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General Idea and the AIDS crises
Read more: General Idea and the AIDS crisesThe Canadian artist collective General Idea found its drive in the AIDS epidemic, becoming aesthetically and conceptually refined in the in the 1970s and ’80s, after long forays into absurdity and performances evocative of Dada and Fluxus. A retrospective presented…
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Latin Party at Racist Aaron Schlossberg’s UWS Apartment
Read more: Latin Party at Racist Aaron Schlossberg’s UWS ApartmentAction as a response to viral video of Attorney Aaron Schlossberg’s racist rant against Spanish speaking customers and employees at a midtown restaurant. The “Latin Party” included food, music, and dance celebrating Latina/o culture in the US. From FB event…
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Join The Pack
Read more: Join The PackGrey wolves have had a tumultuous relationship with their human neighbors in the Pacific Northwest for more than a hundred years. From nearly being wiped out from the continent, Canadian grey wolves started being reintroduced to the wilderness in the…
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Jameela Jamil says she’s ‘not here to be liked’: ‘I am not a trend, I am a human being’
Read more: Jameela Jamil says she’s ‘not here to be liked’: ‘I am not a trend, I am a human being’Jameela Jamil has opened up about how she’s “not here to be liked” in a frank new interview with Meghan Markle. In the latest episode of Archetypes, Meghan’s Spotify podcast, the Duchess speaks with both Jamil and Shohreh Aghdashloo about…
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The French Like Protesting, but This Frenchman May Like It the Most
Read more: The French Like Protesting, but This Frenchman May Like It the MostA human tide swept through Paris last month for the type of event France knows only too well — a protest. Union leaders led the march, awash in a multicolored sea of flags. Demonstrators shouted fiery slogans. Clashes with the…
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The Trials of Spring
Read more: The Trials of SpringThe Trials of Spring is a major documentary event that chronicles the stories of nine women who played central roles in the Arab Spring uprisings and their aftermaths in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen. It includes a feature-length…
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Student Desks Fill LA City Street in Dropout-rate Protest
Read more: Student Desks Fill LA City Street in Dropout-rate ProtestSchool desks placed by parents, district graduates and activists block a street in front of the Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters in a demonstration against student dropout rates Tuesday, April 8, 2014, in downtown Los Angeles. Protest organizers say…
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cheLA
Read more: cheLAMost cheLA activities are organized around a series of workshops, which may act in combination, are designed as areas of aesthetic, technological and theoretical concentration, and structured to promote their development. Its core activities are research and experimentation residences. As…
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FOKAL
Read more: FOKALARTS/CULTURE FOKAL is the hub in Haiti where locals and international visitors from all walks of life — artists, writers, citizens, activists– come together to discuss the most pressing nation- and community-building issues, enjoy cutting edge artistic expressions, and share…
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Red Square Performance “Fixation”
Read more: Red Square Performance “Fixation”Petr Pavlensky, a Russian performance artist, sent a nail through his scrotum to the cobblestones of Red Square in Moscow (on a holiday in celebration of law enforcement). He was later charged with hooliganism. Pavlensky, as quoted in the Guardian:…
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This Ain’t a Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering
Read more: This Ain’t a Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering“This Ain’t a Eulogy” is both a staged performance and a durational, outdoor, public performance that reclaims and takes public space. The artist statement is as follows: “Moved by the non-indictments of the police officers responsible for the deaths of…
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Migratón México
Read more: Migratón MéxicoMigratón México es un proyecto satírico que se creó colaborativamente en 2017 a partir de un Laboratorio de Artivismo y Humor que organizó el Hemi en San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México, con un un grupo de más de…