Projects tagged
Violence & War
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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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Congo Man Sets Himself Ablaze for Peace
Read more: Congo Man Sets Himself Ablaze for PeaceA video that was first posted on X (formerly Twitter) on November 8, of a Congolese man setting himself on fire has gone viral. The gruesome clip has started a discussion on whether a genocide is occurring in the DRC…
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Irish Reactions to Palestine and Israel
Read more: Irish Reactions to Palestine and IsraelPalestinian and Israeli flags flutter in pro-Irish and pro-UK neighbourhoods in Northern Ireland, tapping into its own history of conflict and division that still affects everyday life despite a 1998 peace deal that largely ended violence. The growing number of…
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A TikTok Watermelon Filter Raising Money for Gaza Highlights the Platform’s Potential for Fundraising
Read more: A TikTok Watermelon Filter Raising Money for Gaza Highlights the Platform’s Potential for FundraisingA watermelon filter on TikTok is allowing users to raise funds to support civilians in Gaza, where more than 11,000 people have been killed since Israel began an offensive military attack on the Gaza Strip in October, after a Hamas…
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Activists Take to Guggenheim Museum to Denounce Israeli Airstrikes
Read more: Activists Take to Guggenheim Museum to Denounce Israeli AirstrikesThe Guggenheim Museum in New York City temporarily closed off its entrance on Saturday afternoon, November 11, after eight artists and cultural workers took to the institution’s iconic spiral ramp to denounce the Israeli military’s ongoing killing of Palestinian children…
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Bombed-out Nativity Sculpture
Read more: Bombed-out Nativity SculptureThis year, Bethlehem is sombre and quiet. There is no Christmas tree and there are no holiday lights or tourists to see them. Instead, the city of Jesus’s birth – which is in the middle of a war zone –…
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Fighting Violence with Art
Read more: Fighting Violence with ArtOne of the oldest forms of human expression is art, so it’s no surprise that art is constantly used to critique another of humanity’s oldest practices, violence and war. In the world of art activism, the power of creativity and…
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Voices from the Conflict
Read more: Voices from the ConflictOur NGO “Voices from the Conflict” seeks to open a conversation about the Israel-Palestine conflict through the lens of activist art. The history of the conflict dates back to the UN partition plan in 1947, followed by Israel’s independence in…
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“Printing Lost Culture of Ukraine” and “The Man Who Flew Into Space From His Brooklyn Apartment”
Read more: “Printing Lost Culture of Ukraine” and “The Man Who Flew Into Space From His Brooklyn Apartment”Both shows are supported by funds from New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and Materials for the Arts (MFTA). “Printing Lost Culture of Ukraine” November 13…
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@muchachafanzine
Read more: @muchachafanzineThe user muchachafanzine on instagram is an activist who writes a “decolonial native xicana feminist fanzine”. They are an online activist and they spread their message through their page, the zine, and through merchandise. Daisy Salinas began Muchacha Fanzine as…