Main Gallery
-
A Maze in Philadelphia Focuses Attention on the Hidden Cruelty of US Prisons
Read more: A Maze in Philadelphia Focuses Attention on the Hidden Cruelty of US PrisonsThe US prison system is one of the world’s great shames. A quarter of the world’s prisoners are being detained in a country that represents only 5% of the world’s population. It is a system that has been compared to…
-
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD PUTS PROTEST BEFORE THE CLOTHES FOR SPRING 2016
Read more: VIVIENNE WESTWOOD PUTS PROTEST BEFORE THE CLOTHES FOR SPRING 2016While the designer may be more focused on bigger issues, her fashion business is churning on. Just nine days before Vivienne Westwood’s Red Label show, the designer made many British headlines for what may have been her most extreme protest…
-
ButActually | The Hashtag Activist Dictionary
Read more: ButActually | The Hashtag Activist DictionaryButactually.com is a new kind of online dictionary created by a team of students at NYU Gallatin who seek to document, organize, and provide a platform for anyone to share new activist hashtags. Since 2009 hashtags have been used to…
-
Art and Activism (TV Documentary)
Read more: Art and Activism (TV Documentary)A television report written, directed and produced by Enmedio members Leónidas Martín and Xavier Artigas. Collective projects that see art as a kind of social relationship. Artistic interventions that target consumption, media guerrilla tactics, creative mobilisations and protest, critical projects…
-
the bike infrastructure agenda exposed
Read more: the bike infrastructure agenda exposedIt has been a long and exhausting battle for the bike activists in Puebla one of the cities in Mexico. Collectives and activist groups have long pushed for including bike infrastructure around the city, in a horizontal, democratic way. They…
-
They’re Going To Kill Me
Read more: They’re Going To Kill MeThe Black, Dallas-based artist Jammie Holmes put George Floyd’s final words in a place where everyone could see them: the sky. Five days after Floyd was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis on Saturday, May 30th, Holmes’s piece took…
-
Rolezinho Movement
Read more: Rolezinho MovementThis description is taken from an article posted on dissidentvoice.org (link below): Since last December, Brazilian shopping malls have become the stage for a new style of youth gathering: the rolezinho. Roughly translated as “little excursions” or outings, the rolezinhos…
-
Kurokawa Cup: prank and protest against immunity of top Japanese prosecutor
Read more: Kurokawa Cup: prank and protest against immunity of top Japanese prosecutorKurokawa Cup is a protest against former head Tokyo prosecutor Hiromu Kurokawa’s de facto immunity after he had played mahjong for money, which is an illegal act in Japan. After a weekly magazine reported that Kurokawa played mahjong for money…
-
Video Art on China’s Demolished Urban Scenery
Read more: Video Art on China’s Demolished Urban SceneryRumba II: Nomad (3’24” excerpt) 2015 / video / 14mins 16secs Sound by Dickson Dee Commissioned by GUCCI The urban fringe of Beijing is the loosen bricks from fragmented land. A result of urban development. The dynamic and complex urban…
-
HOODsisters
Read more: HOODsisters(Honoring our Origins, Ourselves and our Dreams) is an all-womyn and womyn-identified crew from the northeast San Fernando Valley dedicated to creating awareness through public art. External sources: https://www.hoodsisters.org
-
Philadelphia Eagles’ Malcolm Jenkins Silently Responds to Press Questions by Holding Up Signs on Criminal Justice System
Read more: Philadelphia Eagles’ Malcolm Jenkins Silently Responds to Press Questions by Holding Up Signs on Criminal Justice SystemPhiladelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins had a rather unique approach to his media session on Wednesday when he chose not to answer any questions, but instead held signs in front of reporters with messages of “you’re not listening” and numerous…
-
Santa Claus Army
Read more: Santa Claus ArmyIn the early 1970s, Denmark was hit by the energy crisis sweeping the globe. A rise in the price of oil led by the nations of OPEC (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) led to a global economic slow-down, especially in…