Sentences with phrase «which cultural signifiers»

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Could Bay actually be deliberately making a metaphor with the nefarious and false «contamination alerts» — the Orange Alerts of the city — as opposed to his usual accidental stumbling upon some negative and evil cultural signifier, of which is own work is usually the best example?

Pryde's exhibitions — which often feature sculptural forms as well as photography — connect and flatten signifiers from political, pop cultural, and art historical discourses.

This insecurity about cultural signifiers filters through into much of our «abstract» painting as well, which feels compelled to reference the Australian landscape in order to deliver meaning.

The artists in this exhibition produce works that explore the multi-faceted characteristics of the word «hood» in some fashion: a slang term for a Black neighborhood; a suffix in cultural theory concepts like «objecthood,» «personhood,» «negrohood;» and Trayvon Martin's hoodie, which, along with his being an objectified young Black male, served as a signifier in an act of radical injustice.

The Lack of Sleep / Christmas / Corn Syrup Chain of Signifiers / Absence of Leisure Time To Make Art and Write etc. / OurEducational Cultural Indoctrination System Which Turns LumpenDull - Witted Three - Year - Olds Into Massive Raving Homo - Bashing TumorsStewing In Hot Tubs On Their Own TV Shows / Axis of Evil.

Instead of actually describing the action — packed video — which is chock - full of very contemporary cultural signifiers — I'm just going to give a partial list of things I noticed on the screen: a swagboard, a dress made out of CD - Rs, virtual pets, a substance that looks suspiciously like Nickelodeon's Gak, children involved in combination IRL and URL cosplay, prosthetic pustules, CGI geometric monsters, a cyberpunk-esque multiple - monitor computer setup (controlled by the girl in the aforementioned CD - R dress), and did I mention a swagboard?

The work is emblematic of Guan's overarching practice which assembles disparate objects and cultural signifiers, hinting at their significance but leaving it up to her audience to fill in the blanks.