Projects tagged
Politics & Government
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STICK IT TO ‘EM!
Read more: STICK IT TO ‘EM!#stickit2em is an all-inclusive, anti-capitalist, & pro-planet justice movement, using the clever medium of stickers! “America is segregated and so is pollution. Race and class still matter and map closely with pollution, unequal protection, and vulnerability. Today, zip code is…
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The Invisible Man
Read more: The Invisible Man“My intention was not to disappear in the environment but instead to let the environment take possession of me” Said Liu Bolin. With his strong photography, Bolin vanishes into the city, creating a powerful statement about our relationship, as humans,…
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The Worlds Only Mobile Feminist Nation: Obsidia
Read more: The Worlds Only Mobile Feminist Nation: ObsidiaIntroduction: The Ambulatory Free States of Obsidia The Ambulatory Free States of Obsidia is a tiny, Matriarchal, Micro-nation located at the confluence of feminism and geography. Grand Marshal Yagjian’s Great Vision for The Ambulatory Free States of Obsidia came in…
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For China’s Halloween of Discontent, He Went as a Surveillance Camera
Read more: For China’s Halloween of Discontent, He Went as a Surveillance CameraSeveral nights of Halloween celebration in Shanghai provided a vivid, if indirect, commentary this week on the malaise gripping the world’s second-largest economy. Nearly a year after protests roiled major Chinese cities in opposition to leader Xi Jinping’s stringent zero-Covid…
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Aboriginal Embassy, Richard Bell
Read more: Aboriginal Embassy, Richard BellRichard Bell has often called himself ‘an activist masquerading as an artist’. Aboriginal journalist and radio broadcaster Daniel Browning has suggested that Bell is also ‘a megaphone. But unlike so many other megaphones, his abiding message is not rhetorical, it…
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Princess Diana’s 1997 landmine walk: ‘I come with my heart’
Read more: Princess Diana’s 1997 landmine walk: ‘I come with my heart’It’s an evocative image — and it was intended to be: Diana, Princess of Wales, wearing a protective visor and flak jacket, walking through a live minefield in Huambo, Angola. The image of the princess, at the time one of…
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Documentary ‘Softie’ and the bear pit of Kenyan politics
Read more: Documentary ‘Softie’ and the bear pit of Kenyan politicsActivist Boniface Mwangi on confronting corruption in his homeland, and director Sam Soko on recording his campaign Kenyan director Sam Soko’s debut documentary feature, Softie, opens with the film’s protagonist, Boniface Mwangi, sourcing 1,000 litres of pigs’ blood. “I’ve found…
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Future Vote
Read more: Future VoteThis project is a participatory art action initiated by the Action Office in 2024. Action Office called up Chinese citizens in mainland China to transfer their voting rights for what they believe will be their first participation in the election…
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Augmented reality project puts monumental public art at New Yorkers’ fingertips
Read more: Augmented reality project puts monumental public art at New Yorkers’ fingertipsDigital art platform Kinfolk has launched its New York City-wide participatory exhibition Signature Series, the initiative’s largest public endeavour to date. The project places newly created augmented reality (AR) monuments by four New York artists—Pamela Council, Derrick Adams, Tourmaline and…
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Montreal’s ‘casseroles’ cook up a storm over Quebec’s anti-protest law
Read more: Montreal’s ‘casseroles’ cook up a storm over Quebec’s anti-protest law“Every night, at 8pm, during 15 minutes, take a casserole or any object that makes some noise and bang it with all the wrath that Bill 78 inspires you!” Citizens in Quebec adopted ‘cacerolazo,’ a form of popular protest which…