Projects tagged
Installation
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Interwoven Threads: The Art of Community and Sensory Expansion
Read more: Interwoven Threads: The Art of Community and Sensory ExpansionSebastián Mahaluf stands out as an artist deeply engaged in weaving the complex threads of human connection, community, and the interplay of personal and collective experiences. His notable work, “CONTRADICTION AND TENSION,” showcases his approach to art as a participatory…
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what is missing?
Read more: what is missing?“What Is Missing?” is a multi-sited memorial created by Maya Lin to raise awareness through science-based artworks about the present sixth mass extinction of species, connect this loss of species to habitat degradation and loss, and emphasize that by protecting…
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Washing River 洗河
Read more: Washing River 洗河Since the 1980s, revitalizing the economy has always been the country’s development strategy. Although China’s economy has grown rapidly in just twenty years, attracting worldwide attention, environmental destruction has also become a problem. For example, the Fu Nan River in…
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I want a president
Read more: I want a presidentInstalled on the occasion of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, I want a president renders a poignant portrait of the cultural and political climate in the early 1990s in New York City with words that still resonate today. Zoe Leonard,…
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Life, Entangled: Artist Liang Shaoji on Working with Silkworms
Read more: Life, Entangled: Artist Liang Shaoji on Working with Silkworms“I am a silkworm.” Liang Shaoji has repeatedly used this phrase to describe his work, underscoring his preoccupation with the materiality of silk and the technology of sericulture, or silk farming. For more than twenty-five years, Liang Shaoji has raised…
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Tree Mountain-A Living Time Capsule
Read more: Tree Mountain-A Living Time CapsuleDenes’s project “Tree Mountain-A Living Time Capsule” in Finland is a monumental earthwork involving the planting of 11,000 trees by 11,000 people on a reclaimed gravel pit. It’s designed to grow over the next 400 years, serving as a testament…
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Art, Advocacy, and Action: Luke Ching’s Crusade for Labor Rights in Hong Kong
Read more: Art, Advocacy, and Action: Luke Ching’s Crusade for Labor Rights in Hong KongLuke Ching Chin Wai is a conceptual artist and labour-artivist in Hong Kong. Since 2013, he has worked undercover in different low-paid jobs in the city, including as a security guard, supermarket cashier worker, and metro cleaner to learn about…
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Transforming Memory into Action: The Climate Crisis Through Vintage Visions
Read more: Transforming Memory into Action: The Climate Crisis Through Vintage VisionsDavid Opdyke’s wry, panoramic visions of an America perceptibly in the grips of climate crisis were born of an artistic crisis—of “needing to come up an idea by digging somewhere other than my own brain.” Having drawn on his imagination…
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HUMAN RIGHTS WALL IN PARIS: A MURAL IN TRIBUTE TO SIX CONTEMPORARY ACTIVISTS, OUR PHOTOS
Read more: HUMAN RIGHTS WALL IN PARIS: A MURAL IN TRIBUTE TO SIX CONTEMPORARY ACTIVISTS, OUR PHOTOSParis inaugurates its first fresco, on the Human Rights Wall, in tribute to six contemporary activists. To be discovered in the capital’s 12th arrondissement, this XXL work of committed street art is by Mahn Kloix. Street art continues to color…
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Ice Watch
Read more: Ice WatchDanish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has extracted 30 blocks of glacial ice from the waters surrounding Greenland and placed them in public spaces across London, where they will be left to melt. Called Ice Watch, the temporary installation is meant to…