Projects tagged
Immigration
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Just Be – Challenging perceptions & changing attitudes on forced migration
Read more: Just Be – Challenging perceptions & changing attitudes on forced migrationThe participants are taking part in a one week empathy to action training in Cork. As a part of this training we were asked to plan a campaign around “Empathy to action”. Our theme was global forced migration. We wanted…
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Future Internment Camps
Read more: Future Internment CampsOver the weekend, Plastic Jesus affixed 50 signs to construction sites throughout the country that read, “Lot reserved for: Future Internment Camp.” You may have spotted some odd signs with a dark message while walking around your city in the…
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Step Into My Shoes And Sit In My Seat
Read more: Step Into My Shoes And Sit In My SeatTopic: Displaced people Concept: Explore and communicate some of the issues around displacement in a global, European and Irish context. Date of action: 11th March 2.30 to 4.20 pm Place: Emmett Place, Cork City, Ireland We placed footsteps on the…
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The Flood: Gilgamesh and the quest of immortality
Read more: The Flood: Gilgamesh and the quest of immortalityThe project associating the contemporary movement of the people with the Gilgamesh journey focuses on the contemporary global crisis of the political systems and humanistic values, with the goal to contribute to the prevention of radicalization of our respective societies…
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Mandala and Cross / blackness, refugees and economic gamble
Read more: Mandala and Cross / blackness, refugees and economic gambleArtist Zoran Naskovski continued his project “Mandala and Cross / farewell to arms” with analysis of media representations of social processes in 2015, that resulted with a new installation: “Mandala and Cross / blackness, refugees and economic gamble”. The research…
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A Performance workshop “Misplaced Women?”
Read more: A Performance workshop “Misplaced Women?”“Misplaced Women?” is an art project-workshop by Tanja Ostojic in which she and project`s participants – artists , art students , cultural workers and activists: Nela Antonovic, Gorana Bacevac, Nadezda Kircanski, Tatjana Beljinac, Milica Jankovic, Tamara Bijelic, Irena Djukanovic, Bojana…
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“WakEUp!” Festival
Read more: “WakEUp!” FestivalFestival “WakEUp!” (organized by “Heartefact”) happened at several locations, and included film and exhibition program. Festival originated from the need for a reaction to the present moment refugee crisis and the situation in the world, began on the 7 th…
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The Flood: Gilgamesh and the quest of immortality
Read more: The Flood: Gilgamesh and the quest of immortalityFrom the two shores of the Mediterranean, Zoukak theatre company and cultural association (Beirut) and Center for cultural decontamination CZKD (Belgrade) collaborates by sharing their experiences and knowledge in working within sociopolitical contexts in the field of art and culture.…
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Occupation of Alcatraz Island
Read more: Occupation of Alcatraz IslandThe beacon flashed incessantly. On. Off. On again. Like some sort of traffic light gone crazy, it pierced the thick nighttime mist hovering over San Francisco Bay. The light sent a message five miles across the dark waters from Ghirardelli…
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Unpacking the 21st Century: Artists Engaging the World
Read more: Unpacking the 21st Century: Artists Engaging the WorldThe exhibition “Unpacking the 21st Century: Artists Engaging the World” included work by five New York City area artists that examined a range of social and political issues and offered companion special events. The exhibit, curated by Aileen Bassis, presented…