Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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Fur in Madrid: Controversy and Critique
Read more: Fur in Madrid: Controversy and CritiqueDuring a cold January morning in 2020, Animanaturalis, a nonprofit group focused on ending the suffering of animals across Spain and Latin America gathered to protest the use, production, and sale of fur in Spain. In a blog post on…
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FEMEN’s Fight for Feminism in Spain
Read more: FEMEN’s Fight for Feminism in SpainFEMEN is an organization that is revolutionizing the feminist movement. Founded in Ukraine in 2008 and adopted in Spain in 2013, FEMEN protests gender-based issues such as inequalities, violence, patriarchy, etc. Since its creation, it has spread to several other…
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How Détournement Was Used as a Weapon in 15-M Protests
Read more: How Détournement Was Used as a Weapon in 15-M ProtestsJust over a decade ago on May 15, 2011, a wave of social outrage began as the Spanish people collectively decided that they had had enough of the corruption, cuts, and inequalities affecting their country. 15-M was a movement that…
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Kinshasa Costumes
Read more: Kinshasa CostumesThe collective Ndaku Ya La Vie Est Belle, a group of Kinshasa street performers turn their bodies into living sculptures, and use them to political ends. Among the artists is Jared, who regularly takes to the streets dressed as Robot…
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Stop The Coal Monster
Read more: Stop The Coal MonsterA series of three animations and posters to support the campaign titled: Stop the Coal Monster. Our demands of Nelson City Council and Tasman District Council: – Prohibit new resource consents for coal use or mining, effectively immediately. – End…
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No Pride in Incarceration!
Read more: No Pride in Incarceration!❗❗PRIDE REQUIRES ACTION❗❗ Celebrating Pride? What better way to uplift LGBTQ people’s lives than by joining our campaign to #EndTransDetention? Honor the legacy of Pride by taking action until all of us are free. Sign here & share with 3…
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How Mexico Formed A United National Identity Through Art
Read more: How Mexico Formed A United National Identity Through Art“Beginning in 1910, the Mexican Revolution spawned a cultural renaissance, inspiring artists to look inward in search of a specifically Mexican artistic language. This visual vocabulary was designed to transcend the realm of the arts and give a national identity…
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Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, 1964
Read more: Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, 1964In Cut Piece—one of Yoko Ono’s early performance works—the artist sat alone on a stage, dressed in her best suit, with a pair of scissors in front of her. The audience had been instructed that they could take turns approaching…
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Tiffany Sia: Slippery When Wet – Artists Space
Read more: Tiffany Sia: Slippery When Wet – Artists SpaceSlippery When Wet proposes a wet ontology of Hong Kong—a city in ongoing transfiguration shifting into an uncanny vision of itself. Hong Kong secretes, leaving a trail of ink, tears, humidity, logistic flows, and leaks. The works herein usurp these…
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Brief History of US Interventions in Latin America Since 1946
Read more: Brief History of US Interventions in Latin America Since 1946Brief History is part of a series produced by Carlos Motta between 2005 and 2009 that presents two chronologies of events in Latin America: one of U.S. interventions in the region since 1946, and one of the area’s leftist guerrilla…