Projects tagged
Sustains (change)
Support and celebrate change that has already been won and needs to be sustained.
-
For China’s Halloween of Discontent, He Went as a Surveillance Camera
Read more: For China’s Halloween of Discontent, He Went as a Surveillance CameraSeveral nights of Halloween celebration in Shanghai provided a vivid, if indirect, commentary this week on the malaise gripping the world’s second-largest economy. Nearly a year after protests roiled major Chinese cities in opposition to leader Xi Jinping’s stringent zero-Covid…
-
Mesmerizing Flesh: The Visceral Corporeality of Tamara Kostianovsky’s Textile Sculptures
Read more: Mesmerizing Flesh: The Visceral Corporeality of Tamara Kostianovsky’s Textile SculpturesFor artists exploring themes of violence towards humans and animals, there is a fine line between thoughtfully engaging and needlessly shocking the viewer; being sensationally explicit can turn people away while being tacit or innocuous may fail to make an…
-
Aboriginal Embassy, Richard Bell
Read more: Aboriginal Embassy, Richard BellRichard Bell has often called himself ‘an activist masquerading as an artist’. Aboriginal journalist and radio broadcaster Daniel Browning has suggested that Bell is also ‘a megaphone. But unlike so many other megaphones, his abiding message is not rhetorical, it…
-
‘Stand by Her’: a compaign fight period poverty in China
Read more: ‘Stand by Her’: a compaign fight period poverty in ChinaHONG KONG — It started when a single box of free sanitary pads appeared in a middle school classroom in October. Then a plastic container with pads was attached to the walls of four bathrooms in a university in Shanghai.…
-
Tech and Bodies
Read more: Tech and BodiesFilip Custic (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain 1993) works across photography, performance and video to address themes around identity, body and our relationship with technology. Mirrors and screens are a recurring features, a reference to our age of image-obsession and…
-
Nike and ‘For Once, Just Don’t Do It’
Read more: Nike and ‘For Once, Just Don’t Do It’On Friday night, as U.S. television screens burned with images of peaceful protests turning violent, Nike released a new socially conscious ad calling on Americans to do something quite different than the brand’s usual call to “Just Do It.” Instead,…
-
In ‘Faith Ringgold: American People’ at the MCA, an African American artist’s decades of work get their due
Read more: In ‘Faith Ringgold: American People’ at the MCA, an African American artist’s decades of work get their dueFaith Ringgold, the 93-year-old doyenne of African American art, a trailblazing master who foreshadowed the recent rise of art activism and Black figuration, is having her first solo museum show in Chicago. An electrifying and illuminating retrospective, “Faith Ringgold: American…
-
Htein Lin: A Show of Hands
Read more: Htein Lin: A Show of HandsFrom 1998 to 2004, pro-democracy activist Htein Lin was jailed for challenging the military dictatorship in his home country of Myanmar (formerly Burma) in Southeast Asia. Prior to his imprisonment, Lin acted in films and with a theater troupe. While…
-
Princess Diana’s 1997 landmine walk: ‘I come with my heart’
Read more: Princess Diana’s 1997 landmine walk: ‘I come with my heart’It’s an evocative image — and it was intended to be: Diana, Princess of Wales, wearing a protective visor and flak jacket, walking through a live minefield in Huambo, Angola. The image of the princess, at the time one of…
-
Documentary ‘Softie’ and the bear pit of Kenyan politics
Read more: Documentary ‘Softie’ and the bear pit of Kenyan politicsActivist Boniface Mwangi on confronting corruption in his homeland, and director Sam Soko on recording his campaign Kenyan director Sam Soko’s debut documentary feature, Softie, opens with the film’s protagonist, Boniface Mwangi, sourcing 1,000 litres of pigs’ blood. “I’ve found…
-
Future Vote
Read more: Future VoteThis project is a participatory art action initiated by the Action Office in 2024. Action Office called up Chinese citizens in mainland China to transfer their voting rights for what they believe will be their first participation in the election…
-
This Artist Captured the Non-Stop Flow of Plastic Pollution
Read more: This Artist Captured the Non-Stop Flow of Plastic PollutionBenjamin Von Wong’s latest art-as-activism installation looks like something Photoshopped onto reality. A large brass-looking faucet, suspended in the air, pours a river of plastic out of its spout. The symbolism of the #TurnOffThePlasticTap installation is somehow both over-the-top and…