Projects tagged
Film, Video & Photo
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‘Framing Britney Spears’
Read more: ‘Framing Britney Spears’“Spears entered the conservatorship in 2008, at age 26, when her struggles were on public display. Now she is 39, and a growing number of her fans are agitating on her behalf, raising questions about civil liberties while trying to…
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Fashion label Vaqar is dispelling conservative perceptions of what Iranian fashion looks like
Read more: Fashion label Vaqar is dispelling conservative perceptions of what Iranian fashion looks likeIran is a nation with a fine art tradition that stretches back thousands of years; its reputation for contemporary fashion design less so. Writing that from an external, Western perspective may read unduly dismissive, but it’s a statement that holds…
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Retirement dinner turned into hilarious protest
Read more: Retirement dinner turned into hilarious protestActivists gate-crashed a retirement dinner for outgoing HMRC boss Dave Hartnett in Oxford, presenting him with flowers and a fake award for allowing large companies to avoid paying tax. The protesters, who accuse Hartnett of allowing corporations such as Vodafone…
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Performative Radicalism: the Kumbi PSYOP
Read more: Performative Radicalism: the Kumbi PSYOPThe internet has reshaped the ways we learn and communicate. Information becomes heuristic, concomitantly – knowledge becomes protean. If you dedicate enough time to any particular platform, you are likely to acquire a community with congenial individuals. Social media’s proliferation…
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Kodaikanal Won’t video: All you need to know about the Unilever mercury dumping case
Read more: Kodaikanal Won’t video: All you need to know about the Unilever mercury dumping caseThe Kodaikanal Won’t video by Chennai artist Sofia Ashraf, asking Unilver to ‘clean up their mess’ in connection with the Kodaikanal mercury dumping, has gone viral with over 783,533 views at the time of writing this, in just over two…
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The Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and Action
Read more: The Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and ActionThe Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and Action (https://theamplificationproject.com) is a community-led participatory public digital archive to which any artist and activist can document, preserve and share their work inspired, influenced, or affected by forced migration.…
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My Calling (Card) #1 Meta-Performance (1987-88; 00:58:00)
Read more: My Calling (Card) #1 Meta-Performance (1987-88; 00:58:00)Adrian Piper created ‘calling cards’ that can stand alone as individual works, but Piper also used them in performances. The works described here include edited documentary footage from two performances (one in Chicago, one in Harlem) based on My Calling…
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The Scheherazade Project
Read more: The Scheherazade ProjectThe Scheherazade Project is a Performing Arts Non-profit based in Washington DC. Co-founders Lisa Leibow and Julia Alvarez were inspired by Scheherazade in the Arab classic 1001 Nights and created The Scheherazade Project. For more information, our website is https://thescheherazadeproject.org/The-Scheherazade-Project…
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Caged Bird Songs and Other Stories
Read more: Caged Bird Songs and Other StoriesCaged Bird Songs ‘his wings are clipped and his feet are tied’ Maya Angelou believed in empathy as an empowering force in the world. In the time of coronavirus, we find our wings ‘clipped’ in various ways. The lucky among…
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Dear young people, “Don’t Vote”
Read more: Dear young people, “Don’t Vote”This country belongs to whoever shows up. And do you know who shows up for every election? Old people. But only 46% of people18-34 years old voted in the last election. So the elderly have a disproportionate influence on our…