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Can’t Help Myself

Date:
Dec 29 2016

In 2016, the Guggenheim Museum commissioned its very first robotic artwork called Can’t Help Myself (Wannmann, 2016). The artwork is created by two of China’s most controversial artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu and can be described as a robotic…

Thousands protest in South Korea in support for truckers

Practitioner:
South Koreans

Date:
Dec 29 2016

In Seoul, thousands of protestors who represent organized labor marched in Seoul on Saturday denouncing the governments attempt to force thousands of striking truckers back to work after they all walked out over a dispute in the price of freight.…

The Promised Land

Practitioner:
Michael Armitage

Date:
Dec 29 2016

Contemporaryand Article: Armitage, born in Nairobi, elaborates upon the contradictory dynamics in contemporary Kenya. Through his painterly language, the artist filters the various spheres that mark both the collective and individual experience in his country of origin — from brief…

Educational architecture: a floating school in Bangladesh

Practitioner:
Mohammed Rezwan

Date:
Dec 29 2016

What inspired you to build a school on a boat? As a native of a flood-prone community I saw first-hand the hardship of riverside communities who have restricted access to education and the opportunities it affords. With roads impassable during…

Fit For Work

Practitioner:
Void One

Date:
Dec 29 2016

Graffiti art is particularly viewed as a powerful form of social protest, and the (illegal) act of defacing can be as important as the message itself. Artist Void One has been arrested on numerous occasions for his politically-charged interventions. “I…

The Vivienne Foundation

Practitioner:
Vivienne Westwood

Date:
Dec 29 2016

The Vivienne Foundation exists to honour, protect and continue the legacy of Vivienne’s creativity and activism. Since the start of her career in the 1970s, Vivienne was renowned not only for her fashion design, but also her activism. Vivienne always…

The Folded Map Project

Practitioner:
Tonika Lewis Johnson

Date:
Dec 29 2016

The Folded Map Project is a project by Tonika Lewis Johnson, a photographer and community activist from Chicago. The project aims to investigate and change the racial and economic segregation that affects the city and its residents. The project started…

Street Art Activism: What White People Call Vandalism

Practitioner:
DeVante Brooks, Mona Caron, Nancypili Hernandez, Olek

Date:
Dec 29 2016

In this article, author Caroline Choi highlights different grafiti artists and their stories. These artists use their talent to tell their stories, ones that might not get to be told otherwise. She goes into the history of grafiti, and how…

Cloud Studies

Practitioner:
Forensic Architecture

Date:
Dec 29 2016

Forensic Architecture’s Cloud Studies is a project that investigates the impact of toxic clouds on colonised and oppressed communities. The clouds, originating from sources like tear gas, industrial emissions, chemical weapons, and forest fires, often go unaddressed due to doubt…

Environmental Racism on Display

Practitioner:
Sergio Maciel and Provoke Culture

Date:
Dec 29 2016

Two children stand back-to-back, but they are facing two very different Chicagos. One child blows bubbles in a park under blue skies. The other wears a gas mask against a backdrop of scrap metal and billowing smokestacks. “The goal was…