Projects tagged
Arts & Culture
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Do You Want Us Here or Not
Read more: Do You Want Us Here or NotA series of benches that respond to the inaccessibility of exhibition spaces. They are designed to both voice protest and offer rest. External sources:
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What to do with a statue of Christopher Columbus?
Read more: What to do with a statue of Christopher Columbus?“Discovering Columbus,” by the Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi. Nishi built a living room around the sculpture in Columbus Circle in New York City. The living room is mounted on scaffolding and turns the sculpture into a domestic center-piece. “Since 1997,…
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Theatre. Immersion. Education. [T.I.E.]
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Read more: Theatre. Immersion. Education. [T.I.E.]T.I.E. is a residential, 24-hour, intensive experience during which participants will be: introduced to aesthetics of Immersive Theatre, guided through a practical exploration of these strategies, and mentored in the creation of an immersive, theatrical experience about a social justice…
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Tournons le dos ! / Turn our back ! [April 22, 2012 – April 23, 2017]
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Read more: Tournons le dos ! / Turn our back ! [April 22, 2012 – April 23, 2017]In France, abstention, vote of protest, lassitude or violent reactions rise from all over the crisis of our “representative democracy ». What about thinking the other way round ? What if we reappropriate the iconography of the election? With Turn…
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In/on The Way: Story Time
Read more: In/on The Way: Story Time“Story Time” emphasizes the significance of knowing the cultural histories of various nations and milieus, for it is precisely this knowledge that represents the first common point on the way towards understanding other cultures arriving in Europe with migratory flows.…
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Borders
Read more: BordersThe video for “Borders,” a song off MIA’s album Matahdatah, features images recalling all sorts of migrations from the developing world—there are people crossing deserts, fences, and bodies of water. Though much of M.I.A.’s work has been about women and…
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Orixás
Read more: OrixásImagine if back in the 1960s, creators Jack Kirby and Stan Lee had found inspiration for The Avengers in Yoruba mythology. Instead of Iron Man, we’d have the warrior Oxaguiã. Taking the place of the blue-eyed, blonde-haired Norse god Thor…
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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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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…