Projects tagged
Violence & War
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Guerilla Projections for Palestine
Read more: Guerilla Projections for PalestineAs the death toll from Israel’s attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip continues to rise, a guerrilla projection on May 13, 2021 illuminated a building in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood with messages of solidarity with Palestinians. The projection, organized by the…
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Joseph Beuys, Coyote: I like America and America Likes Me, May 1974
Read more: Joseph Beuys, Coyote: I like America and America Likes Me, May 1974It was 1974 when Beuys arrived in New York City, ready to tackle a whole new challenge and create what was to become one of the most famous works of art of the time. Upon arrival, his assistants wrapped him…
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Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, 1964
Read more: Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, 1964In Cut Piece—one of Yoko Ono’s early performance works—the artist sat alone on a stage, dressed in her best suit, with a pair of scissors in front of her. The audience had been instructed that they could take turns approaching…
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Adrian Piper, Mythic Being, 1973 – 1975
Read more: Adrian Piper, Mythic Being, 1973 – 1975Adrian Piper disguised her identity, changing her race, sex, and social class in order to experiment in public situations and gauge people’s reactions. She investigated how outwardly visible identity markers (like skin color) impacted others’ perceptions of her character. By…
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Turkey Erdogan: Women rise up over withdrawal from Istanbul Convention
Read more: Turkey Erdogan: Women rise up over withdrawal from Istanbul ConventionIt has been a tumultuous and anxious week for women in Turkey. When President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a decree at midnight last Friday, annulling Turkey’s ratification of the Istanbul Convention on violence against women, women poured onto the streets…
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Marisela Escobedo and the quest for justice
Read more: Marisela Escobedo and the quest for justiceMarisela Escobedo was 52 when she was shot dead on a sidewalk outside of the Government Palace of Chihuahua City, northern Mexico. She had set up camp in one of Mexico’s most dangerous cities – a place where people won’t…
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The Mirror Casket Project
Read more: The Mirror Casket ProjectThe Mirror Casket project is a sculpture, performance, and visual call to action designed and orchestrated by a collaborative of St. Louis community artists in response to the shooting death of Michael Brown on August 9, 2014 in Ferguson, MO.…
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Demonstrators hold “flower strikes” across the restive country
Read more: Demonstrators hold “flower strikes” across the restive countryOpponents of military rule in Myanmar have marched, observed “flower strikes” and sought alternative ways to communicate after most users were cut off from the internet, undaunted by the bloody suppression of protests during the past two months. The authorities,…
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Shaming criminals in Argentina : “los escraches”
Read more: Shaming criminals in Argentina : “los escraches”Faced with a lack of prosecution of those accused of crimes against humanity committed during Argentina’s military dictatorship, family members and descendants of the country’s estimated 30,000 disappeared took action. In the mid-1990s, they began gathering outside of accused perpetrators’…
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Santiago Sierra will soak British flag in blood of colonised peoples
Read more: Santiago Sierra will soak British flag in blood of colonised peoplesThe Spanish artist Santiago Sierra is planning to immerse a British flag in blood donated by indigenous peoples from countries colonised by the British Empire. The resulting artwork, titled Union Flag, is intended to be an “acknowledgement of the pain…