Projects tagged
Sex & Gender
-
Between the Door and the Street
Read more: Between the Door and the StreetOn Saturday, October 19, 2013, Creative Time and the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum presented Between the Door and the Street, a major work by the internationally celebrated artist Suzanne Lacy, perhaps the most…
-
Cliteracy
Read more: CliteracyAccording to the artist: “CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws, 2012 is mixed media project that explores a paradox; the global obsession with sexualizing female bodies in a world that is illiterate when it comes to female sexuality. CLITERACY is a new…
-
H&M Ad-busting
Read more: H&M Ad-bustingArtist Daniel Soares pasted Photoshop toolbar stickers on these H&M posters as a nice little reminder that not all is as it seems. Y’all know how Photoshop messes with our perception of beauty, and I think this is a smart…
-
Camp Mossandsticks
Read more: Camp MossandsticksCamp Mossandsticks, named after moss and sticks–two of the most rudimentary tools with which one can spark fire–is a site for young women and girls to become resourceful, defiant, and self-sufficient revolutionaries of today. Started on November 6, 2012, the…
-
Miss Landmine
Read more: Miss LandmineA beauty contest for landmine victims challenges normal concepts of beauty. The search for beauty takes many forms. The traditional beauty pageant might be thought to be one of the less acceptable, concentrating as it does on conventional ideas of…
-
Real Life Barbie
Read more: Real Life BarbieWe have learnt that Barbie’s body is literally unattainable, but in a role reversal, Pennsylvania-based artist Nikolay Lamm shows us what Barbie would look like if she had the body of a real woman. Using the measurements of an average…
-
The Poster Workshop
Read more: The Poster WorkshopBetween the late 1960s and 1970s numerous alternative printshops were set up across the UK, with the founding objective of producing, providing or facilitating the cheap and safe printing of radical materials. They were started by libertarians, aligned and non-aligned…
-
Hollaback
Read more: HollabackStreet harassment is one of the most pervasive forms of gender-based violence and one of the least legislated against. Comments from “You’d look good on me” to groping, flashing and assault are a daily, global reality for women and LGBTQ…
-
Articulo 6 (Action 1)
Read more: Articulo 6 (Action 1)Fashion designer and social scientist, Lucia Cuba, has taken up the task of using fashion as a vehicle to bring attention and awareness around Articulo 6, an article in the Peruvian constitution that declared a law of forced sterilization of…
-
Silver Action
Read more: Silver Action“Suzanne Lacy is an internationally known artist whose work includes installations, video, and large-scale performances on social themes and urban issues. One of her best-known works to date is The Crystal Quilt (Minneapolis, 1987) a performance with 430 older women,…