Projects tagged
Politics & Government
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ipaidabribe.com
Read more: ipaidabribe.comipaidabribe.com is an online tool that allows the users to report when they pay bribes, are asked to pay and refuse, and when they find an honest officer. They have a well designed site with apps for mobile phones, and…
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I HAVE A DREAM – Roman Subway Map
Read more: I HAVE A DREAM – Roman Subway MapTic Edizioni, Roman publishing house, has created “I Have a Dream”, a fake map of the Rome subway. In addition to the existing A and B lines, a dozen imaginary subway lines have been added: there are metro stops in…
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Parliament in Exile
Read more: Parliament in ExileDecolonizing Architecture/Art Residency (DAAR) is an art and architecture collective set up by Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal and Eyal Weizman, based in Palestine. Their work is a critical examination of the role played by architecture in the occupation of the…
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Autonomous Zones
Read more: Autonomous ZonesAfter winning the parliamentary elections of 2014 Gruevski was accused by the opposition of rigging the elections, which led the latter to boycott the sessions of the legislative. Mass protests followed with the government – though nominally pro-EU and pro-NATO…
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The Gate
Read more: The GateA site specific intervention аs part of the group exhibition Sculptural, organized and partly financed by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje. The text INVEST IN FUTURISM is a quotation of a gaffe uttered by the Macedonian PM on public…
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Borders
Read more: BordersThe video for “Borders,” a song off MIA’s album Matahdatah, features images recalling all sorts of migrations from the developing world—there are people crossing deserts, fences, and bodies of water. Though much of M.I.A.’s work has been about women and…
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Feast
Read more: FeastVoina conducted a wake for absurdist poet and Soviet-era dissident Dmitry Prigov, featuring a table with food and vodka, in a Moscow Metro car. Originally, they had planned an action involving Prigov but he died before they were able to…
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Colorful Revolution
Read more: Colorful RevolutionA wiretapping scandal rocked the small Balkan nation in 2016 when opposition leader Zoran Zaev began publishing excerpts of secret recordings that were made by the national security service which targeted up to 20,000 people, including government officials, journalists and…
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ŠTO TE NEMA (WHY ARE NOT YOU HERE)
Read more: ŠTO TE NEMA (WHY ARE NOT YOU HERE)ŠTO TE NEMA is a public monument created as a response to Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II – the systematic killing of 8,372 Muslim men and boys in the UN-protected safe area of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina…
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Chicago Gun Share Program
Read more: Chicago Gun Share Program‘Gun-sharing’ stations in Chicago use art to make a point about gun violence. Users can’t actually grab a gun from the stations, but its creators hope the installation will send a message about how disturbingly easy it is for a…