Sentences with phrase «utopian project»

Its structure is based on architectural models for utopian project Living Pods (Archigram, David Greene) and Archigram's ideas around time - based proto - systems that could demonstrate animalistic and collective orders of organisation.

Through this game he makes a larger comment on the modernist utopian project.

Exploring financial, environmental and personal implication of the concept of liquidity, it tracks the aesthetics of the tumultuous storms of the 20th century, but it also looks critically at seasteading as the utopian project of the privileged class.

«This brewery employs what has become my favorite naming convention, as each beer they release bears the name of a defunct or fictional utopian project.

He has intermittently interesting things to say about all of these things, but about none of them does he establish his thesis» which is that Progressivism was a radical and utopian project.

The Sesame Street idea was a product of its time, a Great Society - era utopian project rooted in an understanding of history as «progressive.»

Spanning the years between 1985 and the present day, The Utopian Projects features more than twenty of the Kabakovs» maquettes and whimsical models.

Instructor: Paula Burleigh is a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney and a PhD candidate in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she is writing her dissertation about the use of archaic forms in a range of utopian projects in Western Europe during the 1960s.

Fueled by personal experience and memory, the installations dematerialize the original functions of the objects and represented places, and ask the viewer to consider not just the materials and artworks themselves but also the lost utopian projects of the time, and their forgotten values.

As a basis of working, he acknowledged and offset two related and oppressive qualities of utopian thought: first, that the logic of spatial organization is political and is based on exclusion as much as inclusion; second, that utopian projects develop an idealist space isolated from material reality.

Ilya & Emilia Kabakov: The Utopian Projects will be on view from September 7, 2017 through March 4, 2018, at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.

The artists current museum exhibitions are at the Hirshhorn Museum Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Utopian Projects (7 September 2017 — 4 March 2018) and at Tate Modern, their first major museum exhibition in the UK, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Not everyone will be taken into the future (18 October 2017 — 28 January 2018), travelling to The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg and the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, in 2018.

SN: Ode to art curator, critic, and art historian Hans Ulrich Obrist: are there any utopian projects that you haven't yet been able to carry out?

The extraordinary opportunity, no doubt offered to the young man because of his impressive language skills, Classical education, and rigorous interest in the contemporary arts, allowed Matta to travel throughout Europe and to work on modernist, utopian projects like the Ville Radieuse.

There, «The Utopian Projects» (which runs through March 4, 2018) displays over twenty of the pair's maquettes and models for projects both realized and unrealized.

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden will present «Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Utopian Projects,» a survey exhibition featuring the work of the acclaimed Russian artists Sept. 7 - March 4, 2018.

In his current exhibition for everyone a garden, Hartt references utopian projects by architects Moshe Safdie and Jean - Louis Chanéac from the late 1960's to explore the complex relationship between form and ideology.

Szabo also throws some cold water with a reality check by pointing out that some of the current Utopian projects being pushed in the emerging Blockchain sector are pipe dreams:

Not exact matches

On Tuesday, moments after finding out about the layoffs and leadership upheaval at the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, I asked Tony Hsieh by phone why he stepped down as leader of the utopian startup city he had founded, and why he had continued act as head of the ambitious experiment in the desert despite having already handed over the reins to his lawyer and a team of executives.

Hope for our society lies in the possibility of the rebirth of visionary thought, utopian dreaming, the resurrection of the split between present and future that provides the dynamic of change in the direction of projected ideals.

Martin Malia suggests that it is the lingering desire for a utopia on earth that leads so many to resist condemning the Communist project; to do so might force them to forsake the utopian dream.

Struck by the contingency and organic relatedness of social institutions, practices, and actions, and dismayed by the Utopian ideologies to which so many modern minds are prone, paleoconservatives (as they now style themselves) such as Kirk are opposed to «ideological infatuation» or even to imagining social projects for the future at all.

Utopian fiction is replete with these unrealistic projects going back to classical Greek times.

The Leave campaign responded in kind, first cleverly castigating Cameron for what they dubbed «Project Fear» [12] and then offering a Utopian vision in which every conceivable problem could be solved by Britain «regaining» «sovereignty».

This project is concerned with a historical aspect of that topic and is focused on the hostility towards «utopian» forms of socialism that can be found in the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

The project with the utopian - sounding title of universal credit (UC) will, Duncan Smith promises, «put hope back where it has gone» and «give people from chaotic lives security through hard work».

