Projects tagged
Performance
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Kacey Wong & his provocative pink tank at Hong Kong’s 1 July marches
Read more: Kacey Wong & his provocative pink tank at Hong Kong’s 1 July marchesThe Hong Kong 1 July protests are a surprising sight on the often chaotic stress. This day marks the transfer of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China (PRC) and is a public holiday it was originally thought to…
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Art Everywhere
Read more: Art EverywhereCENTRO San Antonio’s Art Everywhere Project will celebrate its 5th anniversary in May. As of May 2024, the project had seen numerous artists from the city’s urbancore decorate areas of the city with elaborate murals reflecting the city’s history and…
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Ice Watch
Read more: Ice WatchDanish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has extracted 30 blocks of glacial ice from the waters surrounding Greenland and placed them in public spaces across London, where they will be left to melt. Called Ice Watch, the temporary installation is meant to…
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Funk Lessons
Read more: Funk LessonsAdrian Piper’s “Funk Lessons” (1982-84) was a series of performances and collaborative events in which the artist taught white participants about black funk music, its culture, and its history, aiming to deconstruct stereotypical ideas about Black culture. Adrian Piper began…
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Healing through sound and community art
Read more: Healing through sound and community artGlowing softly in the West Texas desert night, artist Guadalupe Maravilla’s Mariposa Relámpago, was once an ordinary school bus but is now a richly decorated, mobile site for remembrance and healing. Like much of the artist’s work, this piece commemorates…
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An Italian farming community gathers for the funeral of traditional agriculture.
Read more: An Italian farming community gathers for the funeral of traditional agriculture.Omelia Contadina was born out of the concern of JR and director Alice Rohrwacher for the difficulties encountered by many small farmers and inhabitants of the Alfina plateau, in Italy. Alice Rohrwacher explains the origins of the project: “Last autumn,…
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Rokudenashiko and Her Man-Boat
Read more: Rokudenashiko and Her Man-BoatMegumi Igarashi—who goes by the name Rokudenashiko, or “good-for-nothing” in Japanese—is known as a “vagina artist” in her native Japan. Among the pieces she’s created are a vagina chandelier, a remote-controlled vagina car, and a 3-D-printed kayak modeled after her…
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Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ Album
Read more: Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ AlbumBeyoncé’s album Renaissance is grounded in black queer ballroom culture. It debuted at no. 1 on the Billboard 200 and had the third highest album debut of 2022. Contradictingly, Beyoncé’s Renaissance features a wide range of music: disco, electro-funk, afrobeat,…
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The Sea of Escape
Read more: The Sea of Escape“I collected 83 images of disappeared women from Chinese social media. I printed them out, cut them, organized them, and made them into a tarot deck called “Missing Persons Notice.’” “This is a very heavy deck. Several times, I opened…
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Coco Fusco and Paula Heredia’s The Couple in the Cage: Guatinaui Odyssey
Read more: Coco Fusco and Paula Heredia’s The Couple in the Cage: Guatinaui OdysseyThe Couple in the Cage documents the travelling performance of Guillermo Gómez -Peña and Coco Fusco, in which they exhibited themselves as caged Amerindians from an imaginary island. While the artists’ intent was to create a satirical commentary on the…