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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The Poster Workshop
Read more: The Poster WorkshopBetween the late 1960s and 1970s numerous alternative printshops were set up across the UK, with the founding objective of producing, providing or facilitating the cheap and safe printing of radical materials. They were started by libertarians, aligned and non-aligned…
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Foreigners Everywhere
Read more: Foreigners EverywhereThe Paris-based collective Claire Fontaine displays a neon sign that spells the words ‘Foreigners Everywhere’ in Arabic. Since this sign was installed strategically above the gallery’s wall-length window – facing in the street – in the edition of the show…
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Picasso In Palestine
Read more: Picasso In PalestineLast Friday, Pablo Picasso’s Buste de Femme, (1943), was put on display at the International Art Academy Palestine in Ramallah. Marking the very first time that the Picasso’s work has been shown in Palestine and as the result of a…
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Rebranding European Muslims
Read more: Rebranding European MuslimsPublic Movement is a Tel Aviv based ‘performative research body’. Through large-scale performances in the public realm they construct alternative arenas for the consideration of communal identities – national, religious and cultural – revitalising debate around the distribution of power.…
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Mining the Museum
Read more: Mining the MuseumWhen Fred Wilson did an installation at the Maryland Historical Society in 1992, he shook up the museum world. Co-sponsored by the historical society and the Contemporary Museum, Mining the Museum did not involve artwork made by the artist; rather,…
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Long Branch Library Plaza Installation
Read more: Long Branch Library Plaza InstallationAfter researching several potential sites as far afield as Baltimore, Eisenbach and Ruppert “became attracted to the library because the plaza has never been used,” Eisenbach says, citing the fact that the library’s second-level entrance onto the plaza is locked.…
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Project 929: Mapping the Solar
Read more: Project 929: Mapping the SolarProject 929: Mapping the Solar Augmented Bike Ride as Performative Intervention May 19th through 29th, 2013 https://www.delappe.net) will be creating a new work of DIY durational performance which involves riding a specially equipped “long-tail” touring bicycle 400+ miles dragging pieces…
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Teen Actors Keep Playwright August Wilson’s Legacy Alive
Read more: Teen Actors Keep Playwright August Wilson’s Legacy AliveEight years after his death, the annual August Wilson Monologue Competition provides high school students from around the country an opportunity to carry on the African-American playwright’s legacy. That legacy includes Pulitzer Prizes for “Fences” and “The Piano Lesson,” two…
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Hollaback
Read more: HollabackStreet harassment is one of the most pervasive forms of gender-based violence and one of the least legislated against. Comments from “You’d look good on me” to groping, flashing and assault are a daily, global reality for women and LGBTQ…
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Students Protest John Galliano
Read more: Students Protest John GallianoIn 2011, a video displaying fashion designer and former lead designer at Dior, John Galliano, shouting anti-Semitic remarks, went viral on the internet, leading to his subsequent dismissal from Dior and the subsequent defamation of his career. Nonetheless, Parsons at…
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One Dress Protest
Read more: One Dress ProtestIndependent blogger, Kristy Powell, decided to begin a digital action, beginning on January 3rd, 2011 and ending on January 3rd, 2012, where she would wear one dress for an entire year to call attention to the politics of fashion’s dominance…
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Petition against John Galliano’s Class
Read more: Petition against John Galliano’s ClassFashion designer and former head designer of Dior, John Galliano, in the past few years has failed to rise to his former glory in fashion. In 2011, a videotape of John Galliano shouting anti-semitic statements went viral, thus leading to…