Projects tagged
Film, Video & Photo
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Belgium Disappears
Read more: Belgium DisappearsFor a brief moment on Wednesday night it appeared that Belgium had disappeared. The main French language television station hoodwinked the country into thinking that it had split in two when it reported that Flanders had issued a unilateral declaration…
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Ace Bank
Read more: Ace BankACE Bank was a hoax bank developed as part of a bigger campaign by Netwerk Vlaanderen, a Belgian organization concerned with banks’ responsibilities for what they invest in. ACE bank was an elaborate deception, with a headquarters in central Brussels,…
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Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container
Read more: Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs ContainerForeigners out! Schlingensiefs Container (Ausländer raus! Schlingensiefs Container), alternately named “Wien-Aktion”, “Please Love Austria—First European Coalition Week”, or “Foreigners Out—Artists against Human Rights”, is an art project and television show from 2000 that took place within the scope of the…
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Abortion rights and Body Vulnerability
Read more: Abortion rights and Body VulnerabilityThe rise in feminism and feminist advocacy has changed history forever in terms of how women are viewed and treated in society. Though great progress has been made, women are still fighting for their rights even today. Abortion and body…
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Underrepresentation of Marginalized Women in Spain
Read more: Underrepresentation of Marginalized Women in SpainThe artist I chose to focus on personally is the photographer Cristina Garcia Rodero. I used photos from her photography essay España Oculta, in which Rodero traveled to small villages in Spain to document the resident’s lives. Our group’s main…
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Art, Activism and the Age of AIDS
Read more: Art, Activism and the Age of AIDSDavid Wojnarowicz was born on September 14, 1954, and died on July 22, 1992, at the age of 37 due to AIDS-related complications. Before he became an artist, he attended a Performing Arts high school from which he dropped out…
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Art, Activism and the Age of AIDS
Read more: Art, Activism and the Age of AIDSDavid Wojnarowicz as a Catalyst for Collective Action Not all art is political and by no means are politics art. However, through Wojnarowicz’s works criticizing and critiquing the US government, he was able to successfully blend art and politics to…
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Earthrise
Read more: EarthriseWhat he captured became one of the most influential images in history. A driving force of the environmental movement, the picture, which became known as Earthrise, showed the world as a singular, fragile, oasis. Earthrise did not have an immediate…
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Police dogs and firehoses
Read more: Police dogs and firehosesPolice dogs and firehoses is, for most of the world, the image of Birmingham made by Bull Connor and the Birmingham Police Department during the Birmingham Campaign of the African American Civil Rights Movement. While both weapons had been used…
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Aeromexico campaign proposes “DNA Discounts”
Read more: Aeromexico campaign proposes “DNA Discounts”AeroMexico unveiled a program called “DNA Discounts,” which offers discounts on flights to Americans who can show by taking a test that they have Mexican DNA. The amount of the discount depends on the percentage of Mexican ancestry. For example,…