Projects tagged
Shifts (culture)
Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.
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Nadia Plesner v Commercialism
Read more: Nadia Plesner v CommercialismDanish 26-year-old art student Nadia Plesner designed this T-shirt depicting a Darfurian child holding a Louis Vuitton handbag as commentary on global disparity as it relates to war, developing nations, commercialism, and media. In 2006, the fashion house sued Plesner…
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Work of Chinese Artist and Activist Ai Weiwei in Princeton
Read more: Work of Chinese Artist and Activist Ai Weiwei in PrincetonWork of Chinese Artist and Activist Ai Weiwei in Princeton Posted on January 24, 2013 By Susan Wallner State of the Arts Ai Weiwei “No Evil.” Photographs of Ai Weiwei by Sharron Lovell, 2009 “Your own acts tell the world…
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If I could say to America
Read more: If I could say to AmericaIf I could say to America poses an open moment of opportunity for citizens from around the globe: if you could say anything to America, what would it be? Ambiguous but not ambivalent, if I could say to America is…
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Decolonize Me
Read more: Decolonize MeDecolonize Me features six contemporary Aboriginal artists whose works challenge, interrogate and reveal Canada’s long history of colonization in daring and innovative ways. Deliberately riffing on the title of Morgan Spurlock’s film, the pop-cultural phenomenon Super Size Me (2004), the…
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AIDS activism through billboards; Untitled (1991)
Read more: AIDS activism through billboards; Untitled (1991)In 1991, Gonzalez-Torres lost his partner Ross to AIDS (the artist would face the same fate in 1996). In a tragic and highly personal tribute to Ross, Gonzalez-Torres took a picture of his still-indented empty bed – an image of…
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Natural Intervention
Read more: Natural InterventionGerman Forests Come Alive Through Creative ‘Natural Intervention ‘ “Some think that every tree has a soul. It’s hard not to agree after a walk in the woods, surrounded by these beautifully imposing creatures that creak, sway and at times…
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Syrian Museum: “The Kiss”
Read more: Syrian Museum: “The Kiss”“A new photographic work created by Ayyam Gallery artist Tammam Azzam has captured the imaginations of the world, going viral and being shared across social media as a symbol of the power of love and human spirit in times of…
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Aqua Dice
Read more: Aqua Dice“Featuring giant ocean dice that originally appeared in the booklet “drift” by Max Mulhern, these dice were launched in international waters to create a visually stunning ode to chance and luck. This project can also be found under the title:…
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Guerrilla gardening?
Read more: Guerrilla gardening?Plants growing through urban cracks and concrete remind us of the power of nature. Whether its a tree or a blade of grass pushing its way through cement, an underlying chaos( or natural order) lives just beneath the surface of…
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Money on an Island (Hip-hop video)
Read more: Money on an Island (Hip-hop video)The Apopalyptics take on tax-dodging multi-national corporations Lyrics below (for subtitles – click – clip sous-titré en français et anglais) Lyrics: Money on an island © O.McEldowney/D.Cole 2012 – www.apopalyptics.com You can keep your money on an island You can…
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Cookie Monster Golden Biscuit Ransom
Read more: Cookie Monster Golden Biscuit RansomThief steals 44 lb golden cookie from the world-renowned Bahlsen Cookie Headquarters in Hanover, Germany earlier this January. Under the guise of Sesame Street’s beloved Cookie Monster, the thief sent the headquarters a ransom note demanding cookies be donated to…
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activists culture jam anti-Muslim ads in NYC subways
Read more: activists culture jam anti-Muslim ads in NYC subwaysNew York activists responded to a recent anti-Muslim subway campaign by plastering stickers over ads depicting the World Trade Center in flames, juxtaposed with text quoting the Koran. The day-glow orange and yellow stickers warn “Caution: This is war propaganda.…