Sentences with phrase «working in this abandoned building»

The creation of ephemeral, site - specific works recalls earlier work from Cain's career in which she solely worked in abandoned buildings.

I was working in this abandoned building mode and it gave me an opportunity to present these things on a grand scale.

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Government - sanctioned graffiti from the city's Department of Public Works, in red across the top, typically indicates an abandoned building.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

In a sequence that harks back to the 1980s school of sci - fi production design, when bleak futures were mostly made up of abandoned steel works and duct hosing, he crosses paths with Amara (Cailee Spaeny), a teenager who's managed to built her own armadilloid mecha from scrap.

With time working against them, Loki begins to search for other suspects, while Keller, unconvinced that Alex is innocent, decides to begin his own brutal line of questioning for young man, whom he keeps locked up in an abandoned apartment building.

He shut them down and located a program in the old BoE building that had been abandoned, and for several years the city had to work hard to fill the program.

Although it may seem like these lives are somehow simple and serene, she shows that they are plagued with the same worries that keep all of us up at night - the safety and well - being of our families, the desire for self - fulfillment and, on a larger scale, the impact we have on our environment... Further, Badkhen is fully willing to do hard work - she blisters her hands pulling nets, bakes in the sun while helping to build a boat and expends emotional energy consoling abandoned wives in the community; clearly she is not afraid to fully immerse herself.

Built at the height of the Incan Empire in 1452 but abandoned just over a century later, this ancient mountaintop citadel was only discovered in 1911 and archaeologists are still trying to work out what it all means.

The title of the show derives from a 1976 article, «The Apotheosis of the Crummy Space,» by Nancy Foote in Artforum, in which Foote celebrated the artistic use of spaces in abandoned buildings; her notion that such rooms in such buildings could be transformed by additions to or changes within them was, at the time, a powerful esthetic for Gordon Matta Clark's excavations of forsaken places in New York City, or by David Wojnarowicz's work a generation later.

This is a housing operation, which is still running, in which Gates works with artists, researchers and architects to transform Chicago's abandoned buildings into spaces for sharing and artistic creation; he encouragese residents of the neighbourhood to promote the transformation of the community to which they belong.

Viewers can expect to participate in a performance by gorgeousTaps and the Reality Show, see collectively - produced video works, built objects and performance documentation from Flux Factory and Madagascar Institute, and experience presentations by artists who have abandoned or expanded traditional alone - in - the - studio artist practices.

Mackie relocates a renowned work by each artist — and thus, symbolically, their attendant feuds — to secluded and desolate buildings, continuing the «Abandoned Dollhouse» theme he began in 2013.

In her aptly titled body of work, Destroyed House, Teeuwen reclaims the wreckage of abandoned buildings assembling each fragment in painstakingly detailed installations, set within the original structureIn her aptly titled body of work, Destroyed House, Teeuwen reclaims the wreckage of abandoned buildings assembling each fragment in painstakingly detailed installations, set within the original structurein painstakingly detailed installations, set within the original structures.

Developed while working in an abandoned school building with an abundance of blackboards, Simmons's signature «erasure drawings» employ a process of smudging chalk marks executed on slate covered paper as if to eradicate the image and start again.

The Pulitzer, in collaboration with the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, has organized programs that build upon Matta - Clark's desire to imbue abandoned objects, buildings, and parcels of land with new meaning.

Currently, Hunter is in the midst of realizing Video Bomb Houston, a series of new five - minute long video works in a two - hour loop, created specifically for abandoned buildings throughout the city.

Tom Burr is working out his hometown's social and political controversies, as well as his own personal struggle, inside the Marcel Breuer - designed, IKEA - owned, abandoned building sitting by the highway in New Haven, Connecticut.

For Ms. Anderson, the center of that scene was Gordon Matta - Clark, whose site - specific work included cutting shapes out of abandoned buildings, even sawing buildings in half.

The works in the show contain familiar elements from city landscapes, such as scaffolding, urban detritus, abandoned buildings, and public gardens, all addressing the hurried transformation of cityscapes closely related to gentrification.

An artist with two urban planning degrees, he transforms abandoned buildings into cultural spaces in Omaha, St. Louis and Chicago, where he lives and works.

Mr. Tàpies (pronounced TAH - pee - ess) came to prominence in the late 1940s with richly symbolic paintings strongly influenced by Surrealist painters like Miró and Klee, a style he abandoned by the mid-1950s as he turned to what became his signature work: the heavily built - up surfaces that were often scratched, pitted and gouged and incised with letters, numbers and signs.

However, staged in the Treme Market Branch — a vandalized, abandoned bank building in the Treme neighborhood — Simmons's «Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark» is an interactive sculpture involving live music performances by professionals (such as the rapper Beans, who will inaugurate the work on Oct. 25) and amateurs alike.

His current body of work is created using 3D gaming technology to simulate real world and imagined spaces based on the abandoned and foreclosed buildings in Philadelphia, Las Vegas and San Bernardino California.

The bedroom artwork is soothing: abstract works in a neutral palette by Mijangos and Armstrong, antique French architectural lithographs, one of Hogensens's chair drawings, and, as a focal point, a dreamy, otherworldly color photograph by Justin Parr shot inside an abandoned building at the old Hot Wells Hotel and Resort.

Who cares about 8 % unemployment, the flatlined economy, abandoning Americans to die in Bengahzi, Joe Biden's buffonery, fast & furious, national debt, USA credit downgrade, trillion dollar annual budget deficits, deliberate sabotage of the coal industry, ACORN, failed foreign policy (Iran with nuclear weapons, bowing to China, stiffing U.K and Israel, etc) abysmal people judgement (Biden again, plus H. Clinton, T, Geithner; K. Sebelius; E. Holder, etc), stopping the pipeline for Canadian oil, blocking drilling in US land, secret «kill lists», ObamaCare, attacking religious liberty, you didn't build that, unseemly chest - pounding over bin Laden (GM is dying but bin Laden is coming back to life), 20 years of Jeremiah Wright, failure of crony capitalism deals with Solyndra - NextEra — Ener1 — Solar Trust etc., over 100 rounds of golf in 1st 3 yrs, choom, the Chevy Volt, insisting the Ft Hood massacre was «workplace violence», secret college transcripts, «clearly the Boston police acted stupidly», disregard of the Simpson - Bowles budget recommendations (after commissioning their work), and lots more irrelevant stuff.

According to Windows Central, Microsoft's latest collaboration with Intel to build a high - end mobile handset has been abandoned, but in its place, an interesting alternative is in the works from the Surface team.