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Thinking About Tea

Practitioner:
Cathy Martin, Claire O’Brien, Jenny Dungan, Tommy Lysaght

Date:
Apr 28 2018

We built a conversation space where members of the public were invited to enjoy a free cup of tea. We used a vertical garden which spelled out the word ‘TEA’ in easily available plants and herbs that can be used…

In her Shoes

Practitioner:
Creativity and Change – Reproductive Rights Group

Date:
Apr 28 2018

‘In Her Shoes’ was a street exhibition of stories from women and men affected by the 8th Amendment of the Irish Constitution. These stories were selected from the ‘In Her Shoes’ project Facebook page. We hung copies of the stories…

Nazi control room reopens as Topography of Terror museum in Berlin

Practitioner:
Berlin Artist

Date:
Apr 28 2018

It was once the most feared address in Berlin, a place easy to enter but very hard to leave. Now the ruins of the former engine room of Nazi terror at Prinz Albrecht Strasse in Berlin have been preserved in…

REDACT: a world without net neutrality

Practitioner:
Alexander Coury

Date:
Apr 28 2018

The elimination of Net Neutrality is a much bigger issue than most people would like to admit. This issue stems far from just an issue dealing with an open internet, free from biased control of the internet service providers, whom…

National Memorial for Peace and Justice

Practitioner:
Equal Justice Initiative

Date:
Apr 28 2018

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening to the public on April 26, 2018, will become the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and…

Women of York: “Shared Dining”

Practitioner:
Women of York

Date:
Apr 28 2018

In 2013, a group of ten women incarcerated at York Correctional Institution in Connecticut, calling themselves “Women of York,” created this work of art inspired by Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party. The installation includes six entry banners and ten place…

The Whole World Is An Art School

Practitioner:
Bob and Roberta Smith

Date:
Apr 28 2018

Bob and Roberta Smith has been at the forefront of activist art for 2 decades; so who better to ask about how art is responding to these politically bleak times? “THE WHOLE WORLD IS AN ART SCHOOL!” is the emblazoned…

Making Fun

Practitioner:
Jennifer Holcomb

Date:
Apr 28 2018

Oh, the lack of humanity! We’re defined by our commute. Home to work, work to home, rinse and repeat. We can blame the inundation of ugly mass advertising or distracting technology for society’s decline into autopilot, but modern culture is…

Chinese Feminist Act Against Sexual Harassment on Subway

Practitioner:
Zheng Xi

Date:
Apr 28 2018

Zheng Xi 郑熹, a Ph.D. candidate with a focus on gender studies at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. Zheng has launched a campaign asking city governments around China to display anti-sexual-harassment logos, complete with a groper’s “salty-pig hand” visual (etymological context…

Lebanon rape law: Wedding dresses hang in Beirut sea front protest

Practitioner:
Lebanese Activists

Date:
Apr 28 2018

Activists campaigning to change Lebanon’s law on rape have staged a macabre protest on Beirut’s famous sea front. What appeared to be more than 30 white wedding dresses were hung from nooses, strung up between the palm trees. Lebanese law…