Projects tagged
Writing & Manifestos
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“Are You Doing All Right?”
Read more: “Are You Doing All Right?”The following description is taken from the website of Aljazeera America (find link below): In early December, Ju Hyun-u, a student at South Korea’s elite Korea University, taped up two white sheets filled with his handwriting on a campus bulletin…
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Shirin Neshat Addresses Iranian President at the WEF in Davos
Read more: Shirin Neshat Addresses Iranian President at the WEF in DavosShirin Neshat is an Iranian visual artist who works and resides in New York City. Her work refers to the social, political and religious codes of Muslim societies. She particularly addresses the psychological dimensions of women’s experience in contemporary islamic…
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Nude Protests and Political Contradictions
Read more: Nude Protests and Political ContradictionsLast month Amina Tyler, a 19 year old Tunisian blogger, posted a nude photo of herself as a protest; she is now under death threat. In her defense, the Ukrainian group Femen [13] staged a global “topless jihad” [14] on…
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Feminism Gets Rebranded
Read more: Feminism Gets RebrandedFor the November issue of women’s magazine ELLE UK, agency W+K London teamed up with feminist cofounders of Vagenda, Holly Baxter and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, to rebrand feminism. Frustrated with the way women are stereotyped and portrayed, Vagenda created a…
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A Dozen Writers Put Down Their Pens to Prove the Might of a March
Read more: A Dozen Writers Put Down Their Pens to Prove the Might of a MarchThere were no opposition leaders at the head of the vast column of people that peacefully wound its way through central Moscow on Sunday. There was, instead, a corpulent poet, whose admirers thrust lilac boughs at him. A bespectacled detective…
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post (r)evolutionary exercises
Read more: post (r)evolutionary exercisesThe post (r)evolutionary exercises are the outcome of a meeting/friendship/project that started in summer 2010, when we took part in “Goings on” seminar in Beirut, Lebanon. In this seminar, curated by Cecilia Andersson, Scandinavian and Middle east art groups were…
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Today we do not use the word ‘Recession’
Read more: Today we do not use the word ‘Recession’For the Midsummer Festival in Cork, Ireland, SUPERFLEX encouraged Lord Mayor of Cork Cllr. Dara Murphy to bring a proposal to the city council that would ban the use of the word ‘Recession’ in the city. Out of this came…
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The Grace Period Blog/Performance
Read more: The Grace Period Blog/Performance“The Grace Period” is a live blogging platform with seven anonymous contributing bloggers called: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Through, videos, writings, and visuals they present multiple perspectives of landing/creating a meaningful job after school in a…
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A ‘new poetry’ emerges from Syria’s civil war
Read more: A ‘new poetry’ emerges from Syria’s civil war“Today there is literature coming out of Syria that we could have never even dreamed of just a few years ago,” Atrash says.Rather than relying on metaphors and allegorical images, these new poems rely on literal, visceral descriptions, with a…
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HeadSpace Magazine
Read more: HeadSpace MagazineExpress and Create, Solidarity and Support” is a slogan that summarises the aims of HeadSpace, a new, non-profit, artistic magazine that accepts submissions on the theme of mental health. It is entirely run by volunteers and mostly distributed for free…