Sentences with phrase «question issues of identity»

The solo exhibition by Polish visual and performance artist Justyna Scheuring, who lives and works in London, brings together sign language interpreters and consecutive translators, in order to compose a performance through a multitude of voices and forms of expression to question issues of identity in a context of personal trauma, global migration and the experience of otherness.

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In metaphysics, issues of realism and antirealism are relevant to Whitehead's fundamental attitude, as well as questions about the nature and identity conditions for events.

By the end of the second century, particularly in the context of martyrdom, the issue of resurrection centered on the question of the identity of the earthly body and the resurrected body to come.

The most notable recent contribution regarding the issue of Indian - Christian identity is found in the work of Sathianathan Clarke, who, in analysing a particular Dalit community, the Paraiyar, has pointed out just how complex this question really is, when he writes that

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

The heart of the issues is this: Theological education, in Stackhouse's view, incorporates the relevant pluralism in a way that inescapably implies a systematic relativism about all questions of truth and justice regarding God; it implies that the «Christian thing» has no intrinsic unity or identity.

They are there for questions of identity, they are there for working through any issues that may arise in the open adoption relationship, and they are there for ALL PARTIES INVOLVED.

«I have some friends who've retired [for whom] the question of self - identity was a big issue.

Clinicians and researchers have raised ethical questions about the transplant, as well as concerns about whether Dinoire was stable enough to give informed consent for the procedure — which dips into uncharted issues involving the relationship between the face and personal identity — and for the regimen of immunosuppressive drugs she must now take for the rest of her life.

In response to a question about whether it educates its drivers about public accommodation issues, the company pointed to its non-discrimination policy and code - of - conduct to say it is setting expectations that refusal of service based on identity will not be tolerated.

With outrageous humour that bubbles to the surface, director Michael Showalter's film is most importantly, not without hard - hitting questions, dabbling with issues of cultural identity within a poignant illustration of a couple's relationship.

Screenwriters John Ronson and Peter Straughan (who very loosely based the character on Frank Sidebottom, the comic persona of the late U.K. performer, Chris Sievey, amongst other musicians) are aware of the thin line between madness and genius, but rather than exploit that tired trope, they use it as a jumping off point to explore issues as inherent to both art and life as identity, voice, creative output, and that age old question of what it really means to sell out.

The issue of brand identity raises questions about how for - profit schools will sell themselves in the education market.

Budhos, author of two other novels that focus on immigrant teens (Ask Me No Questions, 2006, and Tell Us We're Home, 2010), presents another effective coming - of - age novel, one that not only confronts without reservation the notion of Islamaphobia and issues of teenage identity but also tackles the grittier aspects of life in this post-9 / 11 era.

A multi-screen, documentary - style video installation, «Question Bridge» presents a dynamic series of «exchanges» among black men who span generations and backgrounds about a range of contemporary issues particularly relevant to their experiences such as race, identity, faith, family and fatherhood — .

The works challenge stereotypes and explores issues that affect American Indians including corruption and violence in the casino industry, racism, addiction, and questions of identity.

Margaret Bowland creates work that confronts contemporary issues of identity through probing and deeply personal pictures that question Western societal expectations of gender, race, power, and beauty.

This question of identity has pervaded nearly every aspect of contemporary life raising issues too complex to be easily resolved.

By placing socially historical imagery in a contemporary context, Dunn is able to rigorously question a range of issues from racial identity to social justice through his artistic practice.

«It's very powerful work, in terms of dealing with questions about gender and sexuality and identity, all of which are big, front - and - center important issues,» Mr. Proctor said.

The works of Cseke Szilárd often investigate global issues, and questions of identity are frequently brought into collision with themes of migration and personal decision - making, thus alluding to sustainability with the combination of found and recycled objects.

In an effort to identify truth, reality, and meaning, each of the artists in the exhibition confronts these questions by inventing, criticizing, or retelling reality — simultaneously grappling with issues of racial identity, sexuality, violence, protest, globalism, and ethics.

Punchbag added further complexities to questions of raced, gendered and cultural identities raised by Glenn Ligon's Skin Tight: Muhammed Ali Text (1995)[Figs.85 - 86], a punchbag and text piece which specifically sought to address «how black men have used boxing to confront issues of black American identity» and «the construction of masculinity in relation to questions of violence, the commodification of black subjects, sexuality and resistance.»

