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Jan 18, 2016 · Giving people access to data most often leaves them feeling overwhelmed and disconnected, not empowered and poised for action. This is where art can make a difference. Art does not show people what to do, yet engaging with a good work of art can connect you to your senses, body, and mind. It can make the world felt. And this felt feeling may ...
We created a week-long art school of the future. We asked how art can serve in therapy in wellbeing. We created an alternative Fairground questioning the impact of art on politics, ideas, and society. And more. And now, Tate Exchange is opening up the floor to you and asking: how can art make a difference to people's lives and society? We ...
- The Futility of Art?
- The Crisis of Our Times
- Art as Witness
- Cultural Bridges
Before the early 19th century, war was most commonly depicted as a heroic venture, while death was both noble and surprisingly bloodless. Then came Goya with his Disasters of Warto show the full horror of what Napoleon inflicted on Spain. The art showed, for the first time, the suffering of individuals in the face of military power. After Goya, war...
The great crisis of our times, human-caused climate change, has already played a role in wars and famine alongside the usual social and political factors. The effect of these disasters has been a global mass migration of refugees. This diaspora is one of the themes of the current Biennale of Sydney. Three of the seven locations at the biennale are ...
Ai Weiwei’s film, Human Flow, presents that crisis in a way that cannot be denied. Its first Australian screening at the Sydney Opera House was a part of the Biennale of Sydney’s opening festivities, but it is now distributed for general release. It is both overwhelming in its impact and deliberately internally contradictory. There are sweeping bea...
Other artists in the biennale take a slightly different and perhaps more subtle approach. Tiffany Chung, who left Vietnam as a refugee in the great exodus of the 1970s, is also exhibiting at Artspace. Her meticulous embroidery of a map of the world charts the routes of the boat people from Vietnam and Cambodia, while accompanying documentation show...
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Jan 21, 2016 · Giving people access to data most often leaves them feeling overwhelmed and disconnected, not empowered and poised for action. This is where art can make a difference. Art does not show people what to do, yet engaging with a good work of art can connect you to your senses, body, and mind. It can make the world felt.
Feb 22, 2023 · Visual art can take many forms; paintings, sculptures, sketches, and photography are some of the most popular choices. It can also include a variety of mixed-media projects and installations. But no matter what form it takes, the artwork is an attempt to express emotion or ideas through mediums such as color, texture, line, shape, and form. Art ...
Art can do the opposite of glamourise the unattainable; it can reawaken us to the genuine merit of life as we’re forced to lead it. It is advertising for the things we really need.” – The Book of Life. Every day we are bombarded with images that expose the harsh realities and verisimilitudes of the world and global societies.
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Nov 4, 2015 · “Art can go through where other things can’t. You can’t have barriers, because it breaks through your prejudices, breaks through everything that you have as your mask…And it reaches somewhere where other things don’t. And in a world where attitudes are so difficult to change, we need a language that reaches through.” –Mallika Sarabhai
