Projects tagged
Activates (people)
Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
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What Kind of Man are You?
Read more: What Kind of Man are You?The series “No Violence Against Women” depicts famous cartoon couples transformed into victims of abuse. The women are left bloodied and with black eyes with the slogan “What Kind of Man are You?” above. The images are a commentary on…
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Femme art witch blends activism into work to embrace Punjabi heritage
Read more: Femme art witch blends activism into work to embrace Punjabi heritageKhushboo Kataria Gulati lights an off-white candle and passes the flame to a switch of sage, casting a spell around the purple-lit room as she places paintbrush to canvas. The herbaceous smoke billows around her, time suspends and her paint…
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Wind Trees in Paris
Read more: Wind Trees in ParisTraditional wind turbines may require vertical shafts higher than 40m and spinning blades over 50m long in order to capture wind energy efficiently. While these devices are some of the best at capturing clean energy, their height and shape put…
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The Eye that Cries
Read more: The Eye that CriesThe Eye that Cries (El Ojo que Llora, in Spanish) is a memorial that was born as a private initiative designed to honor the thousands of victims as a result of terrorism in Peru, to strengthen the collective memory of…
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Ex Libris
Read more: Ex LibrisRecurrent themes in Emily Jacir’s practice—which spans a range of strategies including film, photography, interventions, archiving, performance, video, writing, and sound—are silenced historical narratives, resistance, movement, and exchange. Filmed in the days following the catastrophic loss of Iraq’s National Library…
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Visions from the Inside
Read more: Visions from the InsideVisions from the Inside is a project enlisting 15 artists from across the country to create a piece of art based off letters from women in detention. The initiative, a collaboration between CultureStrike, Mariposas Sin Fronteras and End Family Detention,…
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Gota D’Agua
Read more: Gota D’AguaA site-specific art intervention intended as a call to action in response to Brazil’s water crisis. Strategically planned to coincide with UN World Water Day, Gota D’Agua gathered onlookers around an abandoned Olympic size swimming pool at the foot of…
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Mayday Space
Read more: Mayday SpaceMayday is a neighborhood resource and a citywide destination for engaging programming, a home for radical thought and debate, and a welcoming gathering place for people to work, learn, drink, dance and build together. As an organizing center as well…
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When Verbal Abuse Becomes Real Weapon…
Read more: When Verbal Abuse Becomes Real Weapon…Institute of psychology in Shenyang, a major city of China, recently reveals 6 most frequently used utterances in verbal abuse of children among local parents: “Garbage”, “You know nothing but eating”, “Pig head”, “Shame on you”, “Why don’t you die”,…
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Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls
Read more: Willie Mae Rock Camp for GirlsWillie Mae Rock Camp for Girls is a non-profit music and mentoring program that empowers girls and women through music education, volunteerism, and activities that foster self-respect, leadership skills, creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration. The organization brings together girls and…
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Mercury Poisoning by Unilever in Kodaikanal
Read more: Mercury Poisoning by Unilever in KodaikanalGlobal corporation Unilever dumped toxic and contaminated waste behind its thermometer factory located in Kodaikanal, a city in the South Indian state Tamil Nadu. In 2001, once word spread about this breach in environmental precautions, Unilever closed its factory. However,…
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As the statue falls, she rises in protest
Read more: As the statue falls, she rises in protestI was born in the 90s, but I’m not a Born Free; it was before South Africa became a democracy. Many believe that my generation doesn’t have anything to protest against. Given that police threw stun grenades at a student…