Projects tagged
Politics & Government
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Do Not Talk About Climate Change
Read more: Do Not Talk About Climate ChangeFranke James put up “Do Not Talk about Climate Change” posters around cities to raise people’s awareness on climate change issues. The artist cited that many Canadian cities are ill-prepared for catastrophic weather. CBS reported that “Many Canadian cities and…
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Barbed Wire Protest
Read more: Barbed Wire ProtestIn May, 2013, Russian performance artist Petr Pavlovsky wrapped his body, nude, in barbed wire and lay outside the St. Petersburg legislative assembly. The act was in protest of restrictions imposed on freedom of speech and assembly. Police officers were…
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Red Square Performance “Fixation”
Read more: Red Square Performance “Fixation”Petr Pavlensky, a Russian performance artist, sent a nail through his scrotum to the cobblestones of Red Square in Moscow (on a holiday in celebration of law enforcement). He was later charged with hooliganism. Pavlensky, as quoted in the Guardian:…
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Bulgarian students protest for ‘change’
Read more: Bulgarian students protest for ‘change’“Wake up!” chanted some 2,000 protesters rallying in front of Sofia University after students, who have been occupying part of the university since October 25, called for faculty and anti-government protesters to join their demonstration. Protesters marched in the streets…
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Real Cost of Prisons
Read more: Real Cost of PrisonsThe Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together justice activists, artists, researchers and people directly experiencing the impact of mass criminalization to work to end mass incarceration. The Real Cost of Prisons Project is a national organization, begun in 2000.…
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Ausencias
Read more: Ausencias“On 17 December 1976, 18-year-old Eduardo Raúl Germano was abducted in Rosario, Argentina. Following the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the 1976 coup d’état, Gustavo Germano, Eduardo’s brother, began working on the photography exhibition “Ausencias” (Absences). Born in 1964…
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Storm of the White House (Moscow)
Read more: Storm of the White House (Moscow)Voina art collective members covertly brought a large laser projector into the attic room of a hotel located across the street from the Russian White house (also called the Russian Parliament Building). From there they projected a large image of…
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When artists go to war: inside the PLO’s information department
Read more: When artists go to war: inside the PLO’s information departmentI was 24 years old. We were in danger. The Israeli planes were flying raids overhead. And I was designing posters.” Hosni Radwan won’t easily forget the conditions in the Beirut offices of the PLO Information Department, as an exhibition…
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Reimagining a New Australia Constitution
Read more: Reimagining a New Australia ConstitutionDo we need to crowdsource a new Australian Constitution? Does anything matter more than the environment? Should Australia become a republic with an Australian head of state? Should whistleblowers be protected? Is representative democracy antiquated? Controversial artist Carl Scrase is…
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Billionaires for Bush
Read more: Billionaires for Bush“Some people call you the elite,” George W. Bush joked to his wealthy funders, “I call you my base.” Whether candidate Bush meant it as a joke or not, the Billionaires for Bush (B4B) campaign used humor, street theater and…