Projects tagged
Immigration
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Healing through sound and community art
Read more: Healing through sound and community artGlowing softly in the West Texas desert night, artist Guadalupe Maravilla’s Mariposa Relámpago, was once an ordinary school bus but is now a richly decorated, mobile site for remembrance and healing. Like much of the artist’s work, this piece commemorates…
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Las Restauramoras
Read more: Las RestauramorasSiempre Unidas is a feminist collective in the state of Quintana Roo (Mexico) that works partly through street art. In 2021, in response to the femicide of Victoria Salazar – a refugee from El Salvador who died in police custody…
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The American Library
Read more: The American LibraryDebuting at Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, July 14 – September 30 for FRONTart 2018 is ‘The American Library’ by Yinka Shonibare MBE, a celebration of the diversity of the American population. It aims to be an instigator of discovery…
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Raising Awareness of Migration and COVID 19 through Graffiti and Street Art in Accra
Read more: Raising Awareness of Migration and COVID 19 through Graffiti and Street Art in AccraIn a bid to fight the spread of COVID-19, the EU Delegation to Ghana on Wednesday 27 May joined the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and artists from the Ghana Graffiti Collective, to launch an…
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Visual Sovereignty: Unpacking Nicholas Galanin’s ‘Never Forget’ Installation
Read more: Visual Sovereignty: Unpacking Nicholas Galanin’s ‘Never Forget’ InstallationFor Nicholas Galanin, a Tlingit and Unangax̂ artist and musician, memory and land are inevitably entwined. The 45-foot letters of Never Forget reference the Hollywood sign, which initially spelled out HOLLYWOODLAND and was erected to promote a whites-only development. Its…
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Repellent Fence: Art, Activism, and the U.S.-Mexico Border
Read more: Repellent Fence: Art, Activism, and the U.S.-Mexico BorderThe Repellent Fence is a social collaborative project among individuals, communities, institutional organizations, publics, and sovereigns that culminate with the establishment of a large-scale temporary monument located near Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora. This 2 mile long ephemeral land-art…
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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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Yoko Ono, Add Colour (Refugee Boat) presented by the Tate Modern
Read more: Yoko Ono, Add Colour (Refugee Boat) presented by the Tate ModernAdd Colour (Refugee Boat) begins as an all-white boat in an all-white room. Ono’s instruction for this collective, participatory work reads: ‘Just blue like the ocean.’ You are invited to contribute your hopes and beliefs in blue and white. Ono…
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North Korean Artist Hopes Reverse Propaganda Will Change Lives Back Home
Read more: North Korean Artist Hopes Reverse Propaganda Will Change Lives Back HomeSong Byeok is one of the most acclaimed Korean artists living today. He is from North Korea, where he was a propaganda artist for the North Korean government for two decades. After defecting in 2002, Byeok has turned his prolific…
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Law of the Journey
Read more: Law of the JourneyThe exhibition Law of the Journey is Ai Weiwei’s multi-layered, epic statement on the human condition: an artist’s expression of empathy and moral concern in the face of continuous, uncontrolled destruction and carnage. Hosted in a building of symbolic historical…