Projects tagged
Amplifies (issue or campaign)
Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign. Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.
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Rap Challenge to the Thai Military Junta
Read more: Rap Challenge to the Thai Military JuntaBANGKOK — The rhymes came to Nutthapong Srimuong before dawn, when Bangkok is as still as it can be and the night jasmine overpowers the Thai capital with its perfume. The country whose capital is turned into a killing field…
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Prescription Blizzard
Read more: Prescription BlizzardThe scraps of paper swirled through the Guggenheim Museum in New York on Saturday night like confetti, thrown from an upper walkway into the central rotunda before floating to the ground. Designed to look like prescription slips for OxyContin, the…
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Comic: Vaccines Work. Here Are the Facts.
Read more: Comic: Vaccines Work. Here Are the Facts.“Vaccines Work. Here Are the Facts.” is a short web comic by Maki Naro explaining “The risks, the misinformation, and the science behind history’s greatest life saver.” Fighting disinformation about vaccines is difficult. Hundreds of sites with bogus information have…
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Aeromexico campaign proposes “DNA Discounts”
Read more: Aeromexico campaign proposes “DNA Discounts”AeroMexico unveiled a program called “DNA Discounts,” which offers discounts on flights to Americans who can show by taking a test that they have Mexican DNA. The amount of the discount depends on the percentage of Mexican ancestry. For example,…
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Do You Want Us Here or Not
Read more: Do You Want Us Here or NotA series of benches that respond to the inaccessibility of exhibition spaces. They are designed to both voice protest and offer rest. External sources:
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Birthday Party For A Pothole
Read more: Birthday Party For A PotholeA group of young adults under the name of “Love Tijuana” (Amemos Tijuana) celebrated the one year “Birthday” of a pothole located at the Via Rapida (Tijuana’s Freeway) with balloons, banners, and even hats. The giant pothole that was covered…
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Fenced-In Nativity Scene
Read more: Fenced-In Nativity SceneThe nativity scene at Fellowship Congregational Church in Tulsa, Okla., looks a little different this year: There is a chain-link fence surrounding Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus. The display has been up since the beginning of December, but it…
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What to do with a statue of Christopher Columbus?
Read more: What to do with a statue of Christopher Columbus?“Discovering Columbus,” by the Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi. Nishi built a living room around the sculpture in Columbus Circle in New York City. The living room is mounted on scaffolding and turns the sculpture into a domestic center-piece. “Since 1997,…
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Monopoly Man
Read more: Monopoly ManOn Tuesday morning, when Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified before the House Judiciary Committee about his company’s data collection practices, there was a familiar mustachioed face in the crowd. To most people, this person — also wearing a monocle and…
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Theatre. Immersion. Education. [T.I.E.]
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Read more: Theatre. Immersion. Education. [T.I.E.]T.I.E. is a residential, 24-hour, intensive experience during which participants will be: introduced to aesthetics of Immersive Theatre, guided through a practical exploration of these strategies, and mentored in the creation of an immersive, theatrical experience about a social justice…
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How do you get to Flushing Creek?
Read more: How do you get to Flushing Creek?Flushing Creek is so hidden by industrial sites and highways, it’s almost invisible to those passing through the Flushing neighborhood of Queens. “I lived in Flushing my whole life and didn’t know that I lived near waterways until I was…
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A Presidential Parody
Read more: A Presidential ParodyNEW YORK, Ny., Nov 19, 2018 – Two artists, Actress/Creator/Native New Yorker Maia Lorian and collaborator veteran NYC Street Artist Abe Lincoln Jr. bring to you “A Presidential Parody.” In a nation that seems to place higher value on the…