I know it's recontextualized but I think that's what makes it powerful.
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Horror icons have been recontextualized as sex symbols as far back as Dracula.
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Now his work can be — and needs to be — recontextualized for new audiences.
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Often, there's a mid-movie rupture in which the first half is recontextualized.
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Established characters and stories were recontextualized; new storylines flowed from behind-closed-doors discussions.
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My life, and the story I tell myself, was recontextualized by one golden moment.
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There's still plenty of hallmarks from Rick and Morty, only recontextualized through Cursack's own demented vision.
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Then there was a sequence that recontextualized everything, and made the case for this disjointed, blurry narrative format.
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Twin Peaks: the Return often brilliantly recontextualized artists I both loved and hadn't thought about in a certain light.
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Remixed and recontextualized, he gives them new meanings that, in a way, prefigures the shifting sands of contemporary online culture.
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You've cited Close Encounters and Starman as influences, and some of those setpieces have been kind of reinterpreted and recontextualized here.
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Then his memory became recontextualized when it turned out he had done terrible things and those statues had to come down.
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What gives these encounters poignancy is how Mr. Hnath and Mr. Mantello have recontextualized them as a sort of every marriage.
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Wayne has spent the year touring with 2 Chainz in a way that has once again recontextualized his music for audiences.
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I don't want my feelings to guide the individual experience, especially because my present-day view will likely be recontextualized by time.
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Funny video clips and strange sounds would quickly be recycled and recontextualized by the Vine community, creating both innovative humor and asinine inside jokes.
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Kamala isn't the only superhero who's been recontextualized in the wake of protests against the Trump administration, with Captain America emerging as another notable symbol.
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Not much in painting is truly new, but some tropes, once adopted, can be amplified and recontextualized, their potential rediscovered by another artist's creative imagination.
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The jaw-dropping reveal may have meant the end of Pretty Little Liars, but it also recontextualized how we should have been watching the show.
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Ms. Rainer's performances in the atrium, which I saw on Sunday afternoon, reminded me of how Judson can continue to be recontextualized and seen anew.
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Just as the abstract past is not static but continually changed and negotiated, so is material heritage: it is always being preserved, modified, or recontextualized.
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When they team up with brands, the businesses get their products recontextualized and interpreted for that audience with content they could never come up with themselves.
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Thus, the tendency of megacelebrity rappers to bemoan their own fame is here recontextualized as the product of a more universal anxiety about simply being seen.
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Easily dismissed as kitschy, the installation of stools, dustpans, brooms, levels, drills, crates, hammers, and drop cloths raises poignant questions about everyday tools recontextualized into works of art.
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" Now, this was big news in the bee world, since it recontextualized the understanding of a bee communication technique that had, since the 1950s, been called the "'stop' signal.
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Instead, it recontextualized the old, run-of-the-mill woods witch archetype through an innovative framing device that tapped into our developing relationship with a new technology at the time.
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The backlot's highlight is Frieze Projects, curated by Rita Gonzalez and Pilar Tompkins Rivas, a set of 18 recontextualized or newly commissioned, site-specific art pieces and performances by 16 artists.
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And it's Gore that presents an extraordinary example of how the work of hundreds of dedicated people can be instantly and catastrophically recontextualized by the revelations of a single person's sexual misconduct.
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Broadly has invited five people whose work directly corresponds with sex to discuss the times in their personal lives that recontextualized how consent could account for their needs on an individual level.
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Portia Munson: My use of found objects — objects that are made and marketed to us — when recontextualized in my work, reveals the way our culture subliminally and overtly manipulates our constructions of reality.
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Seeing Muppets recontextualized like this — particularly in their more extreme moments where they're dropping F-bombs or having graphic puppet sex — holds the same kind of transgressive glee as, say, Team America: World Police.
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Geographically Indeterminate Fantasies showcases not only recontextualized releases, but also newly commissioned works by Jonathan Monaghan, Giselle Zatonyl, Brenna Murphy, and Clement Valla alongside related reading lists by Claire L Evans and Hito Steyerl.
