Projects tagged
Arts & Culture
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Looping! Finding Your Inner Child in Your Underwear on the Streets
Read more: Looping! Finding Your Inner Child in Your Underwear on the StreetsWhat is looping? Somewhere in between art, activism, and wackiness is this liberating experience. Matthew Silver and Fritz Donnelley, two New York City based performance artists got lonely acting silly in their underwear in public. Knowing that there were enough…
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The Democracy Machine
Read more: The Democracy MachineThe Democracy Machine! is a performative sculpture that gives participants the opportunity to experience the thrill of democracy in action, in a competitive game that challenges people to work together toward understanding a better society. Using the spectacle and play…
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The technopolitical struggle for free culture
Read more: The technopolitical struggle for free cultureThe Spanish 15M/Indignados movement represents a citizen break-up with the current political system while proposing an alternative one, changing the prevailing participation patterns while transforming the cultural, social and political structures in the country. Nobody expected the Spanish r-Evolution and…
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Embassy Of Iran in Jerusalem
Read more: Embassy Of Iran in JerusalemThere is no embassy of Iran in Jerusalem. We ask why. We are a group of artists living and creating in Jerusalem, trying to create a new reality. one which we can identify with. A reality of dialogue between the…
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Not Ready to Make Nice: 30th Anniversary of Guerrilla Girls
Read more: Not Ready to Make Nice: 30th Anniversary of Guerrilla GirlsNOT READY TO MAKE NICE: GUERRILLA GIRLS BIRTHDAY 30 YEARS AND STILL COUNTING! BLOWOUT PARTY WITH DJ AND CAKE! Friday, May 15 8-10 PM • ABRONS ARTS CENTER 466 GRAND ST, NY ALSO AT ABRONS ARTS CENTER 466 GRAND ST,…
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Transient Typewrite Project
Read more: Transient Typewrite ProjectFounded by Bobby Gordon and Nayeli Adorador Knudsen, The Melrose Poetry Bureau is a public intervention involving a whole lot of typewriters, a public space, and the chaos that ensues. Once a location is picked for an intervention, Bobby and…
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Santuario Virgen del Rosario
Read more: Santuario Virgen del RosarioIn 2009, clergy from El Oratorio Don Bosco in Italy moved to Polloc, a remote town in Peru near Cajamarca, and began to build a mid-sized cathedral. In conjunction to the construction, they opened up a workshop next to the…
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Imaginary Activism: The Role of the Artist Beyond the Art World
Read more: Imaginary Activism: The Role of the Artist Beyond the Art WorldIn this solo work, Gómez-Peña tests brand new material dealing with radical citizenship and what he terms “imaginary activism,” combining live art, literature, theory, and pedagogy in a wonderfully strange mix. Not one solo performance is ever the same. Gómez-Peña…
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The Department of Accumulated Thought (D.A.T.)
Read more: The Department of Accumulated Thought (D.A.T.)Call it art, exhibited as an installation piece in the October 2014 show “Crossing Brooklyn,” a collaboration of more than 100 artworks by 35 artists (or groups) who live or work in Brooklyn, presented at the Brooklyn Museum… or call…
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Learning to Love You More
Read more: Learning to Love You More‘Learning To Love You More’ is a digital and physical presentation of artistic responses from the general public. These “assignments” were facilitated under the creative direction of Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July, managed on a website by designed and curated…