So if I'm understanding you correctly, astrology is a way to access a liminal space similar to a way that music gets you into a liminal space?
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In contrast, theater will always exist in a liminal space.
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Tarkovsky's Zone of liminal danger threatens to inherit the earth.
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Liminal hours are the best to enjoy it: dawn, dusk.
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It's in that liminal space that his best work soars.
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For one brief moment, I stood in a liminal place.
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Today, Kairi leads a liminal life as an undocumented immigrant.
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Both things can be true, even and especially in liminal space.
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To American eugenicists like him, such liminal groups were degeneration incarnate.
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In a liminal state we can be alive but also not.
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Or I was nowhere, in a liminal space, and she was worried.
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It's a liminal state with no upside: only defeat changes your status.
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There's this liminal space full of possibility for community to be established.
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DS: In many ways, film is a medium built for liminal spaces.
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That liminal state between real and false is where we dwell now.
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He and his work occupy a liminal space between genres and genders.
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For the Brexit-brigade, the longer this liminal space exists the better.
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I relate it to what anthropologists of religion call a liminal state.
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The album, entitled "Liminal Minds," explores topics like race, religion and black identity.
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" It's appropriate that Emezi's various internet bios say she "lives in liminal spaces.
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Only the thinnest of layers to obtain that satin chatoyancy, that liminal reflet .
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I think that VR media and mediated theater are highly charged liminal environments.
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Ad Reinhardt's darkened crosses and Mark Rothko's liminal fields come to mind too.
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A witch is a liminal figure who sides with all genders, sexualities, and identities.
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ROXBURY "On the Edge: The Littoral and the Liminal," coastal photographs by Jay Kaplan.
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The walking figure pose is an embodiment of a psychological space – this liminal condition.
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Liminal spaces aren't so scary when you've occupied them for most of your life.
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Everyone you meet in its version of rural Kentucky feels lost, liminal, and precarious.
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This is the thrilling liminal hesitation that a reader feels when approaching Knott's poems.
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He is a liminal, anachronistic presence with his Victorian hand gestures and melancholy droop.
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Sweet, the liminal space between the audience and the show, supervises this precarious choreography.
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Tell me a little bit about your conversation with MU in conceiving of Liminal Laws.
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It's with Corinna that Pat's liminal status (her race, her class) is on full display.
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As molding, countless identical jars of Nutella line the liminal space between wall and ceiling.
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Liminal life is one without firm commitments to a job, a place or a community.
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The word "tankini" is liminal; it refuses to override the question, uneasily staking middle ground.
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Now, to manipulate a person, you need to have a liminal relationship with the truth.
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Nothing should be beyond words, no liminal realms of discomfort can be allowed to exist.
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The Icelandic band have—in conjunction with their live 'Liminal' soundbaths (one took place at their own event Norður og Niður, with more coming up at this weekend's FORM Arcosanti, and London's Meltdown Festival)—released an "endless mixtape" of brand new music entitled Liminal.
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Learn more about Addie Wagenknecht here, Deep Lab here, and buy the Liminal Laws book here.
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Things go wrong in those liminal spaces, at the interface between the wilds and the built.
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For all the languor, there is also the urgency inherent to liminal spaces and ephemeral moments.
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Today in the liminal realm of Shit That Might Come to Kickstarter Soon is the CAPBOOM.
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She sought to reach out of the input to find and relish in those liminal spaces.
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But it was a disorienting head space — a liminal state that rendered each measurement basically null.
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I have been in this liminal space long enough to know that I am not alone.
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The lives of queer individuals are liminal in many regions, and their visibility is constantly tested.
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When museums operate in their full liminal potential they are able to tell non-binary histories.
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Like Conroy, Wolf and other comedians who have performed at the dinner exist in a liminal space.
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It's suggested that you yourself should be in liminal state in order to be access faerie magic.
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"Children are liminal creatures and are some of the most precious members of a society," she said.
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In essence, Hamilton is a liminal space in which fans and performers talk back to historicity itself.
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As the documentary shows, being a migrant turns one's surroundings into a perpetual series of liminal spaces.
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These dormant microbes with very reduced metabolic activity exist in a liminal space between life and death.
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H&M, with its pledge in place, yet nebulous results, exists in a liminal, in-between space.
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For the remainder of the 19th century, composers increasingly played with what we might call liminal silence.
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Flying is such a liminal state, I don't know how people do serious work on the plane.
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The acronym BBW, internet shorthand for "big, beautiful, women," exists in a liminal space in pop culture.
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The Terrain Biennial repurposes liminal domestic spaces such as porches, windows, and yards into public art sites.
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The exhibition wrestles with how one might visualize riffs on the liminal spaces between ideas and events.
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Her current show at MU, an art and technology-centric museum in the Netherlands, is called Liminal Laws.
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Sometimes I want to wear a dress and sometimes I want to wear boxy trousers and feel liminal.
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Train stations are liminal spaces, places that serve as a transition between what was and what comes next.
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Kate Fox's pop-anthropology book "Watching the English" uses the word "liminal" 24 times in about 500 pages.
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These forms appeared to Tull in his "liminal zones," or within the periphery of his field of perception.
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In some ways, despite all the progress we've made, LGBTQ people are still stuck in that liminal space.
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Unlike hockey fights, baseball brawls do not exist in the liminal space between sanctioned sport and street fight.
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ROXBURY "On the Edge: The Littoral and the Liminal," exhibition and sale of coastal photographs by Jay Kaplan.
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Make sure his love of jazz is as liminal and dischordant as a lay-by on the M6.
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This track from French duo Space Art came out in '78 but occupies a weirdly timeless, liminal space.
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She delved into the world of lucid dreamers who believed in the liminal space between consciousness and dreams.
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Like video games, historical re-creations create liminal environments where spectators can interact with actors taking up specific roles.
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The paintings in Life is Fine have a liminal, frustrated aura about them, as though each was an impasse.
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We dragged gentrification along with us, this liminal time seemed to be a tipping point, and subsequently, a twilight.
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The siren song of Feather's service is that it removes even those little pain points from a liminal life.
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This is the most remarkable thing about Lemonade: the way it occupies the liminal space between true and false.
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Puerto Rico exists in the liminal space between being a nation and belonging to the U.S. as a territory.
