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Gray Area

Practitioner:
Gray Area

Date:
Sep 17 2018

Being a Kuwaiti citizen makes you feel like you belong to Kuwait, as nationality is a legal relationship between a person and a state. But what if you are a “halfie” and are finding it hard to answer the question…

We Are the Asteroid

Practitioner:
Justin Brice Guariglia

Date:
Sep 17 2018

Justin Brice Guariglia’s We Are the Asteroid employs a highway message sign to bring attention to how anthropocentric, or human-centered, attitudes have allowed for unsustainable systems that contribute to climate change. The artist generated the slogan for this work with…

Breathing lights

Practitioner:
Adam Frelin and architect Barbara Nelson

Date:
Sep 17 2018

In October and November 2016, Breathing Lights illuminated the windows of hundreds of vacant buildings in Albany, Schenectady and Troy, NY. Warm light filled each window with a diffuse glow that mimicked the gentle rhythm of human breathing. Concentrated in…

Thousands of Shoes Honor Hurricane Maria’s Victims in San Juan

Practitioner:
Puerto Rican citizens, Rafael Acevedo

Date:
Sep 17 2018

Walking the rows of shoes—favorite slippers, old Army boots, gold stilettos—it’s the baby shoes that stop you cold. Shoes began to fill a plaza opposite Puerto Rico’s Capitol building, and by Sunday morning, there were more than 3,000 pairs, a…

Invisible Women – A World Designed for Men

Practitioner:
Caroline Criado Perez

Date:
Sep 17 2018

The problem with feminism is that it’s just too familiar. The attention of a jaded public and neophiliac media may have been aroused by #MeToo, with its connotations of youth, sex and celebrity, but for the most part it has…

Not Your Honor

Practitioner:
ABAAD

Date:
Sep 17 2018

To honor their battle, Lebanese women’s rights organization ABAAD launched a powerful song and music video titled Not Your Honor. The clip was launched on the occasion of the “16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence” initiative which took off…

Girls at Dhabas: challenging issues of safety, or ‘respectability’ in urban Pakistan?

Practitioner:
Girls at Dhabas

Date:
Sep 17 2018

We are sitting at a dhaba – a roadside tea-shop in Pakistan often frequented by lower-to-middle income men. At our table: four women and camera crew. The reporter from ‘one of the most globally viewed’ [read: western], mainstream British outlets…

COUNTERSPACE

Practitioner:
Cristina Morales

Date:
Sep 17 2018

Counterspace is an independent curatorial platform functioning as the first decolonial thinktank mapping cultural activism worldwide. It shapes collectively decolonial toolkits with common tools and resources, and a global directory browsable by continent, praxis, and social construct, as a Beuys-inspired…

Fake Drone Crash on UCSD Campus

Practitioner:
Ricardo Dominguez

Date:
Sep 17 2018

Students at the University of California-San Diego were surprised when an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, commonly referred to as a drone, crashed in the middle of campus — or at least they thought that’s what happened. A photo of a drone…

Problem Air Drop

Practitioner:
Ghana Think Tank

Date:
Sep 17 2018

In 2013, Ghana ThinkTank received a Creative Capital Award for Emerging Fields, enabling them to begin the multi-year ThinkTank at the Border project. In this project, they are collecting problems from civilian border patrols like the Minutemen, “Patriot” groups, and…