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Ghetto Film School
Read more: Ghetto Film SchoolThe mission of The Ghetto Film School is to educate, develop and celebrate the next generation of great American storytellers. External sources: http://www.ghettofilm.org/
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The Value Menu
Read more: The Value MenuThis is continued exploration of some work I recently had published for a culture jam project in response to the documentary “The Corporation”. There are a lot of layers working here. There are thoughts about food deserts, how multinational corporations…
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Faced with Brooklyn Museum Inaction, Protesters Target Two Exhibitions
Read more: Faced with Brooklyn Museum Inaction, Protesters Target Two ExhibitionsClose to 100 artists and activists staged a protest at the Brooklyn Museum yesterday afternoon in response to displacement — both in Brooklyn and Palestine. Organized by the Decolonial Cultural Front and Movement to Protect the People, the catalysts for…
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Vaginal Knitting
Read more: Vaginal Knitting“Vaginal Knitting” Is the New Thing in Activist Performance Art by Adam Weinstein Casey Jenkins identifies herself as a former “craftivist”—a term she defines as “using traditional craft techniques for a political or social activism purpose.” She and her colleagues…
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7000 Oak Trees
Read more: 7000 Oak TreesIn 1982, for documenta 7, Beuys proposed a plan to plant 7000 oaks throughout the city of Kassel, each paired with a basalt stone. The 7000 stones were piled up on the lawn in front of the Museum Fridericianum with…
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Queering Utopia: Circus Amok at the Scholar & Feminist Conference on Utopia
Read more: Queering Utopia: Circus Amok at the Scholar & Feminist Conference on Utopia“Stay cool, stay calm, you have the right to remain silent. / Don’t run, don’t resist, and get that badge number.” So goes the catchy and campy tune performed by Circus Amok! that teaches people what to do when they…
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Es-Cultura Lesbiana
Read more: Es-Cultura LesbianaAs a result of the social stigma of homosexuality, lesbian feminists were rejected and silenced as a radical minority within the mainstream Movimiento Feminista (MF). Lesbianas Sin Duda (LSD) is a queer activist group based in Madrid that arose in…
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DISAPPEARED IN AMERICA
Read more: DISAPPEARED IN AMERICADISAPPEARED IN AMERICA is an ongoing project by Visible Collective/Naeem Mohaiemen that uses films, installations, and lectures to trace migration impulses, hyphenated identities, and the post-9/11 security panic. Excerpts of the project have been shown at various venues, including the…
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Invocation of the Queer Spirits
Read more: Invocation of the Queer SpiritsFrom 2008 to 2010 Bronson and Hobbs performed Invocations of the Queer Spirits, bringing together small groups of men—in Banff, New Orleans, Winnipeg, Manhattan, and Fire Island—in a secret group ritual that was different every time and yet always the…
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Kids Helping Kids
Read more: Kids Helping KidsKids Helping Kids is a youth hip-hop program run by two NGOs, Hip Hip Saves Lives and Negusworld. Together, these organizations work with middle school and high school students to make conscious hip hop influenced by activist work happening worldwide.…
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Twelve Square Meter
Read more: Twelve Square MeterZhang Huan is a very talented performance artist in China. In the famous work “Twelve Square Meters”, he was covered with fish oil and honey sitting in a dirty public toilet in Beijing’s East Village for an hour, not only…
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Patterns as Priorities: Aerial Supermax Prison Photos Echo Shapes of Suburbia
Read more: Patterns as Priorities: Aerial Supermax Prison Photos Echo Shapes of Suburbiaby Pete Brook High above the Arizona desert in 2010, after a day of photographing housing developments, Christoph Gielen looked down from the helicopter upon Arizona State Prison Complex-Florence. The hexagonal arrangement of the prison site, to him, replicated the…