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Menstruation Terrorism

Menstruation Terrorism is the act of frightening folks with the visibility of menstruation. STAKES: This action matters because menstruation taboo exists simply so that our periods are undetectable. Systems such as educational institutions, work spaces/culture and sports/play have been designed…

Under the same sky

Practitioner:
Tahir Ün

“Under the Same Sky” bearing the name and the first part of my project completed. I collected the letters written to 40 Armenian young people from 40 random Turkish young people. The mutual translations of all letters and video subtitles…

Green Corners

Practitioner:
Negar Farajiani

The project focuses on creating green spaces as effective elements which ameliorate air quality absorbing chemicals from the atmosphere. In order to develop an alternative pedagogical approach into Tehran’s public schools, the initiator, in close collaboration with the botanist Shahrouz…

Guernica

Practitioner:
Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso painted Guernica in just five weeks in the spring of 1937. Then living in Paris, Picasso, fifty-five, was already well-known. Born in Spain in 1881, he went to Paris in 1900; he had visited Spain in 1934 but…

The Great Migration Series

Practitioner:
Jacob Lawrence

National Public Radio (NPR): There’s no historical marker outside Jacob Lawrence’s childhood home in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood. But Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has an idea of what it might…

Weekly protest at the slaughterhouse

Practitioner:
Toronto Pig Save

By Catherine Porter I spent an hour Wednesday morning talking pigs and Leo Tolstoy on a traffic island outside the Princes’ Gates. Anita Krajnc and her group call this “Pig Island.” They come here most weeks to watch and photograph…

Necessity of “Moral and National Education” as curriculum

Practitioner:
Parents’ Concern Group, Scholarism

Moral and national education (MNE) s a school curriculum proposed by the Education Bureau of Hong Kong, transformed from the current moral and civic education (MCE). This curriculum evoked huge controversy in Hong Kong society for its “biased content” about…

“Gold Rice” Thrown into the Huangpu River

Practitioner:
Yexin Yang

By throwing away 1,000 pure gold rice grains into a river, a Chinese artist, who wanted to raise public awareness about food waste, found his behavior was not well received by the general public who called the performance “fake art…

The Real Estate Show Was Then: 1980

Practitioner:
James Fuentes

James Fuentes 55 Delancey Street Lower East Side Through April 27 This messy scrapbook of an exhibition reprises “The Real Estate Show,” a semifamous exhibition that opened on New Year’s Eve 1979 in a vacant, city-owned building on Delancey Street.…

Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army

Practitioner:
CIRCA

To some, the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA) might appear to be but a ragged bunch of activists sporting false noses, a smudge of grease paint, camouflage pants and bad wigs. And those people may be right. But it…

HeadSpace Magazine

Practitioner:
HeadSpace

Express and Create, Solidarity and Support” is a slogan that summarises the aims of HeadSpace, a new, non-profit, artistic magazine that accepts submissions on the theme of mental health. It is entirely run by volunteers and mostly distributed for free…

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…