Projects tagged
Shifts (culture)
Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.
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Speaking out against air pollution through Smog Art
Read more: Speaking out against air pollution through Smog ArtThe action art performance themed “War on smog, we are taking action” was held by some environmental activists and volunteers on the commercial center and famous tourist spot Yangren Jie (Foreigners’ Street) in Nanan district, Chongqing municipality in Southwest China…
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The Future Republic of Macedonia of the Former Republic of Macedonia
Read more: The Future Republic of Macedonia of the Former Republic of MacedoniaThe Future Republic of Macedonia of the Former Republic of Macedonia Devised, constructed and carried out all within 24 hours, the Future Republic of Macedonia of the Former Republic of Macedonia opened its borders for 2 hours on Saturday 22nd…
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The Drone Project – A Participatory Memorial
Read more: The Drone Project – A Participatory MemorialMedia artist Joseph DeLappe announces the completion of “The Drone Project: A Participatory Memorial” on the campus of Fresno State University in California. DeLappe worked for 2+ weeks on campus with over 100 students, interns and local volunteers to construct…
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Fake Eviction Notices
Read more: Fake Eviction NoticesOn the morning of April 24th, 2014, members of NYU’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine signed into several NYU dorms and slipped eviction notices under all of the doors. The eviction notices were written to raise awareness about…
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Y’en A Marre
Read more: Y’en A Marre“Y’en a Marre (“We’re Fed Up”) first emerged in 2011 as a grassroots campaign against injustice and inequality in Senegal. Spearheaded by the hip hop group Keur Gui Crew in response to local power outages, the nascent protest movement went…
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Celebrate,Remember, Fight Back
Read more: Celebrate,Remember, Fight BackFor more than 100 years, the American Cancer Society has worked relentlessly to help people stay well, help people get well, find cures and fight back against cancer.In May 1985, Dr. Gordy Klatt walked and ran for 24 hours around…
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Feminist Art Activists ‘The Guerrilla Girls’ visit Wellesley College
Read more: Feminist Art Activists ‘The Guerrilla Girls’ visit Wellesley CollegeThey call themselves feminist masked avengers in the tradition of Robin Hood, Wonder Woman and Batman. They wear costume gorilla masks to remain anonymous, and they are devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the visual art world internationally. With…
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Clothesline Project
Read more: Clothesline Project“Stop hitting me,” “Please help,” and “Abuse is wrong” were just a few phrases painted and scribbled onto T-shirts by victims of sexual and domestic abuse to express how it felt to go through that pain. The shirts are part…
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AIDS Quilt Goes Digital
Read more: AIDS Quilt Goes DigitalWith more than 48,000 panels and 94,000 names, the AIDS quilt is a constantly growing testament to the deadly toll the disease has taken on the world. At roughly 1.3 million square feet, it is so large that it can’t…
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THE SLAVE SERIES: QUILTS BY GWENDOLYN A. MAGEE
Read more: THE SLAVE SERIES: QUILTS BY GWENDOLYN A. MAGEEThe image is stark. And shocking. A black man, his ankles shackled, his head hanging away from the viewer, stands in relief on a field of white. Chains stretching to the image’s borders on the left and right pull his…
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THE BAREFOOT ARTIST
Read more: THE BAREFOOT ARTISTBorn in China in 1941, artist Lily Yeh experienced first-hand the ravages of that country’s civil war when her family became refugees, fleeing to Taiwan as the communists took over. That personal story and the story of Yeh’s global art…
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Art Cannot Provide a Way Out
Read more: Art Cannot Provide a Way OutIn 2006, art historian Claire Bishop lit a fire under the collective seat of the art world with her Artforum piece “The Social Turn: Collaboration and its Discontents.” It set off — as much as any essay in the hermetic…