This focus will highlight a dynamic Egypt (not just Cairo) in which there is more of a state-society interpenetration rather than state-society relations or more specifically, the collapse of state-society boundaries.
It is the absence of understanding of this interpenetration between state and society that limit most Egyptian studies.
In Los Angeles, Moss has energetically infiltrated the previously unremarkable warehouse zone of Culver City with a series of eruptions and
interpenetrations which provide moments of ornate placemaking (AR September 1992).
Apparently, Snyder appropriated these images from urban planning manuals and vandalism protection documents, and his refraining of the materials may be an attempt to lampoon the underlying ideologies of urban space--as well as to note the intrinsic
interpenetrations of representation, image, information, and ideology.
Deep
interpenetrations of Christian faith, beginning within the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman world, were followed by encounters--to the east, with cultures of Mesopotamia, Armenia, Persia, India, and China; to the west, with Celtic, Germanic, and Slavic cultures; and to the south, within Ethiopian culture.
BHQF plays with (self-)institutionalization as a semiautonomous art group, creating the illusion of control in relation to putatively "hegemonic" systems, and lambasting the
interpenetrations of art school and art commerce, from an outside-inside/inside-outside metaposition.
Subtle and precise, his practice has often challenged us to think about spatial design as an autonomous aesthetic phenomenon and as a utilitarian instrument, referencing the
interpenetrations of art and design that characterize Bauhaus and De Still.
