Projects tagged
Community
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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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The LES vs. Hurricane Sandy
Read more: The LES vs. Hurricane SandyIn anticipation of Climate March NYC 2014, Good Old Lower East Side, a non-profit focused on defending tenants rights and disaster preparedness outreach following the wake of Hurricane Sandy, implemented a arts-based intervention called “The LES vs. Hurricane Sandy”. In…
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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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Abandoned Love
Read more: Abandoned LoveUtilizing Tumblr, Peyton Fulford crafted Abandoned Love as a participatory art project with other users on Tumblr’s social network. Asking her followers “to send phrases from their diary, text messages, and anything else they personally have written in their own…
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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…
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Radio Ambulante
Read more: Radio AmbulanteRadio Ambulante is an award-winning podcast and audio series co-founded by novelist Daniel Alarcón in 2012. Described by many commentators as a Spanish-language This American Life, Radio Ambulante publishes stories from “everywhere Spanish is spoken,” reaching as many as 60,000…
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Bombay Underground: Publishing the Revolution
Read more: Bombay Underground: Publishing the RevolutionBombay Underground: Publishing the Revolution Flipping the modern, commercial definition of art on its head, Bombay Underground began in 1999 as a a group of people standing for free expression and creative social exchange. A means of engaging with local…
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Centros Sociales Okupados Autogestionados (CSOAs) in Spain: From abandoned houses to activist enclaves
Read more: Centros Sociales Okupados Autogestionados (CSOAs) in Spain: From abandoned houses to activist enclavesA Centro Social Okupado Autogestionado (Self-Managed Occupied Social Center) or CSOA is an occupied building dedicated to the development of social and cultural activities. They are part of the “movimiento okupa” (“squatter movement”), a label created and circulated by the…
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Training in Dance and movement Psychotherapy as a tool for reconciliation
Read more: Training in Dance and movement Psychotherapy as a tool for reconciliationFor over 60 years, Colombia has been facing war between guerrilla groups, the State, paramilitary groups and drug dealers. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, raped, displaced and threaten by this armed conflict. The common trait of this…
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Hearing impaired man is moved to tears after discovering his entire neighbourhood has learned sign language so they can talk to him
Read more: Hearing impaired man is moved to tears after discovering his entire neighbourhood has learned sign language so they can talk to himA deaf man was moved to tears after learning that his neighbourhood had learned sign language just for him to promote the heartwarming message: ‘A world without barriers is our dream’. Muharrem was unwittingly placed at the centre of an…