Projects tagged
Writing & Manifestos
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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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Beyond Braille: A History of Reading By Ear
Read more: Beyond Braille: A History of Reading By EarThe Declaration of Independence. The Book of Psalms. Hamlet. Speeches by Helen Keller. These were some of the first works made available to people who were blind in the 1930s, when the Library of Congress, in partnership with the American…
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Transient Typewrite Project
Read more: Transient Typewrite ProjectFounded by Bobby Gordon and Nayeli Adorador Knudsen, The Melrose Poetry Bureau is a public intervention involving a whole lot of typewriters, a public space, and the chaos that ensues. Once a location is picked for an intervention, Bobby and…
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Abandoned Love
Read more: Abandoned LoveUtilizing Tumblr, Peyton Fulford crafted Abandoned Love as a participatory art project with other users on Tumblr’s social network. Asking her followers “to send phrases from their diary, text messages, and anything else they personally have written in their own…
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Faiz
Read more: FaizFaiz | Hum Dekhenge | BolFaiz Ahmed Faiz, born 13 February 1911 – 20 November 1984, was an influential left-wing intellectual, revolutionary poet, and one of the most regarded poets of the Urdu language, being considered four times for the Nobel Prize in poetry. A notable member of the Progressive…
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Elena Fortún (1886-1952): Celia y la Revolución – Celia and the Revolution
Read more: Elena Fortún (1886-1952): Celia y la Revolución – Celia and the RevolutionEncarnación Aragoneses Urquijo (886-1952), commonly known by her literary pseudonym Elena Fortún, was a Spanish writer who focused in children and teenagers literature. She was born in Madrid, where she studied Philosophy and Humanities. In 1908 she married Eusebio de…
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Acción Poética
Read more: Acción PoéticaThe Acción Poética movement is a literary phenomenon that began in Monterrey, Mexico in 1996. It was founded by Mexican poet Armando Alanis Pulido and involves painting and intervening abandoned walls in cities with fragments of poetry. The content is…
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Miguel Hernández (Orihuela, Spain 10/30/1910 – Alicante, Spain 03/28/1942), life and death of a poet and activist
Read more: Miguel Hernández (Orihuela, Spain 10/30/1910 – Alicante, Spain 03/28/1942), life and death of a poet and activistMiguel Hernández was a spanish shepherd, poet and playwright that dedicated most of his works to dignify the poor peasants of the rural areas of Spain. He was born in Orihuela in 1910, and went to school until the age…
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Fake Eviction Notices
Read more: Fake Eviction NoticesOn the morning of April 24th, 2014, members of NYU’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine signed into several NYU dorms and slipped eviction notices under all of the doors. The eviction notices were written to raise awareness about…
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Art Cannot Provide a Way Out
Read more: Art Cannot Provide a Way OutIn 2006, art historian Claire Bishop lit a fire under the collective seat of the art world with her Artforum piece “The Social Turn: Collaboration and its Discontents.” It set off — as much as any essay in the hermetic…