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There was something about his use of rhythm and percussion specifically—those recontextualized 2-step patterns, those echoes of London raves long since lost, that anxious jitter—that made his music feel almost transcendental to me.
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"The high-rises themselves take on traits and modes of agency that shift and evolve from story to story — each time a familiar name is brought back to the stage, he or she feels recontextualized, born anew."
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Initiated as a medium-specific experiment (to subtract a drawing that he did not make), it was recontextualized many years later as a conceptual piece, an idea put into Rauschenberg's head by his friend and lover, Jasper Johns.
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In notes for "Banteay Srey," created in 1993, Mr. Stone wrote that "a Burundi child's song is stretched and recontextualized with an original musical bed," courtesy of MIDI, a then-new "personal computer," a sampler and a synthesizer.
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His unique body of work, made under a Franco regime marked by decades of censorship and repression, still appears to me a fresh aesthetic provocation, albeit now recontextualized in the complex struggles for Catalan independence currently being waged today.
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A great suspense novel should be, on some level, destabilizing; at least once, even as the narrative propels you onward, you should want to go back to reread a passage that's been completely recontextualized by something you just learned.
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That is, the high-rises themselves take on traits and modes of agency that shift and evolve from story to story — each time a familiar name is brought back to the stage, he or she feels recontextualized, born anew.
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The play had always been "unusual," he said in an interview Thursday, because it was constantly recontextualized by current events — Scotland's referendum for independence from Britain came during rehearsals, followed not long after by the early stages of Brexit.
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By taking remnants from his artistic experiments and connecting them to new, recontextualized works, Hammons relinquishes interpretation to the viewer, but creates continuity in his unrelenting critique of the art world that both profits from his genius and inspires his content.
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The fact that these are pristine, funky recordings on an obscure release are most likely why Selma found a second life among producers, but Meth took note of the pro-black sentiments and recontextualized them for "Uh Huh"'s intro.
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Where he once sought to give letters a life of their own, by his death in 2010, he had more or less become his art, thanks to a self-contained universe of wearable and inhabitable work that intruded onto, shaped and recontextualized his day-to-day life.
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As an insider remix joke that doesn't release itself into the mass-culture of remix memes and multiply recontextualized images, the dump opts for the "democracy" of a small community rather than the chaos of the commercialized web that threatens to detour détournement at every turn.
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For anyone with a platform as big as Stormzy's who may be considering sharing their story in a way that could be helpful to others, the prospect of your words and image being recontextualized without your say-so is wildly off-putting to say the least.
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But it's plenty enough for me to come upon Piet Mondrian's "Broadway Boogie-Woogie" (1942-43) freshly recontextualized, as an outrigger to an eye-opening historical show of Latin-American art, "Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction," which includes work by the ingenious Brazilians Lygia Pape and Hélio Oiticica.
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Whether it's his voice—comforting in its pitch and inspirational in its imperfection—the fact that every single video is filmed from a dog's eye view, or that people just really fucking love hearing the lyrics to "All Star" by Smash Mouth recontextualized as epic, melodramatic ballads, who can say.
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Spalding turns it into a daring manifesto — as the piano plinks and bangs and Spalding's vocal performance gradually gets wilder and shriekier, the song is recontextualized as an urgent demand on life, a demand for liberation and satisfaction and everything else one could ask for, all of which she wants now!
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Sometimes the songs are altogether new, or recontextualized: "Wrote My Way Out," one of the album's best tracks, is situated in the show as a line in "Hurricane," as Hamilton recounts his escape from his childhood through writing and decides to write the Reynolds Pamphlet, which will ultimately prove to be his political downfall.
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After several visits, I had to conclude that Party gets away with it because his work is just good enough to withstand the inevitable scrutiny, aided and abetted by the completeness of the exhibition design, the colored rooms, the collision between the very old and very new, and the skill with which they were recontextualized.