The questions of assumptions about male heroes and female heroines, about the issues of identity politics and gender studies, coinciding with deconstructivist views of art history and more, are tackled in Kass's wide repertoire of silkscreened and painted imagery.

The painter / writer Mira Schor addresses feminist issues, articulating the question of identity.

One of the most important and celebrated contemporary American artists, Carrie Mae Weems has for over thirty years investigated issues of race, gender, and class, and her artwork continues to raise important questions about cultural identity and the politics of representation.

In the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of artists led by Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton and Peter Blake responded to a radical cultural shift in Britain, addressing the rise of mass media, the cult of celebrity, questions of identity and prevalent political issues — all concerns still relevant today.

They also raise questions about the nature of identity, particularly concerning issues of gender and sexuality.

By so doing, Tith questions the status of the artist and its potential to engage with issues of community, gender and women's identity.

The central question of her research is about the issue of «Arab» identity.

Like Rosler and Holzer, Kruger addresses issues of language and sign; and like Holzer and Sherman, she exploits the techniques of mass communication and advertising to question gender and identity.

These issues, however, had been redefined by a younger generation of abstract artists and theorists, the Minimalists and Color Field painters, into a question of painting's essential identity: was it a thing or a surface or both?

bi» bak engages with a variety of sociopolitical issues such as migration, discourses on mobility, the construction of identities, labor questions, and cultural memory.

Through their work, they question contemporary social issues such as identity, family relations, and the search of balance.

«The older artists particularly recognized that the fundamental issue was the question of their identity as black artists in a white society — an issue that had emerged in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and been restated in the Harlem Artists Guild's discussions in the 1930s.

Rosenberg saw the artist's task as a heroic exploration of the most profound issues of personal identity and experience in relation to the large questions of the human condition.

Co-created by Chris Johnson, Hank Willis Thomas, Bayeté Ross Smith, and Kamal Sinclair, Question Bridge is a five - channel video installation giving voice to black males — exploring identity and a range of issues, highlighting a diversity of thought and experience.

As part of Carrie Mae Weems LIVE: Past Tense / Future Perfect and a companion to Written on Skin: Posing Questions on Beauty, this program considers issues of identity and representation through a cinematic lens.

He has returned to these questions again and again over the course of his career, often exploring the thorny issues of identity in relation to race, sexuality, and gender.

In honor of National Women's History Month, Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) spotlights five stellar women artists whose potent work and individual practices celebrate womanhood and female autonomy, call into question responses to gender parity, and transcend traditional conceptions of gender identity to address broader issues surrounding diversity, inclusion, and tolerance for all humans.

In these new media she embraced not only painterly and sculptural questions, but also the gender and identity - related issues of that time.

CREATED BY CHRIS JOHNSON, Hank Willis Thomas, Bayeté Ross Smith, and Kamal Sinclair, «Question Bridge: Black Males» harnesses video technology to connect more than 150 men from across the country in conversations about black male identity and issues of race, masculinity, family and community.

Maybe you're smarter than the predominant opinion among experts — but two questions need to be asked: (1) to what degree is your view of the evidenced biased by your ideological identity (you clearly have a very strong ideological identity on this issue) and, (2) how could you possibly state a certainty about such a counterfactual in such a highly uncertain context?

This conclusion is an artefact of your questioning style (which nevertheless worked in distancing from identity issues).

As Simon detailed recently the issue of online comments and the identities of those who make them is a going concern and the concern in question arose here in Nova Scotia this week.

In counseling, we often delved into identity issues and there were times where I was asked to question the kind of person I am.

As I show in Diagram 2.2, these issues of power and questions about identity feed into the cycle of latent conflict and lateral violence.

My areas of clinical interest include, but are not limited to, eating disorders, identity development, relationship issues, interpersonal patterns, anxiety and mood disorders, Asperger's Disorder, learning disorders and ADHD, women's issues, parenting issues, infertility, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning (GLBTQ) issues.»

Native title can be a catalyst for lateral violence because the native title process reinforces our oppression and dispossession of our lands, and raises questions about our identity — issues that are already sensitive for us given our harsh history of colonialism.

Having grown up in Switzerland and moved to London a few years ago, Guy has a particular interest in the experience of migration, life transitions and identity issues, including the many questions posed by mixed ethnicity.