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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‘On The Borderline’ – An Exhibition of Artwork created by individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Read more: ‘On The Borderline’ – An Exhibition of Artwork created by individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)An Exhibition by talented Artists, giving an insight into their experience of life with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Many people find BPD difficult to understand. This exhibition endeavours to being to change this by creatively sharing firsthand experiences of the…
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Shaming criminals in Argentina : “los escraches”
Read more: Shaming criminals in Argentina : “los escraches”Faced with a lack of prosecution of those accused of crimes against humanity committed during Argentina’s military dictatorship, family members and descendants of the country’s estimated 30,000 disappeared took action. In the mid-1990s, they began gathering outside of accused perpetrators’…
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Santiago Sierra will soak British flag in blood of colonised peoples
Read more: Santiago Sierra will soak British flag in blood of colonised peoplesThe Spanish artist Santiago Sierra is planning to immerse a British flag in blood donated by indigenous peoples from countries colonised by the British Empire. The resulting artwork, titled Union Flag, is intended to be an “acknowledgement of the pain…
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Healing Verse Poetry Hotline
Read more: Healing Verse Poetry HotlinePhiladelphia poet laureate Trapeta B. Mayson launched the Healing Verse Philly Poetry Line (1-855-763-6792), a toll-free telephone line that offers callers a 90-second poem by a Philadelphia-connected poet. A new poem will be featured each Monday throughout 2021. In the…
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WILD: Act I – Ballet + Criminal Justice Reform
Read more: WILD: Act I – Ballet + Criminal Justice Reform“WILD: Act I” is a film demonstrating the power of creativity in constraint. Using moving choreography performed by Elijah Lancaster and vivid imagery displayed on three walls in a mock cell, Jeremy McQueen gives voice to young Black and Brown…
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After a Military Coup, Artists Across Myanmar Are Making Protest Art to Share Their Struggle for Democracy With the World—See Images Here
Read more: After a Military Coup, Artists Across Myanmar Are Making Protest Art to Share Their Struggle for Democracy With the World—See Images Here“Myanmar has been engulfed in protest since February 1, when Burmese army general Min Aung Hlaing seized control of the government in a military coup, refusing to accept to the landslide election victory of the National League for Democracy and…
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Melting Panthers
Read more: Melting PanthersAmerican artist Bob Partington created a wax sculpture of a Florida panther and her cub to display at a nonprofit zoo in Tampa, Florida this September. When it debuted, the sculpture looked like nothing special. But as the wax began…
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“Waste” Sculpture
Read more: “Waste” SculptureIn 2016, Zhou Zhenfeng, who was a student at a college in Hebei at the time, discovered that there were a lot of waste tires in the streets and alleys. Zhou Zhenfeng learned that tires are made of infusible or…
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The Swiss Public Welfare Outdoor Interactive Facility for Domestic Violence “Shut Him Down”
Read more: The Swiss Public Welfare Outdoor Interactive Facility for Domestic Violence “Shut Him Down”Neighbors in modern cities have less and less communication, and they all go about their business as soon as they close the door. In Switzerland, a woman dies every week as a result of domestic violence, so in an effort…
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THE SAHMAT COLLECTIVE: ART AND ACTIVISM IN INDIA SINCE 1989
Read more: THE SAHMAT COLLECTIVE: ART AND ACTIVISM IN INDIA SINCE 1989In 1989, playwright, actor, and activist Safdar Hashmi was fatally attacked by political thugs while performing a street play outside of Delhi. His death led to the founding of Sahmat, an influential artist collective that has taken a consistent stance…
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Seaspiracy
Read more: Seaspiracy“Seaspiracy, a documentary-styled film released on Netflix this week, intends to shock, and on that count it succeeds. The 90-minute exposé shows ocean pollution and its vast effects on marine life; it displays grotesque images of dolphins and whales being…
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Even in Solitary Confinement Kevin “Rashid” Johnson is Educating, Organizing, and Mobilizing
Read more: Even in Solitary Confinement Kevin “Rashid” Johnson is Educating, Organizing, and MobilizingKevin “Rashid” Johnson is a revolutionary, writer, social activist and founding member and Minister of Defense of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party, and member of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee. At 18 years old, in 1990, he was convicted…