Projects tagged
Sex & Gender
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The Mending Project
Read more: The Mending ProjectImagine walking into a silent room where a woman is mending. Now imagine that she’s sitting underneath 1,500 pairs of sharp Chinese scissors that are suspended from the ceiling, precariously pointed downwards. This was the idea behind The Mending Project…
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THE GIVERNY SUITE
Read more: THE GIVERNY SUITEFilmed in Harlem, New York, and in Claude Monet’s gardens in Giverny, France, THE GIVERNY SUITE is a cinematic poem that advocates for the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women. Employing techniques including hand-painted film animation and montage editing,…
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Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism and the AIDS Poster
Read more: Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism and the AIDS PosterUp Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster is the traveling version of the first major exhibition devoted to the University of Rochester’s collection of HIV/AIDS-related posters. It illustrates to a broad audience that “AIDS affects everyone” and…
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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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WHAT THE SUICIDE OF AUTHOR LIN YI HAN CAN TEACH US ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH
Read more: WHAT THE SUICIDE OF AUTHOR LIN YI HAN CAN TEACH US ABOUT MENTAL HEALTHThe author behind ‘The First Paradise of Fang Siqi,’ a novel that Han described as ‘a young girl falling in love with her rapist,’ has sent shockwaves through Taiwanese society. On April 27, aspiring Taiwanese author Lin Yi Han committed…
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Mesmerizing Flesh: The Visceral Corporeality of Tamara Kostianovsky’s Textile Sculptures
Read more: Mesmerizing Flesh: The Visceral Corporeality of Tamara Kostianovsky’s Textile SculpturesFor artists exploring themes of violence towards humans and animals, there is a fine line between thoughtfully engaging and needlessly shocking the viewer; being sensationally explicit can turn people away while being tacit or innocuous may fail to make an…
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‘Stand by Her’: a compaign fight period poverty in China
Read more: ‘Stand by Her’: a compaign fight period poverty in ChinaHONG KONG — It started when a single box of free sanitary pads appeared in a middle school classroom in October. Then a plastic container with pads was attached to the walls of four bathrooms in a university in Shanghai.…
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“Anime Gaze”
Read more: “Anime Gaze”A unique piece captured significant attention at the Central Academy of Fine Arts undergraduate graduation exhibition in June. The work featured an “anime-style” girl’s skull linked to a human skeleton and internal organs, all encased within a thin film. As…
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A Later Banned Set of Photos Sent Shockwaves Through Chinese Netizens
Read more: A Later Banned Set of Photos Sent Shockwaves Through Chinese NetizensA Chinese Independent Photographer, Xiyouxiu (Twitter ID@xiuxiukong) published a set of photos called “Father” on both Chinese social platforms like Weibo and Little Red Book, and international platforms like twitter. At the beginning of the story being told by the…