Projects tagged
Politics & Government
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LezFem’s Diary
Read more: LezFem’s DiaryThe current cultural and political context in Macedonia marginalizes lesbians and women in general, and the dominant political party forces the traditional role of the woman, where she is a mother, a housewife, and of course, heterosexual. Furthermore, the major…
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Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds
Read more: Ai Weiwei: Sunflower SeedsAi Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually…
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Manual de micromilitancia
Read more: Manual de micromilitanciaLess than a month after Mauricio Macri’s inauguration as president of Argentina in December 2015, a manual for micro-resistance was released online to guide resistance against Macri’s election and policies. The manual suggests specific actions that people can perform in…
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Savages
Read more: SavagesSavages are an all-female post-punk band that attempt to motivate people to be informed and take part in politics. They “try to give people a platform to express their own ideas” as Fay Milton of the band explains. The following…
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Pothole Activism
Read more: Pothole ActivismBaadal Nanjundaswamy, a Bangalore based artist who works at an advertising agency uses his art to embarrass the civic authorities into fixing the potholes that litter the roads of Bangalore. When people’s complaint to civic authorities about the state of…
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Stop Sign Takeover
Read more: Stop Sign TakeoverDaku is an Indian graffiti artist that engages in street art with political and social meaning. Little else is known about the elusive artist, due to the illegal nature of his work. The name “Daku” literally translates to bandit or…
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Good Chance Theatre
Read more: Good Chance TheatreSurrounded by a jungle of tents and mud, the Good Chance Theatre was set up last year by British playwrights Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson. The refugee camp theatre has been derided by many, but for the thousands of migrants…
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“From Wall Street to Cairo”, featuring Fire in Cairo
Read more: “From Wall Street to Cairo”, featuring Fire in CairoMatthew Connors spent much of 2012 in Lower Manhattan making portraits of the protesters in the Occupy Wall Street movement. But a chance encounter during the course of that project made him do a 180-degree turn after meeting some Egyptian…
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Arruinados
Read more: ArruinadosIn July and August 2013, O Teatrão, a Coimbra based theatre company, presented the project Arruinados, comprising three theatre performances in three abandoned spaces (‘ruins’), one in each of three cities in the Centre region of Portugal located along the…
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The “marriage effect”
Read more: The “marriage effect”Rights activists in Mozambique have marched through the capital Maputo to protest a colonial era law still included in new legislation that allows rapists to go unpunished if they marry their victims. The “marriage effect” clause sees convicted rapists given…