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While the record features its fair share of unsubtle and cavernous drops––there are points of Kromestar's redux of Barrington Levy's "Here I Come" and L.D.'s take on Gyptian's "Nah Let Go" that threaten to rattle your teeth––the wubs feel at home here, recontextualized as hyper-futuristic rocksteady rhythms for skanking on the moon.
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But with violence to real humans so easy to see on the real news — a shooting in a newsroom, a shooting in a school, black people shot and smothered for no reason — I can't quite shake the feeling that something is just off about the Purge series' attempt at political literalism combined with dying citizens, recontextualized as a social experiment.
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With a set list incorporating P.M. Dawn's funky "Shake," Ruth Brown's bawdy "If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin' on It" and the classic George Jones weepie "He Stopped Loving Her Today," Nancy and Beth's poker-faced, very funny vaudeville — the act is choreographed, too — bridges the plush cabarets of the traditional American Songbook and a downtown scene where recontextualized interpretations of hits old and new flourish.
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When "Where Are Ü Now," a collaboration with Skrillex and Diplo, came out last February, it was billed as a Skrillex & Diplo song featuring Bieber, and it sounded unnecessarily tame compared to the rest of their hyperactive album, Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack Ü. Recontextualized here, its skittering snares, rubbery drum thwock, sensitive wailing siren, and looped falsetto bleeps add up to quite the warped ballad — designed with the dancefloor in mind, it alternates Bieber's quiet, sung verses with louder, sped-up instrumental breaks, possibly the weirdest song structure to hit Top 40 all year.
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Topics/People/L/Lil Wayne Review: Graduation. The New York Times. Retrieved on 2009-10-06. However, Martin felt the tone of West's conceptual approach to the track was too somber, and suggested it be recontextualized with a "happier" concept.
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"Conduction," Art and Cake, October 14, 2017. She has produced sculpture, installation, performance, painting, drawing and video incorporating fabricated and recontextualized found objects, organic materials, and processes from industrial metalworking to handicrafts, taxidermy and traditional art practices.Urban, Hope. "Forever Young," Los Angeles Reader, December 16, 1993.
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Rasquache is the English form of the Spanish term rascuache,originally with a negative connotation in Mexico it was recontextualized by the Mexican and Chicano arts movement to describe a specific artistic aesthetic, Rasquachismo, suited to overcoming material and professional limitations faced by artists in the movement.
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America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, pp. 390 f. Continuum International (New York), 2010. The films employed a great deal of stock footage, including enemy propaganda (such as the Nazis' Triumph of the Will) recontextualized to discredit its creators.
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Margia Kramer (born 1939) is an American documentary visual artist, writer and activist living in New York. In the 1970s and 1980s, Kramer recontextualized primary texts in a series of pioneering, interdisciplinary multi-media installations, videotapes, self-published books, and writings that focused on feminist, civil rights, civil liberties, censorship, and surveillance issues.
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Leyba’s mixed media paintings utilize photographic collage, acrylic paint, oil paint, beadwork, as well as human blood. Leyba’s work attempts to 'liberate' human sexuality from commercialism. Using recontextualized images of human genitalia he emphasizes aesthetic notions of beauty and the politics of sexuality. His hand-made fine art books which can weigh up to seventy pounds consist of bound pages of paintings on canvas.
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He additionally compared Ogboh's practice with that of sound artists James Webb (South Africa) and Magdi Mostafa (Egypt), though these two tend to manipulate their recordings where Ogboh instead recontextualizes the original. For this reason, Lemu considered Ogboh's work to be closer in lineage to John Cage's recontextualized found sounds than the practice of El Anatsui or Romuald Hazoume recycling found objects as commentary on economic conditions.
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Ya Kala Ben is one of Namsa Leuba’s most world renowned works. Leuba carried out this project on a trip to Conakry in Guinea where she became interested in the construction and destruction of bodies. For this project, she studied ritual artifacts common to the cosmology of Guineans which were statuettes that had ceremonial significance. She recontextualized these sacred artifacts through a Western perspective.
