Projects tagged
Latin America & Caribbean
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Rolezinho Movement
Read more: Rolezinho MovementThis description is taken from an article posted on dissidentvoice.org (link below): Since last December, Brazilian shopping malls have become the stage for a new style of youth gathering: the rolezinho. Roughly translated as “little excursions” or outings, the rolezinhos…
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Los Intocables
Read more: Los IntocablesA CUBAN artist’s controversial photographs of children being hung from crosses has landed him in hot water. Erik Ravelo took a series of photos of children hung like Jesus from a cross, but in the place of the cross were…
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Rolezinho
Read more: RolezinhoThis description is taken from an article posted on dissidentvoice.org (link below): Since last December, Brazilian shopping malls have become the stage for a new style of youth gathering: the rolezinho. Roughly translated as “little excursions” or outings, the rolezinhos…
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cheLA
Read more: cheLAMost cheLA activities are organized around a series of workshops, which may act in combination, are designed as areas of aesthetic, technological and theoretical concentration, and structured to promote their development. Its core activities are research and experimentation residences. As…
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Unland
Read more: UnlandDoris Salcedo talked extensively with victims of the violence in Colombia. For the project titled Unland she spoke specifically with children who had witnessed the murder of their parents. This piece was a poetic response and representation of their testimony.…
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Silent Strikes in Venezuelan Universities
Read more: Silent Strikes in Venezuelan UniversitiesIn Venezuela, the far right opposition has protested against the leftist regime of Maduro. Violence has swept through the capital, Caracas, and other cities throughout the country. Meanwhile, the Western world has had its eye on Ukraine, and received relatively…
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Projeto Axé
Read more: Projeto Axé“Children and youngsters who are invisible to society are made visible through Art” Projeto Axé is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 1990 in Salvador, Bahia (Brazil), by Cesare de Florio La Rocca, a lawyer and educator from Florence. Its goal…
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Documentary on art and activism in the streets of Buenos Aires
Read more: Documentary on art and activism in the streets of Buenos Aires‘White Walls Say Nothing’ is the first feature-length film of its kind to explore art and activism in the streets of Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires is a complex, chaotic city. It has European style and a Latin American heart. It…
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Powerful Anti-Drug Ads Are Consumed By Live Mealworms Over Time
Read more: Powerful Anti-Drug Ads Are Consumed By Live Mealworms Over TimeTo show the harmful effects of cocaine on a drug addict, Brazilian advertising agency Talent created ‘living’ poster ads that are consumed by live mealworms over time. Printed on dough, the ads initially show the faces of drug addicts. However,…
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Anonymous in Mexico
Read more: Anonymous in MexicoThe notorious, wanted, and merciless leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico,”Jouquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was captured by Mexican Marines last month. This marked a small victory for Mexico’s fight to rid the country of its corrupted drug trade.…