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Love Queer Cinema Week (aka the Beijing Queer Film Festival)

Practitioner:
Beijing Queer Film Festival commitee, Students of Beijing University

Date:
Dec 1 2001

Founded 19 years ago, the Beijing Queer Film Festival (aka Love Queer Cinema Week) is one of the grassroots film festivals in China focusing on independent queer film screenings and cultural exchange activities. We aim to expand public discussions on…

Ice Watch

Practitioner:
Olafur Eliasson and Minik Rosing

Date:
Dec 1 2001

Does it vex you, the environmental impact of Olafur Eliasson’s Ice Watch? Do you hear about the transportation of 30 icebergs from the Nuup Kangerlua fjord in Greenland to be displayed in London as a memento mori for our inhabitable…

Powerful photos of the lives of young Syrian refugees through their eyes

Practitioner:
Spearheaded by 25-year-old Arsenal footballer Héctor Bellerín and photographer Pixie Levinson

Date:
Dec 1 2001

This month marks ten years since the start of the Syrian Civil War, an ongoing conflict that has cruelly cut the lives of hundreds of thousands short, and irrevocably changed the course of millions more. An estimated 5.6 million have…

Documentary — The Two Lives of Li Ermao

Practitioner:
Jia Yuchuan, Li Ermao

Date:
Dec 1 2001

The documentary film “The Two Lives of Li Ermao” recorded the bumpy life experience of a transgender Li Ermao and her unique and moving story. “Others only live one life, I live two.” Looking back, the “two lives” are not…

Journey of a Yellow Man

Practitioner:
Lee Wen

Date:
Dec 1 2001

Singaporean artist Lee Wen’s series Journey of a Yellow Man (1992–2012), one of his most famous and long-standing performances, was not simply a personal affront, it was a political affront. At the intersection of Asian art history, critical race theory, and migration…

Jiangshanjiao, do they talk to you like this?

Date:
Dec 1 2001

On Feb 17, 2020, the official account of The Central Committee of the Communist Youth League on Weibo announced the launch of its virtual idols “Hongqiman” and “Jiangshanjiao”, and set up a new official microblog, and called on people to…

People of Japan is a snapshot of daily life across Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka

Practitioner:
Mark Manzi

Date:
Dec 1 2001

For his latest project, Mark Manzi found himself outside of his comfort zone. For the Amsterdam-based photographer and designer, People of Japan was an attempt to break from his photography-first portfolio. “In the past, my work was very image-focused, whereas…

Protection of the Ocean

Practitioner:
Wan Yunfeng

Date:
Dec 1 2001

Two pairs of dusty, pastel-orange roller skates. A ram’s skull. Several meters of tangled, bright red rope. They aren’t the sort of items you’d find in the great fashion houses of Europe or on North American catwalks. But, for unconventional…

Dear Congressman Tiberi

Practitioner:
Chasing Ice Team

Date:
Dec 1 2001

“To that end, in the Spring of 2014 we launched the Chasing Ice Ohio Tour in an attempt to use the film to shift the political conversation around climate change. As a society, for us to address climate change properly,…

Billionaire-Espionage Art Project

Practitioner:
Andi Schmied

Date:
Dec 1 2001

The Hungarian artist, undercover as an oligarch, infiltrated Manhattan’s ultra-luxury high-rises with her fake husband, Zoltan, for a book of intentionally unartful photos. Four years ago, during a three-month artist’s residency in Brooklyn, Andi Schmied, a photographer from Budapest, visited…