Projects tagged
Police & Prisons
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15 Years to Life
Read more: 15 Years to LifeAnthony Papa was arrested for a drug crime and with no prior offenses was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for violating New York’s harsh drug laws. While in prison, Papa began to document his inner struggles via…
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White Clergy Spark Debate By Telling Cops #UseMeInstead For Target Practice
Read more: White Clergy Spark Debate By Telling Cops #UseMeInstead For Target PracticeA group of clergy members wanted to change the conversation when they heard that a Florida police department was using mug shots of young black men as targets for shooting practice. “#UseMeInstead,” the religious leaders said, tweeting photos of themselves…
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Why Prince is a Powerful Example of Artistic Activism
Read more: Why Prince is a Powerful Example of Artistic ActivismFrom calling out poverty in his lyrics to his support of coding, the legendary artist pushed the world to care about more than music. With the sudden, tragic passing of Prince on Thursday, people are taking to social media to…
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Why did students re-enact a bloody 1985 battle between police and new age travellers?
Read more: Why did students re-enact a bloody 1985 battle between police and new age travellers?Breach Theatre’s multimedia play The Beanfield joins a growing trend of artists using documentary inquiry to hold violent and corrupt institutions to account. In 1985, as the miner’s strike was raging and the government was doing battle with “the enemy…
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This Ain’t a Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering
Read more: This Ain’t a Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering“This Ain’t a Eulogy” is both a staged performance and a durational, outdoor, public performance that reclaims and takes public space. The artist statement is as follows: “Moved by the non-indictments of the police officers responsible for the deaths of…
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A Maze in Philadelphia Focuses Attention on the Hidden Cruelty of US Prisons
Read more: A Maze in Philadelphia Focuses Attention on the Hidden Cruelty of US PrisonsThe US prison system is one of the world’s great shames. A quarter of the world’s prisoners are being detained in a country that represents only 5% of the world’s population. It is a system that has been compared to…
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Ghost Protest in Seoul
Read more: Ghost Protest in SeoulHaeryun Kang reported the following for NPR on February 24, 2016: “On the eve of South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s third anniversary in office, protesters gathered in Seoul… to condemn the administration’s increasing crackdown on free speech. These protesters were…
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Open Plan: Andrea Fraser at the Whitney
Read more: Open Plan: Andrea Fraser at the WhitneyThe average crow takes less than two hours to travel from Sing Sing maximum-security prison to the Whitney Museum of American Art, institutions separated by just 32 miles of land along New York’s Hudson river. Yet few humans journey between…
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Visions From The Inside – Art project inspired by letters by detained migrants
Read more: Visions From The Inside – Art project inspired by letters by detained migrantsCultureStrike in partnership with Mariposas Sin Fronteras , End Family Detention and 15 artists from across the country, brings you Visions From The Inside, a visual art project inspired by letters penned by detained migrants. By visually illustrating these letters…
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How Selective Enforcement of Illegal Advertising Laws Punishes Creative Activism
Read more: How Selective Enforcement of Illegal Advertising Laws Punishes Creative ActivismThe enforcement of city and state law pertaining to graffiti, advertising, and other signage has enormous power to visually shape public space. In New York City, enforcement is heavily skewed to ignore illegal commercial advertising, while simultaneously aggressively targeting graffiti…