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Francis Alÿs, When Faith Moves Mountains, 2002
Read more: Francis Alÿs, When Faith Moves Mountains, 2002Five hundred volunteers with shovels gathered at a huge sand dune on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, and over the course of a day moved it by several inches. Alÿs developed the idea after first visiting Lima in October 2000.…
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Carolee Schneemann, Interior Scroll, 1975
Read more: Carolee Schneemann, Interior Scroll, 1975This print is one of several works documenting a performance Schneemann made at Women Here and Now, an exhibition of paintings accompanied by a series of performances, in East Hampton, New York in August 1975. In front of an audience…
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Carolee Schneemann, Up to and including her limits, 1973-76
Read more: Carolee Schneemann, Up to and including her limits, 1973-76Carolee Schneemann is largely associated with her performance art of the 1960s and 1970s, in which she boldly addressed feminist and political issues in ways that shocked and engaged viewers. But she has always maintained that she is a painter,…
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Martha Rosler, Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975
Read more: Martha Rosler, Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975This is a parody of 1970s American daytime television aimed at housewives. In this performance Rosler takes on the role of an apron-clad housewife and parodies the television cooking demonstrations popularized by Julia Child in the 1960s. Standing in a…
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Your life is woth more than 5 pesos. Boycott against the subway fare
Read more: Your life is woth more than 5 pesos. Boycott against the subway fareOn the 5th of May 2021, the subway’s 12-line partially collapsed, killing 24 people and injuring more than 70. Onboard, were children, young women and men, and the elderly. The accident also killed a man and injured a woman who…
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Taxi drivers make a caravan protesting against apps “They are stealing our jobs”
Read more: Taxi drivers make a caravan protesting against apps “They are stealing our jobs”Hundreds of taxi drivers gathered together on the streets of Mexico City protesting against Virtual apps like Uber and Cabify. They formed a caravan and stopped the traffic for hours, as a way of denouncing unfair price competition. External sources:…
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Mashrou’ Leila
Read more: Mashrou’ LeilaCAIRO — Seven Egyptians were arrested on charges of promoting homosexuality after concertgoers waved rainbow-colored flags at a rock concert in Cairo last week, Egyptian officials said. The arrests were the latest assault on social freedoms in Egypt under President…
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Ana Masreya – Drag
Read more: Ana Masreya – Drag‘I’m an Egyptian, Muslim drag queen who aims to raise issues about Middle Eastern / LBGTQ issues within the Arab world and Muslim community. For too long it was drilled in my head that I was wrong, that I was…
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7000 Oak Trees
Read more: 7000 Oak TreesIn 1982, for documenta 7, Beuys proposed a plan to plant 7000 oaks throughout the city of Kassel, each paired with a basalt stone. The 7000 stones were piled up on the lawn in front of the Museum Fridericianum with…
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Waiting for Godot in New Orleans
Read more: Waiting for Godot in New OrleansABOUT THE PROJECT When artist Paul Chan visited New Orleans for the first time in November 2006—a little more than a year after Hurricane Katrina—he was struck by the disquieting stillness: no hammer sounds banging in the distance, no construction…
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A Vegan Meat Locker with a Heartbeat
Read more: A Vegan Meat Locker with a Heartbeat“Brooke Shields is one of 200 famous faces that the artist Jonathan Horowitz identifies as vegetarian in head shots he has hung on the white-tile walls of a former meat locker in the south Village. Horowitz, 44, swore off meat…
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Gramsci Monument
Read more: Gramsci MonumentA Summer Place in the South Bronx Gramsci Monument Thomas Hirschhorn built this participatory sculpture dedicated to the Italian philosopher at the Forest Houses. By Ken Johnson July 25, 2013 On last Sunday’s lovely, warm afternoon I visited Thomas Hirschhorn’s…