Projects tagged
Sustains (change)
Support and celebrate change that has already been won and needs to be sustained.
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Nongfu Spring Market
Read more: Nongfu Spring MarketThe 9,000 bottles of water on display at an art gallery in Beijing last month appeared identical to those of Nongfu Spring, one of China’s most popular spring water brands, with one jarring difference. Inside each bottle was brown, murky…
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Mobile Worlds
Read more: Mobile WorldsWhen Europeans of the 18th and 19th centuries established their grandest museums, each building meant to unite the world’s cultural heritage under a single roof, they had no doubt as to who should explain it all: themselves. They took a…
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ŠTO TE NEMA (WHY ARE NOT YOU HERE)
Read more: ŠTO TE NEMA (WHY ARE NOT YOU HERE)ŠTO TE NEMA is a public monument created as a response to Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II – the systematic killing of 8,372 Muslim men and boys in the UN-protected safe area of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina…
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Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides
Read more: Elegy: GTA USA Gun HomicidesA computer game as a data visualizer – a daily reenactment of the total number of USA gun homicides since January 1st, 2018. The project works from a daily update of gun homicides as scraped from the Gun Violence Archive.…
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Drawing For Peace
Read more: Drawing For PeaceAaron Hughes, an artist-activist and Iraq War veteran walked into the middle of a busy intersection in Champaign, Il. where he was then going to college, and propped up a signboard that read: “I am an Iraq War Veteran. I…
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Ottawa Eel Walk
Read more: Ottawa Eel Walk“Around 30 people gathered on Victoria Island Monday morning to advocate for the return of the endangered American Eel to the Ottawa River. The event mixed art with activism, with attendees carrying windsocks decorated to look like as eels as…
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Reparations Happy Hour
Read more: Reparations Happy HourIn Portland, Ore., organizers of the “Reparations Happy Hour” invited black, brown and indigenous people to a bar and handed them $10 bills as they arrived, a small but symbolic gift mostly funded by white people who were asked not…
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Chicago Gun Share Program
Read more: Chicago Gun Share Program‘Gun-sharing’ stations in Chicago use art to make a point about gun violence. Users can’t actually grab a gun from the stations, but its creators hope the installation will send a message about how disturbingly easy it is for a…
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Latin Party at Racist Aaron Schlossberg’s UWS Apartment
Read more: Latin Party at Racist Aaron Schlossberg’s UWS ApartmentAction as a response to viral video of Attorney Aaron Schlossberg’s racist rant against Spanish speaking customers and employees at a midtown restaurant. The “Latin Party” included food, music, and dance celebrating Latina/o culture in the US. From FB event…
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Global Citizen Festival Expands to India
Read more: Global Citizen Festival Expands to IndiaJay Z, Coldplay and the Bollywood star Aamir Khan will join forces in India this fall as the Global Citizen Festival expands internationally. The charity concert, overseen by the Global Poverty Project, will be held at the MMRDA Grounds in…
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Printing a Revolution: The Posters of Paris ’68
Read more: Printing a Revolution: The Posters of Paris ’68During the major strikes and student uprisings in France that year, the École des Beaux-Arts turned itself into a workshop for revolutionary messages. PARIS — Fifty years ago, almost to the day, students here began to strike over the rigidity…
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Blurring Boundaries Between Art and Activism in Cuba
Read more: Blurring Boundaries Between Art and Activism in CubaMEXICO CITY — Of the half-dozen pieces that form Tania Bruguera’s series “Tatlin’s Whisper,” the one that the Cuban government silenced may have resounded most. An attempt by Ms. Bruguera, a New York-based Cuban artist, to stage an open-mike performance…