Sentences with phrase «presence of the human body»

The exhibition explores expanded narratives of sculpture through works in which artists have sought to replicate the literal, living presence of the human body.

Located at the intersection of performance and visual art, On Performativity examines the questions that emerge when our art experiences are framed around the presence of the human body — and its absence.

To explore the ways in which «artists have sought to replicate the literal, living presence of the human body,» they have assembled some 120 works spanning seven hundred years from a variety of public and private collections here and abroad.

Not exact matches

This mystery of human selfhood, with its connection to but also its freedom from the body, is the best evidence I know for the presence of transcendence in our world.

For we have lost both the communal and the cosmic presence of Christ, and now perhaps Catholicism can teach us what it has always known: that all fully natural life is human life, and that life is the body of Christ.

Perhaps we can never manage perfectly such a juggling act, but we need to try — to think of human beings both as bodies, for whom the relentless succession of hours and days leads surely to the grave, and as God - aimed spirits, whose every moment is lived in the presence of the Eternal.

And yet even in those early, dark hours of her life, Penny's presence — her sweet face and tiny hands and warm body — knocked against my grid, jostled my presuppositions about human wholeness and human sin.

Our concern is not with these, but rather to state simply that the reality of the presence of Christ in the Holy Communion is a given fact of two thousand years of Christian experience, and that Christian worship as it has historically developed has found that in the partaking of the consecrated bread and wine, as Christ commanded, His «spiritual body and blood» — which is to say, the reality of His life, divine and human, in a uniquely intimate and genuine way — have been received as His presence has been known and his person adored.

Idealism recognizes the presence of evil in history, but it makes a distinction between nature and reason and attributes evil to the body.16 Idealism is complacent about the perils of the freedom of the human spirit, convinced that spirit and rationality are identical and that rationality controls freedom.

As I have come to learn, it is impossible for a woman to get through a pregnancy without being acutely aware of the presence of another human life inside her own body.

Or perhaps we should say, the human body is animate because of the presence of the anima or soul.

The vivid imagination and the sharp observation of men and nature that marked his mind; his acquaintance with common speech and his joy in the use of proverbs; indeed, his capacity to express in creative speaking with a skill that only a poet and genius possesses the whole range of human emotions from awe in the presence of the numinous to the feelings of the body — all are reflected in his sermons (as also in the commentaries, his work of the lecture room), not consistently, of course, and not every time, yet most impressively in the Church Postil Sermons, one of the products of his exile on Wartburg Castle, written in order to furnish to the preachers of the Reformation examples of Biblical preaching.

Capsaicin only inflames human cells because heat - detecting proteins in our nerve endings called TRPV1 receptors become activated in the chemical's presence, mistakenly interpreting capsaicin as a sign of extreme heat, and sending the body's burn defenses into overdrive.

This is primarily because of the presence of nicotine, and we all know that this substance is very bad for any human being; much more for a baby whose body is still developing quickly.

There is nothing wrong with being a chatterbox in general, but if your mom's nervous tick happens to be talking your ear off, she might not be a very relaxing presence while you are trying to focus on pushing a tiny human out of your body.

Succinic Acid is a natural component of plant and animal tissues, and it's presence in the human body is beneficial in many ways.»

When an animal with a CMAH gene's organs are transplanted into a human who does not have the CMAH gene, the human body might reject the organ because of the presence of the Neu5Gc sugar.

[15] For an informative comparison of the presence of remains in Cambodia and Rwanda, see Elena Lesley, «Death on Display: Bones and Bodies in Cambodia and Rwanda,» in Necropolitics: Mass Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights, ed.

«Our goal is to discover what microbial communities exist in different parts of the human body and to explore how these communities change in the presence of health or disease,» said National Human Genome Research Institute Director, Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., co-chair of the Human Microbiome Project Implementation Ghuman body and to explore how these communities change in the presence of health or disease,» said National Human Genome Research Institute Director, Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., co-chair of the Human Microbiome Project Implementation GHuman Genome Research Institute Director, Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., co-chair of the Human Microbiome Project Implementation GHuman Microbiome Project Implementation Group.

Germ cell specific markers are also expressed in embryoid bodies derived from human ES suggesting the presence of PGC's, so I am developing methods to enhance their formation and isolation.

While some physicians are confident in the human body's ability to regulate itself, others express a sense of uncertainty about the effect of the growing presence of new chemicals in our environments.

We may never fully understand the complex micro-system that occurs in the soil, just like we may never understand the human body fully, but one area of fascinating research is the presence of fulvic acid and humic substances in the soil.

It is postulated that the discomfort arises due to the presence of alcohol molecules that can not be digested in the human body; primarily because the human body lacks the enzyme that breaks alcohol down.

