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The Invisible Man

Practitioner:
Liu Bolin

Date:
Apr 1 2003

“My intention was not to disappear in the environment but instead to let the environment take possession of me” Said Liu Bolin. With his strong photography, Bolin vanishes into the city, creating a powerful statement about our relationship, as humans,…

Citizen: An American Lyric

Practitioner:
Claudia Rankine

Date:
Apr 1 2003

In Citizen, Claudia Rankine recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seemingly slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the…

THE GIVERNY SUITE

Practitioner:
Ja’Tovia Gary

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Filmed in Harlem, New York, and in Claude Monet’s gardens in Giverny, France, THE GIVERNY SUITE is a cinematic poem that advocates for the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women. Employing techniques including hand-painted film animation and montage editing,…

Self Portraits of Zanele Muholi

Practitioner:
Zanele Muholi

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Zanele Muholi, the self-proclaimed visual activist and photographer, investigates the fraught relationship between post-apartheid South Africa and its queer community, who, despite being constitutionally protected since 1996, remain a constant target of abuse and discrimination. In Muholi’s own words, their…

Actionplay To Present A New Musical THE SURFACE

Practitioner:
Actionplay

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Actionplay, a theatre company dedicated to providing autistic, neurodivergent, and disabled teens and young adults equal access to the theatre-making process, is pleased to announce their next production, the new musical comedy The Surface (or, That One Time Atlantis Washed…

The Apocalypse Project: The Ephemeral Marvels Perfume Store

Practitioner:
Catherine Sarah Young

Date:
Apr 1 2003

As climate change worsens, so will our collective sense of loss. Coastlines, cities, crops, and entire species will disappear. Artist Catherine Young has created a perfume line that bottles up the scents of things we enjoy today, but will be…

“Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)

Practitioner:
Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Artist: Félix González-Torres Media: Candies in variously coloured wrappers, endless supply, ideal weight of 175 lb Date & Location: 1991 Where can I find this item?: Art Institute of Chicago, Contemporary Art, Gallery 293 Source: Wikimedia Commons (Creative Commons) Significance…

Zhang Huan, To Raise the Water Level in a Fishpond

Practitioner:
construction workers, fishermen, some laborers, Zhuang Huan

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Zhuang Huan invited more than 40 men – laborers, fishermen, construction workers––who had recently migrated to Beijing from other areas of China to participate. Zhang Huan said, “In order to find these workers, I visited many of the shacks where…

Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism and the AIDS Poster

Practitioner:
Donald Albrecht, Jessica Lacher-Feldman, William M. Valent

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster is the traveling version of the first major exhibition devoted to the University of Rochester’s collection of HIV/AIDS-related posters. It illustrates to a broad audience that “AIDS affects everyone” and…

The Worlds Only Mobile Feminist Nation: Obsidia

Practitioner:
Carolyn Yagjian

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Introduction: The Ambulatory Free States of Obsidia The Ambulatory Free States of Obsidia is a tiny, Matriarchal, Micro-nation located at the confluence of feminism and geography. Grand Marshal Yagjian’s Great Vision for The Ambulatory Free States of Obsidia came in…

Performance Obscura

Practitioner:
Ruth Simbao

Date:
Apr 1 2003

In her curatorial project Making Way, Ruth Simbao brought together works that complicated the idea of globalization’s effect on African nations, especially the idea that the new phase would usher in an almost frictionless movement of labor and capital across…

WHAT THE SUICIDE OF AUTHOR LIN YI HAN CAN TEACH US ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH

Practitioner:
Break Study Magazine, Jessie Yang, University of Hong Kong

Date:
Apr 1 2003

The author behind ‘The First Paradise of Fang Siqi,’ a novel that Han described as ‘a young girl falling in love with her rapist,’ has sent shockwaves through Taiwanese society. On April 27, aspiring Taiwanese author Lin Yi Han committed…