Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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The Peoples Bank of Govanhill
Read more: The Peoples Bank of GovanhillThe People’s Bank of Govanhill uses social and activist art practices to involve people in re-imagining the local economy, looking at how we can put feminist economics into practice in the local community. The project was intiated by artist Ailie…
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Day after Debt
Read more: Day after DebtThe artist conceived the project as a collaborative exhibition featuring five art-as-response pieces to the student loan crisis and the pressure it causes upon graduates. In its original version, Öğüt invited Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Superflex, Dan Perjovschi, Martha Rosler to…
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From Nope to Hope: Art vs Arms, Oil & Injustice
Read more: From Nope to Hope: Art vs Arms, Oil & InjusticeAfter artists learned that London’s Design Museum was connected to Leonardo, a large arms dealing company, and hosted an event for them, many of the artists featured in their Hope to Nope: Graphics and Politics 2008-2018 asked the museum for…
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The People’s Prison
Read more: The People’s PrisonFor one day, a group of artists known as the INDECLINE Artist Collective turned a hotel room in New York City’s Trump International Hotel into a single jail cell for Donald Trump without the hotel’s knowledge. The inside the jail…
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Invisible Homeless
Read more: Invisible HomelessArtist Luke Jerram created a genderless sleeping figure made of glass lying on a piece of cardboard and exhibited in the streets of London. The artist said in an interview “For every person you see sleeping on the streets, there…
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Organization Fighting Against Street Harassment Through Sidewalk Chalk
Read more: Organization Fighting Against Street Harassment Through Sidewalk ChalkCatcalls of NYC is an organization that uses Instagram and everyday intervention as a platform of raising awareness about street sexual harassment. The group receives direct messages from people who have been catcalled on the street. The group goes to…
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No Humans Involved: After Sylvia Wynter
Read more: No Humans Involved: After Sylvia WynterIn this series featured in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, artist Alexandra Bell edited headline pages from the New York Daily News in 1989 concerning the case of the Central Park 5. Through redaction, highlighting, and censoring, Bell shows how the…
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#NoKidsInCages Artists Install 20 Cages With Models of Children Inside Across NYC
Read more: #NoKidsInCages Artists Install 20 Cages With Models of Children Inside Across NYCThe ad agency Badger & Winters in collaboration with immigrant rights nonprofit organization Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) installed 20 cages with mannequins representing immigrant children inside across New York City. Each cage had a…
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Artist cages Boston’s “Make Way for Duckings” statue
Read more: Artist cages Boston’s “Make Way for Duckings” statueAlzayer put cages around Boston’s “Make Way for Ducklngs” statues, separating the baby duckling statues from the mother. The original statues were created in 1987 by Nancy Schon and the mallard family is based on the children’s book by Robert…
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Degrees of My Deaf Rage
Read more: Degrees of My Deaf RageChristine Sun Kim’s series Degrees of My Deaf Rage is a series of charcoal drawings of charts that depict the artist’s varying degrees of what she calls “deaf rage.” These frustrations are categorized by situations: deaf rage in the art…