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SIMA RAMA | BURDEN OF PEACE
Read more: SIMA RAMA | BURDEN OF PEACEOne film to change the world. Curated every month. BURDEN OF PEACE follows Guatemala’s first female Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz in her fight against impunity. Throughout April 2018 a global audience came together to watch BURDEN OF PEACE,…
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Borrando la Frontera (Erasing the Border)
Read more: Borrando la Frontera (Erasing the Border)In Borrando la Frontera (Erasing the Border)”, Ana Teresa confronted the fence between the United States and Mexico by putting on her black dress and heels and painting the fence sky blue. On first viewing, the performance makes a simple…
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What I Couldn’t Say In Public
Read more: What I Couldn’t Say In Public“What I Couldn’t Say in Public” transforms individual secrets into a public, anonymous spectacle. While origins and exact location of the “What I Couldn’t Say in Public” project are unknown, awareness about the project has grown over the micro-blogging platform…
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FreeAJStaff
Read more: FreeAJStaffAll over the world, journalists and rights groups are protesting the detainment and muzzling of four Al Jazeera staff members in Egypt. Mohamed Fahmy, Baher Mohamed and correspondent Peter Greste, were detained December 29. The trio, who are accused of…
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Climate Activists Deface Constitutional Monument in Germany with Black Paint, Posters
Read more: Climate Activists Deface Constitutional Monument in Germany with Black Paint, PostersClimate activists defaced a work of art near Germany’s Parliament Saturday in the latest act of vandalism by protestors concerned with environmental policy. Members of The Last Generation threw black liquid over a series of glass plates displaying 19 articles…
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“Playboy’s” Top 10 Party Commandments
Read more: “Playboy’s” Top 10 Party CommandmentsForce: Upsetting Rape Culture is a group of creative activists who seek to raise awareness about rape culture and promote consensual sex. They “create art actions to generate attention and get millions of people talking,” in hopes that sex can…
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Parliament in Exile
Read more: Parliament in ExileDecolonizing Architecture/Art Residency (DAAR) is an art and architecture collective set up by Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal and Eyal Weizman, based in Palestine. Their work is a critical examination of the role played by architecture in the occupation of the…
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Support Breasts, Not Dictators
Read more: Support Breasts, Not DictatorsBarbed-wire bra protest over Burma investment BBC News Monday, 10 December, 2001 Triumph International, a leading European luxury lingerie firm, is facing a fierce boycott campaign because of its operations in Burma. Under the slogan “Support Breasts – not Dictators”,…
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China Folk House in West Virginia
Read more: China Folk House in West VirginiaThe China Folk House project grew out of the Sidwell Friends School China Fieldwork Semester, a program which had ran for five years (2014 – 2018) that took students to Yunnan Province, China, for an integrated semester of experiential learning…
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Women are Heroes Project
Read more: Women are Heroes ProjectIn Women Are Heroes, JR introduces women who sometimes look death in the face, who go from laughter to tears, who are generous, have nothing and yet share, who have had a painful past and long to build a happy…
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SuperBarrio runs for PRESIDENT!
Read more: SuperBarrio runs for PRESIDENT!“Superbarrio Gomez and his journey in the construction of a “politics of the possible” (1) , an alternative political imaginary constituted via popular culture and the construction of a national and transnational social movement. Superbarrio makes evident the collapse between…
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Dismaland
Read more: DismalandDismaland was an experimental and interactive art installation that mimicked and mocked similar attractions and characters of the Disney franchise. He later referred to it as a ‘bemusement park.’ Although the bemusement park seemed to disappear as suddenly as it…