Projects tagged
Film, Video & Photo
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American Prison Perpestives
Read more: American Prison PerpestivesWith American Prison Perspectives, Gielen intends tol illustrate how prison complex designs reflect the politics, economic priorities and anxieties of society, yet there would be so much more to say with pictures inside the prisions. There are many insightful conclusions…
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No nos vamos, nos echan
Read more: No nos vamos, nos echanThe “no nos vamos, nos echan” campaign speaks to making the invisible visible through pictures, videos and global mass demonstrations. Hopefully the Spanish government and other political players in Spain and Europe will see the faces of the population forced…
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Patterns as Priorities: Aerial Supermax Prison Photos Echo Shapes of Suburbia
Read more: Patterns as Priorities: Aerial Supermax Prison Photos Echo Shapes of Suburbiaby Pete Brook High above the Arizona desert in 2010, after a day of photographing housing developments, Christoph Gielen looked down from the helicopter upon Arizona State Prison Complex-Florence. The hexagonal arrangement of the prison site, to him, replicated the…
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Who killed Rodrigo Rosenberg?
Read more: Who killed Rodrigo Rosenberg?In May of 2009 lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg was murdered in Guatemla City. A video was released of Rosenberg directed to the Guatemalan public. If you are watching this, he said, I have been murdered by the president Alvaro Colom. The…
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Eric Bouvet’s Chechnya On Stage
Read more: Eric Bouvet’s Chechnya On Stage“On Friday, March 15, 2013, for the launch of the 20th edition of the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, the theatre company Map performed Jusqu’au bout, a play directed by David Ropars based on a text by the photojournalist Eric…
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Zoo Portraits
Read more: Zoo PortraitsZoo Portraits is a humorous photo series by Barcelona-based photographer Yago Partal that matches animal heads with human bodies. Partal amazingly matches animals to appropriate human bodies and even manages to match their personalities and styles. The photographer’s cast of…
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Turning Art Into Activism
Read more: Turning Art Into ActivismBy David Gonzalez Leslie Thomas wants to shock you. She wants to anger you. And above all, she wants you to do something. She’s not talking about run-of-the-mill, “Hey buddy, watch your step” angry or TMZ sleaze shock. She’s talking…
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Dyke Action Machine!
Read more: Dyke Action Machine!Taken from the website: Dyke Action Machine! (DAM!) is a two-person public art project founded in 1991 by artist Carrie Moyer and photographer Sue Schaffner. Between 1991 and 2004 DAM! blitzed the streets of New York City with public art…
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ROYNATION
Read more: ROYNATIONROYNATION is a weekly internet radio show. The show covers art and politics and because ROYNATION is queer, it’s usually queer art and politics. The show goes live on Tuesdays at 9PM. During the show people can phone in or…
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Face 2 Face
Read more: Face 2 FaceIn 2007, anonymous French photographer JR embarked on the Face2Face project – the largest unauthorized photo exhibition ever conceived. JR and his collaborator Marco engaged Israelis and Palestinians employed in the same profession to be photographed making funny faces. They…