Projects tagged
Strengthens (community)
Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
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And Counting…
Read more: And Counting…Wafaa Bilal’s brother, Haji, was killed by a missile at a checkpoint in their hometown of Kufa, Iraq in 2004. Bilal feels the pain of both American and Iraqi families who have lost loved ones in the war, but the…
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Djerbahood
Read more: DjerbahoodDjerbahood Project, which took place during the months of July and August on a small island called Djerba and is located in the Gulf of Gabes. Better known as the island of dreams, the tiny village of Djerba boasts a…
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Hall of Fame, Ciudadela México, Quito
Read more: Hall of Fame, Ciudadela México, QuitoTranvía Cero is a group of artists from Ecuador who have been creating artistic projects with the aim to empact community lives and change the ideas of art as an exclusive terrain. The describe their goal as a redefinition of…
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Dharavi Biennale
Read more: Dharavi BiennaleDharavi Biennale For the last two weeks, residents of Dharavi have been visiting an open exhibition that seeks to raise awareness of health issues. The 22 installations on display have been created entirely by the residents of Dharavi. They can…
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Blu Gets Political in Mexico
Read more: Blu Gets Political in MexicoItalian street artist Blu was recently in Mexico to participate at the ManifestoMX Street Art Festival where he completed this intense and politically charged mural in opposition to the Mexican authorities. The new Blu mural that appeared in MexicoDF, titled…
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Inmates Perform Valmiki Pratibha
Read more: Inmates Perform Valmiki PratibhaAlokananda Roy walked into Calcutta’s Presidency Jail on International Women’s Day, 2007. The Indian classical dancer had been invited to watch female inmates perform, but it was the men who caught her eye. “They shook me,” she says. “Their body…
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WeiweiCam
Read more: WeiweiCamWeiweiCam is a self-surveillance project by artist Ai Weiwei that went live on April 3, 2012, exactly one year after the artist’s detention by Chinese officials at Beijing Airport.[1] At least fifteen surveillance cameras monitor his house in Beijing[2] which,…
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Turkish men don mini skirts to campaign for women’s rights
Read more: Turkish men don mini skirts to campaign for women’s rightsHow did men in miniskirts become a protest meme on social media? Turkish men aren’t known for wearing skirts. But hundreds turned out in large numbers in Istanbul to protest about violence against women in Turkey on 21 February. They…
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Paco Ibáñez (Valencia, November 20th, 1934)
Read more: Paco Ibáñez (Valencia, November 20th, 1934)Francisco Ibáñez Gorostidi (known as “Paco Ibáñez”) is a spanish singer that has dedicated almost all his career to turning poems by classical and contemporary spanish and latin american authors into songs. Paco Ibáñez was born in Valencia, but he…
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The Crossroads Project
Read more: The Crossroads ProjectThis month’s blast of arctic air may have roused climate-change skeptics. But the composer Laura Kaminsky and the painter Rebecca Allan were unfazed. Holed up in their apartment in Riverdale in the Bronx on one of the coldest days in…
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Chinese Air Quality Images Exhibition: The Breath of China
Read more: Chinese Air Quality Images Exhibition: The Breath of ChinaThe Breath of China is a thematic photo exhibition of thousands of air-quality images taken by 44 photographers in 34 Chinese capital cities. The exhibition was displayed on the 14th Pingyao International Photography Festival (PIPF) in Shanxi Province, from September…
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The Realist
Read more: The RealistAsaf Hanuka is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Tel Aviv, Israel. His illustrations span the themes of technology, revolution, war, Judaism, and depictions of family life and the individual in modern day society. While also employed for commercial illustrations…