There seem to be two fundamental issues needing to be articulated even more clearly: one is the issue of
engagement with contemporary culture, which first needs an assessment of what is leading to greater truth and what is leading backwards to decadence; where are the points in our culture where there are signs of breaking through to a re-engagement with the basic human pursuit of the fullness of truth as opposed to the reduction of truth to scientific enquiry.
A blend of epicurean delights, South Australia is a heritage state with enviable traditions in wine making and picturesque colonial towns,
fused with contemporary culture that manifests in a world - famous calendar of festivals and performances.
More orthodox minds like de Lubac and Hans Urs von Balthasar have also set out to synthesise
Catholicism with contemporary culture and learning, but for all the beauty and spirituality of their work, their failure to address the great questions thrown up by Science leaves their systems ultimately un-synthetic.
So when it comes to forming a view of scripture, the best place to start is
not with contemporary culture, modernist foundations or the postmodern rejection of authority (although we have to think these things through eventually).
Unlike inward - facing fundamentalist approaches to education, this movement does not shy away from the world, but instead teaches students to interact
thoughtfully with contemporary culture.
Mr Gorsuch also peppered the
talk with contemporary culture, quoting David Foster Wallace and joking that the so - called «modern» rules of civil courts date back to 1938: «Maybe the only thing that really sounds new or modern after 70 years,» he said, «is Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones.
Arguably the most up - to - the - minute venue in a city jam -
packed with contemporary culture, The Modern Institute stages a group show focused on art created in virtually no time at all, curated with a view to revealing associations between disparate images and techniques.
Jacob Austin's practice attempts to visually represent his
concern with contemporary culture and technology, and how this informs and reshapes the nature of the individual.
Through commercial images of fashion, merchandise, and advertisements, in addition to moments from his daily life, Ethridge's works reveal the fine line between the generic and the personal, combining art historical
themes with contemporary culture.
The program includes a concentration of Contemporary sculptors such as Petah Coyne, Andy Goldsworthy, Jaume Plensa, and Ursula von Rydingsvard, as well as artists who critically engage
with contemporary culture such as Alfredo Jaar, Cildo Meireles, Carolee Schneeman, and Krzysztof Wodiczko.
The film addresses larger questions about the transubstantiation of figurative form in animation, and continues Laric's exploration of ideas of
versioning with contemporary culture, focusing on the way images are mined, remixed, and adopted in new and unexpected contexts in today's creative production.
Douglin's otherworldly translation is informed by his personal interpretation of art history and its
synchronicity with contemporary culture, thus creating multiple dialogues informed by the real world.
His work is described in the Tate catalogue as «work which strikingly engages
with contemporary culture while challenging the boundaries between art and photography».
Elsewhere, in the Conceptual category, Simon Brann Thorpe investigates the impact and psychological consequences of non-resolution and containment of the conflict in Western Sahara on real soldiers, posed in the series as toy soldiers, and Jason Koxvold examines how war and surveillance became permanently
intertwined with contemporary culture, the visual vernacular and political identity in the Current Affairs category.
Picking up on the contextual aggregation of irrationality, Jason Eberspeaker's small oil paintings are moody abstractions that fuse movement with inertia in a superb showing of suspended animation whereas Kahlil Robert Irving's rich ceramic pieces brilliantly fuse
tradition with contemporary culture.
The jury — which, among others, included Julia Peyton - Jones, then director of London's Serpentine Gallery, Matthew Slotover, publisher of frieze magazine, and then Tate Director Nicholas Serota — praised Tillmans for his
engagement with contemporary culture, his challenge to conventional aesthetics, and for taking photography in new directions though the methods and presentation of his work.
The main object of this exhibition is to demonstrate that even the most reductive forms of art have the potential to
engage with contemporary culture in new and unexpected ways.
The works acknowledge «the AfroFuturism movement fusing elements of sci - fi and the African - American
narrative with contemporary culture,» and set a scene for public programming and social engagement throughout the show's tenure.
Dolphin's process - driven works are reflections of how we engage
with contemporary culture.
From thought - provoking sculptures to a haunting video to a photographic installation, each of the chosen works engages
with contemporary culture, reflecting the artist's looking at and thinking about life today.
Wolfgang Tillmans» work, which engages
with contemporary culture, was noted for the way he challenges the boundaries between art and photography and between the genres of portraiture, documentary and still life.
In Chicago, he co-founded and curates events for Mocrep, a Chicago - based ensemble dedicated to the performance of radical, 21st century music that engages
with contemporary culture — aesthetically, socially, and politically.