Projects tagged
Film, Video & Photo
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Mustang
Read more: MustangBreaking the Silence: The Importance of Mustang Eylem Atakav on how Mustang offers an important challenge to perceptions of gender and female sexuality in Turkey. As Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s acclaimed debut film Mustang screens at the ICA, Eylem Atakav discusses…
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The Paradox of the Tyre Nichols Video
Read more: The Paradox of the Tyre Nichols VideoTYRE NICHOLS WAS a photographer with an eye for the natural world. He was especially drawn to landscape portraiture, its calm and innocence. It is said that Nichols liked to crane his lens skyward, capturing what sunlight he could before…
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Theas Bryllup
Read more: Theas BryllupThe story behind Thea, the 12-year-old child bride from Norway By Andrew Russell – Global News WATCH ABOVE: Hear the whole story of Thea, a 12-year-old child bride from Norway. Her name is Thea. She is a 12-year-old girl living…
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How Keith Haring Made Uncomfortable Topics More Digestible
Read more: How Keith Haring Made Uncomfortable Topics More DigestibleKeith Haring is known to be one of the biggest artists raising awareness for HIV and AIDS, considering he had also passed away from HIV. Starting his career covering ads with spray paint and chalk in subway stations in New…
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Turning powerful stats into art
Read more: Turning powerful stats into artArtist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics — like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every single day. https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_jordan_turning_powerful_stats_into_art?r… External sources:
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“Escape the Corset”
Read more: “Escape the Corset”In this black-and-white image, there are no strands of hair or remnants of makeup to be found, except a shaved head belonging to a South Korean. Jeon photographed this image in 2019 for her exhibition that aimed to “destroy the…
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Ai Weiwei’s Colored Vases: Clever Artwork Or Vandalism?
Read more: Ai Weiwei’s Colored Vases: Clever Artwork Or Vandalism?Exhibition visitors have expressed feelings of uneasiness or even pain and nostalgia when seeing Colored Vases by Ai Weiwei1. The 51 vases that make up the artwork are originally treasures from the Neolithic Age (5000–3000 BCE) and the artist has…
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Photographer Shoog McDaniel celebrates fatness in all its glory
Read more: Photographer Shoog McDaniel celebrates fatness in all its gloryThe Florida-based photographer and artist talks through their creative process, self-acceptance, and overcoming Instagram’s anti-nude algorithm 9October 2019 TextMarie Southard Ospina Shoog McDaniel’s photographs of fat, often queer, people are undoubtedly among the most striking pieces of art to be…
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1.5 °C is Dead! Climate Revolution Now!
Read more: 1.5 °C is Dead! Climate Revolution Now!A NASA scientist and three others were arrested in Los Angeles on Wednesday after chaining themselves to the doors of a Chase Bank office building. JPMorgan Chase & Co. has invested more money in fossil fuels than any other bank,…
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Urban Art Video Campaign Against Gun Violence Goes Viral
Read more: Urban Art Video Campaign Against Gun Violence Goes ViralA video campaign titled Sympathy Cards, initially released in 2018, is going viral again. The chilling video depicts, via hidden cameras, shoppers walking by or browsing the greeting cards section at a shop. Shocked, confused, some visibly upset, shoppers freeze…