The Venus Project can only be viewed as utopian unless it can realistically addresses how the dictatorship of finance capital can be annihilated.

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The participants of the utopian «Project» are meant to raise their children collectively for ten years, with no one permitted any favoritism toward their own offspring.

This attempt at a utopian ideal starts off promising, but soon the gentle equilibrium among the families disintegrates: unspoken resentments between the couples begin to fester; the project's funding becomes tenuous; and Izzy's growing feelings for Dr. Grind make her question her participation in this strange experiment in the first place.

With more than 100 paintings and photographs from the 1920's to the 40's and four contemporary environmental projects (including one by Maya Lin), this exhibition homes in on the utopian, isolationist, rural face of the Midwest.

Assemble are also indebted to the utopian 19th - century projects of William Morris; they extend their artfulness into everyday life.

From Many, One, From Anyone, is a site - specific project for We the People, which references utopian and contradictory American ideals, pedagogy, socialization, and protest.

Renowned Polish artist Grzegorz Kowalski will give a talk about the history of the utopian sculptural project Ruta de la Amistad in which he took part in 1968.

Architectural projects present utopian or science - fictional possibilities for dwellings; perhaps the most revolutionary is Contour Crafting, a process developed at the University of Southern California «that has the potential to build housing units in a single day, and at a quarter of the cost of existing manual methods» (ibid., 268).

This project takes the impetus from recent activism in public parks and squares, but its core comes from an idealistic, almost utopian, concept of the optimism for the shared responsibility of a public site by people and the artist's role in solidifying that contract.

An ongoing project, The Crystal Frontier, creates a fictional female Utopia, with artifacts, products and writings from this Utopian reality represented as works for exhibition.

Originally planned as a non-functional airport terminal, the project has evolved into something far less defined, cribbing ideas from playground design, utopian modernism, and psychotherapy.

The Dreams section presents future - oriented and activist art through political posters and graphics, the publication as conceptual art project, cinematic protest, and the legacies of utopian architecture.

At the Charles Avery show — which builds on his Islanders project, with work including a utopian yet scary depiction of a shopping precinct — I bump into my artist friend Keith Wilson, plus Ian Dench, ex-EMF (who was an art student for one year, pop fact fans).

This screening of HD transfers of Stan VanDerBeek's short animated films, as well as unpublished documentation from his Cine Dreams projects, examines the utopian film experiments that he undertook after his studies at Black Mountain College.

Apparatus for a Utopian Image, Opening Reception Wednesday, September 21, 2016, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EFA Project Space 323 W. 39th, 2nd Floor

Shah also sketches Unité d'Habitation, Le Corbusier's utopian but disastrous housing project in Marseille, and the drawing's sheer size pays homage to his ambitions.

The Final Phase: Apparatus for a Utopian Image, Closing Reception Friday, October 21, 2016, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm EFA Project Space 323 W. 39th, 2nd Floor

Constant, OriëntSector (1959), (metal, ink on Perspex and oil paint on wood): Motivated by the utopian notion that World War II had ushered in a new era in which the automation of all production would bring about a stable, classless society, Dutch artist Constant began a two - decade - long project to devise an appropriately progressive architecture and urban planning practice.

If the Jihadists express their power by performatively destroying the past and flattening the earth and the power of tech - utopian westerners over heritage is expressed through digital technologies that allow them to reclaim and colonize objects before and after they are destroyed, Allahyari's project offers a third method to re-situate power and remark history and ownership.

``... The first cohesive body of paintings I made was the «Garden Projects» when I was living near Stateway Gardens and Wentworth Gardens here in Chicago — public housing projects that had been built with utopian notions of beauty and good living in mind, but were unable to maintain the promise of their pastoral - sounding names,» Projects» when I was living near Stateway Gardens and Wentworth Gardens here in Chicago — public housing projects that had been built with utopian notions of beauty and good living in mind, but were unable to maintain the promise of their pastoral - sounding names,» projects that had been built with utopian notions of beauty and good living in mind, but were unable to maintain the promise of their pastoral - sounding names,» he said.

Designed in 1952 as a utopian proposal for collective living, Green encountered the iconic housing complex as a «modern ruin» when she was invited to participate in the 1993 group exhibition «Project Unité.»

In the gleaming hardness of custom paint and polished steel is the faint reflection of the failed project of the futurists and utopian dreamers.»

2 Rooms Contemporary Art Projects Architecturally oriented artworks and utopian structures designed to restore well - being and invigorate the soul.