Projects tagged
Violence & War
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The Eye that Cries
Read more: The Eye that CriesThe Eye that Cries (El Ojo que Llora, in Spanish) is a memorial that was born as a private initiative designed to honor the thousands of victims as a result of terrorism in Peru, to strengthen the collective memory of…
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Ex Libris
Read more: Ex LibrisRecurrent themes in Emily Jacir’s practice—which spans a range of strategies including film, photography, interventions, archiving, performance, video, writing, and sound—are silenced historical narratives, resistance, movement, and exchange. Filmed in the days following the catastrophic loss of Iraq’s National Library…
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When Verbal Abuse Becomes Real Weapon…
Read more: When Verbal Abuse Becomes Real Weapon…Institute of psychology in Shenyang, a major city of China, recently reveals 6 most frequently used utterances in verbal abuse of children among local parents: “Garbage”, “You know nothing but eating”, “Pig head”, “Shame on you”, “Why don’t you die”,…
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Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate
Read more: Speaking Volumes: Transforming HateThe Creativity Movement (formerly known as the World Church of the Creater) is a self proclaimed white supremacist organization with factions across the United States. In 2004, a high ranking leader of the Montana based faction defected from the group,…
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Walkthrough
Read more: WalkthroughMoMA presents the first comprehensive American survey of the leading contemporary artist Walid Raad (b. 1967, Lebanon), featuring his work in photography, video, sculpture, and performance from the last 25 years. Dedicated to exploring the veracity of photographic and video…
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Human Syria
Read more: Human SyriaThe wreckage of the Syrian city of Homs became the bittersweet backdrop for a young couple’s wedding pictures. Nada Merhi, 18, wore a traditional white gown when she married camouflage-clad Hassan Youssef, 27, on Friday. Youssef is a soldier in…
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Operation Christmas – Demobilizing FARC Guerrilla members
Read more: Operation Christmas – Demobilizing FARC Guerrilla membersColombian ad agency Lowe SSP3 is starting a Christmas-themed campaign to entice guerrilla fighters out of the jungle to turn themselves in. The agency may have created an advertising-to-guerrillas award category after winning a gold Cannes Lion in the outdoor…
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100 ‘Radioactive Figures’ Haunt Hamburg Landscape
Read more: 100 ‘Radioactive Figures’ Haunt Hamburg LandscapeART COLLECTIVE LUZINTERRUPTUS has created an installation made up of 100 glowing “radioactive” figures for the Dockville Festival in Hamburg. The human-size figures appear to be wearing special white protective clothing and marching, heads down, across the landscape. The eerie…
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#BringBackOurGirls–Another Clicktivism or Activism?
Read more: #BringBackOurGirls–Another Clicktivism or Activism?Michelle Obama tweeted her own portrait holding a sign reading #BringBackOurGirls and soon countless celebrities echoed this meme online. Throughout a week, this trending hashtag had been turned into a social-media supernova. The #BringBackOurGirls campaign spurred by online sharing brought…
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Ai Weiwei poses as drowned Syrian infant refugee in ‘haunting’ photo
Read more: Ai Weiwei poses as drowned Syrian infant refugee in ‘haunting’ photoChinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has recreated the image of drowned infant Alan Kurdi that in 2015 became the defining symbol of the plight of Syria’s refugees. For the recreation, Ai lay on a pebbled beach on the Greek…