Projects tagged
Environment
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Artist Replaces Billboards with Photos of the Landscapes They’re Blocking
Read more: Artist Replaces Billboards with Photos of the Landscapes They’re BlockingVisible Distance / Second Sight is an art installation by Jennifer Bolande for DesertX. The temporary artwork can be found along the Gene Autry Trail near Vista Chino (33°50’41.70”N 116°30’21.02”W), where a series of consecutive billboards have been replaced by…
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Marry the Blue Sky – Chinese Performance Artist on Air Pollution
Read more: Marry the Blue Sky – Chinese Performance Artist on Air PollutionIn December 2015, she stepped out in a wedding dress adorned with hundreds of air pollution masks and walked the streets appealing to Beijingers to take public transport rather than contribute to the choking smog by driving. The year before,…
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Fresh Direct
Read more: Fresh DirectOur solution: Fresh Direct Nigeria (Fresh Direct Produce and Agro-Allied Services) is “City Farming” using stackable container farms! Fresh DirectNigeria brings fresh premium organic produce closer to market with our Container Farm Technology. Our pitch: We are making agriculture hyper…
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Threads of Resistance
Read more: Threads of ResistanceA juried exhibition of fiber art created by the Artist Circle Alliance to protest the Trump administration’s actions and policies. This is a traveling exhibition to 13 venues across the U.S. All work in the exhibition, as well as the…
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Dying to Breathe: The Unseen Cost of Gold Mining
Read more: Dying to Breathe: The Unseen Cost of Gold MiningPhotographer Sim Chi Yin spent more than three years documenting a Chinese gold miner who is suffering from the deadly lung disease silicosis. Despite the odds, his loving relationship with his wife has kept him alive much longer than anyone…
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Platform
Read more: Platform“As of October 2009, Retznei boasts a new centre. In the middle of the square the black contours of a concrete surface stand out, reminiscent of the shape of a pond. If you step on the Platform, you notice that…
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Vetements old clothes piles against fast fashion
Read more: Vetements old clothes piles against fast fashionVetements’ trademark is for subverting the fashion industry’s ways of doing things. Following its recent return to the runway after a short one season break, designer Demna Gvasalia has unveiled his latest project. Mirroring its takeover of New York department…
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Dismaland
Read more: Dismaland“He describes it as a “family theme park unsuitable for small children” – and with the Grim Reaper whooping it up on the dodgems and Cinderella horribly mangled in a pumpkin carriage crash, it is easy to see why. Banksy’s…
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Video Art on China’s Demolished Urban Scenery
Read more: Video Art on China’s Demolished Urban SceneryRumba II: Nomad (3’24” excerpt) 2015 / video / 14mins 16secs Sound by Dickson Dee Commissioned by GUCCI The urban fringe of Beijing is the loosen bricks from fragmented land. A result of urban development. The dynamic and complex urban…
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The Bushwick Collective transforms neighborhood
Read more: The Bushwick Collective transforms neighborhoodConceived and curated by Bushwick native Joe Ficalora, the Bushwick Collective has evolved into an extraordinary open-air gallery since its first mural surfaced in 2011. Attracting a wondrous array of local, national and international artists, it showcases first-rate street art…