Projects tagged
Performance
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WILD: Act I – Ballet + Criminal Justice Reform
Read more: WILD: Act I – Ballet + Criminal Justice Reform“WILD: Act I” is a film demonstrating the power of creativity in constraint. Using moving choreography performed by Elijah Lancaster and vivid imagery displayed on three walls in a mock cell, Jeremy McQueen gives voice to young Black and Brown…
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Beautiful Women’s Rights Walk
Read more: Beautiful Women’s Rights WalkIn 2012, the 24-year-old feminist activist Xiao Meili launched the “Beautiful Women’s Rights Walk” anti-sexual assault activity. She set off from Beijing in mid-September and passed through Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Changsha and other cities along the way to reach the destination…
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“blood-stained wedding dress, wounded bride”
Read more: “blood-stained wedding dress, wounded bride”On February 14, 2012, three female college student volunteers wore blood-stained wedding dresses and appeared as “wounded brides” in Beijing Qianmen Pedestrian Street. They held up “violence is around, are you still silent?!” and other advocated signs to take photos…
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Shaving hair performance art in response to the gender discrimination existing in the Chinese educational system
Read more: Shaving hair performance art in response to the gender discrimination existing in the Chinese educational systemIn early July 2012, after the Chinese college entrance examination results were announced, the media found that many colleges and universities had gender bias on the admitted scores, and the maximum difference between men and women was up to 40…
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Colin Kapaernick
Read more: Colin KapaernickIn early 2016, I began paying attention to reports about the incredible number of unarmed black people being killed by the police. The posts on social media deeply disturbed me, but one in particular brought me to tears: the killing…
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Gardens Speak
Read more: Gardens Speak“Gardens Speak is an interactive sound installation containing the oral histories of ten ordinary people who were buried in Syrian gardens. Each narrative has been carefully constructed with the friends and family members of the deceased to retell their stories…
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The Color of Reality
Read more: The Color of RealityTransfixed by racial, political, and socioeconomic tensions saturating the news, movement artists Jon Boogz and Lil Buck, enveloped by the art of Alexa Meade, switch off the TV and release their emotion into a stirring dance that is both a…
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Detox Levis – Vertical Catwalk
Read more: Detox Levis – Vertical CatwalkDetox Levi’s: 6th December: Greenpeace activists staged a vertical catwalk action in front of the levi’s store in the biggest mall in Copenhagen, Denmark. Greenpeace calls Levi’s to engage fully in the process of ending the use and release of…
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Student flash mobs in Thailand
Read more: Student flash mobs in Thailand“Thai artists and art students are on the frontline of their country’s swelling pro-democracy movement, calling for reforms of Thailand’s military-backed government, and breaking both taboo and national law to criticise the nation’s monarchy. The near-daily flash mobs numbering in…
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Women turned Protective Wall into a memorial
Read more: Women turned Protective Wall into a memorialAhead of Monday’s planned protest, police set up a barricade around the presidential palace, which a spokesperson described as a “peace wall” to prevent vandalism, the Guardian reported. But protesters said the barrier was symbolic of the president’s refusal to…