Projects tagged
Latin America & Caribbean
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Estados de excepción
Read more: Estados de excepciónEstados de excepción (States of Exception) is series of participatory cultural interventions created for women to freely and joyfully exercise our rights in public and secure environments, currently being produced in Mexico and abroad. Conceived in response to the growing…
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Operation Christmas
Read more: Operation ChristmasOperation Christmas was a campaign launched by the Colombian military during the Christmas season to encourage FARC guerrillas to demobilize.[1] The military selected nine 75-foot trees along paths the insurgents used and decorated them with Christmas lights and a message…
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Quac: el Noticero (Quac the newletter)
Read more: Quac: el Noticero (Quac the newletter)From 1995 to 1997, Colombian families reunited in front of the TV to watch Quac: El Noticero, a comedy newletter performed by the comedian Jaime Garzon and the actor Diego Leon Hoyos. It has been the only space in which…
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Pamparadio
Read more: PamparadioAs part of USAID’s “My Comunidad-Mi Agua” program in Peru, “Pamparadio” was a radio show run by two adolescents from the community of Iquitos, a jungle province. Armed with a gigantic speaker on the top of a community center and…
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Expectations
Read more: ExpectationsJorge Rodríguez-Gerarda is a cuban Artist that was born in 1966. One of his projects was naed Expectations in which he did with sand and grave a massive image of Barack Obama, as a way to reflect all what this…
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Santuario Virgen del Rosario
Read more: Santuario Virgen del RosarioIn 2009, clergy from El Oratorio Don Bosco in Italy moved to Polloc, a remote town in Peru near Cajamarca, and began to build a mid-sized cathedral. In conjunction to the construction, they opened up a workshop next to the…
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Washed Up: Transforming a Trashed Landscape
Read more: Washed Up: Transforming a Trashed LandscapeSian Ka’an is an extraordinary UNESCO tropical nature reserve along Mexico’s Carribean coastline, but the currents that pass by this area bring garbage from all over the world to the shores of this paradise. Alejandro Duran, an artist working in…
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Murales Imborrables
Read more: Murales ImborrablesIn March this year, less than 100 days since he took office again, Luis Castañeda Lossio, Mayor of Lima, announced that the Municipality would remove the street art murals painted on the walls of downtown Lima’s historical city streets. “Lima…
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Pretend to govern while playing and pretend to play while governing
Read more: Pretend to govern while playing and pretend to play while governingIn 1995, Bogota was a chaotic city. Among others, it presented high ranges of homicides, delinquency, corruption, no sense of belonging, traffic chaos and financial problems. People were desperate and they were ready to accept any alternative to a change…
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Weapons Of Mass Instruction
Read more: Weapons Of Mass InstructionIf you’re a bibliophile you’ll get a kick out of the car-turned-library that can be found in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Artist Raul Lemesoff took an old 1979 Ford Falcon, a popular mode of transport amongst the military forces of its…