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Margia Kramer is an American documentary visual artist, writer and activist living in New York. In the 1970s and 1980s, Kramer recontextualized primary texts in a series of pioneering, interdisciplinary multi-media installations, videotapes, self-published books, and writings that focused on feminist, civil rights, civil liberties, censorship, and surveillance issues.Kramer, Margia. "Notes on Art as Intervention," Women Artists News, May 1980 (New York), p.
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Combining and recombining already recontextualized images, Ethridge at once subverts the photographs' original roles and renews their signifying possibilities." From 2005 to 2010, Ethridge was commissioned to photograph the construction of 200 West Street, the Goldman Sachs headquarters in Lower Manhattan.Maria Lokke (June 27, 2011), Roe Ethridge’s “Le Luxe” The New Yorker. In 2009, Ethridge returned to a studio-based approach after the international location shooting for his project "Rockaway.
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She resigned as chief in June 1986. The files were analyzed by Portland Tribune in 2002 and given to the City of Portland Archives (PARC) in 2004. During an ethnographic study using document theory, researcher Kathy Carbone created an object biography on the files as a whole, noting the concept of "imagined-but-unavailable records" led many to experience strong emotions. Further, the files became recontextualized over time.
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Shocklee explained that their musicianship was dependent on different tools, exercised in a different medium, and was inspired by different cultural priorities, different from the "virtuosity" valued in jazz and classical music.Walser et al. Austin & Willard (1998), 297. Marsalis later remarked on the group's unconventional musicality: As with other Public Enemy songs, the Bomb Squad recontextualized various samples, and used them to complement the vocals and mood of "Fight the Power".
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Anselm Reyle took an early interest in landscape design and music before finally homing in on painting and sculpture.David Ebony (April 1, 2011), Anselm Reyle Art in America Magazine. Characteristic of his work are various found objects that have been removed from their original function, altered visually and recontextualized. Reyle works in different media, utilizing strategies of painting, sculpture and installation and working in serial, structured work groups.
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Fahnestock, Jeanne. "Accommodating Science: The Rhetorical life of Scientific Facts," Written Communication, 3(3), 1986, 275-296. Similarly, John Oddo stated that American reporters covering Colin Powell's 2003 U.N. speech transformed Powell's discourse as they recontextualized it, bestowing Powell's allegations with greater certainty and warrantability and even adding new evidence to support Powell's claims. Oddo has also argued that recontextualization has a future-oriented counterpoint, which he dubs "precontextualization".
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Wondermark is a webcomic created by David Malki which was syndicated to Flak Magazine and appeared in The Onion print edition through 2008. It features 19th-century illustrations that have been recontextualized to create humorous juxtapositions. It takes the horizontal four-panel shape of a newspaper strip, although the number of panels varies from one to six or more. It is updated on a strict twice-weekly schedule.
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With the Street Ghosts project in 2012, Cirio recontextualized photos of individuals found on Google Street View, by printing and posting life-sized pictures of people in the exact locations where they were photographed. The posters were wheatpasted on the walls of public buildings without authorization. These interventions took place in public spaces of several major cities, including London, Berlin, and New York. In 2012, his web project Persecuting.
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Sugden The Sheppard story has been revived three times on film in the 20th century: The Hairbreadth Escape of Jack Sheppard (1900), Jack Sheppard (1923), and Where's Jack? (1969), a British costume drama directed by James Clavell with Tommy Steele in the title role. Jake Arnott features him in his 2017 novel The Fatal Tree. In Confessions of the Fox, a 2018 novel by Jordy Rosenberg, the Sheppard story was recontextualized as a queer narrative.
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In each book, the photography style appears documentary black and white, but the photos are recontextualized in an imagined conceptual and visual narrative.Reuben Radding, "Jason Eskenazi's post-Wonderland odyssey brings him full circle", Focus on the Story, 17 September 2018. Accessed 18 May 2019. For the first of these books, Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith, Eskenazi undertook an extensive project in Russia and the former Soviet Union between 1991 and 2001.
