Projects tagged
Latin America & Caribbean
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Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History
Read more: Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and HistoryWhen the last detention facility in Guantanamo Bay was officially decommissioned in 2010, an international team of artists, curators and architects began planning and designing a museum that would take the place of the detention facility – a little less…
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Gesta Final
Read more: Gesta FinalHAVANA — It’s the latest challenge for computer gamers, in Cuba at least: Fight your way through mangrove swamps shoulder-to-shoulder with bearded guerrillas clad in the olive green of Fidel Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Your mission: Topple 1950s dictator…
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GuggenSITO
Read more: GuggenSITOEl Antimuseo es un proyecto curatorial que questiona los mecanismos de legitimación del arte. El grupo considera su trabajo ” el proceso social donde se produce el valor simbólico y económico de la obra de arte, así como en el…
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Brazil Introduces Stipend for Culture Spending
Read more: Brazil Introduces Stipend for Culture SpendingWhile governmental support for arts and culture is often meager, the Brazilian national government has recently demonstrated great interest in the industry. They’ve just introduced a “cultural stipend,” which provides workers with 50 real (roughly $25) per month for arts…
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Who killed Rodrigo Rosenberg?
Read more: Who killed Rodrigo Rosenberg?In May of 2009 lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg was murdered in Guatemla City. A video was released of Rosenberg directed to the Guatemalan public. If you are watching this, he said, I have been murdered by the president Alvaro Colom. The…
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Anibal Lopez– One Ton of Books Dumped on Reforma Avenue
Read more: Anibal Lopez– One Ton of Books Dumped on Reforma AvenueAníbal López, also known by his government identification number A-153167, is a pioneer of performance art in Central America. ArtBus describes his work as, “Generally aimed at immersing viewers into the region’s social and political tensions, his works combine the…
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Clean Up Day
Read more: Clean Up DayThrough his environmental, social justice organization, Instituto-E, Dr. Oskar Metsavaht, the creative director behind ethical fashion brand, Osklen, joined forces with Rainer Nolvak, founder of international civic sanitation movement, Let’s Do it and Umer Pter, head of External Relations and…
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Warscape Sonata – Bala Perdida
Read more: Warscape Sonata – Bala PerdidaWarscape Sonata is a transmedia project that documents and perform audiovisual information related to the current drug war in Mexico. Twitter hashtags, youtube viral videos and mass media are used as creative sources to document the militarized Mexico. This digital…
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Big street barbecue for the distinct people
Read more: Big street barbecue for the distinct peopleIn São Paulo, just like in many other metropolitan regions, public transport is not as effective as it could be. Buses and trains usually run overcrowded, late and on limited hours, so that owning a car increases a lot one’s…
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Sao Paulo goes completely ad-free with Clean City Law
Read more: Sao Paulo goes completely ad-free with Clean City LawMayor Gilberto Kassab passed a Clean City Law that banned all public advertising in Sao Paulo, one of the world’s most populous cities. The mayor gained the support of the city’s elites in pressing the law as an anti-pollution measure…