Projects tagged
Politics & Government
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Refuge
Read more: RefugeRefuge is a 5 year transdisciplinary project that brings together artists, community members and emergency services to investigate arts and culture’s role in developing preparedness and building community resilience for climate related disasters. Arts and culture’s contribution to the disaster…
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Wheel of Misfortune
Read more: Wheel of MisfortuneHong Kong’s Lunar New Year fairs draw thousands of visitors who stroll past stalls of potted narcissus, snack on fish balls and snap up the latest plush toys. In recent years, the largest of the fairs, at Victoria Park, has…
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OUTRAGE: Artists Respond to the Election of Donald Trump
Read more: OUTRAGE: Artists Respond to the Election of Donald Trump“OUTRAGE: Artists Respond to the Election of Donald Trump” an online exhibition of art work by 20 artists https://sites.google.com/site/outrageartistsrespondtotrump/ Art Hazelwood, Aileen Bassis, Patricia Dahlman, Donna Coleman, Anne Dushanko Dobek, Vaughn Spann, Cicely Cottingham, Robyn Ellenbogen, Doug Minkler, Ilse Schreiber-Noll,…
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Davey Drumpf, Presidential Cousin-At-Large
Read more: Davey Drumpf, Presidential Cousin-At-LargeA new series of video commentaries with Davey Drumpf, The Donald’s long-lost third cousin, twice removed. His views are several degrees to the Left of the Don’s. First installment: Co-housing vs. Weaponized Xenophobia. External sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPu9KcHXS3k&feature=youtu.be
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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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Television Commercial for Communism
Read more: Television Commercial for CommunismImagine for a brief moment, that the world’s last five remaining communist countries decided to unite forces and hire the world’s top advertising agencies to re-brand and create a resurgence in the ideologies of Communism? Television Commercial for Communism [TVCC]…
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Subway Therapy
Read more: Subway TherapyDuring her concession speech yesterday, Hillary Clinton uttered a simple, terrifying sentence: “Donald Trump is going to be our president.” For many Americans—New Yorkers especially—the sickening reality of a Trump presidency is impossible to fathom. A few hours later, a…
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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…
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EASY TO ASSEMBLE – Spain’s Podemos Leftist Party Printed its Program as an Ikea Catalog so Voters Will Actually Read It
Read more: EASY TO ASSEMBLE – Spain’s Podemos Leftist Party Printed its Program as an Ikea Catalog so Voters Will Actually Read ItWhether or not they follow politics, it’s fair to assume most people don’t actually read electoral programs. Podemos, Spain’s growing leftwing party, which got nearly 21% of the votes in last year’s elections, doesn’t think that’s good, so it adopted…