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A bedtime vaping session with Dom dives into the liminal space between their close friendship and a deeper connection.
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Lunney says that Liminal Scope is an abstract way to recapture presence, a meditative experience that keeps viewers engaged.
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Even the name "liminal" refers to the immediacy of the threshold between the reality and the produced photographic material.
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Hers is a liminal, defiantly female place of both shadow and light, where transformation is effortless, if ultimately unsettling.
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These places have become liminal spaces, where the present and the past overlap in a kind of temporal limbo.
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Or between Damien Hirst's shark pickled in formaldehyde and the liminal, suspended state that awaits all sufferers of dementia.
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"I felt like I was in a liminal period where life and death was in the air," she said.
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He's interested in the in-between, making sense of historical and political forces in a kind of liminal space.
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For children, the liminal space of Jemaa al-Fna opens up between two disciplinary apparatuses: the school and the family.
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And then there's Seattle's Edwin Diaz, who for the purposes of this exercise exists in a sort of liminal space.
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The space between the two countries is a "liminal area, which is kind of neither one thing nor another thing".
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The liminal zones tend to contain lots of NIMBYish, not-quite-rural and not-quite-urban bellwethers, which matter disproportionately.
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For womenswear, L.A.-based Zaid Affas snagged the prize, and for menswear, liminal sportswear brand DYNE took home the award.
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You have the misfortune to get sick during a liminal age, where we know a little but can do less.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Randalls Island and Wards Island occupy a liminal position in New York City's geography.
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The caption says he's at a roller rink, but that's clearly some behind-the-veil Twin Peaks liminal space. 9.
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The song finds Black Marble stuck in a liminal space, unable to move forward without first truly excavating the past.
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LE: I don't know, you tell me … Liminal continues at the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires (MALBA) (Av.
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Liminal references the threshold of a next phase — leaving a prior reality behind, on the cusp of a new one.
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Maybe, in that pure form, sexting can exist in a liminal, OK space, neither an emotional nor a physical affair.
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The Grand Paradise is set in the hazy, culturally liminal late 1970s, on the grounds of a sumptuous tropical resort.
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Addie Wagenknecht: Liminal Laws continues at Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel (Freilager-Platz 9, 4142 Münchenstein / Basel) through November 6.
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The word Mr. Nguyen uses to describe the group's stance is "liminal": at the threshold, one foot on either side.
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This scene — Henriette's severing from the familiar world, the unending solitude of the liminal state — is nothing less than shattering.
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It was in this liminal zone that the settlers would live together, between a permanent twilight and a permanent dawn.
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All of which is to say that his relationship to pop music's stratosphere is liminal at best, and possibly temporary.
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It had something dark and funny to say about the liminal edges of frontier America in the late 20th century.
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We chatted with Wagenknecht about Liminal Laws, making art post-Snowden, and how someone with her expertise keeps her data secure.
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"A Liminal Blur," as the the plan is called, is a multi-use community center filled with both plazas and towers.
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"A Liminal Blur," as the the plan is called, is a multi-use community center filled with both plazas and towers.
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Once you pass through this liminal threshold and the door is shut, there is a feeling of complete otherworldliness and unpredictability.
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LA-based artist Meagan Boyd aka Yin Shadowz examines the liminal space between the conscious and unconscious through a magical lens.
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The film takes place in a liminal white space, where the isolated Chan vomits flowers, which then overtake the purgatorial environment.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads "Caress my darkness, liminal lover" is the title of three paintings by Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi.
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It could refer to a place or a person, but mostly it points to an entity that's restless, liminal, and fluid.
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Liminal Space, curated by Grace Aneiza Ali at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, explores how migration has impacted Guyana.
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One of the problems the United States — to my European eyes, at least — has is that it remains liminal to that.
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Like the subjects of her paintings, she's in the liminal space between the stories we tell about ourselves and her truth.
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Cues that are barely liminal affect our preferences (which is why advertisers pay for product placement in films and TV shows).
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By Dave Gray "Liminal Thinking" will challenge readers to step outside of the beliefs they've been clinging to their entire lives.
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The narrator, Jim Byrd, is a 33-year-old loan officer who's already leading a liminal existence when the book opens.
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Tracks like "Liminal Space" and "East Rock Beauty Kids" may both be ballads, but they're worlds apart in energy, and both diverge way beyond the standard love affair in introspective lyricism: "Liminal Space" tackles being a punk at Yale, while "East Rock Beauty Kids" confronts the contrast between who people are and who people say they are.
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Owusu's three minute short was one of my favorites because it questions diasporic feelings and the liminal grey space between dual identities.
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The London Transport Museum is just one space dedicated to interrogating the liminal spaces in transportation — another reframing of transition to destination.
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If you read an anonymous piece of writing that features "liminal", you might think there is a good chance she wrote it.
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In this enchanted forest there are metallic-glazed ceramic cairns vertically stacked so they too look like guardians of this liminal realm.
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Unless you're in a reasonably well-paid gig, have some family gold, or a rich partner, it can be a liminal existence.
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Its unsettling and otherworldly, the sort of record that feels like it exists somewhere in the liminal spaces between here and hereafter.
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I was in that liminal space where I couldn't tell if I was asleep or awake, if I was dreaming or hallucinating.
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Controlling the means of communication is thus a key way to navigate the strange liminal space between one regime and the next.
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Unlike the rest of us, however, Mayer's brain exists in a very John-Mayer-like liminal space between philosophical and absolutely nonsensical.
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The photo of Evans uncannily evokes the liminal point between these two scenes: the awkward stance of the police suggests imminent collapse.
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This sort of liminal state—after the panic of heartbreak, but before whatever happens next—is rarely communicated very effectively in song.
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Movies existed in a strange liminal state between art and propaganda until 1952, when the Supreme Court declared the Hays Code unconstitutional.
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Guyanese and Guyanese-American artists explore the often overlooked space that immigrants inhabit between their homelands and new vistas — the liminal space.
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Liminal Space continues at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (120 East 125th Street, East Harlem, Manhattan) through October 26, 2017.
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The focus is on their difficulties now, in this liminal space between the danger they've come from and the safety they seek.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — Artists' books occupy a liminal space between a fine art object and everyday book.
