Projects tagged
Film, Video & Photo
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Zhang Huan, To Raise the Water Level in a Fishpond
Read more: Zhang Huan, To Raise the Water Level in a FishpondZhuang Huan invited more than 40 men – laborers, fishermen, construction workers––who had recently migrated to Beijing from other areas of China to participate. Zhang Huan said, “In order to find these workers, I visited many of the shacks where…
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Nike and ‘For Once, Just Don’t Do It’
Read more: Nike and ‘For Once, Just Don’t Do It’On Friday night, as U.S. television screens burned with images of peaceful protests turning violent, Nike released a new socially conscious ad calling on Americans to do something quite different than the brand’s usual call to “Just Do It.” Instead,…
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Documentary ‘Softie’ and the bear pit of Kenyan politics
Read more: Documentary ‘Softie’ and the bear pit of Kenyan politicsActivist Boniface Mwangi on confronting corruption in his homeland, and director Sam Soko on recording his campaign Kenyan director Sam Soko’s debut documentary feature, Softie, opens with the film’s protagonist, Boniface Mwangi, sourcing 1,000 litres of pigs’ blood. “I’ve found…
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This Artist Captured the Non-Stop Flow of Plastic Pollution
Read more: This Artist Captured the Non-Stop Flow of Plastic PollutionBenjamin Von Wong’s latest art-as-activism installation looks like something Photoshopped onto reality. A large brass-looking faucet, suspended in the air, pours a river of plastic out of its spout. The symbolism of the #TurnOffThePlasticTap installation is somehow both over-the-top and…
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Mika Rottenberg: Cosmic Generator
Read more: Mika Rottenberg: Cosmic GeneratorCosmic Generator presents a network of characters working in nonsensical, and at times absurd, economies. Artist Mika Rottenberg uses footage from actual discount dollar stores in Calexico, CA; Mexicali, Mexico; and Yiwu, China to recreate the imaginary “life” of a…
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A Later Banned Set of Photos Sent Shockwaves Through Chinese Netizens
Read more: A Later Banned Set of Photos Sent Shockwaves Through Chinese NetizensA Chinese Independent Photographer, Xiyouxiu (Twitter ID@xiuxiukong) published a set of photos called “Father” on both Chinese social platforms like Weibo and Little Red Book, and international platforms like twitter. At the beginning of the story being told by the…
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Sirens of the Lambs
Read more: Sirens of the LambsSirens of the Lambs is created by the enigmatic street artist, Banksy. This piece was first spotted on the streets of New York City on October 10, 2013, it went viral on social media and people are posting and reposting…
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Ge Yulu: Eye Contact
Read more: Ge Yulu: Eye ContactGe Yulu’s artistic practice playfully pulls at the strings of a social system that, although seemingly all-encompassing, is in fact a malleable structure consisting of individual human beings. For his 2016 project Eye Contact, Ge positioned himself in front of…
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Living and Killing in Modern China: “A Touch of Sin”
Read more: Living and Killing in Modern China: “A Touch of Sin”“May you live in interesting times” is the familiar Chinese saying, usually spat out as a curse. You can see why in “A Touch of Sin,” a film by renowned director Jia Zhang-ke. That kind of time is now, in…
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Climate Comedy: Inspiring Climate Action Through Comedy
Read more: Climate Comedy: Inspiring Climate Action Through ComedyThe Climate Comedy Cohort is an unprecedented network of comedians who are coming together to learn, collaborate, and create hilarious new comedy informed by the hottest climate science. The Climate Comedy Cohort functions as a 9-month fellowship. Co-created and directed…