Sentences with phrase «structures of power»

Designed foundations and steel structures of power plant projects, modular structures of pre-assembled pipe racks and strengthening design of steel beams.

As recently as the 1960s and 1970s there were many individuals whose activities constituted a serious threat to the structures of power and the established ways of being.

Feminist artists have been deconstructing patriarchal structures of power and oppression through their brave and unique artistic practices for decades.

Simultaneously, Clark is having his first major solo exhibition in the US at the International Center of Photography, New York, where he is showing a cross-section of his work exploring structures of power and control in the global war on terror.

«Kapwani's rigorous research and imaginative approach will confront audiences with the raw materials and elemental structures of power», explains Artist Award curator Adrienne Edwards, «and ask poignant questions about our built environment and human histories of control.»

In Ozone Flowers, the question of redemption is posed within a system whose structures of power have made its own logic all but impenetrable.

As the Berlin - based artist's first UK show at London's Carrol / Fletcher, it offers a generous insight into the complexities of networked media and the humans that exist both inside and outside its obfuscating structures of power.

research and imaginative approach confront audiences with the raw materials and elemental structures of power.

Together these three works question the capacity for empathy and care within structures of power and vulnerability, ultimately asking if there is a possibility for agency within these contexts.

In the work of Edgardo Aragón the structures of power, violence and politics are addressed in recorded performances that recreate past events, freely mixing stories from domestic and political contexts.

Guerrilla Girls Broadband is a Band of Broads of all stripes who, challenge structures of power and privilege in the Digital Age.

It brings together aritsts absorbed in thinking about the body and structures of power in one of the most highly charged political laboratoires of our time: Palestine.

Christopher Aque's new video installation, questioning our relationships with the structures of power and desire (Regards, Chicago)

She creates complex narratives that confront societal structures of power and pedagogy.

«So much of art writing is just kind of affirming these structures of power that already exist or are already givens,» Droitcour said.

Three main themes surround the exhibition — natural philosophy, strategies of appropriation after existing art works and structures of power in politics and the arts.

The exhibitions encouraged the dissection and deconstruction of structures of power by artists working in a cross-section of media.

These perspectives are reflected in the exhibition's title that paraphrases theorist and artist Rammellzee (1960 - 2010), who argued that language as a social agreement is not a passive vessel or known quantity but rather possesses the potential to reimagine structures of power.

Ammerlaan is interested in structures of power and greatness: human impact and a natural addition to physical and mental confined spaces or the hierarchy between cultures and religion.

Featuring both landscapes and figures, he works from a position of the outsider questioning structures of power and influence.

The final pieces, sometimes as large as 10 feet wide, are totemic - like shrines that expose Kuksi's disenchantment with the structures of power and the fallacies of man.

Although radical feminist and women's art is facing criticism, artists who belong to this art movement are still deconstructing patriarchal structures of power and oppression, through their brave and unique artistic practices.

In the paintings for which he first became known, de Balincourt worked from the position of an outsider (the Paris - born artist has lived in the United States since childhood), questioning structures of power and influence, laying bare injustices and hypocrisies while maintaining an amused attachment to the myths through which identity — individual and national — is constructed.

It is conceived as a counter to our paradoxical times, the platform identifies nascent cultures and unmasks the hidden structures of power and information that shape our lives.

Artist Rodney McMillian's exhibition Against a Civic Death continues the artist's formal inquiry into painting, abstraction, and performance with a discomforting social critique of American histories, injustices, and structures of power.

According to exhibition catalogue contributor Amy Smith - Stewart, «The videos, performances, and sculptures of Kate Gilmore forge relational encounters that rearrange our thinking about structures of power.

Bifurcated into the colors of white on the first floor and black on the second floor, the exhibition continues the artist's formal inquiry into painting, abstraction, and performance with a discomforting social critique of American histories, injustices, and structures of power.

From Woodlawn to Wicker Park, billboards, performances, and installations displaced contemporary art in public spaces while commenting on the structures of power.

There is a common interest within all of my work — contemplations upon the human condition in relation to structures of power, historically and within contemporary society — the relationship between the oppressed and the oppressor.

Through Aug. 16, 2014 Mark Bradford at White Cube Hong Kong Known for his abstract, layered collage paintings, Los Angeles - based Mark Bradford is presenting «a series of new works about Hong Kong that explore structures of power and politics through the lens of urban planning, in the world's most densely populated city.»

Sean Mahan is a social realist figurative painter who works with graphite and acrylic washes on wood to depict a sense of wonder about the innate warmth of the human character and its conflict with structures of power and control.

The Academy praised Llosa «for his cartography of the structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat.»

It is definitely a subversive practice to disguise a girl as a boy, even if the intent of the individual family or bacha posh is something other than an attempt to transform the established social order and its structures of power, authority, and hierarchy.

It can be «a recurrent reminder,» Givens says, of the important work to teach marginalized students — and American students more broadly — about race, history, and «how structures of power and domination continue to operate in society.»

In this case, by adopting the pose of protest, white demonstrators insensitively, though hopefully well - intentioned, in fact did more to distract from the issue that racism is pervasive in the structures of power than contribute to it.

The «dominator model» according to her is reflected in the patriarchal structures of power, a hierarchy based on the threat or use of force.

The issue isn't in the word itself; it's what the word represents: patriarchal structures of power, rape culture, and everyday sexism.

If he wants to do something about his legacy, he should act quickly to fundamentally change the structures of power in Albany, perhaps starting with publicly financed elections — something the Moreland Commission proposed before it was shut down.

Surely the liberal and the republican can agree that, if the structures of power are such that I feel obliged to limit my own freedom of expression, then my liberty has to that degree been undermined.

Unlike the labor movement at its height, this policy initiative poses no threat to the structures of power in our society.

Modernity has awakened them to their rights of participation in the structures of power, but the modern technological developments and commercialism have increased the power of their traditional oppressors by alienating land, forests, water sources and femininity from them for exploiting them for purposes of profit and have destroyed their livelihood and pattern of life.

«Viewed from the perspective of oppressed people's struggle for freedom, the holy become a radical challenge to the legitimacy of the secular structures of power by creating eschatological images and legends about a realm of experience that is not confined to the values of this world.

But for St. Francis and his followers the spirit of love leads to radical nonconformity amid the patterns of culture with their structures of power and privilege.

But we have also seen that this is done at the cost of losing direct effectiveness in the guidance, restraint, and judgment of the structures of power which shape the social order.

The test is whether that power is used in responsible service to the God who is moving against the injustices in the present structures of power.

Just as there are possible justifications for inequality (and for the use of violence in its defense), so there are also possible justifications for resort to violence against existing structures of power» (PPT 27f.)

Ecological theology needs sociological theology because left to itself it does not deal realistically with the actual structures of power whose exercise will determine human destiny.

Indeed, holding standards that are unrealistically high often results in structures of power and modes of implementation that are oppressive.

These changes also change the structures of power in our society, so that, for example, literate people who know how to access electronic information will have increased power over literate people who don't.

Both men and women need to develop «joint models of caring and mutuality» that challenge those structures of power and religious traditions that sanction the humiliation of others.