Projects tagged
Civil Liberties
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Art, Advocacy, and Action: Luke Ching’s Crusade for Labor Rights in Hong Kong
Read more: Art, Advocacy, and Action: Luke Ching’s Crusade for Labor Rights in Hong KongLuke Ching Chin Wai is a conceptual artist and labour-artivist in Hong Kong. Since 2013, he has worked undercover in different low-paid jobs in the city, including as a security guard, supermarket cashier worker, and metro cleaner to learn about…
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I’ve Got Nothing To Say
Read more: I’ve Got Nothing To SayFeb 23 2024, on the streets in Henan, China, a girl holds a big sign with the black text “I’ve got nothing to say” on a white background, walking around in city center and malls. She live-streamed her walk and…
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Drawing the line: meet the Romanian artist-activist tackling world crises one cartoon at a time
Read more: Drawing the line: meet the Romanian artist-activist tackling world crises one cartoon at a timeDan Perjovschi is one of Romania’s foremost artistic voices. Although known as a talented multi-disciplinary artist in his home country, particularly for his early performance work, he is most widely known internationally for his massive drawing installations. Executed directly onto…
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The Invisible Man
Read more: The Invisible Man“My intention was not to disappear in the environment but instead to let the environment take possession of me” Said Liu Bolin. With his strong photography, Bolin vanishes into the city, creating a powerful statement about our relationship, as humans,…
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Actionplay To Present A New Musical THE SURFACE
Read more: Actionplay To Present A New Musical THE SURFACEActionplay, a theatre company dedicated to providing autistic, neurodivergent, and disabled teens and young adults equal access to the theatre-making process, is pleased to announce their next production, the new musical comedy The Surface (or, That One Time Atlantis Washed…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Irish Reactions to Palestine and Israel
Read more: Irish Reactions to Palestine and IsraelPalestinian and Israeli flags flutter in pro-Irish and pro-UK neighbourhoods in Northern Ireland, tapping into its own history of conflict and division that still affects everyday life despite a 1998 peace deal that largely ended violence. The growing number of…
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Zhang Donghui, a young artist, was detained for more than three months and had to pay 3,995 yuan in compensation for writing the words “Three years, I have become numb.”
Read more: Zhang Donghui, a young artist, was detained for more than three months and had to pay 3,995 yuan in compensation for writing the words “Three years, I have become numb.”Zhang Donghui, born in 1992, is a native of Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China. He graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2017. He has been living and working as a professional artist in Beijing…