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Both films were released in November 2007 by the Criterion Collection in the US in a multi-disc DVD set. A Region 2 edition of the Fassbinder version was released in the UK by Second Sight in October that year. Burhan Qurbani directed the most recent film adaptation, Berlin Alexanderplatz, which premiered at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in 2020. Qurbani's version recontextualized the lead role of Franz as Francis, an Afro-German refugee from Guinea-Bissau.
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The Wild Blue Yonder is a 2005 science fiction film by German director Werner Herzog. It was presented at the 62nd Venice Film Festival, where it was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize. It went on to screen in competition at the Mar del Plata Film Festival and the Sitges Film Festival, it won "Carnet Jove – Special Mention" at the latter. Most of the film consists of recontextualized documentary footage which is overlaid with fictional (sometimes fantastical) narration.
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It provided a directly religious aspect to Europe's regimes apart from the church hierarchy and, for political and practical reasons, was seldom performed by the popes. Instead, the anointment was usually administered by a bishop from a major see of the realm, often the national primate. Lupoi argues that this set in motion the conflicting claims that developed into the Investiture Crisis. At the same time, royal unction recontextualized the elections and popular acclamations still legally responsible for the elevation of new rulers.
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For instance, Adam Hodges has studied how White House officials recontextualized and altered a military general's comments for political purposes, highlighting favorable aspects of the general's utterances while downplaying the damaging aspects.Hodges, Adam. "The Politics of Recontextualization: Discursive Competition over Claims of Iranian Involvement in Iraq, " Discourse & Society, 19(4), 2008, 483-505. Rhetorical scholar Jeanne Fahnestock has found that when popular magazines recontextualize scientific research they enhance the uniqueness of the scientific findings and confer greater certainty on the reported facts.
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During the verses, West raps over a constant loop of the words "their eyes" while the chopped-up hook is formed from the question, "Did you realize, that you were a champion?" Both phrases are recontextualized from "Kid Charlemagne" by Steely Dan. The song also sports a reggae-inspired bridge delivered by Connie Mitchell in a distinct toasting vocal style. The soul-fired track "I Wonder" starts off with its piano-based refrain, which contains samples of "My Song" by Labi Siffre.
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The Savage Mind was one of the earliest works of structural anthropology and had a large influence on the field of anthropology. The book also played a role within the larger currents of structuralism and post-structuralism. The application of bricolage to social structure provided the inspiration for the philosopher Jacques Derrida's essay "Structure, Sign and Play". The idea that social structures can be transposed and recontextualized also plays a large role in the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Félix Guattari's Capitalism and Schizophrenia.
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Budgett was born in Manchester, United Kingdom in 1954 and studied sculpture at Trent Polytechnic (BA, Fine Arts, 1977) and St. Martin's School of Art (advanced diploma, 1978). He continued his studies at Stanford University in California (MFA, 1981), where his work became more politicized during the era of Reaganism and Thatcherism. After concluding at Stanford, he taught sculpture at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and produced humorous, politically charged assemblages, whose recontextualized manufactured products played associative games and punctured cultural pretensions.Duncombe, Betty. "Local Art," Sundial, August 2–10, 1984.
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"Conrad Tao and Timo Andres: The Past is Prologue", emusic.com, August 20, 2013 Despite Tao's skepticism about a classical music establishment that is "grossly normative, capitalistic, and steeped in established, unchallenged practices", commented one reviewer, Voyages is "perfect in all the conventional ways: masterfully performed and composed ... cleanly produced, and impeccably sequenced. ... It's an absolute joy to hear him fly through each of these pieces, the essences of which are not overwhelmed but rather recontextualized, given new life ... [Tao] has the creative mind to think of them in new ways."Robertson, Alex.
