Projects tagged
Food & Water
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The Value Menu
Read more: The Value MenuThis is continued exploration of some work I recently had published for a culture jam project in response to the documentary “The Corporation”. There are a lot of layers working here. There are thoughts about food deserts, how multinational corporations…
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Exposing Disordered Eating
Read more: Exposing Disordered EatingExposing Disordered Eating is a photographic exhibition intended to show us the images we rarely see. In American media, representations of disordered eating are conditioned and controlled; all we are shown is the crumpled, emaciated anorexic figure with sunken eyes…
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Sunaura Taylor
Read more: Sunaura TaylorSunaura Taylor is an artist, writer and activist. Through painting, printmaking, writing and other forms of political and artistic engagement her work intervenes with dominant historical narratives of disability and animal oppression. Taylor’s artworks have been exhibited at venues across…
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Pamparadio
Read more: PamparadioAs part of USAID’s “My Comunidad-Mi Agua” program in Peru, “Pamparadio” was a radio show run by two adolescents from the community of Iquitos, a jungle province. Armed with a gigantic speaker on the top of a community center and…
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The Dollar Menu
Read more: The Dollar MenuEver get to thinking about how a food desert can pop up in the middle of a major city? One major reason is corporate fast food and manufactured goods. Food deserts are defined as urban neighborhoods and rural towns without…
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Empty the Cages
Read more: Empty the CagesFifty-six-year-old Dan Witz — who originally hails from Chicago but lives in Brooklyn — has been producing street art in New York since the seventies. And not just any street art. Wondrous works that trick the eye and often elude…
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“Save the Bees” Street Art
Read more: “Save the Bees” Street ArtColony collapse disorder is a colossal issue – and artist Louis Masai wants you take notice. His street art project “Save the Bees” aims to catch your attention by covering the walls of London with bees. Bees are extremely important…
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Welcome to the Cantareira Desert
Read more: Welcome to the Cantareira DesertA grey minivan rattled through São Paulo’s hilly suburbs, loaded with spray cans, paint rollers, buckets and a ladder as five street artists drove to the Atibainha river, rap lyrics blaring from their speakers. On the sweltering afternoon of 26…
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Farmer’s Haat (Market)
Read more: Farmer’s Haat (Market)Farmer’s Haat As a part of the two weeks “Khoj International Art Residency” and “Good Artists of Pune,” Shweta Bhattad, along with others, organized a community art project, titled “Farmer’s Haat.” With the help of students from medical and engineering…
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Most Likely Safe
Read more: Most Likely SafeIn April, 2011, Food and Water Watch partnered with Yes Lab to raise questions regarding drinking water around New York City. Yes Lab, an organization that collaborates with activist groups, aims to create successful media-related creative actions that help raise…