Projects tagged
Violence & War
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DODDOACID
Read more: DODDOACIDJenny Hozler has mined declassified U.S. government documents for the series Redaction Paintings meticulously silk-screened works that depict blacked-out handprints of American soldiers accused of committing crimes in Iraq. The idea for the Redaction Paintings came in 2004 when Wired…
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New Prints / Newsprints * Black Male / Blackmail
Read more: New Prints / Newsprints * Black Male / BlackmailThe prints exhibited June 2013 at Firestorm in Asheville NC, will comprise two separate bodies of work; Chelsea Ragan’s combination screen print / woodblock print / painting / drawings graphically detail police shootings of young black males from across the…
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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…
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John Heartfield’s Anti-Nazi Photomontages
Read more: John Heartfield’s Anti-Nazi PhotomontagesJohn Heartfield began to make photomontages as a member of the Berlin branch of international Dada around 1920. Schooled in graphic arts and having worked briefly in animated film, Heartfield (who had anglicized his given name, Helmut Herzfeld, in 1917…
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The Disasters of War
Read more: The Disasters of WarFrancisco Goya created “The Disasters of War” from 1810-1820. These 80 etchings and aquatints show scenes from the Spanish struggle against the French army under Napolean Bonaparte, who invaded Spain in 1808. When Napolean tried to install his brother Joseph…
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Secret Anti-Abuse Advertisement
Read more: Secret Anti-Abuse AdvertisementIn an effort to provide abused children with a safe way to reach out for help, a Spanish organization called the Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk Foundation, or ANAR for short, created an ad that displays a different…
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Citizen Video for Journalists: Finding the Story
Read more: Citizen Video for Journalists: Finding the StoryThere are so many videos coming out of Syria every day. Whose videos do you feature on Watching Syria’s War? Children, internally displaced within Syria, gather firewood. One comments, “we are laughing at our lives.” Liam Stack: Our goal is…
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Secret Anti-Abuse Message That Only Kids Can See
Read more: Secret Anti-Abuse Message That Only Kids Can SeeSpanish organization the ANAR Foundation (Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk) releases a campaign that takes advantage of the process of lenticular printing to send an offer of help to abused children without alerting their abusers, even if they’re…
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Three Weeks in May
Read more: Three Weeks in MayIn May of 1977, artist Suzanne Lacy mapped every reported rape in LA for a period of three weeks. This project, aptly named “Three Weeks in May”, was part of an extended performance which Lacy utilized as a means to…
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Missile Dick Chicks Take America
Read more: Missile Dick Chicks Take AmericaShortly after the events of 9/11, a group of NYC women came together in protest of the Bush Administration’s use of the terror attacks to justify war. Seeking out a new form of political protest, the women decided to respond…