the projected site of a show about artists working in the medium of illegality itself.

The term zero hours contracts describes a «multiplicity of work arrangements» («The «Zero - Hours Contract»: Regulating Casual Work, or Legitimating Precarity?»

Precarity Centre at Grand Union, Birmingham (2016) and its iteration at Studio Voltaire, London (2017); 40 temps, 8 days; and The People Behind The Financial System: could you talk about the continuities for you between these works?

In a second submission, IWC calls on the Special Advisors to reject options that will introduce more precarity to Ontario's labour market and instead recommend legislative changes to protect migrant workers, who are particularly vulnerable to abuse...

These sites are more important than ever in the current state of economic precarity that reaches far beyond the fates of seven art students.

It looks at the modern workplace and workforce, including work precarity, standardizing types of employment and employers and unionization.

Opening to the public on 18 November, the 2017 edition of Prospect.4 in New Orleans, organised under the title «The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp», will feature John Akomfrah's latest multi-screen film installation Precarity (2017).

About precarity and the fragility of the body as well as the determination to go on, the display is deeply moving.

The landscape shows the reversal of urban to suburban migration patterns, an extreme concentration and stratification of wealth and power, marginalization and displacement of industry, and the emergent precarity of environmental catastrophe.