Projects tagged
Wealth & Poverty
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In Search of Dignity and Justice
Read more: In Search of Dignity and JusticeIn Search of Dignity and Justice About 30,000 conservancy workers, also known as sweepers, are employed by the Great Bombay Municipal Corporation. These workers collect the city’s garbage, sweep the streets, clean the gutters, load and unload garbage trucks and…
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Farmer’s Haat (Market)
Read more: Farmer’s Haat (Market)Farmer’s Haat As a part of the two weeks “Khoj International Art Residency” and “Good Artists of Pune,” Shweta Bhattad, along with others, organized a community art project, titled “Farmer’s Haat.” With the help of students from medical and engineering…
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Josep Renau Berenguer (Valencia, Spain, 1907 – Berlin, Germany, 1982): Art and political engagement
Read more: Josep Renau Berenguer (Valencia, Spain, 1907 – Berlin, Germany, 1982): Art and political engagementJosep Renau Berenguer was a Spanish painter, photomontager, muralist and communist militant. Renau was the son of an Art teacher. Due to his father’s low income, he had to work various jobs during his youth and teenage years to maintain…
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Time/Bank
Read more: Time/BankTime as currency is an interesting economic model related to artistic practice. According to the creators of Time/Bank, Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle, the project “is a tool by which people or a group of people can create an alternative…
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Bringing Art and Change to Bronx
Read more: Bringing Art and Change to BronxNew York Times By Randy Kennedy Last year a tall man in a dark suit with thick black-frame glasses — something like a combination of Morrissey and Samuel Beckett — began showing up at housing projects all over New York…
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I Have Never Eaten These Tiny Grapes by Zuoxiao Zuzhou: ‘China’s Leonard Cohen’ Calls Out Political Corruption
Read more: I Have Never Eaten These Tiny Grapes by Zuoxiao Zuzhou: ‘China’s Leonard Cohen’ Calls Out Political CorruptionZuoxiao Zuzhou is a Chinese singer whose accented, croaky voice is hardly ever in tune. But for his fans he’s the voice of a generation — one of the very few voices who dare to speak out. After a collaboration,…
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Grandmas resignifying public space
Read more: Grandmas resignifying public spaceThis project consisted of an articulation between research, public policy and art. Corpovisionarios por Colombia was implementing a social change initiative in one of the poorest and most violents neighborhoods in Cali, Colombia. The demographic information showed that the most…
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Miguel Hernández (Orihuela, Spain 10/30/1910 – Alicante, Spain 03/28/1942), life and death of a poet and activist
Read more: Miguel Hernández (Orihuela, Spain 10/30/1910 – Alicante, Spain 03/28/1942), life and death of a poet and activistMiguel Hernández was a spanish shepherd, poet and playwright that dedicated most of his works to dignify the poor peasants of the rural areas of Spain. He was born in Orihuela in 1910, and went to school until the age…
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In Response to Controversial Funder, Protestors Rechristen Met Museum Plaza
Read more: In Response to Controversial Funder, Protestors Rechristen Met Museum PlazaOn Tuesday evening, at the end of an action staged by Occupy Museums at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to protest the unveiling of the David H. Koch Plaza, three members of The Illuminator were arrested. Earlier in the evening,…
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Acting Lessons
Read more: Acting LessonsThe New Life Foundation is a Colombian organization located in Bogota, whose aim consists of offering vulnerable women alternatives to quit prostitution and rehabilitate from its surrounding dangers (crime, drug addiction, AIDS, etc.) One of its remarkable projects was based…