Sentences with phrase «precarity of»

He has described these new works as an homage to women from Africa who «look to the future, thinking about their children» — watching as entire generation of young adults leave the continent in search of opportunity, only too aware of the precarity of the journey to come.

Michael Vickers's works sit between painting and sculpture, in prioritizing their object - hood physical struggle becomes manifest, highly industrialised materials are folded, pushed and beaten into other forms acknowledging the precarity of their formation and labour.

From singular events, to six - week durational pieces, the exhibition site will be an ever - changing series of moments, drawing on the precarity of liveness and the difficulty of capturing the moment.

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.

The students» absence may be minimized by damage control consultants, but their actions inspire and speak louder than the businessasusual mentality of MFA programs that pretend they're not founded on the precarity of those they ostensibly serve.

From March 3rd to June 3rd, CROSSROADS will be screened thrice weekly from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm, reminding us of the precarity of our existence and the need to foster positive energy to bring peace for ourselves and for the environment.

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.

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.

Jerinic's exhibition calls attention to the precarity of New York City as a series of islands, and, like her work in general, considers the fluid and tenuous boundary between constructed landscapes and natural phenomena.

Against the backdrop of a growing national sentiment that immigrants do not belong in this country, he mines the precarity of belonging in the United States.

«How we respond to the precarity of the world is the central question today, as it has been in other pivotal moments in history,» he said.

Not exact matches

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).

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.

To me that argues for heightened attention to the other aspects of action and concert in political life, in which people who take such risks experience not just fragility but great joy, and not just a sense of precarity but a broadened sense of community and togetherness, not just martyrdom but also transformation.

Precarity is bad, in part, because it creates a vulnerability to domination — a loss of freedom.

Humans have a lot of things in common and precarity is one of them — we won't live forever and we're not superhuman.

And, not least, there are profound underlying problems with the political economy which has been built through the existing UK state: the fragility and unevenness of economic growth, employment precarity, long - term wage stagnation and housing market inequality.

«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.

I moved out of academia after several years of precarity with little rewards, but if someone offers me a position tomorrow in a university to do fundamental research, I would probably consider the offer.»

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.

The underlying theme in the story of Fantagraphics Books is precarity.

Precarity is a newly commissioned, three - channel video work by John Akomfrah, a pioneer in film and video art since the 1980s and 2017 winner of the UK's esteemed Artes Mundi Prize.

Precarity is his second, multi-media video work in a four - part series of inquiry and reflection into enigmatic lives projected against their historical backdrops.

5 PM Exhibition Opens — John Akomfrah: Precarity 5:30 - 6:30 PM Cash Bar and Live Performance: Art of Cool All - Star Band, led by Al Strong 7 PM The Directors Series continues with Franklin Sirmans, who will give a talk about «Miami's Art Museum, the Pérez Art Museum Miami.»

Each encounter will explore questions of precarity, work, choreography, objects, poetry, and the transmission of performance scores.

The title of the installation, Precarity, questions the narrating impulse and casts us instead «in the break» — and Mark Dion's installation Field Station for the Melancholy Marine Biologist takes a similarly precarious position.

«In Bed With...» This series featured two - on - one encounters exploring questions of precarity and work, the transmission of performance scores, choreography, objects, and poetry.

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...

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.

What: The Workers: Precarity / Invisibility / Mobility at MASS MoCA Looks at Conditions of Contemporary Labor Where: MASS MoCA When: May 29, 2011 to March 15, 2012 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 28, 2011, 5:30 pm

John Akomfrah's newly commissioned film, Precarity (2017)-- on view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art — considers the roots of that efflorescence in four meditative chapters about the life of Charles «Buddy» Bolden, a popular New Orleans cornet player credited with the first jazz - style improvisation.

Imagining artistic practice as a sedimentary process of material and social transformation (akin to a trash heap or scrap yard), Alli works in installation, performance, image - making and visual research to rummage in the aesthetics of precarity, collapse, and by extension, the vast formlessness of the Earth's ocean gyres.

White cotton gloves conceal the race of the other individual, and this indeterminacy throws the painting into greater precarity.

«The dog days of myth and history: Salvatore Scarpitta,» «Double talk: quantity and immanence, Allan McCollum» and «Double talk: precarity and balance, Vik Muniz.»

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.

Using visual and textual media of physical, digital, found and fabricated states, his work explores possibilities of an artistic practice that intersects with anarchist ideas of social and political praxis, engaging tensions between autonomy and authority while examining thematics of fiction, imagination, precarity, anxiety, urgency, and counterhegemony.

After co-founding and co-directing resource sharing networks OurGoods.org and TradeSchool.coop from 2008 - 2014, Woolard is now focused on her work with BFAMFAPhD.com to raise awareness about the impact of rent, debt, and precarity on culture and on the NYC Real Estate Investment Cooperative to create and support truly affordable commercial space for cultural resilience and economic justice in New York City.

Playing with precarity, performance, and the virtual as real, Tonight, you can call me Trish invited artists and viewers to move through multiple states of being.

This precarity exposes vulnerability in otherwise sturdy objects, resulting in dynamic, architectural constructions tottering on the brink of total dissolution.

In other words, spiritual as its message may be, LOVE also indicates that precarity, fragility, break up are almost inevitably part of the story...» (J. Pissarro, Robert Indiana, 2006, New York, p. 72) The angled O pulls the otherwise stabilized structure off kilter while the contrasting colors define the precise curves of each letter.

Precarity Centre is the first in a series of artworks and interventions by They Are Here during In Residence, their yearlong residency at Studio Voltaire.

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.

9 pm Precarious Labor Films: Shorts from P2P Fightsharing III: Precarity; Mayday Barcelona (8:52); St. Precarious Goes Shopping (5:51); Yomango Tango (6:11); Gim me an occupation of the premises with that McStrike (4:05) at The New Great Wall of Oakland, right outside of the Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland.

Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art, eds.

But if P. 4 has produced a masterpiece, it's John Akomfrah's video installation, Precarity, one of many new commissions at the triennial.

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.