Projects tagged
Activates (people)
Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
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Say No to “Yellow Fever”
Read more: Say No to “Yellow Fever”New York artist Donna Choi wanted to create a “weird, memorable way” to discuss fetishization of Asian women, so she put together a satirical series about how to diagnose Yellow Fever—the specific obsession many Western men have with Asian culture.…
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1-800-273-8255
Read more: 1-800-273-8255Rapper Logic’s song “1-800-273-8255” may have helped prevent a significant number of suicides around the time of its release, according to a study published Monday. The song’s title is the phone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. The study,…
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The Fearless Collective
Read more: The Fearless CollectiveIn 2012, visual artist Shilo Shiv Suleman started Fearless in response to the powerful protests that shook the country in response to the “Nirbhaya” tragedy in Delhi, India. The work of Fearless Collective is to turn up at moments of…
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Israeli artists draw a red line to High Court in protest of judicial reform
Read more: Israeli artists draw a red line to High Court in protest of judicial reformThe “Day of Disruption” kicked off earlier than planned early on Thursday morning when dozens of Israeli artists painted a red line on the road to Israel’s High Court of Justice in Jerusalem. Launching another day of marches, demonstrations, and…
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The radical power of sewing: the artist turning textiles into activism
Read more: The radical power of sewing: the artist turning textiles into activismSewing and textiles have always been a part of the artist Aram Han Sifuentes’ life. Her South Korean immigrant parents operated a dry cleaning business, and she mended her own clothing from a young age. But it wasn’t until she…
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Nan Goldin’s “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” Showcases the Artist’s Defiant Activism
Read more: Nan Goldin’s “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” Showcases the Artist’s Defiant ActivismLaura Poitras’s Academy Award–nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) about photographer Nan Goldin is a powerful and thoughtfully constructed film. Focusing on Goldin’s work with the activist group Prescription Addiction Intervention Now (PAIN), it allows viewers to…
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Buffalo 5/14 Survivors Fund
Read more: Buffalo 5/14 Survivors FundOn May 14, 2022, the Buffalo community suffered a devastating act of violence when a gunman opened fire at the Tops Friendly Market on Jefferson Avenue, killing ten people and wounding three. Many have asked how to help. In partnership…
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Why protesters disrupted London Fashion Week
Read more: Why protesters disrupted London Fashion WeekProtesters from Extinction Rebellion disrupted London Fashion Week last weekend (15 February). The group called on the industry to change its approach to protecting the planet: “We are asking not for sustainability but a complete reinvention of this industry in…
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NDSM Manifestation
Read more: NDSM ManifestationFor this edition of ADE, Stichting NDSM-werf invited art- and activist group Tools for Action + Floor to use their terrain as a public practice space for RÆV REHEARSAL. They invite the public to rehearse new forms of assembly. With…
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Long Live Freedom
Read more: Long Live FreedomDecades of institutional corruption, elitist exploitation, and social abuses have been sewn into the political fabric of Iran’s dictatorial Islamic republic and have moulded Kermanshah-born fine art painter Nicky Nodoumi’s satirical motifs. His sleight-of-hand and incisive visual commentaries often vilified…
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‘Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues’ Review: In His Own Words
Read more: ‘Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues’ Review: In His Own WordsIn Louis Armstrong’s study in the Queens home he shared with his fourth wife, Lucille, bookshelves were filled with reel-to-reel recordings he made as a sort of audio diary. Those tapes and his letters — read by the rapper Nas…
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Food Inc.
Read more: Food Inc.Food Inc. By Peter Travers EATING CAN BE one dangerous business. Don’t take another bite till you see Robert Kenner’s Food, Inc., an essential, indelible documentary that is scarier than anything in the last five Saw horror shows. Decepticons have…