Projects tagged
Installation
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Partnership Exhibition with the Banneker-Douglass Museum and Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture
Read more: Partnership Exhibition with the Banneker-Douglass Museum and Maryland Commission on African American History and CultureMaryland Hall, in partnership with the Banneker Douglass Museum and Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture, invited Maryland-based Black artists, whose work encapsulates activism and social justice and using the creative process to educate their audiences about diversity,…
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Art, Politics, Activism, Oakland And Angela Davis
Read more: Art, Politics, Activism, Oakland And Angela DavisWhen the U.S. government came after Anglea Davis, art came to her defense. Targeted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as one of its “10 Most Wanted” in 1970, tracked down, jailed and accused of three capital crimes, artists and…
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Keep McAllen Beautiful
Read more: Keep McAllen BeautifulLocated throughout McAllen are over 200 irrigation pipes, which come in all shapes and sizes, and are part of the city’s rich agricultural history. To this day, some of those concrete pillars continue to regulate flow of irrigation-water to help…
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Study of Perspective (& Stools)
Read more: Study of Perspective (& Stools)The son of an exiled political dissident, Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei’s work is inherently political. Since 1995 Ai Weiwei has been traveling the world, photographing himself flipping off iconic monuments of power in his Study of Perspective series.…
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The Ogden Ar(t)chives Mailbox
Read more: The Ogden Ar(t)chives MailboxThe Ogden Ar(t)chives Mailbox is a community project that was initiated by Ogden poet, Angelika Brewer. The project involves a metal sculpture of a mailbox, which has various decorative elements such as a typewriter, a birdcage, and a heart. The…
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James Luna’s “The Artifact Piece” (1987)
Read more: James Luna’s “The Artifact Piece” (1987)The performance artist James Luna, who died in 2018 at age 68, had a wicked sense of humor, which made his explorations of the way that Indigenous people have long been objectified, especially in museums, painfully piquant. A member of…
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Red Sand Project
Read more: Red Sand ProjectThe Red Sand Project is a participatory art installation and social awareness project created by artist and activist Molly Gochman in 2014. The project aims to raise awareness about human trafficking, which is a global issue that affects an estimated…
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SWIMMING CITIES OF SWITCHBACK SEA
Read more: SWIMMING CITIES OF SWITCHBACK SEATROY, N.Y. Three loud blasts from a steam whistle screamed out as the rain drizzled on the riverbank here. And the fleet of seven eclectic handmade ships slowly moved away. Only minutes before their launching, on Friday around noon,…
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Los Palcos del Descubridor (The discoverer’s box seats)
Read more: Los Palcos del Descubridor (The discoverer’s box seats)“Los Palcos del Descubridor” (The Discoverer’s Box Seats) was a project created by Sebastian Burga and José Aburto in 2012 that consisted of a large-scale installation on the street and a media campaign on the Internet. The work simulated the…
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Cloud Studies
Read more: Cloud StudiesForensic Architecture’s Cloud Studies is a project that investigates the impact of toxic clouds on colonised and oppressed communities. The clouds, originating from sources like tear gas, industrial emissions, chemical weapons, and forest fires, often go unaddressed due to doubt…