Sentences with phrase «work excavating»

This summer, project contractors were hard at work excavating contaminated soil from the dump sites and replacing it with clean soil.

Sutherland's work excavates all manner of compositional form.

Not exact matches

The Park District wants the school to restore two soccer fields that had been excavated as part of the storm - water work.

Workers excavating for the expansion of the public works garage uncovered dirt that smelled of diesel fuel, said John Turner, public works director.

Excavating these can be of considerable value and academic researchers need to make far more effort in this kind of work.

Both have years of experience managing a workforce, road construction and engineering, as well as snowplowing, excavating, drainage work and sticking to a budget.

The newly trained experts formed the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team and worked with Snow and Kirschner to excavate mass and individual graves and recover bones recently exhumed.

Barry Kemp, an archaeologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, and director of the Amarna Project, has been working with his colleagues to excavate the skeletons, and says that they are starting to reveal «an alarming picture of a stressful life».

Researchers at Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) have been working hard to excavate the mysteries of the apple's evolutionary history, and a new publication this week in Nature Communications reveals surprising insights into the genetic exchange that brought us today's modern, domesticated apple, Malus domestica.

In excavating for the works, a large number of animal remains, ancient coins, and other curious objects were found, most of which have been deposited in the British Museum.»

A group of researchers working at the Els Casots site in the 1990s excavated the remains of a species of crocodile that was until then known only to have lived in southern France.

And the arduous work of excavating and plastering the fossil was not the end of the saga, Martill recalls: «Building plaster's got clay in it and takes ages to dry, so we looked for firewood — which is not easy to find in a desert — dug a trench on either side of the bone and lit fires to encourage it to dry.»

Bretschneider led the German team from University of Mnster, which worked between 1992 and 2000 at the Euro - Syrian excavations at Tell Beydar, and is now excavating with a Syro - Belgian team in Tell Tweini (ancient Gibala) on the Syrian coast.

The team of scientists working with the paleoanthropologist Scherf compared the humerus of the 7000 year old «patient» with humeri of 11 individuals from the same site in southern Germany, where they were excavated between 1982 and 1993.

We are working to map, excavate and repair the ancient buildings.

Ofer Bar - Yosef of Harvard University and colleagues excavated the cave again in 2009 and, for the first time, used radiocarbon dating to work out the age of the layers where the pottery shards were found.

For me, the most telling is the one which has excavated from his work not only an extended and devastating critique of the bourgeoisie in general and of 1950s America in particular, but has also recognised a compassionate portrait of characters trapped by social conditions of which they're scarcely even aware.

For me, the most telling is the one which has excavated from his work not only an extended and devastating critique of the bourgeoisie...

For me, the most telling is the one which has excavated from his work not...

Teachers can apply for summer General Educator Fellowships to work with scientists on research projects, such as monitoring the zebra population in Kenya or excavating sites related to Peru's Wari Empire, in the Andes, or for Live from the Field slots; in this short trip during the school year, teachers report back to their classrooms with blogs, videos, and phone conferences.

You can also work on a couple free writes — or graphic organizers — to excavate your ideas.

In the modern day, archaeologist Rosamund Gale works well into her pregnancy, racing to excavate newly found Neanderthal artifacts before her baby comes.

She has done all the backbreaking work necessary to excavate this lucrative mine (back to my original outburst); now you simply have to pan quietly for the gold.

And the same technology works to make sure your dog isn't excavating the interior of your couch.

Hoping to defeat Ganon in the same fashion as their ancestors, the King and the Hylian people began working to locate and excavate the Guardians and Divine Beasts.

Appropriation pointed to something — some psychological or cultural condition outside of the work itself — that was the basis of its claim to criticality and, at its best, excavated something deep in the psyche.

Perhaps it's the protective, self - preservationist impulse extending from one racialized creative to another that prompts concerns of limitation with self - identification, but Alsharif's modes of direction deftly precipitate the necessity of her insistence, and then collapse these concerns altogether as it becomes clear that her work speaks far beyond borders and barriers: from the vantage point of one particular socio - political locus, she excavates wider, apparently enduring truths of human relations and leaves us somewhere else altogether, making sense of the nebulous matter in between.

