Projects tagged
Activates (people)
Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
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Why Cakes Can Be a Powerful Form of Protest
Read more: Why Cakes Can Be a Powerful Form of ProtestLONG BEFORE WOMEN finally — though incompletely — won the right to vote in the United States in 1920, they were finding ways to influence politics. In late 18th-century New England, colonial women would make muster cakes — spiced, doorstop-heavy…
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The Origins of Totalitarianism: A Reading by Donald Trump
Read more: The Origins of Totalitarianism: A Reading by Donald TrumpThe Origins of Totalitarianism:Donald Trump reads Hannah Arendt AI video and sound. 2024, 24:30mins YouTube link: https://youtu.be/RzWi51prZlA?si=hTUP4F-_nOSijbba I’ve just released a new project. The work is a shallow fake video of Donald Trump reading from Hannah Arendt’s seminal book The Origins…
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Puppetry is the sum of the collective human imaginary
Read more: Puppetry is the sum of the collective human imaginaryThe veteran Malian master puppeteer Yaya Coulibali, born in 1959 in the village of Koula, around 100 kilometres north-east of Bamako, has more than half a century of experience in puppetry and has toured the world to perform his art.…
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Odes to Putin were Russian translations of Nazi verse
Read more: Odes to Putin were Russian translations of Nazi versePranksters reveal odes to Putin were Russian translations of Nazi verse Patriotic poems published under invented name of Gennady Rakitin were embraced as examples of ‘Z poetry’ The patriotic poetry of Gennady Rakitin has won him quite a following in…
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Black Trans Archive Video Game
Read more: Black Trans Archive Video Game“Built from the ground up by Black trans coders and developers, The Black Trans Archive takes the form of a video game, allowing visitors to interact with its content in real-time, making their own contributions in the process. It’s also…
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Fem Queen: The Evolution, The Revolution, The Celebration!
Read more: Fem Queen: The Evolution, The Revolution, The Celebration!For the completion of her residency as the NYU Steinhardt 2023-24 Scholar-in-Residence, Dominique Jackson collaborated with NYU students to honor the fem queen (trans women) and their historical meaning to not only ballroom but popular culture at large. The event…
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Lynn Neuman: Showing How Quickly Plastic Amasses
Read more: Lynn Neuman: Showing How Quickly Plastic AmassesLynn Neuman, director of New York City–based Artichoke Dance, became preoccupied with single-use disposability after she started wondering about waste and who was responsible for it. For some of her performances, she has collected massive quantities of discarded plastics, like…
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Jingle dress dancers honour George Floyd at site where he was killed
Read more: Jingle dress dancers honour George Floyd at site where he was killedIndigenous people in Minneapolis supporting Black Lives Matter cite similar struggles Jingle dress dancers held a ceremony at the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis on Monday, the place where George Floyd was killed by police last…
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K-Pop Fans Flood Dallas PD’s App to Help Protect BLM Protesters
Read more: K-Pop Fans Flood Dallas PD’s App to Help Protect BLM ProtestersEarly Sunday morning, the Dallas Police Department’s Twitter account tweeted for followers to download its iWatch Dallas app and share videos “of illegal activity from the protests.” The police are looking to arrest lawbreakers at weekend demonstrations decrying police violence…
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The Dance Union
Read more: The Dance UnionThrough their podcast, The Dance Union, Melanie Greene and J. Bouey have been confronting racism in the dance world, and highlighting the experiences of Black artists, since 2018. Their episodes cover a variety of topics and issues, ranging from mental…
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Dance for George
Read more: Dance for GeorgeWhen dancer Sheen Jamaal saw a video of protestors doing the Cupid Shuffle in New Jersey, inspiration struck to do something similar in New York. He immediately called his friend and collaborator Allison “Buttons” Bedell, and the seed for the…
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Brown Ballerinas for Change
Read more: Brown Ballerinas for ChangeDuring the Black Lives Matter protests in Richmond, VA, the two fourteen-year-olds posed in a powerful photo in front of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s statue. Ava had originally arranged an appointment with photographer Marcus Ingram, but as she and…