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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Mada Underground
Read more: Mada UndergroundAs local rapper Naty says, a group of young people are intent on making their mark in Madagascar’s cultural history. From gifted slam poet Caylah to inventive visual artist Temandrota and a crew of entrepreneurial skateboarders, a generation of young…
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A Legal Guide Helps Artists Make and Protect Protest Art
Read more: A Legal Guide Helps Artists Make and Protect Protest ArtHarvard University’s Cyberlaw Clinic and metaLAB have created a free guide for making protest art while navigating intellectual property law. “Because political art speaks directly to issues that people care deeply about (in that instance, having an African-American First Family),…
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How Feminists in China Are Using Emoji to Avoid Censorship
Read more: How Feminists in China Are Using Emoji to Avoid CensorshipShortly after the close of this year’s International Women’s Day, China’s Twitter-like service Sina Weibo shut down Feminist Voices. With 180,000 followers, the group’s social media account was one of the most important advocacy channels for spreading information about women’s…
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SIMA RAMA | BURDEN OF PEACE
Read more: SIMA RAMA | BURDEN OF PEACEOne film to change the world. Curated every month. BURDEN OF PEACE follows Guatemala’s first female Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz in her fight against impunity. Throughout April 2018 a global audience came together to watch BURDEN OF PEACE,…
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“1984” in Bangkok Streets
Read more: “1984” in Bangkok StreetsThere are no whistles, no loud speakers, and no placards held up high in this quiet act of subversion. Pimsiri Petchnamrob stands silently in a mass of sharply dressed Bangkok commuters, her hands clutched around a copy of George Orwell’s…
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A Haunting Artistic Tribute to Garment Workers Killed in Bangladesh and the US
Read more: A Haunting Artistic Tribute to Garment Workers Killed in Bangladesh and the USNORTHFIELD, Minn. — Exactly 1,281 white garments hang from the ceiling of the Perlman Teaching Museum’s Braucher Gallery. The collared shirts, knit sweaters, tights, and other items of clothing glow with an eerie luminosity. The 1,281 garments represent the number…
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Dana Ellyn, Vegan Painter
Read more: Dana Ellyn, Vegan PainterAnother incredible artist determined to change the world for animals is Dana Ellyn. This DC-based artist started being a full-time painter in 2002 after leaving a corporate job. Her paintings do not shy away from showing the exploitation of animals,…
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Chinese Feminist Occupy the Men’s Toilets
Read more: Chinese Feminist Occupy the Men’s ToiletsWomen around the world fed up with long lines for the ladies’ restroom have a new folk hero: a Beijing college student leading her own version of an “occupy” movement in southern China. The target of the protest is an…
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Soviet Disco
Read more: Soviet DiscoThe origin of the Soviet disco tradition, one that lasts to this day in the DJ-laden nightlife of Moscow and St. Petersburg, lay in the Stalinist era. Western culture – modernism, cubism, rock and roll, all that good stuff –…
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Activists protest on MRT to show solidarity for ISA detainees
Read more: Activists protest on MRT to show solidarity for ISA detaineesA group of activists took to the trains to protest the horrendous treatment that the Singapore government meted out upon 22 individuals who were detained 30 years ago under an operation that was entitled,”Operation Spectrum” with the use of the…
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[Human Compliance Experiment] ‘The Push’: Netflix Special That Tests Human Compliance Is a Life-or-Death ‘Nathan for You’
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Read more: [Human Compliance Experiment] ‘The Push’: Netflix Special That Tests Human Compliance Is a Life-or-Death ‘Nathan for You’https://www.netflix.com/title/80220000 https://www.indiewire.com/2018/02/the-push-netflix-review-ending-derren-b… Article from IndieWire by Steve Greene The hour-long experiment from magician and UK TV mainstay Derren Brown asks a dangerous question with an unexpected twist. [Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for the Netflix special “Derren Brown: The…
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Pop-Up Studio: Kids’ Campaign to Correct History
Read more: Pop-Up Studio: Kids’ Campaign to Correct HistoryJoin other families in reimagining sports team mascots and logos that misrepresent Native American communities. Design a campaign for alternative names with the help of artists Sam Durant and Elisa Harkins, taking inspiration from the exhibition Jimmie Durham: At the…