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The controversy surrounding the safety of MSG started on 4 April 1968, when Dr. Robert Ho Man Kwok wrote a correspondence letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, coining the term Chinese restaurant syndrome. In his letter, Kwok suggested several possible causes before he nominated MSG for his symptoms. This letter was initially met with insider satirical responses, often using race as prop for humorous effect, within the medical community. During the discursive uptake in media, the conversations were recontextualized as legitimate while the race-based motivations of the humor were not parsed and historical racial prejudices were replicated.
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A controversy surrounding the safety of MSG began on 4 April 1968, when Dr. Robert Ho Man Kwok wrote a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, coining the term "Chinese restaurant syndrome". In his letter, Kwok suggested several possible causes before he nominated MSG for his symptoms. This letter was initially met with insider satirical responses, some using race as prop for humorous effect, within the medical community. During the discursive uptake in media, the conversations were recontextualized as legitimate while the race-based motivations of the humor were not parsed and historical racial prejudice was perpetuated.
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In an interview with Rolling Stone, Wilco lead singer Jeff Tweedy explained the cover art and album title. > It's kind of an extension of the thought process behind, I don't know, > staying in touch with some sort of wild energy as much as possible and some > sort of an irreverence. But that painting of that cat hangs in the kitchen > at the [Wilco] loft, and every day I'd look at it and go, "You know, that > should just be the album cover." Then I started thinking about the phrase > "Star Wars" recontextualized against that painting — it was beautiful and > jarring.
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2015 saw Portishead continue to perform live, playing festivals such as fib (Benicassim, Spain), Latitude (Southwold, Suffolk, UK), and the Montreux Jazz Festival (Montreux, Switzerland). Additionally, Portishead produced a cover of ABBA's song "SOS" for the soundtrack to the movie High-Rise which had a Gala screening at the London Film Festival on 9 October 2015. In 2016, the band won an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. On 22 June 2016, Portishead released an official video for "SOS" that recontextualized the song in the wake of the then-recent murder of MP Jo Cox and the Brexit vote.
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According to music journalist David Stubbs, Electric Ladyland is "undoubtedly a rock album, albeit rock on the point of evolving into something else." Uncut magazine's John Robinson said that its music reconciles the psychedelic pop of Hendrix's earlier recordings with the aggressive funk he would explore on his 1970 album Band of Gypsys. During its recording, Kramer experimented with innovative studio techniques such as backmasking, chorus effect, echo, and flanging, which AllMusic's Cub Koda said recontextualized Hendrix's psychedelic and funk sounds on the album. Electric Ladyland is a cross-section of Hendrix's wide range of musical talent.
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Their songwriting was partly inspired by the controversy surrounding member Professor Griff and his dismissal from the group in 1989. Fear of a Black Planet features elaborate sound collages that incorporate varying rhythms, numerous samples, media sound bites, and eccentric loops, reflecting the songs' confrontational tone. Recorded during the golden age of hip hop, its assemblage of reconfigured and recontextualized aural sources preceded the sample clearance system that later emerged in the music industry. Fear of a Black Planet explores themes of organization and empowerment within the black community, social issues affecting African Americans, and race relations at the time.
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During the mid-twentieth century, when photography was still being defined, Uelsmann didn't care about the boundaries given by the Photo Secessionists or other realists at the time, he simply wished to share with the viewer the images from his imagination and saw photomontage as the means by which to do so. Unlike Rejlander, though, he does not seek to create narratives, but rather "allegorical surrealist imagery of the unfathomable". Uelsmann subsists on grants and his teaching salary, rather than commercial work. Uelsmann's interpretations of landscape elements, reworked, tweaked, and recontextualized, force the viewer to actively interact with his subjects.
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Choi refused, declaring his decision final and "in the best interest of the university." The statue, which was purchased and installed by MU alumni in 2001, would instead be "recontextualized" with input from a task force, Choi said. Choi subsequently rebuked reporters (who are also on the MU journalism faculty) for making what he called "inappropriate" social-media comments about Choi's refusal to remove the statue and characterized the comments as attempts to undermine the university. In July of 2020, Choi and MU's provost fired the College of Education's dean, and when faced with criticism from some faculty, Choi reportedly demanded administrative support for this decision.
