Projects tagged
Shifts (culture)
Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.
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“Artists Support Ukraine”
Read more: “Artists Support Ukraine”“Artists Support Ukraine”, an initiative that seeks to bring attention to the Euromaidan protests in Kiev, through art. Organized by the Kadygrob & Taylor Platform for Contemporary Art, the collective engages painters, photographers, video artists, graphic designers, street artists and…
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Girl Be Heard
Read more: Girl Be HeardGirl Be Heard is a theatre company founded by Artistic Director, Ashley Marinaccio and Executive Director, Jessica Greer Morris, which melds talent and background to create social justice theatre. The company has performed throughout New York City and worldwide to…
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Student Desks Fill LA City Street in Dropout-rate Protest
Read more: Student Desks Fill LA City Street in Dropout-rate ProtestSchool desks placed by parents, district graduates and activists block a street in front of the Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters in a demonstration against student dropout rates Tuesday, April 8, 2014, in downtown Los Angeles. Protest organizers say…
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Nude protest for International Women’s Day
Read more: Nude protest for International Women’s DayOn 8 March 2014, International Women’s Day, several female activists (Amina Sboui, Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, Solmaz Vakilpour, Safia Lebdi, Meriam Russel and Maryam Namazie) protested nude in support of women’s rights in the Middle East and North Africa in front…
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iPod’s Dirty Secrete
Read more: iPod’s Dirty SecreteThe Neistat Brothers first attracted public attention in 2003 with their blatantly critical work, iPod’s Dirty Secret. After being refused a replacement battery for an 18-month old iPod, [they] took to the streets of Manhattan on their bikes to sabotage…
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In Brazzaville, Fashionistas Lift Spirits With Apparel And Activism
Read more: In Brazzaville, Fashionistas Lift Spirits With Apparel And ActivismWhen can fashion be considered an act of social activism — even subversion? The streets of Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo’s capital (Congo-Brazzaville), have seen plenty of violence and suffering over the years. But a group of local fashionistas known…
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Women’s Fast for Families
Read more: Women’s Fast for FamiliesThe Fast for Families on April 7-9 is the culmination of a month of action involving more than 1200 women fasting through 70 events in 35 states as well as in Washington, D.C., and Mexico City. It is being organized…
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Leaving the Googleplex
Read more: Leaving the Googleplex“Ex Google employee Andrew Norman Wilson’s video Workers Leaving the Googleplex investigates the marginalized class of Google Books’ “ScanOps” workers at their international headquarters in Silicon Valley while simultaneously chronicling the complex events surrounding his own dismissal from the company.”…
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Palestine: Cartography of an Occupation
Read more: Palestine: Cartography of an OccupationFrom creativetimereports.org: Artist-activist collective MTL’s clickable collages connect disparate aspects of Palestine’s geographical and political landscape, offering provocative insight into “how Palestinians suffer and struggle in ways that are parallel to those elsewhere” according to philosopher Michael Hardt. About MTL:…
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Chicano Murals
Read more: Chicano MuralsIn El Paso more than 100 murals have been painted since the mid-1960s. The murals, located throughout the city’s various corridors, often depict themes common to Chicano muralism, such as mestizo heritage or social problems, but they also tell unique…
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Shake Girl, The Graphic Novel
Read more: Shake Girl, The Graphic NovelShake Girl is a massive collaborative effort between fifteen students and two instructors over the course of one quarter (Winter 2008). These students comprise the first edition of the Stanford Graphic Novel Project — a group dedicated to acheiving this…
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Female students in Guangzhou protest topless for gender equality
Read more: Female students in Guangzhou protest topless for gender equalityFemale students from the Guangdong University of Technology in Guangzhou called for equal job opportunities and for people to “pay attention to the value of women” while protesting on the school’s campus, shirtless and covered in body paint. The photos,…