Projects tagged
Shifts (culture)
Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.
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Art Not Oil: Ending Oil Industry Sponsorship of the Arts
Read more: Art Not Oil: Ending Oil Industry Sponsorship of the ArtsOn Sunday April 3rd, Art Not Oil coalition member group BP or not BP? occupied the Great Court of the BP-sponsored British Museum with a ‘disobedient exhibition’. Called ‘A History of BP in 10 Objects’, the exhibition featured artifacts submitted…
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Activists and Residents Light Up Bushwick with Anti-Gentrification Signs
Read more: Activists and Residents Light Up Bushwick with Anti-Gentrification SignsSince Christmas Eve, some lights along the streets and in the houses of Bushwick have spelled out a number of messages quite different from the festive wishes one usually finds during the holiday season. “GENTRIFICATION IS THE NEW COLONIALISM,” “NOT…
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Feminist protest against Fujimori and forced sterilization
Read more: Feminist protest against Fujimori and forced sterilizationThousands took to the streets in Lima, Peru, on March 11 to protest conservative presidential frontrunner Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori, and demand that her candidacy be revoked amid accusations of vote buying. Protesters called attention to…
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The Bristol Cable: A community-run newspaper holding power to account
Read more: The Bristol Cable: A community-run newspaper holding power to accountTaking back the media. The Bristol Cable is a media co-operative shaking up local news with hard-hitting investigative journalism. “In every single pub up and down the country people will be talking about how crap the media is,” says Alon…
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Why did students re-enact a bloody 1985 battle between police and new age travellers?
Read more: Why did students re-enact a bloody 1985 battle between police and new age travellers?Breach Theatre’s multimedia play The Beanfield joins a growing trend of artists using documentary inquiry to hold violent and corrupt institutions to account. In 1985, as the miner’s strike was raging and the government was doing battle with “the enemy…
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Female Frequency
Read more: Female FrequencyFemale Frequency is a collective dedicated to empowering women & girls through the creation of music that is entirely female generated. “We are making an album created entirely by females, start to finish — this means that all writing, instrumentation,…
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Female Pressure
Read more: Female Pressurefemale:pressure is an international network of female artists in the fields of electronic music and digital arts founded by Electric Indigo: from musicians, composers and DJs to visual artists, cultural workers and researchers. A worldwide resource of female talent that…
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Paremos el acoso sexual callejero
Read more: Paremos el acoso sexual callejeroThis is an organization and online platform that registers cases of street harassment in Peru and disseminates information about the subject. People can report cases and get in touch with the organization to talk or learn more about what to…
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Colectivo Sublevarte Retrospective
Read more: Colectivo Sublevarte RetrospectiveSublevarte, a Collective of Mexican artists, was born out of the ENAP (National School of Fine Arts) of UNAM (the National Autonomous University of Mexico), during the student strike of 1999-2000, the longest student strike in history. With more than…
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La Casa Negra
Read more: La Casa NegraLa Casa Negra is a moving artist squat that occupies houses destined for demolition as temporary venues for site specific performance art in Barranco (Lima, Peru). Artists use all of the available rooms (kitchen, bathrooms, stairs, backyard) to enact a…
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Discwoman
Read more: DiscwomanFounded by Frankie Hutchinson, Emma Burgess-Olson and Christine Tran, Discwoman is a New York-based platform, collective, and booking agency—representing and showcasing cis women, trans women and genderqueer talent in electronic music. Started as a two-day festival in September 2014 at…
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Rubber Tracks
Read more: Rubber TracksConverse Rubber Tracks is a global community of professional recording studios, which provides free studio time to emerging artists. Bands and artists record without any fee whatsoever and maintain all the rights to their music. These studios are supported by…