Projects tagged
Does nothing (at all)
Doesn’t really have an impact, beyond possibly expressing the artist-activist’s dissatisfaction with the world.
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Fotokonbit (Putting Cameras in Haitian Hands) – ONGOING working organization
Read more: Fotokonbit (Putting Cameras in Haitian Hands) – ONGOING working organizationThe Haitian Creole word “konbit” denotes the idea of similar talents joining together to work towards a common goal. The founders — a group of photographers, educators, and artists — came up with the idea for Fotokonbit a few years…
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Fan Activism: Trans Interventions in Fandom and Beyond
Read more: Fan Activism: Trans Interventions in Fandom and BeyondFanfiction is political, subversive, radical. Writing Harry Potter as a girl, Hermione as black, or Ron as transgender exposes people to narratives written from the perspective of marginalized communities. But is writing fanfiction a type of activism? Fan activism refers…
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The Protest Banner Lending Library
Read more: The Protest Banner Lending LibraryThe Protest Banner Lending Library is a space for people to gain skills to learn to make their own banners, a communal sewing space where we support each other’s voices, and a place where people can check out handmade banners…
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Rolezinho Pretoi/Black Stroll
Read more: Rolezinho Pretoi/Black Stroll“How different. Exotic,” commented one women as she watched a group of almost 50 people — mostly young and black, many wearing bright fabrics with African designs — stroll through the Shopping Leblon mall. They came this Monday to participate…
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Colorful pianos in the summer
Read more: Colorful pianos in the summerSing for Hope is bringing its renowned Sing for Hope Pianos back to the streets of New York City this summer. From June 5-25, as a celebration of the work Sing for Hope does in communities year-round, 60 Sing for…
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A Dallas Drinking Fountain
Read more: A Dallas Drinking Fountain“FOUNTAINS: A public artwork in three parts by lauren woods The Monument: A working public water fountain at the Dallas County Records Building triggers a projection of digitally-altered newsreel footage of 1960s civil rights protests under the remains of a…
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The Reality of Small Differences
Read more: The Reality of Small DifferencesAn exhibition of textile-based work by disabled artists, organised in protest at the inaccessibility of an exhibition by a popular artist, when it came to Leeds. Local disabled people were angry and upset when they discovered that Grayson Perry’s popular…
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Shoddy, a disability arts exhibition
Read more: Shoddy, a disability arts exhibitionA disability / textile arts project, challenging assumptions about disabled artists & highlighting shoddy treatment of disabled people by current government: https://shoddyexhibition.wordpress.com/ Shoddy is the name for new cloth created from woollen waste and recycled fabric. This original meaning is…
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Beauty In Transition
Read more: Beauty In TransitionBeauty in Transition is an artistic project created by multi-media artist Jody Wood, that established a pop-up mobile hair salon providing beauty services including a hair wash, cut, color and/or style service to willing participants living in homeless shelters. By…
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Two young Black Chicago women are using art and activism to change narratives about Black communities
Read more: Two young Black Chicago women are using art and activism to change narratives about Black communitiesBoth Johnson and Lewis recognize that the personal is political, and vice versa. By making connections between storytelling and activism, the two young women are using creative approaches to achieving justice and equity. Illuminating Another Part of the Story There…
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Nostalgia for the Light
Read more: Nostalgia for the LightThe Atacama Desert in northern Chile — the setting of Patricio Guzmán’s transfixing cinematic essay “Nostalgia for the Light” — is a place where heaven and earth converge. Or some might say heaven and hell. Situated on the leeward side…
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Emergency Cinema and the Dignified Image: Cell Phone Activism and Filmmaking in Syria
Read more: Emergency Cinema and the Dignified Image: Cell Phone Activism and Filmmaking in SyriaOne of the most significant aspects of the wave of protests and uprisings that began in Syria in 2011 was the use of the cell phone camera as a tool of documentation, political activism, and creative expression. With professional journalists…