Projects tagged
Revolution
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Television Commercial for Communism
Read more: Television Commercial for CommunismImagine for a brief moment, that the world’s last five remaining communist countries decided to unite forces and hire the world’s top advertising agencies to re-brand and create a resurgence in the ideologies of Communism? Television Commercial for Communism [TVCC]…
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BlindWiki
Read more: BlindWikiUnveiling the Unseen BlindWiki is a location-based audio network where citizens who are blind or partially sighted use smartphones to share their findings by posting sound recordings. The platform does not just contain information about difficulties and barriers but is…
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NYC Street Art Map
Read more: NYC Street Art MapHuffington Post put together a digital, interactive map of some of the so-called best and brightest street art collections. Street art is important because it allows artists, usually from the community where the street art is taking place, to interact…
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¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York exhibition
Read more: ¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York exhibitionSpread over three institutions — the Bronx Museum of the Arts; El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem; and Loisaida Inc., a cultural center in the East Village — this show departs from straight political history by presenting the Young…
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Why Prince is a Powerful Example of Artistic Activism
Read more: Why Prince is a Powerful Example of Artistic ActivismFrom calling out poverty in his lyrics to his support of coding, the legendary artist pushed the world to care about more than music. With the sudden, tragic passing of Prince on Thursday, people are taking to social media to…
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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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Soviet Army Monument – REDUX
Read more: Soviet Army Monument – REDUXSince the beginning of Bulgaria’s transition to democracy, the monument’s meaning and future has been the subject of heated debates. Opponents to the monument aren’t happy about the presence of such a dominating foreign army monument in the country that…
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Not All Like That
Read more: Not All Like ThatJohn Shore and his wife Catherine had been attending the First Presbyterian Church of San Diego for six years when they were nominated to serve as deacons. But before they could be ordained, they were asked to sign a document…
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The Eye that Cries
Read more: The Eye that CriesThe Eye that Cries (El Ojo que Llora, in Spanish) is a memorial that was born as a private initiative designed to honor the thousands of victims as a result of terrorism in Peru, to strengthen the collective memory of…
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Shift Change Dress
Read more: Shift Change DressShift Change Dress is a community fashion & art project that utilizes a shift dress sewing pattern as a medium for communication and action. Participants are encouraged to use the pattern as a blank canvas for their art or message…