The Art Market MA program at FIT is pleased to present Don't Feed the Animals, a group show featuring works by contemporary artists who
transgress social norms to reveal the ways people respond to actions performed out of context.
The works also possess a potent sexuality as formal systems allow the artists to
transgress social taboos of examining and representing the body.
The men in the show, like the women, play with socially determined meanings of masculinity and femininity, trying different roles and
transgressing social expectations.
The Guardian shares ten books by «wild women» who
transgressed social, personal, and literary boundaries, including works by Leonora Carrington, Margaret Cavendish, and Audre Lorde.
Not exact matches
How do people use sex and sexual technology to
transgress or change
social status?
These include buying school materials (clothes, supplies, and even homework) on eBay and the Internet; exchanging music on P2P sites; building games with modding (modifying) tools; setting up meetings and dates online; posting personal information and creations for others to check out; meeting people through cell phones; building libraries of music and movies; working together in self - formed teams in multiplayer online role - playing games; creating and using online reputation systems; peer rating of comments; online gaming; screen saver analysis; photoblogging; programming; exploring; and even
transgressing and testing
social norms.
Contents: Dialouge, by Elaine de Kooning with Rosalyn Drexler Moving Out, Moving Up, by Marjorie Strider Do Your Work, by Louise Nevelson
Social Conditions Can Change, by Lynda Benglis The Double - Bind, by Suzi Gablik Women Without Pathos, by Eleanor Antin Artists
Transgress All Boundaries, by Rosemarie Castoro
Spanning the years 1962 - 1968, Actionism was a provocative performance movement with roots in postwar gestural abstraction (Action Painting) that sought to
transgress the conservative Viennese
social climate by using the body as material in violent, explicit, sometimes sexual Aktions.
The artist
transgresses personal borders and
social taboos and reveals mechanisms of attributing and understanding roles and transferring guilt.
However, Sharrer used such elements to draw the unsuspecting viewer in while cleverly deploying the power of humor to
transgress rigid
social boundaries and reveal the ugly underbelly of power.
The exhibition also includes works by artists who are not content to stay on their side of a borderline, and who, through their works,
transgress personal and
social boundaries.
Both artists have been embraced by the art mainstream, leading this reviewer to wonder whether art that is granted permission to
transgress by
social elites can truly be transgressive.
The subjects of Reihana's portraiture inhabit a world in which the boundaries of past, present and future are mutable; their identities are likewise unfixed and
transgress everyday expectations of cultural and
social norms.
And if the answer is yes, can the Russian avant - garde function as an inspiration and model for contemporary art practices that try to
transgress the borders of the art world, to become political, to change the dominant political and economical conditions of human existence, to put themselves in the service of political or
social revolution, or at least of political and
social change?
And one more example: students» «awareness» of «ethics and professionalism» need not extend to the governance of the profession or to the economic and
social forces that tempt or compel its members to
transgress the rules of professional conduct.