Forty seven of 137 of the bodies from each region were found to have probable or definite atherosclerosis, leading researchers to conclude that «Although commonly assumed to be a modern disease, the presence of atherosclerosis in premodern human beings raises the possibility of a more basic predisposition to the disease.»

Hammer, who played the fabulously wealthy Winklevoss twins in The Social Network — and is himself the great - grandson of the still - more - fabulously - wealthy oil tycoon Armand Hammer — is an amiable enough cinematic presence, and Fichtner is magnificent as Cavendish, snarling and sneering and eating the occasional human body part with demonic aplomb.

One human, a teenaged girl named Melanie (Ronan, Hanna), proves to be so strong in will that she continues to be a presence in the mind, even though the body is in complete control of the alien named Wanderer.

A growing body of data shows that human beings are improved by the presence of pets.

-- the presence of 12 bodies with three difficulty levels and regime survival at each level; — powerful nanorobots, ready for total protection of the human body; — realistic graphics, taking into account anatomic features of a structure of internal organs; — a wide range of threats and a variety of opponents in the form of viruses, germs, bacteria and enemy cells, will provide you with decent resistance; — added new functions to the defense of generator — modified training system — there is an opportunity to share achievements on social networks.

The cycle of life and presence (or absence) of the human body are recurring themes across the show.

If the paintings conjured a massive presence, I thought at the time, the language of modeling would operate as an authority figure attempting to bind the more wildly associative or grotesque imagery, usually referring to the human body.

Without applying the actual body, or making intentional markings with the ink, her large scale monoprints on paper appear to carry traces of human figures and faces — the weight of bodily flesh and quality of a spirit - like presence.

With just a few concrete elements, Margolles vividly enacts the transformations of the human body after death, especially the final passage from presence to absence.

An underlying tension in Adams's body of work is the contradiction between landscapes visibly transformed or scarred by human presence and the inherent beauty of light and land rendered by the camera.

The effect of the show is meant to manifest itself in the range of emotion exhibited by the carefully selected works — the sense of nostalgia in Qureshi's plaintive cast concrete palm fronds from Mecca, Kley's unassuming but gorgeous cinerary urn for a dear friend, Strobert's aesthetically dazzling primer of her own body's extents, and Paine's bemused diagrams all offer traces and referents of the human experience, happily or sadly at the tail end of our unique presence as a highly evolved primate species on the earth.

Rakowitz reflects on the presence of many bodies within constructed shared spaces to formulate a more inclusive concept of the term «citizen,» including humans, plants and animals.

Whilst they are seemingly devoid of a human presence, there remains a subtle anthropometric quality to his compositions; the dimensions frequently relate to the proportions of the body, and his use of elements such as light, heat and mirrored surfaces — made using automotive spray paint on aluminium sheets — allude to, or reflect, the figure.

By estranging the body, fragmenting or even mutilating it, Coplans» photographs destroy our familiarity with and immediate ability to recognise the human, introducing the presence of the other in the self.

Antony Gormley's sculptures take their starting point from the presence of the body or human form.

Employing various mediums, each artist conveys earnest and intimate human feelings of longing beyond the body and its representative radiance, exceeding the limits of tangible presence toward meditative states.

These objects are seen as extensions of human beings, their existence establishing the duality of presence and absence in relation to a human body.

Incorporating a symbolic figurative presence as an alternative to the external appearance of a human figure — a traditional marker of our existence — these works locate the body through spaces, materials, sensations, and information that exist in relation to it (and to us).

Her performance pieces of the late»80s revolved around the human body, a theme that reemerged and is carried through her sculptural works, in which non-figurative pieces engage the viewer's bodies through their striking viscerality and presence.

In Big Woman Statue the unidentified hand suggests a void or an unavailability, leaving room for imagination of whether or not there is another human figure, reinforcing the exhibition project's overall interest in the absence and presence of bodies as well as the tension between the whole body and its parts.

While some of the works on view at Storm King were more recent, the presence of human fragments and body parts were notably reminiscent of his original Angel.

The presence of Smith's daughters» work emphasizes connections to landscape and the human body.

Gazing into the luminous, eye - like portals and across the rippling fields of cloth we know have enveloped a human body, we feel we are in the presence of an uncannily familiar stranger.

Adorned with fringes of hair as a way of invoking the human body and its physical presence, Geyer's constructions give three - dimensional contemporary form to the illustration on the cover of The Ladder's initial 1956 issue, which depicts two figures gazing up at a runged ladder reaching into the clouds.

Gutai paintings were the result of a surface being heavily manipulated by human presence, in which the body is used as brush or mark - making device, resulting in a hybrid object somewhere between the act of painting and the action of the body.

They argue that it is highly unlikely that great whites will associate human presence with food since there is a huge difference (to sharks) between the sight and smell of a research vessel floating on the surface, and a human body being in the water.