Projects tagged
Violence & War
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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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Feminist protest against Fujimori and forced sterilization
Read more: Feminist protest against Fujimori and forced sterilizationThousands took to the streets in Lima, Peru, on March 11 to protest conservative presidential frontrunner Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori, and demand that her candidacy be revoked amid accusations of vote buying. Protesters called attention to…
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Why did students re-enact a bloody 1985 battle between police and new age travellers?
Read more: Why did students re-enact a bloody 1985 battle between police and new age travellers?Breach Theatre’s multimedia play The Beanfield joins a growing trend of artists using documentary inquiry to hold violent and corrupt institutions to account. In 1985, as the miner’s strike was raging and the government was doing battle with “the enemy…
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Colectivo Sublevarte Retrospective
Read more: Colectivo Sublevarte RetrospectiveSublevarte, a Collective of Mexican artists, was born out of the ENAP (National School of Fine Arts) of UNAM (the National Autonomous University of Mexico), during the student strike of 1999-2000, the longest student strike in history. With more than…
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Memorial Hall to the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre
Read more: Memorial Hall to the Victims in the Nanjing MassacreNanjing, a picturesque city lying by the Yangtze River, owes its fame to its favorable geographic position, galaxy of talents and profound historical background. Having served as the capital of ten dynasties in ancient China, its splendour has remained and…
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Good Chance Theatre
Read more: Good Chance TheatreSurrounded by a jungle of tents and mud, the Good Chance Theatre was set up last year by British playwrights Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson. The refugee camp theatre has been derided by many, but for the thousands of migrants…
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“From Wall Street to Cairo”, featuring Fire in Cairo
Read more: “From Wall Street to Cairo”, featuring Fire in CairoMatthew Connors spent much of 2012 in Lower Manhattan making portraits of the protesters in the Occupy Wall Street movement. But a chance encounter during the course of that project made him do a 180-degree turn after meeting some Egyptian…
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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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Bread and Puppet Theater Founder Peter Schumann on 50 Years of Art and Resistance
Read more: Bread and Puppet Theater Founder Peter Schumann on 50 Years of Art and ResistanceThis year marks the 50th anniversary of one of this country’s most beloved theater companies. Founded in New York City in 1963, the Bread and Puppet Theater’s first productions ranged from puppet shows for children to pieces opposing poor housing…
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For Warmth
Read more: For WarmthThich Nhat Hanh reads his poem “For Warmth” in Vietnamese, Krista Tippett reads the translation in English, excerpted from the episode “Mindfulness, Suffering, and Engaged Buddhism.” Zen master and poet Thich Nhat Hanh was forcibly exiled from his native country…