Projects tagged
Arts & Culture
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A Boy Peers Over the Mexican Boarder Wall
Read more: A Boy Peers Over the Mexican Boarder Wall“One morning, when JR awoke, an image lingered from his dreams: The wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, and above it a young kid peering curiously over. A child just 1 year old, who has “no idea that’s a wall that…
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Activsm, Artivism and Beyond; inspiring initiatives of civic power.
Read more: Activsm, Artivism and Beyond; inspiring initiatives of civic power.‘Activism, Artivism and Beyond; Inspiring Initiatives of Civic Power’ Around the world people are responding to forces that threaten their rights and freedoms in creative and inspiring ways. Every year CIVICUS publishes the ‘State of Civil Society’ report, which maps…
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Pineapple
Read more: PineappleHow did a pineapple become a postmodern masterpiece? The aesthetic merits of tropical fruit inadvertently entered Britain’s national cultural conversation after two students jokingly placed a store-bought pineapple on an empty table at an art exhibition this month at Robert…
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Notice Nature
Read more: Notice NatureNotice Nature was a public engagement action undertaken by participants in the Erasmus+ funded training ‘Creativity and Change: Empathy 2 Action – nurturing response-able global citizens’ which took place in Cork from 8th – 13th April 2017. The team members…
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Just Be – Challenging perceptions & changing attitudes on forced migration
Read more: Just Be – Challenging perceptions & changing attitudes on forced migrationThe participants are taking part in a one week empathy to action training in Cork. As a part of this training we were asked to plan a campaign around “Empathy to action”. Our theme was global forced migration. We wanted…
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The Democracy Wall in Carroll Gardens
Read more: The Democracy Wall in Carroll GardensThe “Democracy Wall” in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn, New York was established in 2009. This wall is a long-term, community art activist project that is part wall mural, part past information archive. The project features paintings, photographs, newspaper…
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Every Month: One Week. One Film. One Global Audience.
Read more: Every Month: One Week. One Film. One Global Audience.For the past five years, we’ve screened SIMA juried films in communities and classrooms across six continents and witnessed an increasing demand to use the inspirational force of documentary filmmaking to build a global digital community around today’s most pressing…
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I’m Every Woman
Read more: I’m Every WomanOur Action: We set up “I’m every Woman” as a 3D street installation. It took place on the Boardwalk, Cork City on the weekend of International Women’s week. Our aims were to promote gender-equality. As a group we identified women…
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The Arte Útil Archive
Read more: The Arte Útil ArchiveThe Arte Útil archive presents a growing archive of over two hundred case studies that imagine, create and implement beneficial outcomes by producing tactics that change how we act in society. Whether through self-organised groups, individual initiatives or the rise…
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I Paint, I Protest: Mary Perry Stone
Read more: I Paint, I Protest: Mary Perry StoneVideo of Mary Perry Stone’s social protest art created in the 1960s . Civil Rights, and the Vietnam War were her subjects. Mary never stopped being an activist and a few of her later works are also in the video.…