Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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Activists and Residents Light Up Bushwick with Anti-Gentrification Signs
Read more: Activists and Residents Light Up Bushwick with Anti-Gentrification SignsSince Christmas Eve, some lights along the streets and in the houses of Bushwick have spelled out a number of messages quite different from the festive wishes one usually finds during the holiday season. “GENTRIFICATION IS THE NEW COLONIALISM,” “NOT…
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Camión / Galeria de Arte “Gente de Corabastos”
Read more: Camión / Galeria de Arte “Gente de Corabastos”Se sacuden la desconfianza y entran al camión. En él no hay frutas, ni verduras, ni carnes. El piso, igual que el techo y las paredes están inmaculadas y pintadas de blanco. Solo ellos y algunos compañeros inmortalizados en fotos…
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This Ain’t a Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering
Read more: This Ain’t a Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering“This Ain’t a Eulogy” is both a staged performance and a durational, outdoor, public performance that reclaims and takes public space. The artist statement is as follows: “Moved by the non-indictments of the police officers responsible for the deaths of…
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Join The Pack
Read more: Join The PackGrey wolves have had a tumultuous relationship with their human neighbors in the Pacific Northwest for more than a hundred years. From nearly being wiped out from the continent, Canadian grey wolves started being reintroduced to the wilderness in the…
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Graffiti on Garbage
Read more: Graffiti on GarbageDelhi- based graffiti artist who goes by the name Daku went around South Delhi, one of the poshest places in the city, and painted on overflowing garbage cans. It is both a call to the civic bodies to clear the…
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Photoshopped Sculpture
Read more: Photoshopped Sculpture“The thing about this is that sculptures like these in art history were for the male gaze. Photoshop a phone to it and suddenly she’s seen as vain and conceited. That’s why I’m 100% for selfie culture because apparently men…
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Pothole Activism
Read more: Pothole ActivismBaadal Nanjundaswamy, a Bangalore based artist who works at an advertising agency uses his art to embarrass the civic authorities into fixing the potholes that litter the roads of Bangalore. When people’s complaint to civic authorities about the state of…
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Endangered Species Take Over Empire State Building
Read more: Endangered Species Take Over Empire State BuildingIn July 2015, the Empire State Building’s famous light displays were used to draw attention endangered wildlife. Along with Cecil, whose death has sparked international outrage, a snow leopard, tigers, lemurs, and various snakes, birds and sea creatures were projected…
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Arruinados
Read more: ArruinadosIn July and August 2013, O Teatrão, a Coimbra based theatre company, presented the project Arruinados, comprising three theatre performances in three abandoned spaces (‘ruins’), one in each of three cities in the Centre region of Portugal located along the…
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Soviet Army Monument – REDUX
Read more: Soviet Army Monument – REDUXSince the beginning of Bulgaria’s transition to democracy, the monument’s meaning and future has been the subject of heated debates. Opponents to the monument aren’t happy about the presence of such a dominating foreign army monument in the country that…