Projects tagged
Politics & Government
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The Mischief Makers
Read more: The Mischief MakersThe Mischief Makers built a giant bird as a symbolic way of opening up Serb borders and made an impressive mosaic on the same theme, possibly to be used in a new youth centre. Clowns trained and joked about at…
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Peacmaker
Read more: PeacmakerThe following description is taken from Wikipedia.com: PeaceMaker is a video game developed by ImpactGames, and published in February 2007 for Windows and Mac OS. It is a government simulation game which simulates the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Labelled as a serious…
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Sluts Across America
Read more: Sluts Across AmericaIn 2012, Sandra Fluke stood up in front of Democratic members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to advocate for the mandatory inclusion of birth control coverage in health insurance. Republicans on the committee refused to allow her…
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#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS
Read more: #BRINGBACKOURGIRLSBoth the Michelle Obama, the First Lady of the United States of America, and David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the UK, have been photographed holding signs with this hashtag in support of the still missing, kidnapped Nigerian girls. “The…
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Santorum
Read more: Santorum“The campaign for the neologism “santorum” started with a contest held in May 2003 by Dan Savage, a columnist and LGBT rights activist. Savage asked his readers to create a definition for the word “santorum”[1][2] in response to then-U.S. Senator…
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“Deport the Statue” Campaign
Read more: “Deport the Statue” CampaignIt’s time to deport the Statue of Liberty. That’s the latest mission for Legals for the Preservation of American Culture, an organization which has begun the “Deport the Statue” campaign for the removal of Lady Liberty through four Twitter accounts…
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Chinese Artist Creates Hall Of Fame Portraits Of Corrupt Officials
Read more: Chinese Artist Creates Hall Of Fame Portraits Of Corrupt OfficialsChinese Artist Zhang Bingjian has embarked on an artistic project to promote transparency in China and Chinese government. His motivation? Discovering the extent of the corruption going on in his country. Zhang told the Toronto Star: “The chief prosecutor announced…
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Fake Eviction Notices
Read more: Fake Eviction NoticesOn the morning of April 24th, 2014, members of NYU’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine signed into several NYU dorms and slipped eviction notices under all of the doors. The eviction notices were written to raise awareness about…
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Y’en A Marre
Read more: Y’en A Marre“Y’en a Marre (“We’re Fed Up”) first emerged in 2011 as a grassroots campaign against injustice and inequality in Senegal. Spearheaded by the hip hop group Keur Gui Crew in response to local power outages, the nascent protest movement went…
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DISAPPEARED IN AMERICA
Read more: DISAPPEARED IN AMERICADISAPPEARED IN AMERICA is an ongoing project by Visible Collective/Naeem Mohaiemen that uses films, installations, and lectures to trace migration impulses, hyphenated identities, and the post-9/11 security panic. Excerpts of the project have been shown at various venues, including the…