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Maboneng Township Arts Experience

At the age of just 30, Palesa Ngwenya is helping transform these areas through her position as development coordinator of Maboneng Township Arts Experience. “We turn homes in the townships into art galleries,” says the young South African woman, who…

HarassMap

Practitioner:
HarassMap

Acknowledging that sexual harassment is a serious problem in Egypt, the volunteer based organization HarassMap has created a series of strategies -both on site and online- to stamp out the social acceptability of sexual harassment in the country. The aim…

Jingle dress dancers honour George Floyd at site where he was killed

Practitioner:
Indigenous jingle dress dancers

Indigenous people in Minneapolis supporting Black Lives Matter cite similar struggles Jingle dress dancers held a ceremony at the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis on Monday, the place where George Floyd was killed by police last…

Dark Side of the Prism

Practitioner:
Justin Blinder

“Dark Side of the Prism” is a Firefox Add-on that provides a soundtrack for our surveilled internet meanderings. The public recently learned that the US National Security Agency’s on-going internet surveillance program, Prism, collects data from users of major websites.…

Autonomous Zones

Practitioner:
Student Plenum

After winning the parliamentary elections of 2014 Gruevski was accused by the opposition of rigging the elections, which led the latter to boycott the sessions of the legislative. Mass protests followed with the government – though nominally pro-EU and pro-NATO…

Multibasket – No One Wins

Practitioner:
Jasmina Llobet & Luis Pons

On the small island of Teshima in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea, Multibasket – No One Wins invites visitors to reconsider competition, collaboration, and the intersection of art and play. Created by conceptual artists Jasmina Llobet & Luis Pons for the…

MADE HERE Project: Documentary Series

Practitioner:
) Chiara Clemente (Director, ) Karina Mangu-Ward (Producer), Tanya Selvaratnam (Producer

MADE HERE is a documentary series and website focusing on performing artists based in New York City. A collage of intimate interviews, performances and behind-the-scenes footage, MADE HERE mirrors the rich diversity of the artists and communities they serve. It…

Pop Art Politics

Practitioner:
Keith Haring

It’s this symbolism and the characters that repeatedly appear in Haring’s work that provide the backbone of an exhibition opening March 16, 2018 at the Albertina Museum in Vienna. On view through June 24, 2018, “Keith Haring. The Alphabet,” comprises…

Fragility and Endurance: Yann Marussich’s ‘BAIN BRISÉ’ and the Art of Vulnerability

Practitioner:
Yann Marussich

Yann Marussich is a Swiss performance artist who does avant-garde and shocking work, going further into the relationships of the human body with the environment. His work explores such themes as endurance, vulnerability, and the intersection of physicality with philosophy.…

Joe Chemo

Practitioner:
Scott Plous via Adbusters

From https://www.joechemo.org/about.htm Although Joe Chemo may seem like a joke, there’s nothing funny about chemotherapy. This web site is dedicated to chemo patients and their family members, with the hope that it will reduce the number of people who smoke…

Massive psychic attack: render the Pope impotent

Practitioner:
Enmedio

On November 7, 2010 Pope Benedict XVI visited our city. He would have been better off staying at home. Even before he touched land we had rendered him impotent for life. Yes: im-po-tent. A group of infidels who had met…

Environmental group to carve Donald Trump’s face into the side of Arctic iceberg

Practitioner:
Melting Ice

The stunt aims to show the impact of climate change by live streaming the sculpture melting. A climate change group is raising half a million dollars with the goal of carving President Donald Trump’s face into an arctic iceberg. The…