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Their job is to exist in the liminal space between complicity and opposition, at once being part of the establishment and challenging it.
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But when something shifts — like a snowstorm indefinitely shutting down the system, stranding passengers — what was once liminal can start to feel different.
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Whether you attribute the allure of this music to spiritual qualities or not, the liminal spaces that it navigates are in themselves transcendent.
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I hope that it helps us find comfort in the liminal, that it helps us, finally, stop seeing ourselves in black and white.
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There, in the liminal space where the particles in a material begin to change from one configuration to another, new quantum effects appear.
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This "liminal existence" enabled him to see the absurdities of the regime more clearly than any other figure within it, Mr. Ra wrote.
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The word "twilight" indicates a liminal state; in Noh theater, the action is often set in a world of ghosts and anthropomorphic creatures.
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It was this erratic panoply of incidental and liminal sounds that captured her imagination, yet they couldn't be expressed by conventional musical notation.
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In "Islands: Non-Places," artist and animator Carl Burton examines the liminal quality of these repetitious spaces in an interactive series of vignettes.
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This incongruence induces a sense of cognitive dissonance, a liminal space that'll make you feel both drawn to and repulsed by the subject.
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You seem to like to document these liminal spaces—sidewalks and lots where people are waiting for events—without documenting the event itself.
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Like all of his music, "Timeless" animates a liminal state — the moment just before or after an event, slowed down and blown up.
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Though the commuters of Overcrowd are facing the threshold of the station's liminal nature, the player is encouraged to linger, to think about design.
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In a random work of 150,000 words, "liminal" should appear 0.14 times, so Ms Fox uses it at around 180 times the average rate.
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A flock of birds flies in the empty, liminal space between the two structures, the only sign of life within the otherwise inhospitable surroundings.
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Naomi tells us from the very beginning that she needn't have chosen to live in a state of liminal agony, betwixt and between worlds.
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The spotlight is a sacred and liminal space between our own extremes: hero and villain, male and female, shocking and sublime, ugly and beautiful.
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The 60 pages of the slim hardcover take readers on a journey through three stages, from night to morning to a liminal cave space.
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At the graveyard, Willie's spirit is joined by a garrulous, motley community of ghosts who exist in the liminal state between life and death.
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The narrator and his neighbor remove the stones and open up a pit, which becomes a familiar Murakamiesque location, a liminal space between worlds.
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The perception that young people are failing to grow up fast enough—stuck in a liminal phase between childhood and adulthood—is nothing new.
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Faeries are believed to hover around liminal zones, transitory spaces like a coastline, the edge of a tree forest, or the mouth of a canyon.
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The child's physical presence within the image frame and his metaphorical status as a liminal being helps to illustrate the paradoxical nature of Soulier's worlds.
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Their hypothesis is that this liminal period between wakefulness and sleep is a fount of creativity that is usually lost in the ocean of sleep.
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If you're generous or susceptible, you can follow these liminal connections to and fro, shuffling between what (amazingly) did happen and what (amazingly) could have.
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"Adventure Time" exists in a kind of liminal zone between the poptimistic thrills of "The Powerpuff Girls" and the phantasmagoria of late-night Adult Swim.
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But Bowie was intensely liminal and restlessly creative—Cracked Actor gets at that aspect of his persona better than anything, even if it isn't very good.
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Some young millennials, like 24-year-old Samantha Tan, find that YA protagonists best speak to the liminal space between life stages she finds herself in.
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The damage being done to its health is visible in a few liminal places—the Great Barrier Reef, say, or the oyster farms of Washington state.
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Freeman's games explore that weird liminal space of being neither a girl, nor a woman; of knowing (vaguely) what sex is but not having had it.
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Other participants in the round include Access Industries, Viking Global Investors, Liminal Ventures and numerous notable angels, including PhDs from Harvard Medical School and Stanford University.
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Even if you can't always up and leave, you can take some time in the liminal highways of your mind, exploring familiar situations from fresh perspectives.
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The painting exists in what academics like to call a liminal space — that is to say a threshold space, where binaries collapse and ambiguities run rampant.
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In addition, Rubino's work features architectural forms that effectively round out the artist's wide-ranging visual exploration into the liminal space between real and imagined worlds.
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The "liminal habitat" that runs through "River" is the Lea: a tributary of the Thames that snakes its marshy, scruffy way through to north-east London.
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Her current show, Salt Priestess at Pioneer Works, connects these subjects, resurrecting the role of woman as the primary power broker engineering rites of liminal thresholds.
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The project sounded fascinating, but it had emerged at a liminal moment: Murphy was no longer fully at FX but not yet set up at Netflix.
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It's understandable that people would like to avoid those choices and reside forever in the liminal state of "weird," but that's just not a real option.
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The group has released eight albums over the past 15 years, becoming something of an idiosyncratic institution in the liminal territory between jazz and contemporary classical.
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It takes place in the Bardo, the Tibetan liminal space between life and afterlife, just after the death of Abraham Lincoln's 11-year-old son Willie.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads BASEL — Addie Wagenknecht's solo exhibition Liminal Laws at Haus der elektronischen Künste (HeK, House of Electronic Arts) Basel is outstanding.
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For a long period of time, I felt caught in liminal space between who I am as a DJ vs who I am as an artist.
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It's about finding a home within liminal spaces — between genders, between life and death, between god and human — and finding a way to play within them.
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However, as with a dreary beige façade consuming the view in Berlin, or the nondescript towers in Tokyo, often they feel like a liminal time and place.
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They are unfamiliar forms born in the liminal space between reality and make-believe; they are vaguely identifiable, but more often, nebulous and amorphous shapes without structure.
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It has to float around, untethered from its era, plucked down whenever we drop a needle or steal a riff, but ultimately stuck in some liminal space.
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Luckily, there's Liminal Scope: a new immersive audiovisual installation that aims to help people regain their sense of presence by visualizing light as it moves through space.
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I started writing this newsletter in the weird liminal space between Australia and the United States, caught in the 24-hour miasma that haunts the travel home.
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In that long, liminal space between the election result and Trump's inauguration on January 20, several questions kept coming back — to me and to others, I think.
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Inhabiting a liminal space between photography and something entirely un-photographic, the images of Odette England seek to eliminate most of the pictorial nature of the photograph.
