Projects tagged
Strengthens (community)
Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
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YBCA Explores Art And Activism in Take This Hammer
Read more: YBCA Explores Art And Activism in Take This HammerA new exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts that showcases activism through art and media in the San Francisco Bay Area, gets its name, Take This Hammer, from a 1963 documentary about the author James Baldwin as…
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Speculative Fiction: Global Warming to the Extreme
Read more: Speculative Fiction: Global Warming to the ExtremeJosh Keyes is a contemporary artist who takes a “satirical look at the impact urban sprawl has on the environment and surmises, with the aid of scientific slices and core samples, what could happen if we continue to infiltrate and…
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Protest Posters for Fees Must Fall
Read more: Protest Posters for Fees Must FallDaniel Hewson describes the use of protest posters and the work of collective, Burning Museum, and artist, Faith47, in the Fees Must Fall movement taking place in South Africa: “The protest poster movement is still alive and vibrant in South…
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Ghost Protest in Seoul
Read more: Ghost Protest in SeoulHaeryun Kang reported the following for NPR on February 24, 2016: “On the eve of South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s third anniversary in office, protesters gathered in Seoul… to condemn the administration’s increasing crackdown on free speech. These protesters were…
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Blindfolding Statues in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (no title)
Read more: Blindfolding Statues in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (no title)An artist in Brazil, who remains anonymous, placed red blindfolds on the eyes of statues across the city of Rio de Janeiro to protest the country’s political crisis. According to the BBC, the artist explained that “The idea is to…
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Jessica’s Feminized Atmosphere
Read more: Jessica’s Feminized AtmosphereJessica Williams talks about women’s experiences with street harassment in New York with a satirical approach on how to avoid this unwanted attention. https://www.cc.com/video-clips/5ndnit/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-jes… External sources: https://www.cc.com/video-clips/5ndnit/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-jessica-s-f…
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‘What Would Thoreau Do?’ Community Builds Replica of Walden Pond Cabin to Block Pipeline
Read more: ‘What Would Thoreau Do?’ Community Builds Replica of Walden Pond Cabin to Block Pipeline“The authority of government… is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed.” Inspired by such lines from Henry David Thoreau’s 1849 essay “Civil Disobedience,” a local timber-frame builder in…
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Street Artist Blu Destroys 20 Years of His Work in Bologna to Protest an Exhibition
Read more: Street Artist Blu Destroys 20 Years of His Work in Bologna to Protest an Exhibition“Seeing street art exhibited in a museum is paradoxical and grotesque,” they [Blu and his comrades] wrote of Banksy and Co. “This ‘street art’ exhibition [featuring 250 works of street art, some of which were removed from their original public…
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Your Drunk Neighbor: Donald Trump
Read more: Your Drunk Neighbor: Donald TrumpThe video shows an actor as “your drunk neighbor” lipsyncing to real soundbites from Donald Trump. The artists who made the video claim, “If you close your eyes while listening to presidential hopeful Donald Trump, you can see and smell…
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Project Ukko
Read more: Project UkkoAlex King describes Project Ukko in detail for Huck Magazine (March 17, 2016): “Moritz Stefaner’s Project Ukko turns climate and wind data into an immersive art installation that allows viewers to explore the future of the planet.” “We live in…
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Partido de la Red, Argentina’s Internet Party
Read more: Partido de la Red, Argentina’s Internet PartyThe following is Alex King’s description of the founding of the Partido de la Red in Buenos Aires, Argentina: … “a giant Trojan horse trundled through the streets of Buenos Aires…this was how the newly formed Partido de la Red,…
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The Radius Project
Read more: The Radius Project“Black Lives/White Light and TABLETRIBES, a D.C.-based tech startup, are coupling art and technology to create The Radius Project, which aims to take conversations surrounding Black Lives Matter beyond newsfeeds and comment sections…TABLETRIBES is a social networking app that allows…