Projects tagged
Performance
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Wallyball
Read more: WallyballThe frontier between the United States and Mexico is the busiest land border in the world. It is also among one of the world’s most heavily regulated and policed border zones—the arid climate of which is responsible for many migrant…
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The technopolitical struggle for free culture
Read more: The technopolitical struggle for free cultureThe Spanish 15M/Indignados movement represents a citizen break-up with the current political system while proposing an alternative one, changing the prevailing participation patterns while transforming the cultural, social and political structures in the country. Nobody expected the Spanish r-Evolution and…
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Embassy Of Iran in Jerusalem
Read more: Embassy Of Iran in JerusalemThere is no embassy of Iran in Jerusalem. We ask why. We are a group of artists living and creating in Jerusalem, trying to create a new reality. one which we can identify with. A reality of dialogue between the…
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The Capitol Crawl
Read more: The Capitol CrawlThe Americans With Disabilities Act Is Turning 25. Watch the Dramatic Protest That Made It Happen. —By Samantha Michaels Twenty-five years ago this weekend, the Americans With Disabilities Act was signed into law, officially outlawing discrimination against disabled people in…
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Quac: el Noticero (Quac the newletter)
Read more: Quac: el Noticero (Quac the newletter)From 1995 to 1997, Colombian families reunited in front of the TV to watch Quac: El Noticero, a comedy newletter performed by the comedian Jaime Garzon and the actor Diego Leon Hoyos. It has been the only space in which…
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Imaginary Activism: The Role of the Artist Beyond the Art World
Read more: Imaginary Activism: The Role of the Artist Beyond the Art WorldIn this solo work, Gómez-Peña tests brand new material dealing with radical citizenship and what he terms “imaginary activism,” combining live art, literature, theory, and pedagogy in a wonderfully strange mix. Not one solo performance is ever the same. Gómez-Peña…
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Vaginal Knitting
Read more: Vaginal Knitting“Vaginal Knitting” Is the New Thing in Activist Performance Art by Adam Weinstein Casey Jenkins identifies herself as a former “craftivist”—a term she defines as “using traditional craft techniques for a political or social activism purpose.” She and her colleagues…
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The LES vs. Hurricane Sandy
Read more: The LES vs. Hurricane SandyIn anticipation of Climate March NYC 2014, Good Old Lower East Side, a non-profit focused on defending tenants rights and disaster preparedness outreach following the wake of Hurricane Sandy, implemented a arts-based intervention called “The LES vs. Hurricane Sandy”. In…
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Sex at the Specs
Read more: Sex at the SpecsThe “Perceiving Freedom” glasses sculpture on Cape Town’s Sea Point promenade looking towards Robben Island, commemorates late President Nelson Mandela and the values of freedom and equality. On April 2nd 2015, as part of a Center for Artistic Activism School…
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artist flashes museum-goers
Read more: artist flashes museum-goers… is this for protest? Perhaps. As is described online, it mentions that there was an attempt taken to challenge power relations, specifically between men and women; however, what I find most fascinating about this ‘action’ is that it ‘demonstrates’…