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Offering a literal re-framing of the city is Sibanand Bhol's "Liminal View," a large lingam-shaped sandstone column positioned on the bank of Bindu Sagar Lake.
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Embodying a literal eye to the past, "Liminal View" offers a vantage point for visitors to contemplate an inherited past from the station point of the present.
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His work, subtle and never pedantic, searches instead for a liminal space between these categories, breaking the walls that separate them, as though with a gentle seam ripper.
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Regardless of my liminal genetic code — or rather, regarding it as a threat to societal norms — the train to my idealized gender presentation had already left the station.
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The essay's sadness derives not just from Don's isolation, but from the author's reminder that nearly everyone we know in some way occupies that same mysterious liminal space.
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Opening June 17, the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute's Liminal Space offers a glimpse of the tensions immigrants face in being tethered to multiple places at once.
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But the Motorola G6 is the perfect smartphone for those existing in a liminal space, who would rather avoid using a cripplingly slow device until their ship comes in.
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In 2016, Liminal, an Australian VR firm, teamed up with Medibank, an insurance company, to build a virtual experience for lonely people who could not leave their hospital beds.
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So much music aspires to be like a daydream in this way, but few artists inhabit that liminal headspace as well as Mechatok and Toxe do on that release.
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The curated pages of this book, a miniaturized gallery space, emphasize the liminal quality of Haviv's photos—the space between journalism and art, past and present, memory and loss.
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This evocative, liminal non-place is rendered with a welter of parallel marks that seem to revel in the irony of suggesting bright, amorphous light through straight, dark lines.
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Like the region in which the story takes place, with its ever-shifting national borders, both characters inhabit a liminal state, which seems to enhance their capacity for empathy.
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Though the possibility of deportation exists for many of these people, Mr. Fernandez was struck by the sense of hope and relief he found in this brief, liminal moment.
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It will end up serving as a liminal space between three other parties in the area, and as such, will only house about 12 people at any given time.
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They're an in-between kind of animal Bats are the only flying mammal, and some cultures consider them a "liminal" animal — not quite a bird, not quite a mammal.
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Buoyed by questions of identity, spirituality, and feminism, her lyrical sculptures, potent wall reliefs, and dynamic performances interrogate the liminal self while encapsulating ideas of physical and psychic transformation.
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Pee-wee is all and yet none of these things because Pee-wee exists in a liminal state: Faulknerian man-child and dandified gent, permanent bachelor and neighborhood creeper.
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It's a rangy collection, bouncing from John Barera's acidic and lighthearted opener to Auspex's machinic ambience to the feedback-laden industrial puttering of the closing track by Liminal Audio.
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Built by Australian VR company Liminal and commissioned by the health insurer Medibank, it aims to provide a comforting experience for those who are unable to leave their hospital bed.
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I have always felt liminal, particularly in regards to my sexuality and gender identity and embracing my identity as a genderqueer person is honoring that ever-changing part of myself.
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The animation opens with Mandarva as she awakens in her bedroom, then follows her journey through the bardo — the liminal space in which the soul travels between death and rebirth.
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There have been few steeper individual ascendancies in the history of football, let alone in that rarified liminal space between top-flight triumph and turning out for Stocksbridge Park Steels.
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Over the last few years, he's spent his first couple solo releases charting liminal spaces: the dividing lines between wake and sleep, house and techno, dancefloors and other darkened rooms.
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Melodies, textures, and structures would present themselves while she was in liminal states, then she'd wake up and lay down those tracks while they were still fresh in her head.
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He believes that people need an Agora, a common space where differences can coexist—a place of peaceful borders peacefully crossed, be it central, like Colmar, or liminal, like Krasnogruda.
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Documentary film footage of Kahlo, anonymous Indigenous women, and clips from government travel films intended to spark tourism punctuate the liminal spaces that divide the galleries among various biographical themes.
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All this creates a new liminal space where millions of people are thrown out of their regular normal lives and the rules of politics, the modes of interacting, change profoundly.
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At the time, her words served as a kind of balm as I was stuck in a liminal space, waiting for the next terrible phone call that would change everything.
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As cities have become more expensive, these areas have become increasingly attractive places to settle, and more than 12 million homes were built in this liminal space between 1990 and 2010.
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Only in that we want this to look like New York and, in part, this is a show about people who are on the margins — the disenfranchised, the striving, the liminal.
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He's suggesting that he doesn't have the baggage of the past; as someone born in the liminal space between Generation X and Millennials, Buttigieg can see the present with clear eyes.
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When we were experiencing the liminal relationship phase between confessing more-than-platonic feelings and deciding to define the relationship, the interruptions made it difficult to forget every barrier between us.
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And then there's Green in the right place at the right time (flashes of Wondo, anyone?), finding himself in the liminal space between center backs, and capitalizing on a tap-in.
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Officially, the Mexican government acknowledges the disappearances of more than 30,000 people — men, women and children trapped in a liminal abyss — neither dead nor alive, silent victims of the drug war.
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Maybe it's the freedom offered by the liminal state, before the inevitable drag of being home, of settling into old grooves of relationships, whatever gap of understanding might always be there.
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The light-skinned black daughter of a woman born in South Africa and a man born in New York, Thandi navigates her student days as an inhabitant of liminal social spaces.
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In her novel "Celestial Bodies," the Omani author Jokha Alharthi inhabits this liminal space between memory and forgetting: the dark tension between the stories we tell and the stories we know.
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The poem would do for the window what theorists had done for the threshold: it would offer the idea of the fenestral as a consort to the idea of the liminal.
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"We were also fascinated with the idea that death is such an unknown liminal space, and that how we even define it has changed so much over time," Marling explained to Esquire.
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Berlinde De Bruyckere: No Life Lost continues this exploration of a liminal region between life and death, where the objects on view mutate the gallery environment into a space of self-reflection.
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There is a borderland between waking life and the uncharted wilderness of sleep that we all traverse each night, but we rarely stop to marvel at the strangeness of this liminal world.
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The festival marked a liminal time between the seasons but also between the physical and the spiritual, a time when doors into the Otherworld were feared to have opened to supernatural figures.
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We're called to bear witness to the past meeting the future, different conceptions of self colliding in a liminal space where time is trivial and being a passive audience member isn't enough.
