Projects tagged
Strengthens (community)
Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
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Markig Time MoMA
Read more: Markig Time MoMAThis major exhibition explores the work of artists within US prisons and the centrality of incarceration to contemporary art and culture. Featuring art made by people in prisons and work by nonincarcerated artists concerned with state repression, erasure, and imprisonment,…
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Feminist activist could face prison for vagina drawings
Read more: Feminist activist could face prison for vagina drawings“My body is not pornography” — that is the slogan written under many of the social media posts inspired by Yulia Tsvetkova. Women are posting pictures of themselves showing off their curves, body hair and scars, along with feminist art…
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Colin Kapaernick
Read more: Colin KapaernickIn early 2016, I began paying attention to reports about the incredible number of unarmed black people being killed by the police. The posts on social media deeply disturbed me, but one in particular brought me to tears: the killing…
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Twelve Square Meter
Read more: Twelve Square MeterZhang Huan is a very talented performance artist in China. In the famous work “Twelve Square Meters”, he was covered with fish oil and honey sitting in a dirty public toilet in Beijing’s East Village for an hour, not only…
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Kozaburo contemplates Japan’s spiritual history for AW21
Read more: Kozaburo contemplates Japan’s spiritual history for AW21In the four years since launching his eponymous label, Kozaburo Akasaka has established himself as a leader of New York’s new guard of fashion designers. In 2017, just months after graduating from Parsons’ prestigious Fashion MFA programme, his tailored silhouettes…
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Gardens Speak
Read more: Gardens Speak“Gardens Speak is an interactive sound installation containing the oral histories of ten ordinary people who were buried in Syrian gardens. Each narrative has been carefully constructed with the friends and family members of the deceased to retell their stories…
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The Color of Reality
Read more: The Color of RealityTransfixed by racial, political, and socioeconomic tensions saturating the news, movement artists Jon Boogz and Lil Buck, enveloped by the art of Alexa Meade, switch off the TV and release their emotion into a stirring dance that is both a…
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Phillip Lim on Asian-American Activism in Fashion
Read more: Phillip Lim on Asian-American Activism in FashionIn the wake of hate crimes against Asian-Americans, the New York designer has moved his studio to Chinatown and refocused his energies toward advocacy and fundraising on behalf of the AAPI community. As he said, ‘I can no longer separate…
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History of Korean Women
Read more: History of Korean WomenIn the series The History of Korean Women, Cho’s suggests that the cost of that gain cannot be paid for by a cultural amnesia masking the pain and suffering of previous generations. Here the semantic emphasis is on the official…
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Candlelight Revolution
Read more: Candlelight RevolutionThe dramatic demonstration of people power on the streets, called the “Candlelight Revolution,” was sparked off by President Park’s abuse of power and corruption. She had shared classified information on state affairs with her close confidantes, including Ms. Choi Soon-sil,…
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ChallengeAccepted: empowering women
Read more: ChallengeAccepted: empowering women#ChallengeAccepted, also known as the Challenge Accepted campaign, is an Instagram tagged challenge as well as an awareness campaign on empowering women involving sharing posts of black-and-white selfies. The Instagram challenge was launched alongside another hashtag campaign #WomenSupportingWomen with the…
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Detox Levis – Vertical Catwalk
Read more: Detox Levis – Vertical CatwalkDetox Levi’s: 6th December: Greenpeace activists staged a vertical catwalk action in front of the levi’s store in the biggest mall in Copenhagen, Denmark. Greenpeace calls Levi’s to engage fully in the process of ending the use and release of…