In true form, I reverted back to simplicity and started excavating old work from the seventies.

In the present work, the figure is brought to the fore with a renewed sense of clarity, excavated from layers of historical allusion and abstract technique.

It also allowed him to revisit and excavate the past, pushing his own painterly vocabulary to create works that are fresh and liberated.

Initiated in 2001, Making Histories Visible excavates creative histories and works with major museums to connect communities with their local and international heritage.

Defying attempts at easy categorization, his work combines performance, video, sound, ephemera, and photographs into projects that excavate the history of a particular region.

For years I have set my work in dialogue with forms of resistance, I followed different social movements, blockades of summits, workers» controlled factories, and tried to excavate and present existing concepts and models that might be important to imagine alternatives to capitalism and representative democracy.

These media form a threshold through which Jasper explores the dissonance between imaginary and fragmented cinematic space and the physical experience of architecture, and in his work he also excavates history through postcolonial and experimental anthropological lenses.

From her earliest series, for which she responded to the deteriorating urban environments of New York and New Jersey in the 1970s, to her later works, which intertwine with oral history to excavate African American social life in rural communities of the American Southeast, Buchanan undertook a deep, empirically driven study of architecture in visual art.

Reaching into the current social fabric of U.S. culture, the work investigates and excavates popular culture and places what is found on a stage for questioning and critique.

Here he interrogates the recent work, peeling away layers and offering glimpses of references, both broadly literary and deeply personal, in language as elegant as the art he excavates.

Dagmar Varady's work is built from exquisite acts of research — finding the poetic in the physical sciences, excavating layered evidence, and collecting, ordering and documenting with sensitivity and care.

Time Out Chicago rates BODY OF WORK by the Excavating History Collective at the International Museum of Surgical Science amongst the 10 Best Exhibitions of 2011!

His work, like that of Goshka Macuga, excavates recent history while transforming its -LSB-...]

The viewer is invited to excavate each work, layer by layer — a richly rewarding experience.

Work that shifts perspective on how we relate to the world and how we excavate our inherent capacity to generate massive change.

The works in this exhibition excavate two such histories: Martin Kippenberger's attempt to establish a modern art museum on a Greek island, and Daniel Buren's murals at a now - derelict resort hotel.

She works with historical sources, materials, and forms to excavate the past in the present, and to provoke recognition of history's complex relations.

His work, like that of Goshka Macuga, excavates recent history while transforming its ongoing meanings and interpretation.

Among the works on display are Innoportune: Stage one (2004, installation consisting of nine cars and sequenced multichannel light tubes), Reflection — A Gift from Iwaki (2004, excavated wooden boat and porcelain), and Head On (wolves jumping head on against a glass wall, first realized for Cai Guo - Qiang's solo exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin).

Each time the team of Iwaki volunteers, who excavated the boat as a gift to commemorate their friendship with Cai since 1994, would arrive on site to install the hull, just as they did for «A Clan of Boats», and they are very much part of the work.

Following Baldessari's seminal statement «I will not make any more boring Art», he conceived the work The Artist Hitting Various Objects with a Golf Club (1972 — 73), composed of 30 photographs of the artist swinging and hitting with a golf club objects excavated from a dump, as a parody of cataloging rather than a thorough straight classification.

Working across installation, performance, film, and photography, Duane Linklater excavates histories -LSB-...]

Following a long list of protagonists engaged in colour theory - ranging from Wolfgang von Goethe and Wassily Kandinsky to Yves Klein — two meditations on the importance of grey spring to mind: Hito Steyerl's video work, Adorno's Grey (2012) evocatively excavates the seminar rooms of Frankfurt's Goethe - Universität with a team of art conservators to find traces of former faculty member and esteemed philosopher, Theodor W. Adorno's mythological grey walls.