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As these cases have progressed, I have been trapped in a liminal state — between careers, away from my home city, weighed down by constant uncertainty about the future — for nearly a year.
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Yet there is a liminal quality to many of the shots, such as the silhouettes of commuters in Grand Central, and an echo of the divisions between class and race that remain.
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The gray skin lets Sherald "omit" skin color from her paintings entirely, she says, separating race from color and allowing her subjects to hover in the liminal space between reality and dreamworld.
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Even though these installations are temporary and ephemeral, they foster vibrant liminal spaces for the public to explore what could be done during this time of ever-present ecological and political change.
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In Damien Chazelle's modern musical "La La Land," they fall in love in a liminal, unstable Los Angeles that doesn't know if it's present or past, sundown or sunup, terrestrial or astral.
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Music occupies this liminal space between art and commerce, authenticity and artifice, emotional expression and pure product––and often, we make arbitrary value judgments as to which way the pendulum ought to swing.
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The changes from 4-3-3 to 4-4-2 formations during the Colombia and Costa Rica games-onward just found him digging out a more and more liminal spot on the field.
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Feather launches a high-end furniture rental service for liminal living "People's lives are constantly changing and they shouldn't be burdened by owning their furniture," said Jay Reno, Founder and CEO of Feather.
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By way of explanation, she says that she's an ambivert, an introvert who can pass as extroverted when the occasion calls for it—another example of someone who lives in a liminal space.
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For Finlay, the garden was not simply a place of beauty, but rather a liminal space bordered by nature and culture, where visitors are invited to meditate on the different ways time passes.
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To many people, the borderlands—the liminal space between the United States and Mexico, where Donald Trump wants to build a wall—seem like a playground, complete with seismic sensors, clients, and guides.
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To solve her dilemma, Green pioneered a liminal genre in 2015 with Casting Oksana Baiul, a short film about Ukrainian women who derived feelings of strength from the titular gold-winning figure skater.
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For Desert X, Aitken positioned his work in the liminal space between fringe suburbia and open desert, creating a version of the nearby ranch-style houses that extended and disappeared into the desert.
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Instagram suddenly had two personalities—composed and professional stills (the angel) and chaotically impromptu video (the devil)—and in that liminal space, at least, men learned how to take pictures of their face.
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Perez was declared to be in a vegetative state—a liminal place between life and death where traumatic brain injury or a lack of oxygen renders a person mostly immobile and conceals consciousness.
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But there were moments in New York, especially during the liminal pre-renaissance period before New York traded half its roster for Carmelo Anthony, when Stoudemire seemed most headily and happily a superstar.
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Aside from the strange liminal anomaly of downtown, Los Angeles is not a vertical city; it is a city of boulevards and interchanges, of 30-foot palm trees and drive-through liquor stores.
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Harrow's specialty is working with bones and skeletons, but we also meet necromancers who work by siphoning souls out of the living, and others who study the liminal spaces between life and death.
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In his solo exhibition Lightning Speak at University of New Mexico (UNM) Art Museum, Chacon's still images, installations, and videos illustrate the liminal, hybrid manifestations of sound and image and how they coalesce.
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The god spirit is supposed to kill her, but it doesn't, and as the novel goes on she finds herself occupying a liminal space: between male and female, god and human, living and dead.
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" In working out these feelings, Waterhouse crafts a video that perfectly captures the liminal moments of heartbreak, reminding us that it's never exactly good or bad — in the words of Waterhouse, "It just is.
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Get a closer look at the installation and the artists who made it in the short video below: The Liminal Scope installation was sponsored by the Industry City art space and curated by Wallplay.
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Saleem serves as a somewhat liminal figure, a kind of third way that is an alternative to both the mostly white world of Columbia and the black world that Barry eagerly, tentatively seeks out.
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The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI), a pioneer in wielding art as a tool for social justice, presents Liminal Space, an exhibition on the realities of migratory life in the 21st century.
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Sarah Douglas and Amanda Gore, directors of creative consultancy The Liminal Space, were particularly intrigued by the issue when Facebook and Apple announced in 2014 that they would offer egg freezing as a staff benefit.
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Braudy explores the genuinely creepy and unsettling aspects of the liminal as embodied by a human or humanoid figure (as opposed to le grand malaise, that vague situational uneasiness so well cataloged by Roz Chast).
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Though they work in an eclectic range of media, each of these artists refrains from full resolution, inhabiting a liminal space in which advantageous shifts — evocative of romance, finance, and other fortuitous developments — are activated.
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In the title story of The Hidden Girl and Other Stories, Ken Liu's chewy new collection of speculative fiction, the performance of this liminal circus saves a man in Tang dynasty China from his assassin.
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As we learned earlier this month, YouTube's plan for videos that don't necessarily break the rules, but nevertheless fall into this liminal category of hateful or extremist content, was to severely kneecap their reach and visibility.
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Whenever a full moon is described as "super," it's referring to its relative proximity to earth in its orbit, explains Laura Tempest Zakroff, modern traditional witch and author of Weave the Liminal: Living Modern Traditional Witchcraft.
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When taken together, these performers would use the liminal space of the square as a choreographed canvas to execute what, in my opinion, formed the basis of an entirely new and bold direction for Sehgal's work.
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In his work at the Salutation, he embraces a plant's full life cycle, in flower and in death — where others dismiss winter as a dormant, liminal season, he insists that vitality may be found all year.
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We huddled on the dock as Jane Smith, a long-serving lifeguard at the pond, reminded us that this was a liminal moment at which the barrier between the living and the dead was particularly thin.
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With this sweeping, spiritually minded story, Malick continues to explore the subjects that have captivated him throughout his career, exploring the human search for God and the liminal space between earthbound desires and more transcendent aspirations.
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The Art of Waiting, described by The New York Times as a "thoughtful meditation on childlessness, childbearing, and — for some — the stretch of liminal agony in between...Quite lovely and laudable," is available wherever books are sold.
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Reuters has published a remarkable story about how Iranian families kept apart by the travel ban are using the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, which occupies a liminal space between Derby Line, Vermont, and Stanstead, Quebec.
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As we are currently in the liminal space between Christmas and New Year's, it is a light week for Internet Content, but here's the best the web has to offer for the week of December 23, 2018.
