Projects tagged
Clothing & Costumes
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The Clothesline Project
Read more: The Clothesline ProjectAccording to the Men’s Rape Prevention Project in Washington DC, 58,000 soldiers died in the Vietnam war. During that same period of time, 51,000 women were killed mostly by men who supposedly loved them. In the summer of 1990, that…
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Kacey Wong & his provocative pink tank at Hong Kong’s 1 July marches
Read more: Kacey Wong & his provocative pink tank at Hong Kong’s 1 July marchesThe Hong Kong 1 July protests are a surprising sight on the often chaotic stress. This day marks the transfer of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China (PRC) and is a public holiday it was originally thought to…
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Horrible bosses: masked activists publicly shame businesses in Bologna
Read more: Horrible bosses: masked activists publicly shame businesses in BolognaOn a warm summer afternoon in the Italian city of Bologna, a group of around 15 young people march through the crowded city centre to a high-end pastry shop in Strada Maggiore. Once there, they don white plastic masks, and…
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Coco Fusco and Paula Heredia’s The Couple in the Cage: Guatinaui Odyssey
Read more: Coco Fusco and Paula Heredia’s The Couple in the Cage: Guatinaui OdysseyThe Couple in the Cage documents the travelling performance of Guillermo Gómez -Peña and Coco Fusco, in which they exhibited themselves as caged Amerindians from an imaginary island. While the artists’ intent was to create a satirical commentary on the…
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Guerilla Girls, Do Women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?, 1989
Read more: Guerilla Girls, Do Women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?, 1989The Guerilla Girls are a group of feminist activist artists, who use facts, humor, and outrageous visuals to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture in their artworks. In 1989, they designed this…
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Fem Queen: The Evolution, The Revolution, The Celebration!
Read more: Fem Queen: The Evolution, The Revolution, The Celebration!For the completion of her residency as the NYU Steinhardt 2023-24 Scholar-in-Residence, Dominique Jackson collaborated with NYU students to honor the fem queen (trans women) and their historical meaning to not only ballroom but popular culture at large. The event…
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Lynn Neuman: Showing How Quickly Plastic Amasses
Read more: Lynn Neuman: Showing How Quickly Plastic AmassesLynn Neuman, director of New York City–based Artichoke Dance, became preoccupied with single-use disposability after she started wondering about waste and who was responsible for it. For some of her performances, she has collected massive quantities of discarded plastics, like…
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Jingle dress dancers honour George Floyd at site where he was killed
Read more: Jingle dress dancers honour George Floyd at site where he was killedIndigenous people in Minneapolis supporting Black Lives Matter cite similar struggles Jingle dress dancers held a ceremony at the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis on Monday, the place where George Floyd was killed by police last…
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Brown Ballerinas for Change
Read more: Brown Ballerinas for ChangeDuring the Black Lives Matter protests in Richmond, VA, the two fourteen-year-olds posed in a powerful photo in front of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s statue. Ava had originally arranged an appointment with photographer Marcus Ingram, but as she and…
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‘Met Museum, you’re complicit’: artists and activists take over museum’s front steps with giant pro-Palestine quilt
Read more: ‘Met Museum, you’re complicit’: artists and activists take over museum’s front steps with giant pro-Palestine quiltHundreds of artists, cultural workers and activists gathered on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue in New York on Sunday (24 March), demanding that the most visited museum in the US publicly call for a…