Theaster Gates confronts German and American legacies of racism through the life of Jesse Owens Guided by the forms of solidarity found within Black communities, American artist Theaster Gates (born 1973) creates visionary installations that transform public spaces into places of artistic and cultural intervention. In Black Chapel , Gates explores recent German and American history through the life of the great African American athlete Jesse Owens. In this expansive exhibition, Gates responds directly to the architecture of Haus der Kunst’s massive Middle Hall, exposing it to a complex and politically charged narrative. Alongside Owens’ complete and fully illustrated record collection being made available for the first time, the exhibition consists of several large pavilions containing sculptures, photographs and documents, as well as huge illuminated rotating panels displaying photographs from the archives of Ebony and Jet , two magazines that contributed significantly to the dissemination of Black culture in the United States. This interplay of sculpture and photography interrogates Black history, spirituality and representation, and recasts them visually.
Edited by Anna Schneider, with contributions by Elsbeth Court, Imraan Coovadia, Anna Schneider and Dimona Stöckle; and a conversation between Michael Armitage and Don Handa"Paradise Edict" highlights pivotal series by the painter Michael Armitage and positions his body of work within East African painting and sculpture of the 20th century. His wide array of subject matter ranges from the relationship between humans and animals, and political events in his native Kenya, to European landscape traditions in opposition to an East African understanding of nature. With large-format oil paintings on lubugo bark cloth, the British-Kenyan painter joins motifs and artistic traditions from Europe and East Africa in a variety of ways, upsetting visual stereotypes and an excepted balance of power in the process.
Oscar Murillo’s work is showcased through a compelling collection of paintings, installations, and video art, highlighting his status as a prominent contemporary artist. This volume, created for his 2017 solo exhibition at Haus der Kunst in Munich, offers a comprehensive overview of his diverse artistic practice, revealing the depth and breadth of his career up to that point.
In modern societies, there is a constant need to develop our understanding of,
and our provision for, child protection.Due to the increasing complexity of
modern societies, the healthy and well-rounded development of children and
young people is threatened for several reasons. The mechanisms of this are
complex, and vary a good deal from country to country. In the course of time,
societies have developed different kinds of infrastructures dealing with this
challenge. The country-specific traditions of child protection policies and
practices are influenced by the same social, cultural, economic, and political
factors as the development of society in general. The chapters in this book
examine the development and current state of social policy, legislation,
agency provision and practices in the different European countries
represented, with the aim of contributing to this Europe-wide understanding
and set of developments.
Zborník je výstupom z medzinárodnej elektronickej konferencie Teória a prax
prípravy budúcich translatológov a učiteľov anglického jazyka. Prezentuje
súčasné trendy v cudzojazyčnej výučbe, poukazuje na možnosti, ktoré nám v
súčasnej dobe ponúkajú moderné technológie. Zborník je tematicky rozčlenený do
piatich oblastí – translatológia, lingvodidaktika, anglická jazykoveda,
literatúra a kulturológia.
The aim of the publication is to analyze whether there is any Visegrad
commonly shared identity or not and what could be the integrative factor of
the Visegrad Group. The authors of the publication cover the following topics
– historical identities; historical memory; economic cohesion and the level of
economic cooperation of the V4 states; the role of the Visegrad topics in the
university education and the political culture of the V4 states. The
publication shows that the Visegrad cooperation is still based on the
interests rather than on the commonly shared identity. However, the citizens
of V4 countries already perceive Visegrad as a relevant and meaningful
regional group. The fact that Visegrad is considered by the domestic political
elites as well as by the political elites abroad as a “brand” or “mark” has a
significant contribution to the construction of the regional identity.
However, still the motivation of the political leaders to develop the Visegrad
cooperation is more pragmatic than based on the awareness of belonging
together. The external factors (the EU, gas crisis between Russia and Ukraine
in January 2009) and their demand for response still have more efficient
impact on the strengthening of V4 cooperation compared to the pressure from
inside. V4 could be regarded as more successful project of transition and
integration compared to the rest of post-communist states in Central and East
Europe both from political and economic perspective. However, there are still
substantial differences in the level of economic development, impact of crisis
on the V4 states economies, in the living standards, as well as in the
political cultures and patterns of political behaviour of citizens. The region
of Central and East Europe, including Visegrad, still remains a periphery of
the EU, although the EU membership of V4 countries and generally the EU
presence in the entire region acts as a factor of stability and contributes to
its de-peripheralization. The significant trend for the Visegrad societies is
the decreasing level of democracy and growing support of authoritarianism in
the region. The de-democratization is not purely the result of sophisticated
political programs of certain parts of Visegrad political elites, but it is a
result of subconscious practice and pragmatically formulated short-term
political targets. However, Visegrad is still a zone of stability, compared to
South, South East and East Europe, in part because of the more successful
reforms in 1990s and higher efficiency of governance. The peripheralization
and marginalization still remains a certain threat for the V4 and Central
Europe in general. Such threats are not only the results of the economic or
political infrastructure inherited from the Communist past, but their sources
consist in some domestic policies implemented since the political changes at
the turn of 1980s and 1990s. The improvement of the efficiency of the
government’s engagement in the economy is highly recommended. The changes are
required in the regional policy as well in order to push the subnational
territorial units to formulate their own autonomous approaches to regional
development in order to overcome the regional disparities. A significant gap
still persists between the “old EU members” and Central European states,
including V4, in the financing of the education, science and welfare system.
The underdevelopment of these branches could have a negative impact on the
future of democracy in the entire region of Central and East Europe.
Zborník príspevkov z medzinárodnej vedeckej konferencie, ktorá sa konala v
dňoch 29.-30. septembra 2015. Zborník je delený do troch sekcií – Problematika
ukončenia 2. svetovej vojny v historickom kontexte, Vojna ako extrémna forma
riešenia medzinárodných vzťahov a Problémy globalizácie sveta.
Zborník príspevkov z medzinárodnej vedeckej konferencie Ústavu etiky Vysokej
školy Danubius a Inštitútu aplikovanej etiky profesora Alexandra Spesza pri
Teologickej fakulte Katolíckej univerzity Ružomberok v Košiciach, konaná dňa
9.4.2015
