Projects tagged
Installation
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Transient Typewrite Project
Read more: Transient Typewrite ProjectFounded by Bobby Gordon and Nayeli Adorador Knudsen, The Melrose Poetry Bureau is a public intervention involving a whole lot of typewriters, a public space, and the chaos that ensues. Once a location is picked for an intervention, Bobby and…
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The Department of Accumulated Thought (D.A.T.)
Read more: The Department of Accumulated Thought (D.A.T.)Call it art, exhibited as an installation piece in the October 2014 show “Crossing Brooklyn,” a collaboration of more than 100 artworks by 35 artists (or groups) who live or work in Brooklyn, presented at the Brooklyn Museum… or call…
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Find the Future
Read more: Find the FutureFind the Future: The Game is a pioneering, interactive experience created especially for NYPL’s Centennial by famed game designer Jane McGonigal, with Natron Baxter and Playmatics. Through a once-in-a-lifetime, overnight adventure played inside the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, and an…
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Unforgotten Campaign
Read more: Unforgotten CampaignBlair Holt was shot and killed while he shielded another classmate from the bullets a gunman sprayed on a CTA bus in Chicago in 2007. His father is a police officer and his mother is a fire department chief, and…
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Domestic Tension
Read more: Domestic TensionWafaa Bilal’s childhood in Iraq was defined by the horrific rule of Saddam Hussein, two wars, a bloody uprising, and time spent interned in chaotic refugee camps in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bilal eventually made it to the U.S. to…
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Sex at the Specs
Read more: Sex at the SpecsThe “Perceiving Freedom” glasses sculpture on Cape Town’s Sea Point promenade looking towards Robben Island, commemorates late President Nelson Mandela and the values of freedom and equality. On April 2nd 2015, as part of a Center for Artistic Activism School…
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The Last Billboard
Read more: The Last BillboardThe Last Billboard is a 36-foot art installation located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Created in 2013, it features a steel frame and removable wooden letters that must be arranged by hand. Each month a different artist, activist or individual is invited…
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Weapons Of Mass Instruction
Read more: Weapons Of Mass InstructionIf you’re a bibliophile you’ll get a kick out of the car-turned-library that can be found in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Artist Raul Lemesoff took an old 1979 Ford Falcon, a popular mode of transport amongst the military forces of its…
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Centros Sociales Okupados Autogestionados (CSOAs) in Spain: From abandoned houses to activist enclaves
Read more: Centros Sociales Okupados Autogestionados (CSOAs) in Spain: From abandoned houses to activist enclavesA Centro Social Okupado Autogestionado (Self-Managed Occupied Social Center) or CSOA is an occupied building dedicated to the development of social and cultural activities. They are part of the “movimiento okupa” (“squatter movement”), a label created and circulated by the…
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“The Garment Worker” An Interactive Media Installation for Community Dialogue
Read more: “The Garment Worker” An Interactive Media Installation for Community Dialogue“The Garment Worker” an interactive installation piece that focuses on the daily life of a garment worker and the hardships she/he encounters working in a sweatshop. The installation in Kang Wei Laundromat simulated the sounds, motions and experiences of a…