Projects tagged
Environment
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She Draws the Urgency of Climate Change
Read more: She Draws the Urgency of Climate ChangeHer name is Zaria Forman, a leading artist in contemporary art with a cause. She is not only an exceptional human being; she is also an incredible American drawer who uses art to convey the emergency of climate change. Zaria’s…
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Reframing Trash Into Art
Read more: Reframing Trash Into ArtIn 2008, my work as an artist took me to a gigantic landfill outside Rio de Janeiro called Jardim Gramacho. After operating for more than 30 years, the sanitary facility, once one of the largest in the world, had reached…
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Photographer Stéphan Gladieu Documents the Congolese Street Children Turning Waste into Wonder
Read more: Photographer Stéphan Gladieu Documents the Congolese Street Children Turning Waste into Wonder“So dramatic, so strong, so visual,” artist Stéphan Gladieu said of his first encounter with the revival of an ancestral folk art movement in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Kinshasa is the capital of Congo but also one of the…
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Climate-Noah’s Ark
Read more: Climate-Noah’s ArkOn September 19,2015 in Paris, 140 animals sailed up the River Seine to bring awareness to climate change, ahead of the COP21 UN meeting in December. French artist Gad Weil created this pop art piece from fully recyclable acrylic sheets,…
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The Aesthetic and Conceptual Impact of El Anatsui’s Sculptures
Read more: The Aesthetic and Conceptual Impact of El Anatsui’s SculpturesEl Anatsui, a visionary originally from Ghana, blends discarded materials into breathtaking sculptures that, in themselves, advocate for change and prompt us to reimagine our relationship with the environment. His meticulous artistry serves as a vivid reminder of environmental challenges…
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Māori Artist Gives Glimpse of Future Water-World Full of Plastic
Read more: Māori Artist Gives Glimpse of Future Water-World Full of PlasticNew Zealander artist George Nuku has presented his latest work as an installation that imagines the state of the world’s oceans 100 years in the future where plastics have totally changed the marine environment. Nuku’s project, dubbed Bottled Ocean 2122,…
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Chinese Artists Protest Against Japan’s Nuclear Wastewater Release Through Visual Arts
Read more: Chinese Artists Protest Against Japan’s Nuclear Wastewater Release Through Visual ArtsJapan has begun discharging nuclear wastewater into the ocean four times a year, each time lasting 17 consecutive days. Under their 30-year plan, it is estimated that approximately 1.34 million tons of wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant will…
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what is missing?
Read more: what is missing?“What Is Missing?” is a multi-sited memorial created by Maya Lin to raise awareness through science-based artworks about the present sixth mass extinction of species, connect this loss of species to habitat degradation and loss, and emphasize that by protecting…
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Washing River 洗河
Read more: Washing River 洗河Since the 1980s, revitalizing the economy has always been the country’s development strategy. Although China’s economy has grown rapidly in just twenty years, attracting worldwide attention, environmental destruction has also become a problem. For example, the Fu Nan River in…
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Life, Entangled: Artist Liang Shaoji on Working with Silkworms
Read more: Life, Entangled: Artist Liang Shaoji on Working with Silkworms“I am a silkworm.” Liang Shaoji has repeatedly used this phrase to describe his work, underscoring his preoccupation with the materiality of silk and the technology of sericulture, or silk farming. For more than twenty-five years, Liang Shaoji has raised…