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The reason they reached out to us was because of our last record, Liminal and we were working on that album, what I really liked about that was that we were all working on being really centered.
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If you've not been privy to that liminal sphere, if you don't know the daily work that goes into maintaining those delicate tendrils of care, then it could well seem like this is coming out of nowhere.
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In this liminal space of informal development, even the well-off artists, many of whom live in upscale suburbs, continue to navigate the city's unofficial economy in pursuit of large and flexible studio spaces with cheaper rent.
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Under this reading, we should simultaneously feel the desire to judge and the desire to absolve, like the skeleton in "Last Judgment," and the tension between these desires creates a threshold, the liminal space in which art lives.
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Both Tate and Holm have expressed interest in fighting Cyborg at a catchweight between 135 and 145, so let them do that, and let Cyborg exist in a liminal state all her own, Cyborg-weight, if you will.
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Welcome to Incantations, a series of esoteric mixes from THUMP UK. We're looking to explore the nooks and crannies of club culture, situating ourselves in the liminal spaces between dancefloors, seeking solace in the obscure and the unearthed.
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Virtual reality backpack computers are still in that liminal state where we know a lot about the general concept, but few people have actually gotten to try them — or in some cases, even see finished designs and specs.
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Being in my mid-50s has felt unmoored, which is a very fruitful place to be, partly because it's liminal — middle life is a transition moment, by definition, and so is insomnia: You're precariously balanced between two worlds.
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Rather than keep Nathan Bedford Forrest Day as a state holiday, lawmakers mandated the governor recognize the occasion every July 13 through proclamation—a kind of liminal space where the holiday receives gubernatorial endorsement but not much else.
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The titular concept of "Nepantla" is drawn from Gloria E. Anzaldúa's The Bridge We Call Home, presented in Soto's introduction: Bridges span liminal (threshold) spaces between worlds, spaces I call nepantla, a Nahuatl word meaning tierra ente medio.
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Over the past half decade, he's released a handful of cassettes and an LP that traverse the bleak territory between noise, ambient, and other unsettling forms of mostly-instrumental electronic music, exploring liminal spaces through washes of staticky melody.
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But while Pete calls it a musical, I reckon The Beach has elements of a music video too, coming at a liminal time of high-end MTV graphics, cheesy trance and voiceovers and the darker breakdown of original rave.
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Liminal, a Melbourne-based magazine that publishes art by and interviews with talented Asian Australians, will be "taking over" the group for a week (starting Monday) to lead some really interesting and inclusive discussions about race, identity and Australia.
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Bowler-hatted and cigarette-smoking, they lurk along the edges of the stage in the liminal territory between life and death, and it's they who escort Aoife Duffin's bright-eyed and smirking Ophelia from the first to the second.
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But can Twitter thrive in this liminal state of concise and verbose, and what does the change mean for a platform that struggles to add real users at the same time it fails to identify and delete fake ones?
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The Terrain Biennial was founded in 2011 by artist Sabina Ott and author John Paulett with the goal of repurposing liminal domestic spaces such as porches, windows, and yards into public art sites.
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Using quipu, an ancient Andean form of time keeping, each knot represents an individual experience and each textile the amalgamation of hours and days spent traversing the liminal space that exists at the border crossings between the United States and Mexico.
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And while some people try to cleanse spaces or their superstitious gateways by sageing doorways, this installation does the opposite, appealing to some kind of liminal god to crack open time, resurface the past, and let it linger in the present.
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This new tape, Mist and Light, is firmly in the same lane, offering four lengthy pieces full of water sounds and lilting synth lines meant to evoke and explain the half-light of the liminal space between wake and sleep.
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They're not quite children and not quite adults, and anyone who remembers being a teen (or is a teen) can speak to how difficult it is to navigate that liminal space between childhood's structure and the freedom that comes with age.
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I thought quite a lot about what normal is and isn't as I was reading "The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood," Belle Boggs's thoughtful meditation on childlessness, childbearing, and — for some — the stretch of liminal agony in between.
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Experiencing that alienation through my peers at a very young age and stretching on into my adulthood, I turned to liminal spaces where I could find power in places that people were telling me I shouldn't be looking for power.
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In all of these stories, Circe is at once important and liminal, just as she is a figure of uncertain powers, a minor immortal, the daughter of Helios, god of the sun and a Titan, and Perse, a lowly naiad.
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As I stand here, it occurs to me that this is the essence of fiction: the liminal space between the tangible world outside and the inner layout of the mind, the antechambers of reality that usher us into the imagination.
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Photographs reveal how both authorities and detainees redraw borders as liminal, literally marginalizing zones, where people are stopped and forced to wait — as at European airports, often located deep inside national borders, yet legally exempted from the barrier-free Schengen Area.
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I'm not sure how I read the piece at the time, but I remember it now as an ode to that liminal upper perimeter of the architectural envelope where the structure below our feet meets the void above our heads.
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RMB City is a hodgepodge, triangulating the reality of post-Maoist China with a hyper-fantastical future and the space that exists in between: like Calvino's Penthesilea, RMB City is the liminal but viable realm between real and not real.
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Terrified and in agony over her closeted life, J.J. attempted suicide, and the entire game is a sort of near-death fever dream where J.J.'s identity swims between liminal spaces — closeted and out, alive and dead, whole and in literal pieces.
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Like the other two episodes in Season 5, it doesn't stick its landing but the liminal space between knowing Miley Cyrus' persona and watching what happens on screen is the closest Season 5 comes to replicating the magic that made previous episodes great.
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For Finlay, the garden was not simply a place of beauty, but rather a liminal space bordered by nature and culture, where visitors are invited to meditate on the different ways time passes, from the cycle of seasons to the recording of history.
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On track for a 2017 opening Garland has said he won't track the novel beat for beat, but the story plays to some of the same themes he pulled off so well in Ex Machina, like liminal humanity and the uncanniness of nature.
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It was like this liminal space between what was and what is, and it felt useful to bring that document forward — even just the stuff about what it was like to participate in music culture before everyone was documenting it on Instagram.
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We caught up with both women at a liminal moment, as they prepare for a second round of funding that could make their dreams — including an expanded product offering (including ready-to-wear!) and a brick-and-mortar retail space — come true.
