Projects tagged
Performance
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Performance Obscura
Read more: Performance ObscuraIn her curatorial project Making Way, Ruth Simbao brought together works that complicated the idea of globalization’s effect on African nations, especially the idea that the new phase would usher in an almost frictionless movement of labor and capital across…
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Princess Diana’s 1997 landmine walk: ‘I come with my heart’
Read more: Princess Diana’s 1997 landmine walk: ‘I come with my heart’It’s an evocative image — and it was intended to be: Diana, Princess of Wales, wearing a protective visor and flak jacket, walking through a live minefield in Huambo, Angola. The image of the princess, at the time one of…
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Climate Protestor Smears Pink Paint on Tom Thomson Painting at National Gallery of Canada
Read more: Climate Protestor Smears Pink Paint on Tom Thomson Painting at National Gallery of CanadaA climate activist smeared pink paint on a Tom Thomson artwork at the National Gallery of Canada as part of activities this week drawing attention to demands for a national firefighting service. A video uploaded to Facebook by the group…
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Ge Yulu: Eye Contact
Read more: Ge Yulu: Eye ContactGe Yulu’s artistic practice playfully pulls at the strings of a social system that, although seemingly all-encompassing, is in fact a malleable structure consisting of individual human beings. For his 2016 project Eye Contact, Ge positioned himself in front of…
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Zhang Donghui, a young artist, was detained for more than three months and had to pay 3,995 yuan in compensation for writing the words “Three years, I have become numb.”
Read more: Zhang Donghui, a young artist, was detained for more than three months and had to pay 3,995 yuan in compensation for writing the words “Three years, I have become numb.”Zhang Donghui, born in 1992, is a native of Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China. He graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2017. He has been living and working as a professional artist in Beijing…
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CAMILO GODOY: RENACEMOS A CADA INSTANTE
Read more: CAMILO GODOY: RENACEMOS A CADA INSTANTEAs the New Museum’s 2023–24 Artist-in-Residence, Camilo Godoy will create a performance exploring movement, breathing, and mourning practices. The title of his residency is borrowed from an embroidered work made by the queer Paraguayan artist Feliciano Centurión in 1995, the…
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The body as a living artwork: Olivier de Sagazan’s Transfiguration
Read more: The body as a living artwork: Olivier de Sagazan’s TransfigurationAs the audience enter, Olivier de Sagazan is pacing the stage, deep in thought. A slight, barefooted figure dressed in suit and tie, he circles in and out the shadows, head bowed, sometimes muttering to himself. As the audience settle…
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Climate Comedy: Inspiring Climate Action Through Comedy
Read more: Climate Comedy: Inspiring Climate Action Through ComedyThe Climate Comedy Cohort is an unprecedented network of comedians who are coming together to learn, collaborate, and create hilarious new comedy informed by the hottest climate science. The Climate Comedy Cohort functions as a 9-month fellowship. Co-created and directed…
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performance art protest against campus lockdown due to covid
Read more: performance art protest against campus lockdown due to covidA performance art piece by a student who sat in a cage to protest a draconian lockdown of the Beijing Film Academy (BFA) recently went viral, and was censored just as quickly. Like many other Chinese citizens, university students have…
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Mona Lisa undamaged after protesters at the Louvre throw soup at Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece
Read more: Mona Lisa undamaged after protesters at the Louvre throw soup at Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpieceLeonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (around 1503-19) was attacked at the Musée du Louvre, in Paris, today by environmental activists who threw soup over the world’s most-recognised and most-viewed painting. The celebrated portrait, which has been protected by security glass…