Projects tagged
Strengthens (community)
Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
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The Domestic Violence Milk Carton Project
Read more: The Domestic Violence Milk Carton ProjectPeggy Digg’s The Domestic Violence Milk Carton Project consisted of an image printed by Tuscan Dairy Farms on over one million milk cartons, which were distributed during January and February of 1992 throughout New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, Delaware,…
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Dear Congressman Tiberi
Read more: Dear Congressman Tiberi“To that end, in the Spring of 2014 we launched the Chasing Ice Ohio Tour in an attempt to use the film to shift the political conversation around climate change. As a society, for us to address climate change properly,…
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Postcards for Gun Control
Read more: Postcards for Gun ControlThe installation consists on providing postcards to gallery visitors that they can use to mail their Elected Officials to advocate for gun control. The front of the postcard shows the photograph “Mommy, what is this?” (2018), which is the hand…
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“What were you wearing?” Survivor Art Installation
Read more: “What were you wearing?” Survivor Art InstallationIt is an art installation that tells the story of 18 victims of sexual assault and what were they wearing at that time. “What were you wearing?” It’s an accusatory and suggestive question that people often ask victims of sexual…
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Billionaire-Espionage Art Project
Read more: Billionaire-Espionage Art ProjectThe Hungarian artist, undercover as an oligarch, infiltrated Manhattan’s ultra-luxury high-rises with her fake husband, Zoltan, for a book of intentionally unartful photos. Four years ago, during a three-month artist’s residency in Brooklyn, Andi Schmied, a photographer from Budapest, visited…
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MeToo movement takes hold in South Korea
Read more: MeToo movement takes hold in South KoreaYoung women in South Korea are fighting for a new future. The #MeToo movement which has highlighted sexual harassment and abuse around the world has taken a surprising hold in this socially conservative country. In fact, barely a month before…
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Ghost Forrest Installation
Read more: Ghost Forrest InstallationFrom an Art Net News Article: “”The installation is called Ghost Forest, a term used to describe vast acreages of woodland that have died out–often due to rising sea tides, which overwhelm forests near estuaries with saltwater, choking out their…
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Inviting Strangers and Homeless people for Dinner
Read more: Inviting Strangers and Homeless people for DinnerBrother Gao are two China artists. Their works are aims at reflecting the reality of Chinese society in an artistic and critical view. In 2003, the brothers held an event to invite many strangers for a dinner. The people they…
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Kurokawa Cup: prank and protest against immunity of top Japanese prosecutor
Read more: Kurokawa Cup: prank and protest against immunity of top Japanese prosecutorKurokawa Cup is a protest against former head Tokyo prosecutor Hiromu Kurokawa’s de facto immunity after he had played mahjong for money, which is an illegal act in Japan. After a weekly magazine reported that Kurokawa played mahjong for money…
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Stop Telling Women to Smile
Read more: Stop Telling Women to Smilepublicly displayed posters feature the portraits of women, along with a quote relaying their experiences with street harassment. Fazlalizadeh hopes the captions speak directly to offenders by placing the posters outside in public spaces where harassment happens. External sources: https://stoptellingwomentosmile.com/
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Waffles + Mochi
Read more: Waffles + Mochi“Michelle Obama’s mission of encouraging kids to eat healthier is getting a global spin — and a few puppet allies. The former first lady is launching a kids’ cooking show on Netflix as part of the production deal between Netflix…
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Harris Reed is building a fantasy world for gender-fluid fashion
Read more: Harris Reed is building a fantasy world for gender-fluid fashionLast June, Harris Reed became a member of the “Class of 2020” — the crop of young fashion talent who graduated into an industry on rocky ground due to the pandemic. Over the eight months that have passed since earning…