Projects tagged
Mixed Media
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Justice Kavanaugh Boof Kits
Read more: Justice Kavanaugh Boof KitsThroughout the weekend, big box stores across the country were stocked with an unexpected item: “The Justice Kavanaugh Boof Kit.” The item, an alcohol enema kit (known as “boofing” or “butt chugging”), appeared on dozens of retailer’s shelves over the…
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Nongfu Spring Market
Read more: Nongfu Spring MarketThe 9,000 bottles of water on display at an art gallery in Beijing last month appeared identical to those of Nongfu Spring, one of China’s most popular spring water brands, with one jarring difference. Inside each bottle was brown, murky…
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Afropunk: Feeling Black Activism’s Joy, and Its Pain
Read more: Afropunk: Feeling Black Activism’s Joy, and Its PainAs Black History Month commemorations start to wind down, one festival is just gearing up. Afropunk the Takeover — Harlem, running from Tuesday through Feb. 25, will celebrate black culture with music, art, film screenings, discussions and comedy. Co-produced by…
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The SOA Cycle
Read more: The SOA Cycle“SOA Cycle, and what it later became, which is called the Democracy Cycle, is a group of seven large works that approach the question of democracy. What is democracy? How is it constructed? How is it implemented? Is it something…
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Action Day Against Racism and Xenophobia in Spain – No Hate Speech
Read more: Action Day Against Racism and Xenophobia in Spain – No Hate SpeechThe No Hate Speech campaign has come to its fourth anniversary this week, because it was on the 18th of March 2013 when the Spanish Institute for Youth IMG_9707(INJUVE) officially launched the campaign in Spain, to commemorate the 21st of…
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A Handmaid’s Tale of Protest
Read more: A Handmaid’s Tale of ProtestIn state capitals and street protests, women’s rights activists have been wearing red robes and white bonnets based on “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the 1985 novel that is now a series on Hulu. Silent, heads bowed, the activists in crimson robes…
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Environmental group to carve Donald Trump’s face into the side of Arctic iceberg
Read more: Environmental group to carve Donald Trump’s face into the side of Arctic icebergThe stunt aims to show the impact of climate change by live streaming the sculpture melting. A climate change group is raising half a million dollars with the goal of carving President Donald Trump’s face into an arctic iceberg. The…
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Shine MSD
Read more: Shine MSDShine, written by Stoneman Douglas students Sawyer Garrity and Andrea Peña in response to the tragic shooting at their school on February 14, 2018 to inspire unity, hope, and change. MSD alum Brittani Kagan collaborated with students and faculty to…
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‘RBG’ documentary reveals how Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a meme — and why that’s so surprising
Read more: ‘RBG’ documentary reveals how Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a meme — and why that’s so surprisingThe Ginsburg without photoshopped sunglasses and a crown fueled a revolution with lawsuits instead of protests. She believed in incremental progress instead of bold gestures. She was projected to be a conciliator on the court, not its preeminent liberal dissenter.…
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Using Art to Stop a Pipeline
Read more: Using Art to Stop a PipelineIt’s not easy to stop the construction of natural gas pipelines, but several years ago the ecological artist and activist Aviva Rahmani came up with an ingenious idea: what if you could protect threatened landscapes by turning them into art?…