Sentences with phrase «urban wasteland»

We take the Eucharist out to the homes of the shut - in, thereby taking a stance against the abandonment and marginalizing of the old in urban wastelands.

At the 55th Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia, Spain is represented by Lara Almarcegui, an artist who's work often deals with urban wastelands and modern ruins.

Without areas of wilderness we have nothing to act as a contrast to the barren urban wastelands most of us find ourselves in, and finally, without nature, we would lose the richness of human experience that is just as much a part of our heritage as our genes.

Through the eyes of burnt - out paramedic Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage), «Dead» reveals a coarse urban wasteland run amuck with junkies, alcoholics, prostitutes, drug dealers, diseased patients and their apathetic caretakers.

by Walter Chaw Winner of the Audience and Director's awards at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, the kinetic social history document Dogtown and Z - Boys suggests that the amalgamation of art and sport created a unique brand of protest performance art centred around eight kids growing up in the «dead wonderland» of Venice Beach (and the surrounding urban wasteland referred to by the locals as Dogtown).

Where did the makers get their idea for urban wastelands filled with drugs and violence?

That's about as far as the fake advertisement goes in previewing the next urban wasteland to cause havoc in the next GTA game.

But the largest work in the show alluded to the sometimes surreal aspects of living in the various urban wastelands Ward has occupied over the years.

The Violators is set around the Birkenhead docks in Liverpool and concerns the coming - of - age of 15 - year - old Shelly (Lauren McQueen), a school drop - out who fills her days listlessly walking across this urban wasteland.

(The movie begins with the voice of Margaret Thatcher, praising prosperity while we see people living rough in an urban wasteland.)

With little more than a few basic pointers, you're prodded in the direction of a hulking robotic construct, pounding its way through an urban wasteland.

The game flow in Freedom Wars is ultimately divided into two halves as you travel back and forth between your Panopticon and the urban wasteland beyond.

I Am Legend is actually at its best early on, while Will is solo and captured starkly against the breathtaking backdrop of the vast, urban wasteland.

DETROIT — It's more than bizarre that this town — and many people from around the world — find the Packard plant on the city's east side so fascinating as an urban wasteland.

Shot in the urban wasteland of downtown New York, Jonas directs the participants in a variety of choreographed actions that add up to a masterpiece of early performance film and video.

Joanna Bryant Projects presents a solo show by François Pont whose engravings / paintings open up spaces, interrupted by gestural accents and lines that rise, descend, dig and move away, capturing the vibrations of urban wastelands and gardens — landmarks in a vast world.

With engaged projects such as her guides to modern ruins and urban wastelands or her rubble mountains, Almarcegui has taken her practice to capital cities like London, Beirut and Vienna and has participated in major international contemporary art events such as Manifesta 9 (2012) and the São Paulo Biennial (2006).

Several years ago, whilst on a residency in Berlin, François discovered the urban wastelands.

Baltz's photo series document the side effects of industrial civilization on the landscape, focusing on places that lie outside the bounds of canonical reception: urban wastelands, abandoned industrial sites, warehouses.

The Urban Wastelands Project, a UK touring exhibition, (2011 - 12), highlighted issues concerning the wastelands and edgelands that surround our cities and ports.

Dorset County Hospital is currently hosting an exhibition of paintings and collage work from The Urban Wastelands Project that runs until 7 September 2014.