Projects tagged
Wealth & Poverty
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Law of the Journey
Read more: Law of the JourneyThe exhibition Law of the Journey is Ai Weiwei’s multi-layered, epic statement on the human condition: an artist’s expression of empathy and moral concern in the face of continuous, uncontrolled destruction and carnage. Hosted in a building of symbolic historical…
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Whose Utopia? 谁的乌托邦
Read more: Whose Utopia? 谁的乌托邦Whose Utopia? was made by the Chinese artist Cao Fei and filmed at the OSRAM lighting factory in Foshan in the Pearl River Delta in southern China during 2005 and 2006. It was commissioned as part of a project entitled…
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Ladies’ Room 洗手间 (2000)
Read more: Ladies’ Room 洗手间 (2000)Ladies’ Room, lasting fewer than six and a half minutes, offers a behind-the-scenes look at a women’s washroom in a nightclub located in a Beijing hotel. A male patron of Cui Xiuwen’s studio first took her there, and she acknowledges…
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Zone à Défendre, or “zone to defend” (ZAD)
Read more: Zone à Défendre, or “zone to defend” (ZAD)The ZAD (zone à défendre, or “zone to defend”) in Western France is 4000 acres of wetland, farmland and forest that was originally intended to be built into an airport in 1965 but is now an autonomous territory occupied by…
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Transforming Lives at Kainbach Nursing Home with WochenKlausur’s Initiative
Read more: Transforming Lives at Kainbach Nursing Home with WochenKlausur’s InitiativeOn the occasion of the European Cultural Capital Graz 2003, WochenKlausur developed a year-long program of activities for older people with severe mental disabilities. The object was to offer them opportunities for a change of their daily routine inside the…
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Instantaneous ownership
Read more: Instantaneous ownership“Why should I play a celebrity and live in Beijing for 21 days without spending money?” From May 1st to May 21st, 2021, I spent 21 days in Beijing without spending money, and I was as elegant as a celebrity.…
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Activists Pour Porridge and Spray Soup on Queen Victoria Sculptures in Glasgow to Protest Cost of Living
Read more: Activists Pour Porridge and Spray Soup on Queen Victoria Sculptures in Glasgow to Protest Cost of LivingActivists poured porridge and jam on a marble bust of Queen Victoria and sprayed fire extinguishers filled with soup onto a large bronze statue of the monarch during two recent protests in Glasgow, Scotland. The group, called This Is Rigged,…
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HUMAN RIGHTS WALL IN PARIS: A MURAL IN TRIBUTE TO SIX CONTEMPORARY ACTIVISTS, OUR PHOTOS
Read more: HUMAN RIGHTS WALL IN PARIS: A MURAL IN TRIBUTE TO SIX CONTEMPORARY ACTIVISTS, OUR PHOTOSParis inaugurates its first fresco, on the Human Rights Wall, in tribute to six contemporary activists. To be discovered in the capital’s 12th arrondissement, this XXL work of committed street art is by Mahn Kloix. Street art continues to color…
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How Song Dong’s “Waste Not” Elicited Much Sympathy
Read more: How Song Dong’s “Waste Not” Elicited Much SympathySong Dong’s Waste Not consisted of a single installation comprising over 10,000 commonplace, domestic items of daily life that had been used and amassed by the artist’s mother (Zhao Xiangyuan) over fifty years. The shabby and sometimes thread bare items…
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STICK IT TO ‘EM!
Read more: STICK IT TO ‘EM!#stickit2em is an all-inclusive, anti-capitalist, & pro-planet justice movement, using the clever medium of stickers! “America is segregated and so is pollution. Race and class still matter and map closely with pollution, unequal protection, and vulnerability. Today, zip code is…