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Kendrick Lamar Opens the 2018 Grammys with a Powerful and Political Performance

Date:
Jan 28 2018

DAMN. Kendrick Lamar opened the 2018 GRAMMYs with a powerful and political performance of his hit, “XXX.’” The rapper featured an army of face-covered soldiers marching in the background of an American flag, that quickly turned into a “satire” taking…

Umbrella Man – Occupy Central Hong Kong

Practitioner:
Milk

Date:
Jan 28 2018

The pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong have a new mascot: a roughly 12-foot-high figure of wood blocks holding a bright yellow umbrella in its outstretched right hand. The students call it Umbrella Man. Umbrellas emerged as a symbol of the…

Sit-Down Strike for Rhythm

Practitioner:
Rhythm Ambassadors

Date:
Jan 28 2018

At the New Orleans Swing Dance Festival the all African-American dance troupe The Rhythm Ambassadors were presented along side an African-American iteration of the Preservation Hall All-Star band with African-American vocalist Taryn Newborne to deliver the message that the African-American…

Gay Rights Activists in Beijing Protest for Their Russian Comrades

Practitioner:
a small group of gay rights activists

Date:
Jan 28 2018

A small group of gay rights activists gathered outside the Russian Embassy in Beijing on Valentine’s Day to protest Russia’s antigay laws. Behind a rainbow banner that read “To Russia with Love,” a dozen activists cheered as three couples puckered…

Speech/Acts at ICA Philly

Practitioner:
and Martine Syms, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Steffani Jemison, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Tony Lewis

Date:
Jan 28 2018

In “Speech/Acts,” a group exhibition organized by Meg Onli at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Tiona Nekkia McClodden stood out as artists who take up voices, histories, and experiences that can help audiences move…

The “Radical Edits” of Alexandra Bell

Practitioner:
Alexandra Bell

Date:
Jan 28 2018

The artist Alexandra Bell‘s “Counternarratives” series highlights journalism’s tendency toward obfuscation and slant. In the spring of 2017, Alexandra Bell began wheat-pasting posters of edited and redacted pages of the New York Times on subway platforms and buildings around the…

All Eyes on ‘Sparrow’: Documenting the Dangers of Activism in China

Practitioner:
Nanfu Wang/ Haiyan Ye

Date:
Jan 28 2018

Nanfu Wang feels safe in New York. Surveillance, that essential preoccupation of the documentarian in America, is a chokehold from which she has been temporarily released. From her Brooklyn apartment, the Chinese filmmaker prepares for the release of her debut…

Rise, Resist & Unite…V-Day & The Vagina Monolouges

Practitioner:
V-Day Sedona/ Organizations Across the Globe

Date:
Jan 28 2018

Back after a five year hiatus, V-Day Sedona joins with hundreds of other productions across the globe in celebrating V-Day’s 20th anniversary with an act of artistic activism. For its 20th anniversary, V-Day is calling on activists around the world…

In NYC, Activism Begins With Lessons In Theater

Practitioner:
EMERGE NYC

Date:
Jan 28 2018

Note before the post: This article is great in highlighting a specific case of creative activism in the streets of New York City, but also gives some contextual background to how this project manifested. On a sidewalk in the Village…

Iranian Documentary ‘The Gardener’, on Religion and Baha’i Garden

Practitioner:
Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Date:
Jan 28 2018

The Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf opens “The Gardener” with the declaration: “I am an agnostic filmmaker.” From anyone else, this might seem like a simple statement, but not from the complex Mr. Makhmalbaf. In 1974, when he was 17, religious…