Projects tagged
Clothing & Costumes
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Can Art Change the War? An Update on the Solidarity NFT Project for Ukraine
Read more: Can Art Change the War? An Update on the Solidarity NFT Project for UkraineIn March of 2022, JR, with the help of 100 volunteers, unfurled the portrait of five-year-old, Ukrainian refugee Valeriia in Lviv, Ukraine. Leaving Ukraine, JR saw firsthand how difficult it was for women and children to get to safety due…
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Pantomime for Climate CHange
Read more: Pantomime for Climate CHangeReplete with an unmistakable look, intense silence, and mime-like moves, the Red Rebels are, quite intentionally, riveting. In the words of artist and activist Doug Francisco, founder of the Red Rebels Brigade: “We divert, distract, delight, and inspire the people…
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Snake
Read more: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little SnakeNatalie Ball’s work challenges dominant stories of Native American identities, taking to task the historical and visual legacies that misrepresent what it means to be “Indian.” She dives deeply into Indigenous histories and forms of knowledge, the use of language,…
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Brick X Brick
Read more: Brick X BrickBrick x Brick is a public art performance that builds human “walls” against misogyny. It is organized by the Public Displays of Affection, a collective of artists, designers, educators and organizers that engages in nonviolent direct art action. During the…
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Act ii: COWBOY CARTER
Read more: Act ii: COWBOY CARTERFollowing her sensational first ablum dedicated to the Black queer community via house and dance music, act i: RENAISSANCE, Beyonce released act ii: COWBOY CARTER in late March . The album is speculated to have come from her 2017/2018 performance…
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Photographer Stéphan Gladieu Documents the Congolese Street Children Turning Waste into Wonder
Read more: Photographer Stéphan Gladieu Documents the Congolese Street Children Turning Waste into Wonder“So dramatic, so strong, so visual,” artist Stéphan Gladieu said of his first encounter with the revival of an ancestral folk art movement in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Kinshasa is the capital of Congo but also one of the…
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Artist Rufina Bazlova uses embroidery as a form of ‘gentle protest’
Read more: Artist Rufina Bazlova uses embroidery as a form of ‘gentle protest’Rufina Bazlova is not afraid to surrender her art to activism. Born in Belarus, a former Soviet republic ruled by the authoritarian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko for 29 years now, Bazlova knows all too well that being apolitical is a privilege…
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Old People’s Home
Read more: Old People’s HomeThese thirteen life-like sculptures resemble familiar politicians, admirals, generals, bishops, and dictators. Portrayed as frail seniors, they sit dozing off and drooling in electric wheelchairs. They roll on a slow collision course, crashing into each other like bumper cars. The…
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The Mending Project
Read more: The Mending ProjectImagine walking into a silent room where a woman is mending. Now imagine that she’s sitting underneath 1,500 pairs of sharp Chinese scissors that are suspended from the ceiling, precariously pointed downwards. This was the idea behind The Mending Project…
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Performance Obscura
Read more: Performance ObscuraIn her curatorial project Making Way, Ruth Simbao brought together works that complicated the idea of globalization’s effect on African nations, especially the idea that the new phase would usher in an almost frictionless movement of labor and capital across…