Projects tagged
Health
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Corset
Read more: CorsetArtists: Cindy Maguire, Assistant Professor Art Education Adelphi University and Teaching Artist with Artistic Noise and girls ages 13-17 from the Brentwood Residential Center on Long Island. This bra/corset is a collaborative work by Cindy Maguire, Assistant Professor of Art…
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Toilet Strike: Matt Damon (Water.org)
Read more: Toilet Strike: Matt Damon (Water.org)For the launch of a new organization fighting to end the water crisis, Matt Damon, Co-founder of Water.org, has produced a video using humor to shed light on the issue of access to clean water. In the spoof, he holds…
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Building Images
Read more: Building ImagesIsabelle Wenzel’s series of photographs entitled ‘Building Images’ is a striking view on the idea of the office/ workplace. Not only do her images ironically translate the uncomfortable positions office workers endure sitting in a single position for 8 hours…
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AIDS activism through billboards; Untitled (1991)
Read more: AIDS activism through billboards; Untitled (1991)In 1991, Gonzalez-Torres lost his partner Ross to AIDS (the artist would face the same fate in 1996). In a tragic and highly personal tribute to Ross, Gonzalez-Torres took a picture of his still-indented empty bed – an image of…
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Puppets Against AIDS
Read more: Puppets Against AIDS“Puppets Against Aids was launched by Gary Friedman on 1st December 1988 in time for ‘World Aids Day’ in Johannesburg, South Africa. During 1987, Friedman had been studying with Muppet master, Jim Henson, in Charleville-Mézières, France. Henson provided the initial…
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AIDS Memorial Quilt
Read more: AIDS Memorial QuiltIn June of 1987, a small group of strangers gathered in a San Francisco storefront to document the lives they feared history would neglect. Their goal was to create a memorial for those who had died of AIDS, and to…
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The Condom on Jesse Helms’ House
Read more: The Condom on Jesse Helms’ HouseOn September 5th, 1991, I put a giant condom over Jesse Helms’ house. Why? Because, as the condom said, “Helms is deadlier than a virus.” Senator Jesse Helms was one of the chief architects of AIDS-related stigma in the U.S.…
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Chlamydia dell’Arte: A Sex-Ed Burlesque
Read more: Chlamydia dell’Arte: A Sex-Ed BurlesqueChlamydia dell’Arte: A Sex-Ed BurlesqueYou’ve never taken a sex-ed class like this one!First performed in the 2009 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, followed by a run in Washington, DC in 2010, and in New York in 2012, CHLAMYDIA DELL’ARTE: A SEX-ED BURLESQUE is…
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8 Extraordinary Greens
Read more: 8 Extraordinary Greens“Jenna has designed an efficient, sub-irrigated system for growing energy-packed plants (microgreens) in small, urban spaces. Her aim: to provide healthy greens to extraordinary people with ordinary incomes. As an urban agricultural design project, she envisions a way to grow…
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ACT UP is at it again
Read more: ACT UP is at it againLong before the red ribbon became an innocuous symbol of AIDS “awareness” and celebrity philanthropy, there was the pink triangle and there was ACT UP and there were thousands of people taking to the streets for their lives. Once a…