Projects tagged
Performance
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As Far As My Fingertips Take Me
Read more: As Far As My Fingertips Take MePeter Marks Review from the Washington Post: “As Far as My Fingertips Take Me,” a performance piece about the ordeal of seeking refuge by Tania El Khoury that’s being presented for the next 2½ weeks in the lobby of Woolly…
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The Utopia of 20 Minutes Embrace
Read more: The Utopia of 20 Minutes EmbraceOn the afternoon of September 11th, nearly a hundred people hugged each other to feel the beauty of the hug on the Paris Square in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, under the leadership of the Chinese artist Gao…
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The Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and Action
Read more: The Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and ActionThe Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and Action (https://theamplificationproject.com) is a community-led participatory public digital archive to which any artist and activist can document, preserve and share their work inspired, influenced, or affected by forced migration.…
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Putting LSD in Chicago’s water supply
Read more: Putting LSD in Chicago’s water supplyAs the Yippies prepared for protests at 1968 Democratic National Convention, Yippie Paul Krassner rattled Chicago leaders by suggesting that the Yippies were planning to put LSD in the city water supply. As Abbie Hoffman said at the Chicago Seven…
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Left Litter in the Park? Thailand Officials Will Mail It to Your Home
Read more: Left Litter in the Park? Thailand Officials Will Mail It to Your HomeOfficials in Thailand had an unorthodox approach to deal with visitors who left a tent filled with litter in a national park: mail the trash to the offenders. The country’s environment minister said that he wanted to call attention to…
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My Calling (Card) #1 Meta-Performance (1987-88; 00:58:00)
Read more: My Calling (Card) #1 Meta-Performance (1987-88; 00:58:00)Adrian Piper created ‘calling cards’ that can stand alone as individual works, but Piper also used them in performances. The works described here include edited documentary footage from two performances (one in Chicago, one in Harlem) based on My Calling…
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Vietnam comes to Washington
Read more: Vietnam comes to WashingtonIt’s the summer of 1971 and tourists flock around one of Washington DC’s most famous hotspots – the Capitol steps. Journalist Art Goldberg recalls ‘a squad of soldiers moving through the space. They are grubby-looking troopers, clad in jungle fatigues.…
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The Scheherazade Project
Read more: The Scheherazade ProjectThe Scheherazade Project is a Performing Arts Non-profit based in Washington DC. Co-founders Lisa Leibow and Julia Alvarez were inspired by Scheherazade in the Arab classic 1001 Nights and created The Scheherazade Project. For more information, our website is https://thescheherazadeproject.org/The-Scheherazade-Project…
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Caged Bird Songs and Other Stories
Read more: Caged Bird Songs and Other StoriesCaged Bird Songs ‘his wings are clipped and his feet are tied’ Maya Angelou believed in empathy as an empowering force in the world. In the time of coronavirus, we find our wings ‘clipped’ in various ways. The lucky among…
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Drag Out the Vote
Read more: Drag Out the VoteDrag Out The Vote™ is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works with drag performers to promote participation in democracy. We educate and register voters at drag events online and offline, by organizing local and national voter activations. Led by fierce…