Projects tagged
Film, Video & Photo
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Brat Summer: From Charli XCX’s *Brat* to a Cultural Movement and the Perfect Sneaker Aesthetic
Read more: Brat Summer: From Charli XCX’s *Brat* to a Cultural Movement and the Perfect Sneaker AestheticThe Brat Summer movement can be directly traced back to the release of Charli XCX’s album “Brat” in 2024. Known for her boundary-pushing pop sound and fierce persona, Charli XCX used “Brat” as a platform to explore themes of defiance,…
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Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ Album
Read more: Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ AlbumBeyoncé’s album Renaissance is grounded in black queer ballroom culture. It debuted at no. 1 on the Billboard 200 and had the third highest album debut of 2022. Contradictingly, Beyoncé’s Renaissance features a wide range of music: disco, electro-funk, afrobeat,…
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The Sea of Escape
Read more: The Sea of Escape“I collected 83 images of disappeared women from Chinese social media. I printed them out, cut them, organized them, and made them into a tarot deck called “Missing Persons Notice.’” “This is a very heavy deck. Several times, I opened…
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Venezuela’s Journalists Adopt AI Avatars to Avoid Censorship
Read more: Venezuela’s Journalists Adopt AI Avatars to Avoid Censorship“Hello,” says the news presenter, as she effortlessly switches from Spanish to English to give her audience a summary of the day’s biggest stories. With her clear intonation, smart appearance, and friendly-yet-serious expression, she seems the very image of a…
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Poetry to challenge GBV from an intersectional lens – the Sari Red
Read more: Poetry to challenge GBV from an intersectional lens – the Sari RedSari Red (1988), by Pratibha Parmar, is a visual poem. Made in memory of Kalbinder Kaur Hayre, a young Indian woman killed in 1985 in a racist attack in England, Sari Red eloquently examines the effect of the ever-present threat…
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Water Life
Read more: Water Life“Most people can’t imagine a futurist Africa,” says Ethiopian photographer Aïda Muluneh. She challenges this in her project, Water Life, exploring real-world issues with an otherworldly twist. Muluneh went to Dallol, Afar, Ethiopia, an extreme landscape where it is dry…
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Sweden to tighten gun control laws after deadly shooting
Read more: Sweden to tighten gun control laws after deadly shootingThe government will introduce more rigorous vetting procedures for firearms licences and restrict access to semi-automatic weapons. Sweden plans to toughen controls on gun ownership after its deadliest mass shooting in at least a century. A gunman with legitimate licences…
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Claudio Parentela:Contemporary Art with a Freakish Taste!
Read more: Claudio Parentela:Contemporary Art with a Freakish Taste!Claudio Parentela:Contemporary Art with a Freakish Taste! External sources: https://www.instagram.com/parentelac
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Bondage in Shanghai
Read more: Bondage in ShanghaiThis is a photographic work of Shanghai during the period of the city’s lockdown, in which the artist uses rope as a medium to explore the themes of government coercion and individual survival. In the image, the artist ties a…
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Daughter of a Temple
Read more: Daughter of a Temple“I sing because I genuinely think that if I don’t, I will die…The only thing that gives me relief is this.” – ganavya doraiswamy I’ve been fortunate to witness New York-born, Tamil Nadu-raised, Queer musician ganavya’s work a handful of…