Projects tagged
Strengthens (community)
Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
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Resist developers with naked body in Macau
Read more: Resist developers with naked body in MacauIn 2011, nine local artists staged a performance called “Let’s Add 1 Meter to Taipa Pequena (Sio Tam Hill)” in Macau, protesting against the controversial attempted rezoning of the mountain for high-rise construction by the developers. They lied on top…
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1,001 chairs for Aiweiwei in Taipei
Read more: 1,001 chairs for Aiweiwei in TaipeiA large chair installation work featuring the Chinese name of detained artist and activist Ai Weiwei was set up in Taipei Saturday –the 22nd anniversary of the Tiananmen SquareMassacre — to call for Ai’s release. Bei Ling, an artist from…
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Gay Shame S.F.
Read more: Gay Shame S.F.From the screaming queens of the Stonewall Riots to the contemporary Human Rights Campaign corporate gays, the politics and methods of queer activism have clearly fluxuated. By the late 1970s, the radicalism of stonewall was replaced with a more formal…
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Angel Action
Read more: Angel ActionMatthew Shepard was attacked by Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson on October 7, 1998, the victim of an anti-gay hate crime. He was pronounced dead on October 12th. Shepard’s funeral was protested by Fred Phelps, notorious leader of the Westboro…
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Political Pieing: Anita Bryant
Read more: Political Pieing: Anita BryantGay rights activist, Thom Higgins, pied Anita Bryant, singer, former Miss Oklahoma beauty pageant winner, Florida Orange Juice Representative, and anti-gay rights activist, at a press conference in Des Moines IA. Bryant was a relentless crusader against gay rights. She…
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White supremacist rally “clowned” by counter protest
Read more: White supremacist rally “clowned” by counter protestCHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police say no one was arrested during a loud – and very colorful – KKK rally and counter-protest in uptown Charlotte Saturday afternoon. Members of the National Socialist Movement joined the Ku Klux Klan for an…
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Dream Kites
Read more: Dream KitesCultureStrike, the national arts and activism group, teamed up with undocumented youth and NY-based artist Miguel Luciano to hold a kite-based symbolic public art project in Washington D.C. The kites were flown over the National Mall and the White House…
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GIMME THE POWER
Read more: GIMME THE POWERDirected by Fernando Sariñana, Todo el poder centers around the politics and corruption that shroud the Mexican police system. Featuring Demián Bichir as Gabriel, a filmmaker whose career has left him assaulted and robbed in broad daylight more times than…
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Witness to the ruins/Testigo de las ruinas
Read more: Witness to the ruins/Testigo de las ruinasThe starting point of this artistic project, carried out by MAPA within its Laboratory of Artists in Colombia, is the disappearance of one of the oldest “barrios” downtown Bogotá: El Cartucho. This place, where thousands of people survived for decades…
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Mareas
Read more: MareasEl movimiento 15M ha abierto la veda a una protesta insistente, que mantiene la presencia en la calle. Según la delegada de gobierno, Cristina Cifuentes, en Madrid hay ocho manifestaciones diarias. Una de las formas que toma la reclama callejera…
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Compton’s Cafeteria Riot
Read more: Compton’s Cafeteria RiotCompton’s Cafeteria, 24 hour diner in S.F.’s Tenderloin was a hang out spot for trans women, drag queens, and sex workers. It was a place for the community to meet up for an expensive meal, a place to chit chat,…
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Rectification of names
Read more: Rectification of namesRectification of names “If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art…