Projects tagged
Installation
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MESOAMÉRICA RESISTE
Read more: MESOAMÉRICA RESISTEThe Beehive Design Collective is a wildly motivated, all-volunteer, activist arts collective dedicated to “cross-pollinating the grassroots” by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images for use as educational and organizing tools. We work as word-to-image translators of complex global stories, shared with…
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Hysterical: Radical Creativity
Read more: Hysterical: Radical CreativityFor Women’s History Month 2024, Hysterical Collective presented: Hysterical: Radical Creativity – the third instalment of the annual charity art exhibition and cultural programme taking place in March each year. Co-founded and curated by Eliza Hatch of Cheer Up Luv…
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Time Redefined: Maarten Baas’ ‘Real Time’ Series
Read more: Time Redefined: Maarten Baas’ ‘Real Time’ SeriesThe “Real Time” series by Maarten Baas is an avant-garde collection of art installations and functional timepieces that question the very basics of how to measure and experience time. It has, therefore, been a unique mix of performance art with…
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Intersecting Realms: Eva Koťátková’s ‘My Body Is Not An Island’ and the Dialogue Between Body and Society
Read more: Intersecting Realms: Eva Koťátková’s ‘My Body Is Not An Island’ and the Dialogue Between Body and SocietyEva Koťátková is one of the most outstanding contemporary artists of the Czech Republic, working in the interdisciplinary art genre, emphasizing themes of the human body, society, and psychology. Her art often occupied the space of the thorny, tangled, and…
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Visual Sovereignty: Unpacking Nicholas Galanin’s ‘Never Forget’ Installation
Read more: Visual Sovereignty: Unpacking Nicholas Galanin’s ‘Never Forget’ InstallationFor Nicholas Galanin, a Tlingit and Unangax̂ artist and musician, memory and land are inevitably entwined. The 45-foot letters of Never Forget reference the Hollywood sign, which initially spelled out HOLLYWOODLAND and was erected to promote a whites-only development. Its…
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Snake
Read more: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little SnakeNatalie Ball’s work challenges dominant stories of Native American identities, taking to task the historical and visual legacies that misrepresent what it means to be “Indian.” She dives deeply into Indigenous histories and forms of knowledge, the use of language,…
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Tracey Emin’s “My Bed” Ignored Society’s Expectations of Women
Read more: Tracey Emin’s “My Bed” Ignored Society’s Expectations of WomenWhen Tracey Emin aired her dirty laundry in the 1999 Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Britain, she set a new standard for confessional art. She conceived of the installation, titled My Bed (1998), after a long, bedridden bender following a…
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Marta Minujín’s The Parthenon of Books: A Living Elevation of Social and Cultural Relations
Read more: Marta Minujín’s The Parthenon of Books: A Living Elevation of Social and Cultural RelationsA collective endeavor of Greek antiquity — no less than eighty different artists worked on the frieze alone — the Parthenon was built between 447 BC and 438 BC under the orders of Pericles, following a democratic debate, and overseen…
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Repellent Fence: Art, Activism, and the U.S.-Mexico Border
Read more: Repellent Fence: Art, Activism, and the U.S.-Mexico BorderThe Repellent Fence is a social collaborative project among individuals, communities, institutional organizations, publics, and sovereigns that culminate with the establishment of a large-scale temporary monument located near Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora. This 2 mile long ephemeral land-art…
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Shielding Justice: Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Artistic Activism and Beyond
Read more: Shielding Justice: Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Artistic Activism and BeyondThis protest installation was first used in 2016 at Standing Rock when the community banded together to protect the Missouri River from a Dakota Access Pipeline. The mirror shields can protect against non-lethal deterrents like rubber bullets that may be…