Projects tagged
Sex & Gender
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Yang Li: The ‘punchline queen’ who offended Chinese men
Read more: Yang Li: The ‘punchline queen’ who offended Chinese menChina’s “Punchline Queen” Yang Li is no stranger to controversy. The 29-year-old is now one of the country’s most well-known comedians, having risen to fame in recent months on a Chinese television show called “Rock and Roast”. Every week, in…
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Iranian Women of Graphic Design
Read more: Iranian Women of Graphic DesignPlatform ‘Iranian Women of Graphic Design’ share open-access protest posters to amplify #WomenLifeFreedom movement—triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini—in Iran and beyond. Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died in hospital three days after being arrested by the morality…
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Ivanka Vacuuming
Read more: Ivanka VacuumingFrom Public Delivery: “The art piece, which was showcased at the Flashpoint Gallery in Washington D.C. from February 1 to 17, 2019, allowed visitors to interact with it. The audience had a pile of crumbs placed right in front of…
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Mattress Protest/Carry That Weight
Read more: Mattress Protest/Carry That WeightMattress Performance (Carry That Weight) (2014–2015) was a work of endurance/performance art which Emma Sulkowicz conducted as a senior thesis during the final year of a visual arts degree at Columbia University in New York City.[1] Begun in September 2014,…
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Tinder Hack – Bros Swiping Bros
Read more: Tinder Hack – Bros Swiping BrosMan is a thirsty beast, and nowhere is that thirst more acutely exemplified than on Tinder, the matchmaking app that lets users swipe right in their quest to find love, lust, bots, or viral marketers. Now a California-based programmer has…
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Women of Allah
Read more: Women of AllahShirin Neshat’s Women of Allah is a photographic series exploring the complex identities of Muslim women in post-revolutionary Iran. Combining black-and-white portraits, Persian calligraphy, and symbolic elements such as guns and veils, Neshat interrogates themes of martyrdom, violence, femininity, and…
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Becoming an Image
Read more: Becoming an ImageCassils’ Becoming an Image confronts issues of queer and trans visibility, bodily violence, and the politics of witnessing. The performance uses a powerful blend of media—including live action in darkness, flash photography, clay sculpture, and sound—to explore how trauma and…
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Inside Out Project
Read more: Inside Out ProjectAfter winning the TED Prize on March 2, 2011, the French-artist JR launched the Inside Out Project, in his first TED Talk. Using his own artistic practice as inspiration, this participatory platform helps individuals and communities to make a statement…
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Buses in Seoul install ‘comfort women’ statues to honour former sex slaves
Read more: Buses in Seoul install ‘comfort women’ statues to honour former sex slavesBuses serving several routes in central Seoul have acquired a new and highly controversial passenger: a barefoot “comfort woman”, wearing a traditional hanbok dress with her hands resting on her knees. Appearing on the front seat of buses in the…
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Priya’s Shakti: Augmented Reality Comic Against Gender Violence
Read more: Priya’s Shakti: Augmented Reality Comic Against Gender ViolencePriya’s Shakti is an augmented reality comic blending Indian mythology with modern storytelling. It follows Priya, a rape survivor turned superhero, challenging cultural taboos around sexual violence and empowering women through art and technology. Activism refers to “a doctrine or…