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Artist-designed billboards included a series of forty billboards by Jenny Holzer addressing Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, and deployed a fleet of Holzer's Inflammatory Statements street posters. Rachel Rosenthal designed a billboard dealing with animal rights for laboratory rats. Paul Bob designed a series of billboards on the practice of everyday life. Artist-designed print media projects included a color spread by Patrick Clancy and Gwen Widmer that recontextualized articles within Albuquerque Magazine, Jenny Holzer produced a large print piece containing her inflammatory statements that was inserted into the Sunday edition of the Albuquerque Journal newspaper, Paul Bob, and Rosenthal produced projects in other statewide publications.
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Initially an oral tradition, 400 early Akam dating to the 1st century BC- 2nd century AD were first compiled in the third century into an anthology known as Akananuru. Each poem was in aciriyam meter consisting of 13 to 31 lines. Some of the poems were contemporary for the time, and historians have suggested the poems were written as a means of preserving the tradition in the face of rising literacy among the elite, and the simultaneous decline of power among tribal leaders. As power shifted away from Jain and Buddhist chieftains to Hindu ones, poems began to be contextualized and appropriated, including Akam poetry, which increasingly included the names of Hindu gods and even began to cast Buddhist and Jain saints negatively, or included commentaries that recontextualized their presence.
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NMEs Rhian Daly described the album as "a record that is gospel through-and-through, with no quantifying statements necessary" and opined that it is not essential to "believe in a higher being or have any interest in gospel music" to appreciate the album. In Billboard, Bianca Gracie praised the album for focusing more on the choir than Jesus Is King, while claiming that Jesus Is Born "builds upon West's immersive reawakening." Gracie also noted that the album "wouldn't be a Kanye West-led album without a few nods to his own discography" and wrote that it "balances heritage with millennial innovation." Shane Cashman from Pitchfork looked at the album as where West "assembled a massive choir to channel his Christian message in a joyous, all-consuming wave of sound" and viewed him as "using the choir as a living, breathing sampler," due to West selecting old songs to be recontextualized by the choir, despite the lack of any samples.
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Hirsch's work has been shown in over 200 solo and group exhibitions in North America and Europe, including at the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York; the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo; the Noorderlicht Photofestival in Groningen, the Netherlands; and the Stefan Stux Gallery in New York City. During the past decade, Hirsch's visual projects—such as World in a Jar: War & Trauma; Manifest Destiny & the American West; Unseen Terror: A Culture of Fear; The Sixties Cubed; and Ghosts: French Holocaust Children—have explored the interrelationship of historical images with memory and time. Hirsch has rephotographed and recontextualized images into three-dimensional installations in order to investigate ethnic violence, genocide, religious intolerance, and war. In December 2019 - January 2020, Hirsch presented his new visual project "Mugs: Anthropometric Portraits and The Blurring of Social Identity" at the Indigo Art Gallery (Buffalo), which is said to "address the intersections of self-awareness with visual rituals, technological change, and justice in our digitally mediated world".
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These projects were Mi Casa Su Casa produced in San Diego and Tijuana for inSite_05 (2005), Talisman produced in São Paulo for the 28th Bienal de São Paulo (2008) and Key to the City produced in New York City with Creative Time (2010) among others. Notably his work in this period, he distinguished himself by maintaining his position as the author of the work. Whereas other socially engaged artists sought to share or question the role of the author through collaborative production. Although Ramírez Jonas’ work was contingent on the audience enacting the work, he always maintained an investment in the production of art objects as exemplified in his series of projects that circulates keys. In considering these art objects, writer and curator Nato Thompson wrote that the keys, “Recontextualized, they offer opportunities for participants to contemplate a broader range of choices, possibilities, and social interactions.” With Ramírez Jonas’ interest in speech acts, citizenry and audience participation, his works embodied many of the concerns of socially engaged art. His approach described at times as a “MicroUtopia” for its capacity to temporarily engage the audience directly in small but exceptional acts that address large scale societal issues.
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