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"I was really fascinated by the idea of club culture, the idea of a liminal, almost surreal space where people can cross paths in a way that can have a direct impact on music, on art, on writing, on fashion," she said.
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Ruga's absurdist "Night of the Long Knives" illustrates an alternate post-independence reality in Azania where the central subject of the photograph (perhaps the Azanian citizen itself) appears cocooned in colorful balloons and suspended in the liminal space between man and woman, Black and white.
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Feather posits itself as an option for people in liminal situations, like those "looking ahead to a semester of school" or "testing out a city [but] not ready to commit to staying," and appeals to fans of brands like West Elm with sleek, modern options.
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Whether it's the epithets tossed her way with sudden abandon ("cunt" and "bitch" from well-heeled visitors) or the crazed mob that corrupts her Crate + Barrel crusade, a liminal space emerges wherein the verity of victimhood and the hilarity of martyrdom compete for our attention.
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Dakota set out to facilitate an act of solidarity, to find the liminal space victims are forced to occupy and rip it wide open—to free us all or invite everyone in, to harness our rage and allow it to destroy something other than ourselves.
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Occupying the liminal space between body politics and religiosity in his depiction of the body as a vessel for a kind of spiritual warfare is Didier William's creation of fluid, flowing figures despite the rigid immovability of the wood from which they are carved.
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Few would have guessed that Bowie would be the go-to actor to portray the famed inventor, but The Prestige explored the blurry edges where science ends and magic begins, and that sort of liminal state is exactly where you'd expect to find David Bowie.
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John DeFore (The Hollywood Reporter) But instead of improving on the original's visualization of the liminal state between life and death, director Niels Arden Oplev turns the conceit into just another excuse for rote haunting, making this Flatliners often indistinguishable from its 2017 thriller peers.
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Gates was hired to bring his LA to the screen, and Open Season is, indeed, Daryl Gates' L.A: a fallen cathedral, where the good and moral and quiet wait in fear of multicultural street scum, creeping over some liminal threshold into white suburban reality.
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Renner's app drama found him in an odd, liminal space of being at once too "legitimately" famous for this sort of explicit monetization (an Oscar nominee!) but also somehow not famous enough for people to understand why the app would exist in the first place.
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However, Miller forces the viewer's hand as she confronts us head-on with powerful testimonies from her subjects, who recapitulate their tales of woe to a contemporary art audience that is left trying to situate itself in a liminal space that does not affirm or deny meaning.
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Since then, the main public support he'd garnered was from his family and the QAnon people, who exist in that liminal internet space called the chans and believe a "storm" is coming in which President Trump will bust an international pedophilia ring of Democrats, globalists, and satanists.
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Her latest exhibition, Calling Down the Spirits, currently on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, seeks to visualize those liminal spaces, what Martin calls "veilscapes," incorporeal and genetic strands that tether generations of Black women to each other and to the spiritual world.
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Once you find your liminal spot, cast a protection circle—if you use a ritual knife for your circle do not use an iron or steel knife, faeries find it aggressive, try a bronze or nickel one— and then set up your altar (permanent or temporary).
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads BUENOS AIRES — About a week after nominees could register as candidates for the Argentine presidency, Liminal, the first survey of Argentine conceptual artist Leandro Erlich on the American continent, opened at the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires (MALBA).
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Often existing in the liminal spaces between cities (the names of which I can admittedly no longer conjure from my seven-year-old memory) these Poké-surrogate stations helped level up your precious catches while you went out and explored the world with your more experienced cadre.
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In Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (1978-79), the TV series' sexual charge is evidenced through looping extracts of its protagonist running, spinning and saving: a 'détournement' of the original material into an analysis of those liminal stages between the real and the fantastic more-than-human.
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Juliana Huxtable, an artist who often tweets about her predilection for mind-altering substances and whose Twitter display name used to be "YUNG LIMINAL CRISIS AKA ABJECTION DOLL *SOBBIN*," creates art from the dissociative space, birthing her gallery shows and poems during out-of-body experiences.
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Today, European authorities have stiffened their resistance not only to new arrivals, but to the hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers who arrived years before and remain in an eerie liminal zone: forbidden to live or work freely in Europe and unwilling, or often unable, to go home.
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This means every morning and lunch hour you get caught in this liminal space between heaving a door open and then touching it, just with the very tips of your fingers, to balance it open for the people behind you, an embarrassing and humiliating ritual of human decency.
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Clarke told me that he shares a nostalgia for "that liminal period when gay culture hadn't completely been co-opted"; not long ago, he wanted to take an out-of-town friend to gay bars, and had to research which of his and Lopez's former haunts remained open.
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Now for our stories of the week … As always, you can share your thoughts in our NYT Australia Facebook group (where we're partnering this week with Liminal); and if you like what we're up to, we hope you'll share this newsletter with friends and tell them to sign up.
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"She said the whole book that she doesn't want to marry anyone," says Jo of her lead — if, at this point, we can truly call Saoirse Ronan's character Jo: in this final sequence, she seems to exist in some free-floating liminal space between Jo and Alcott herself.
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Focused on the liminal space between the promise that came with independence from colonial rule and the reality of the end of the Cold War, each artwork attempts to make meaning from the dramatic political shifts of this time period by interrogating the historicism, nostalgia, and specificity of that moment.
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Mascara running and heart torn open, I'm acutely aware that though I came to the ritual alone, I was welcomed into a cohort—a kind of family that wordlessly understood the liminal space occupied by survivors; the singular experience of carrying the weight of trauma, heavy but veiled by secrets.
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GIF artists 100% Soft, Robin Eisenberg, Jon Vermilyea, Mochimochiland, Colin Raf, and Jess Mac all, on some level, must know this, for their looping clown animations roam free in that liminal space between waking life and dreams, where big red noses, white skin, chattering teeth, and bloody kitchen knives, are common.
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This is Wagenknecht's greatest distinguishing factor: she boils down the lived experiences and sociopolitical realities of our technology-obsessed culture to their essences and then alchemizes them, in Liminal Laws, into objects that one recognizes first as art and only upon closer examination — once the work has you hooked — as activism.
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But even five decades after David Hockney first shocked viewers with depictions of his muse and lover, Peter Schlesinger, standing in the buff, the eroticized male nude still occupies a liminal space in art: Is it "real art," or is it nothing more than a kind of high-minded erotica?
