Projects tagged
Race & Ethnicity
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The Worlds Only Mobile Feminist Nation: Obsidia
Read more: The Worlds Only Mobile Feminist Nation: ObsidiaIntroduction: The Ambulatory Free States of Obsidia The Ambulatory Free States of Obsidia is a tiny, Matriarchal, Micro-nation located at the confluence of feminism and geography. Grand Marshal Yagjian’s Great Vision for The Ambulatory Free States of Obsidia came in…
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Performance Obscura
Read more: Performance ObscuraIn her curatorial project Making Way, Ruth Simbao brought together works that complicated the idea of globalization’s effect on African nations, especially the idea that the new phase would usher in an almost frictionless movement of labor and capital across…
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Nike and ‘For Once, Just Don’t Do It’
Read more: Nike and ‘For Once, Just Don’t Do It’On Friday night, as U.S. television screens burned with images of peaceful protests turning violent, Nike released a new socially conscious ad calling on Americans to do something quite different than the brand’s usual call to “Just Do It.” Instead,…
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In ‘Faith Ringgold: American People’ at the MCA, an African American artist’s decades of work get their due
Read more: In ‘Faith Ringgold: American People’ at the MCA, an African American artist’s decades of work get their dueFaith Ringgold, the 93-year-old doyenne of African American art, a trailblazing master who foreshadowed the recent rise of art activism and Black figuration, is having her first solo museum show in Chicago. An electrifying and illuminating retrospective, “Faith Ringgold: American…
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Augmented reality project puts monumental public art at New Yorkers’ fingertips
Read more: Augmented reality project puts monumental public art at New Yorkers’ fingertipsDigital art platform Kinfolk has launched its New York City-wide participatory exhibition Signature Series, the initiative’s largest public endeavour to date. The project places newly created augmented reality (AR) monuments by four New York artists—Pamela Council, Derrick Adams, Tourmaline and…
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Congo Man Sets Himself Ablaze for Peace
Read more: Congo Man Sets Himself Ablaze for PeaceA video that was first posted on X (formerly Twitter) on November 8, of a Congolese man setting himself on fire has gone viral. The gruesome clip has started a discussion on whether a genocide is occurring in the DRC…
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North Hall Takeover at UCSB
Read more: North Hall Takeover at UCSBFor some, October 14, 1968, was a clarion call to the future. On that day, a group of 12 black students at UC Santa Barbara, tired of the unequal treatment and passive-aggressive racism they received as Black athletes — and…
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Julius Eastman: Gay Guerilla
Read more: Julius Eastman: Gay GuerillaJulius Eastman was a Black and Queer avant garde, minimalist composer and performer from the 1960s-1980s. He used his platform to advocate for the rights and livelihoods of Black and queer people through his unique musical aesthetic and the controversial…
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#DontMuteDC and Moechella Protest
Read more: #DontMuteDC and Moechella ProtestIn response to white gentrifiers trying to silence go-go music on the corners of Florida Avenue and 7th Avenue, activists and D.C. residents poured into the streets by blasting go-go music and celebrating its rich history within the city. For…
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Protest in Inner Mongolia against CCP’s Mandarin-only Education
Read more: Protest in Inner Mongolia against CCP’s Mandarin-only EducationThousands of ethnic Mongolians have protested across northern China in opposition to Beijing plans to replace the Mongolian language with Chinese in some school subjects. Tuesday marked the first day of a policy revealed in June, to gradually transition the…