Projects tagged
Food & Water
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“For People, Food is the First Necessity: Qiu Zhijie’s Writing in a Market”
Read more: “For People, Food is the First Necessity: Qiu Zhijie’s Writing in a Market”During the public vacation of May Day, also called International Workers’ Day, “For People, Food is the First Necessity: Qiu Zhijie’s Writing in a Market” was launched at the crowded Sanyuanli market in Beijing. The exhibition successfully aroused the enthusiasm…
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Un-Daily Bread
Read more: Un-Daily BreadIn response to an earlier project called “Daily Bread, Gregg Segal collaborated with the United Nations Refugee Agency to bring awareness to the crisis of refugees fleeing Venezuela through his project “Un-Daily Bread.” “We chose to look not only at…
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Daily Bread
Read more: Daily BreadGregg Segal — a California-based artist who is known for using the medium of photography to explore culture with the “sensibility of a sociologist” — travelled around the world asking kids to keep a journal of everything they ate in…
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In Beirut, solar panels and water tanks tell a story of decline
Read more: In Beirut, solar panels and water tanks tell a story of declineDia Mrad’s people-free photographs capture the resourcefulness of the Beirut population How do you photograph a crisis that is engulfing every section of society? That was the question facing Dia Mrad when he returned to Lebanon in 2019, having spent…
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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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Bread and Puppet Theatre: Insurrection Resurrection Service Circus
Read more: Bread and Puppet Theatre: Insurrection Resurrection Service CircusThe Insurrection-Resurrection Service Circus is this summer’s [started in 2020 and is ongoing] contribution to the iconic Bread and Puppet Circus tradition beloved by audiences worldwide for nearly 2 generations — a bright, raucous melee of short acts governed by…
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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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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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Activists Pour Porridge and Spray Soup on Queen Victoria Sculptures in Glasgow to Protest Cost of Living
Read more: Activists Pour Porridge and Spray Soup on Queen Victoria Sculptures in Glasgow to Protest Cost of LivingActivists poured porridge and jam on a marble bust of Queen Victoria and sprayed fire extinguishers filled with soup onto a large bronze statue of the monarch during two recent protests in Glasgow, Scotland. The group, called This Is Rigged,…
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Undersea Art Gallery That Ensnares Illegal Trawlers
Read more: Undersea Art Gallery That Ensnares Illegal TrawlersIT’S 7 AM, and a thin layer of mist still hovers over the harbor in Talamone as fisherman Paolo Fanciulli stretches out his nets. Pulling them out of a plastic tub, he examines them section by section, setting the ripped…