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The Folded Map Project

Date:
Jul 25 2020

The Folded Map Project is a project by Tonika Lewis Johnson, a photographer and community activist from Chicago. The project aims to investigate and change the racial and economic segregation that affects the city and its residents. The project started…

Protests, sainthoods and unapologetic queer joy: The secret history of the secular LGBT+ nuns

Practitioner:
Sister Polly Amorosa, the founder of the Trans Pennine Travelling Sisters

Date:
Jul 25 2020

As she puts the finishing touches to her habit, Sister Clarita, a Mexican immigrant living in Los Angeles, tells me that there are more than 3,000 LGBT+ nuns around the world. They’re part of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an…

Remembering

Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei

Date:
Jul 25 2020

In 2009, the dissident artist created a work to honour the thousands of children who died in the Sichuan earthquake. He recalls how the project, Remembering, angered China’s rulers – and changed his career for ever This is an edited…

Street Art Activism: What White People Call Vandalism

Practitioner:
DeVante Brooks, Mona Caron, Nancypili Hernandez, Olek

Date:
Jul 25 2020

In this article, author Caroline Choi highlights different grafiti artists and their stories. These artists use their talent to tell their stories, ones that might not get to be told otherwise. She goes into the history of grafiti, and how…

Cloud Studies

Practitioner:
Forensic Architecture

Date:
Jul 25 2020

Forensic Architecture’s Cloud Studies is a project that investigates the impact of toxic clouds on colonised and oppressed communities. The clouds, originating from sources like tear gas, industrial emissions, chemical weapons, and forest fires, often go unaddressed due to doubt…

Extending the frame: The art, vision and activism of photographer Will Wilson

Practitioner:
Will Wilson

Date:
Jul 25 2020

At first, you don’t know what you’re looking at. A gray expanse of uneven geometry surrounded by undulating brown. Shift your perspective a bit and it might be a close-up of a distressed textile, with subtle hues and textures surfacing…

Private Dinner Party: Clothing Not Allowed

Practitioner:
Charlie Ann Max

Date:
Jul 25 2020

Private Dinner Party: Clothing Not Allowed The Füde Dinner Experience gathers those who want to meet, eat and drink — only after leaving their clothes at the door. The bare back shoulders of two women facing a table with lit…

Private Dinner Party: Clothing Not Allowed

Practitioner:
Charlie Ann Max

Date:
Jul 25 2020

Private Dinner Party: Clothing Not Allowed The Füde Dinner Experience gathers those who want to meet, eat and drink — only after leaving their clothes at the door. The bare back shoulders of two women facing a table with lit…

Auli’i Cravalho Makes Powerful Statement in Support of Missing Indigenous Women with Lipstick Handprint

Practitioner:
Auli’i Cravalho

Date:
Jul 25 2020

For Auli’i Cravalho, actions speak louder than words. On Thursday night, the Moana voice actress stepped out for the premiere of Prime Video show The Power. There, the 22-year-old decided to raise awareness on missing indigenous women and girls by…

A Guide to the Afrofuturist House Music of Dirty Bird

Practitioner:
Dirty Bird / gum.mp3

Date:
Jul 25 2020

In 1996, filmmaker John Akomfrah created the character of the Data Thief as a narrative device to offer an insightful study of Afrofuturism in his film The Last Angel of History, which links Black musicians including George Clinton, Derrick May,…