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But since their firm was founded 18 years ago, Tanijiri and Yoshida have instead devoted themselves to the liminal place where these elements break down; their designs (from a suburban house in Higashi with a dirt floor to a Tokyo cafe that transforms into a hostel) unite concepts that seem opposed.
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For the exhibition, Jónsi drew on his years of experience working with sound, as a member of Sigur Rós, as well as the ambient duo Jónsi and Alex (with Alex Somers), aka Riceboy Sleeps, and Liminal (with Alex Somers and Paul Corley), and also through solo performances and numerous other projects.
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WORLD&aposS OLDEST ANIMAL FOOTPRINTS DISCOVERED During the 9th century B.C., the ancient town was situated in a liminal zone between three regional powers: the Aramean kingdom based in Damascus to the east, the Phoenician city of Tyre to the west, and the Israelite kingdom, with its capital in Samaria to the south.
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Imagine Hum, Codeine, Soundgarden, and the Magnolia Electric Co. listening to Terence McKenna lectures on cassette while hot-boxing a van somewhere along the liminal southern tip of Lake Michigan, where Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois converge, an understatedly harsh and beautiful place where industrial factories run up against pristine National Park Service lands.
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The producer-director Jakob Verbruggen treats the Williamsburg Bridge, on which the child's corpse is discovered, like the Wall of Westeros: Still under construction in 1896, the bridge is a colossal but liminal edifice that towers over the teeming hordes (and C.G.I. skyline), and it embodies the violable line between order and chaos.
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For Schwartz, many of the beasts are "around here," living in nearby woods or backyards or in the mountains of Washington; others inhabit the zoo; and others still, the "boundless space" of the sea, or some liminal zone between our lives and theirs ("A crow looked through an orb / And saw doctors in scrubs").
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LIMINALITY "Liminal" is a joke-word now, and yeah, it's overused, and yeah, it's about as strung-out as "dialectic" for the academia-lite that so much online language is leaning on, but it's where we live, not just "in between" or "both" but always on the edge (and still taking up too much space).
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When I heard that cidermakers Jeremy Hammond and his longtime girlfriend Joy Doumis had made cider from apple trees growing in Brooklyn in one of the largest and oldest rural cemeteries in America, a secret and liminal space between life and death seemed the perfect place to contemplate the life-cycle of this noble tree.
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Over successive nights, the story has a cumulatively calming effect; its repetitive prose, at times weirdly reminiscent of Gertrude Stein's, is almost literally enchanting, as is the manner in which the sentences wander free of standard syntax, and even meaning, as if the text itself were drifting into a liminal territory between consciousness and dreams.
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In the liminal time frame of the end of the 20th century, before the spread of Photoshop and hipster culture, before the rise of social media and the proliferation of porn on tumblr, BUTT provided high-quality content, uninformed by the unmistakably pink hue of its pages and by a feeling of absolute freedom.
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In doing so, the emergence of "arcades," as Benjamin defined them — literally the structures that created passageways through blocks of buildings lined with stores and shops, which first appeared in Paris during its transformation under Seine Department Prefect Georges-Eugène Haussmann — formed new liminal spaces that created false indexes of public freedom bound to social dreams of utopia.
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As Billi and her relatives (including an excellent Tzi Ma, who plays her father) navigate this delicate situation, The Farewell explores all the contradictions and complications inherent in families, even the happy, stable ones – the push and pull of love, the elusiveness and the indelibility of the past, the ever-shifting liminal space occupied by immigrants.
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These two exiles inhabit a closely observed, liminal world of spooks and intelligence expats who have risked everything for the cause of Communism but now find themselves disillusioned by the realities of everyday life in their Soviet demi-paradise, distrusted by the very same organs of state security that once employed them to such devastating effect.
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However, by shifting the focus of N.D.E. research away from the study of rare liminal moments of mortal danger that occur in the lives of healthy people toward sick people in hospitals who die on the operating table and come back, Moody moved near-death research from the science of heightened experience within everyday life to shakier, speculative ground—the afterlife.
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Between the organic-feeling audio — animal and tractor sounds, the young farmers' singing or cursing while they work, hard rain and wind — and some quite unique camera angles (many shots feel as if they were from a goat's perspective), Boone drops viewers into a liminal sensory world where, until almost the very end, animal characters and landscapes have roughly equal narrative weight to humans.
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Recently, I arranged a meandering summer tour to visit a handful of such works that have only recently arrived in the liminal public space of private buildings; I also included my favorite exceptions to the bad art-and-architecture marriage, some of which have been around for years but are little known beyond the crowds that pass them every day, on the way to offices or apartments.
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That liminal space — of Bell being famous, or "semi-prominent" (which he calls himself in a stand-up special), and still searching for the right entertainment vehicle for his brand of offbeat humor; of being a self-described "sociopolitical comedian," operating within an industry that fights inclusion; of being a tall black man, who, despite his fame, is still a target of discrimination in the liberal haven of Berkeley, Calif.
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And David Tanis gave us a new recipe for vegetarian borscht that is light and fresh and sweet and sour and I think if I ever get out of this liminal nightmare, I'll try to make a double batch, whiz half of it up in the food processor with sour cream and horseradish and put it in the refrigerator so I can drink a cup every morning until it's gone.
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The podcast unfolds its strange road trip through first-person vignettes and narrated letters addressed to the title character; more explicitly built on horror tropes than either Night Vale or Wires, it tells the story of a woman searching for her missing wife in the spookiest liminal spaces of America's highways and byways — truck stops, dive bars, seedy motels and diners, and the vast expanse of the open road.
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is a bardo, a liminal space between artistic death and rebirth: It's a first and (so far) final studio album; it's the portrait of a young artist on the cusp of adulthood; it's the testament of a young believer torn between letting God take over and exercising her free will; it's an album informed by a breakup and a new romance; it's a bridge between many musical styles.
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That public release, when it comes, will thankfully end the current liminal period where Barr's own summary of the report—which he subsequently denied was a summary—has stood as the only public statement on the final findings of a 22-month probe that led to charges against dozens of individuals—including Russian intelligence officers—and yielded around $50 million in forfeitures and fines, yet evidently stopped short of indicting the president or his family themselves.
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