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Vacated
Read more: VacatedVacated reverse engineers Google Street View to highlight the changing landscape of various neighborhoods throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. The project finds buildings constructed in the past four years using the NYC Department of City Planning’s PLUTO dataset, and it leverages…
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The Tourist Lane
Read more: The Tourist LaneThe Improv Everywhere team created separate walking lanes for tourists and New Yorkers on a Fifth Avenue sidewalk. Department of Transportation “employees” were on hand to enforce the new rules and ask pedestrians for their feedback on the initiative. Enjoy…
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“The Garment Worker” An Interactive Media Installation for Community Dialogue
Read more: “The Garment Worker” An Interactive Media Installation for Community Dialogue“The Garment Worker” an interactive installation piece that focuses on the daily life of a garment worker and the hardships she/he encounters working in a sweatshop. The installation in Kang Wei Laundromat simulated the sounds, motions and experiences of a…
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Las Vulpes: Me gusta ser una zorra (I like being a whore)
Read more: Las Vulpes: Me gusta ser una zorra (I like being a whore)Las Vulpes was the first spanish punk rock band formed only by women. It was founded in Baracaldo (Vizcaya, Basque Country) in the summer of 1982, as a result of the guitarist´s desire on creating an all women punk band.…
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Elena Fortún (1886-1952): Celia y la Revolución – Celia and the Revolution
Read more: Elena Fortún (1886-1952): Celia y la Revolución – Celia and the RevolutionEncarnación Aragoneses Urquijo (886-1952), commonly known by her literary pseudonym Elena Fortún, was a Spanish writer who focused in children and teenagers literature. She was born in Madrid, where she studied Philosophy and Humanities. In 1908 she married Eusebio de…
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Typing…SYRIA
Read more: Typing…SYRIA(SUBSCRIBE AT https://typingsyria.com/) Typing…SYRIA is a one month socio-artistic performance piece where any individual can subscribe to witness a WhatsApp conversation between two Syrian characters play out in real time. This performance piece addresses questions of voyeurism, the ethics of…
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Borrando la Frontera (Erasing the Border)
Read more: Borrando la Frontera (Erasing the Border)In Borrando la Frontera (Erasing the Border)”, Ana Teresa confronted the fence between the United States and Mexico by putting on her black dress and heels and painting the fence sky blue. On first viewing, the performance makes a simple…
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Namo Nazi
Read more: Namo NaziNamo Nazi Namo Nazi is a group which is dedicated to the cause of spreading awareness about fascism. They create anti-fascist T-Shirts and say this about themselves: “One AntiFascist T-shirt is Worth a Thousand Votes. Please Buy Two. We design…
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Training in Dance and movement Psychotherapy as a tool for reconciliation
Read more: Training in Dance and movement Psychotherapy as a tool for reconciliationFor over 60 years, Colombia has been facing war between guerrilla groups, the State, paramilitary groups and drug dealers. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, raped, displaced and threaten by this armed conflict. The common trait of this…
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The time when Colombian students hugged and kissed the police
Read more: The time when Colombian students hugged and kissed the policeDuring 2011, students around Colombia decided to create a National Student organization that would organize thousands of them to reject a harmful educational reform (Reforma a la ley 30). Before this year, student organizations were characterized by their segmentarity and…
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The T Party
Read more: The T PartyEven if the idea of interactive theater gives you hives, you can still find amusement, and perhaps enlightenment, at Forum Theatre’s “The T Party,” a bold and inventive exploration of gender identity by local writer-director Natsu Onoda Power. The play…
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Aftermath
Read more: AftermathThe snapshots are thrust at us urgently, as if they were passports being shown at a border crossing, official proofs of national identity. Mostly, they are prosaic pictures of family members or houses. Sometimes a diploma will be offered up…