Projects tagged
Installation
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Putting It All On The Table
Read more: Putting It All On The TableThe following description is taken from an article that appeared on the unreasonable.is website (see link below): on January 24, 2014, a gallery exhibit opened in New York for the express purpose of inspiring people to think differently about food,…
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“Are You Doing All Right?”
Read more: “Are You Doing All Right?”The following description is taken from the website of Aljazeera America (find link below): In early December, Ju Hyun-u, a student at South Korea’s elite Korea University, taped up two white sheets filled with his handwriting on a campus bulletin…
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For ‘Equal Pay Day’, An ATM That Gives Less Money To Men
Read more: For ‘Equal Pay Day’, An ATM That Gives Less Money To MenAs we’ve already found out, gender inequality exists in all parts of the world, but besides discriminative attitudes, women also suffer from wage discrimination. According to statistics, women’s earnings in the US “were 77% of men’s in 2011”, while in…
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8-Year-Old Creates ‘Buddy Bench’ For His Classmates Who Don’t Have Playmates
Read more: 8-Year-Old Creates ‘Buddy Bench’ For His Classmates Who Don’t Have Playmates“Eight-year-old Christian Bucks from Roundtown Elementary School noticed that some of his classmates did not have any friends to play with during recess. His solution was to introduce a “Buddy Bench”, where lonely classmates could choose to sit if they…
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The Monument Quilt
Read more: The Monument QuiltThe Monument Quilt: a public healing space by and for survivors of rape and abuse. The Monument Quilt is a crowd-sourced collection of thousands of stories from survivors of rape and abuse. By stitching our stories together, we are creating…
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Snake Ceiling
Read more: Snake CeilingOn May 12, 2008, a massive earthquake in China’s Sichuan province killed approximately 90,000 people. Ai Weiwei created this serpentine sculpture, made of backpacks, to commemorate the more than 5,000 school children who were killed when their shoddily constructed schools…
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Church protest reveals realities of life in modern Bethlehem
Read more: Church protest reveals realities of life in modern BethlehemThe Rev Lucy Winkett is having trouble sleeping. This is because her church on Piccadilly has decided to erect a full-size copy of the Israeli separation barrier to block off her Christopher Wren church. And because she lives above the…
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Object Orange
Read more: Object OrangeIn the “D”, “D” doesn’t really stand for “Detroit”, but “Demolition.” Take a look around and you’ll notice a great number of buildings marked on the front with a circled “D” in faint chalk. Off to the side, many of…
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Street Art Critiques Car Culture
Read more: Street Art Critiques Car CultureIn 2001, Peter Gibson, a street artist, began by painting bike additional bike lanes onto the streets in Montreal because he was tired of how cars dominated the road. This transferred into more works criticizing car culture in general. Some…
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A Well Within
Read more: A Well WithinA Well Within” is a collaborative art and education project that inspires people – young and old – to confront the global water crisis in a personal way. This interactive experience tells the story of Alile, a young East African…