Projects tagged
Performance
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Dirty Money in Art & Big Pharma
Read more: Dirty Money in Art & Big PharmaBetween 1995 and 2017 the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin brought in $35 billion USD in revenue for Purdue Pharma, most of which went directly into the hands of the Sackler family. The Sackler family, a dynasty of philanthropists have given…
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The Vivienne Foundation
Read more: The Vivienne FoundationThe Vivienne Foundation exists to honour, protect and continue the legacy of Vivienne’s creativity and activism. Since the start of her career in the 1970s, Vivienne was renowned not only for her fashion design, but also her activism. Vivienne always…
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Harry Belafonte on His Artistic Values and His Activism
Read more: Harry Belafonte on His Artistic Values and His ActivismHarry Belafonte, the singer, actor and activist whose wide-ranging success blazed a trail for other Black artists in the 1950s, died on Tuesday at age 96. A child of Harlem, Mr. Belafonte used his platform at the height of the…
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The Baltic Way – the longest unbroken human chain in history
Read more: The Baltic Way – the longest unbroken human chain in historyAt 7:00 PM on 23 August 1989, approximately two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania joined hands, forming a human chain from Tallinn through Riga to Vilnius, spanning 675 kilometres, or 420 miles. It was a peaceful protest against…
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The Harlem Festival of Culture
Read more: The Harlem Festival of CultureThe Harlem Festival of Culture not only pays homage to the past but also envisions a brighter future. It serves as a platform to showcase the rich diversity and dynamism of Harlem’s artistic community, while also acting as a catalyst…
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James Luna’s “The Artifact Piece” (1987)
Read more: James Luna’s “The Artifact Piece” (1987)The performance artist James Luna, who died in 2018 at age 68, had a wicked sense of humor, which made his explorations of the way that Indigenous people have long been objectified, especially in museums, painfully piquant. A member of…
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Why Did Francis Alÿs Push A Block Of Ice For 9 Hours?
Read more: Why Did Francis Alÿs Push A Block Of Ice For 9 Hours?What is Francis Alÿs known for? Francis Alÿs is known for using poetic and metaphorical techniques to highlight the political and social realities of his city. Often, the issues he addresses range from national border politics to globalism and areas…
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Dialogue
Read more: DialogueThe China Project: – An Artist in her Gun in 1989: Xiao Lu’s Accidental Revolt: It was February 5, 1989, and the opening day of the China Avant-Garde exhibition at Beijing’s National Art Museum was a madhouse. Performance artists had…
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Dancing Is The New Protest In Iran
Read more: Dancing Is The New Protest In IranThe Islamic Republic has always frowned upon dance but recently even a simple choreographed or ‘synchronized movement’ – as the regime calls it – has become an act of protest. Last week on International Women’s Day, a 40-second video of…
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I’ve just received an honorary doctorate at 18 – but that doesn’t matter
Read more: I’ve just received an honorary doctorate at 18 – but that doesn’t matterThis week, I got to make history. At 18 years of age, I received an honorary doctorate from the University of London for my work in climate justice, making me the current youngest holder of the award globally. Having not…