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Marry the Blue Sky – Chinese Performance Artist on Air Pollution
Read more: Marry the Blue Sky – Chinese Performance Artist on Air PollutionIn December 2015, she stepped out in a wedding dress adorned with hundreds of air pollution masks and walked the streets appealing to Beijingers to take public transport rather than contribute to the choking smog by driving. The year before,…
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A is for Activist: An ABC Book for Kids of the 99%
Read more: A is for Activist: An ABC Book for Kids of the 99%A is for Activism is a children’s book developed by Innosanto Nagara, an author illustrator and founding member of the Design Action Collective, a worker owned cooperative design studio in Oakland that is dedicated to “serving the Movement.” The book…
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Luxury and Degradation in the Town of Gelendzhik
Read more: Luxury and Degradation in the Town of GelendzhikRACC Satellite Space in Garden City 1205 Franklin Avenue, 3rd Floor, Garden City, NY 11530 June 26, 10 am – July 28, 7 pm Monday – Friday, 10 am – 7 pm, free admission Please write to racc.ny@mail.ru or call…
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Carry the against sexual harassment billboard everyday
Read more: Carry the against sexual harassment billboard everydayIn March 2016, Chinese feminist activists had planned to launch a crowdfunding campaign against sexual harassment advertisements, and they worked hard to raise 40,000 yuan in a month and a half. However, after perfunctory, evasive, and rejection by the relevant…
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Dramatic Dissent: the Occupation of Rome’s Teatro Valle
Read more: Dramatic Dissent: the Occupation of Rome’s Teatro ValleIn 2009, conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi demoted the publicly-funded Italian Theatre Insitute (or ETI) to “disposable” status, hacking funding for the arts considerably. ETI promoted Italian companies abroad, managed the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, the Duse theatre in…
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put yourself in their shoes
Read more: put yourself in their shoesThousands of empty shoes replace marchers at cancelled climate protest in Paris After French authorities cancelled two climate protests in the wake of the Paris attacks, thousands of would-be marchers kept empty shoes in their place. The moving installation coincides…
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Bread and Puppet Theater
Read more: Bread and Puppet TheaterThe Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side. Besides rod-puppet and hand puppet shows for children, the concerns of the first productions were rents, rats, police, and other problems…
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Voices from the Conflict
Read more: Voices from the ConflictOur NGO “Voices from the Conflict” seeks to open a conversation about the Israel-Palestine conflict through the lens of activist art. The history of the conflict dates back to the UN partition plan in 1947, followed by Israel’s independence in…
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The Pigeon Palace
Read more: The Pigeon PalaceReal estate agents and investors with plans to visit an open house in San Francisco Tuesday were greeted with a somewhat unexpected scene – a motley crew of Mission activists and neighborhood characters holding signs and singing, “If you buy…
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Witness to the ruins/Testigo de las ruinas
Read more: Witness to the ruins/Testigo de las ruinasThe starting point of this artistic project, carried out by MAPA within its Laboratory of Artists in Colombia, is the disappearance of one of the oldest “barrios” downtown Bogotá: El Cartucho. This place, where thousands of people survived for decades…
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Powerful Anti-Drug Ads Are Consumed By Live Mealworms Over Time
Read more: Powerful Anti-Drug Ads Are Consumed By Live Mealworms Over TimeTo show the harmful effects of cocaine on a drug addict, Brazilian advertising agency Talent created ‘living’ poster ads that are consumed by live mealworms over time. Printed on dough, the ads initially show the faces of drug addicts. However,…
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Lights in the City
Read more: Lights in the CityMontreal: The City of Lights In Canada Alfredo Jaar completed a project referred to as Lights in the City, in 1999. Keep in mind this is considered one of the richest cities in North America. with a large population of…