Projects tagged
Politics & Government
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Visualizing Palestine
Read more: Visualizing PalestineOver the past 2 years, Visualizing Palestine (VP) has harnessed visual storytelling to bring public attention to the daily injustices facing Palestinians, from demolition of homes to mothers forced to give birth at military checkpoints. VP wants to start 2014…
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Sheep Storm Paris’ Louvre in Farmers Protest
Read more: Sheep Storm Paris’ Louvre in Farmers ProtestSheep stormed into Paris’ iconic Louvre museum on Friday (March 28) as farmers protested against reforms to the common agricultural policy (CAP). A dozen sheep ran into the museum’s entrance underneath its famous glass pyramid, baffling tourists and aggravating museum…
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“Artists Support Ukraine”
Read more: “Artists Support Ukraine”“Artists Support Ukraine”, an initiative that seeks to bring attention to the Euromaidan protests in Kiev, through art. Organized by the Kadygrob & Taylor Platform for Contemporary Art, the collective engages painters, photographers, video artists, graphic designers, street artists and…
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Nude protest for International Women’s Day
Read more: Nude protest for International Women’s DayOn 8 March 2014, International Women’s Day, several female activists (Amina Sboui, Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, Solmaz Vakilpour, Safia Lebdi, Meriam Russel and Maryam Namazie) protested nude in support of women’s rights in the Middle East and North Africa in front…
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Women’s Fast for Families
Read more: Women’s Fast for FamiliesThe Fast for Families on April 7-9 is the culmination of a month of action involving more than 1200 women fasting through 70 events in 35 states as well as in Washington, D.C., and Mexico City. It is being organized…
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Palestine: Cartography of an Occupation
Read more: Palestine: Cartography of an OccupationFrom creativetimereports.org: Artist-activist collective MTL’s clickable collages connect disparate aspects of Palestine’s geographical and political landscape, offering provocative insight into “how Palestinians suffer and struggle in ways that are parallel to those elsewhere” according to philosopher Michael Hardt. About MTL:…
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Dark Side of the Prism
Read more: Dark Side of the Prism“Dark Side of the Prism” is a Firefox Add-on that provides a soundtrack for our surveilled internet meanderings. The public recently learned that the US National Security Agency’s on-going internet surveillance program, Prism, collects data from users of major websites.…
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Publixtheatre Caravan
Read more: Publixtheatre CaravanThe Publixtheatre Caravan is the English name for a travelling project of the Volxtheater Favoriten, a Vienna-based international theatrical troupe that has been creating site-specific theatrical interventions in public space as well as stage-based performances since 1994. It is a…
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NannyVan
Read more: NannyVanReversing decades of discrimination set into place when New Deal labor laws intentionally excluded domestic workers, New York State in 2010 passed the very first Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. Hawaii and California followed soon after with other states soon…
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The State of Things
Read more: The State of ThingsThe State of Things was first performed in the spring of 2006 on the 3rd anniversary of the Iraq war. On September 1st, 2008 in collaboration with Northern Lights as part of the UnConvention, Ligorano/Reese recreated The State of Thing’s…