Projects tagged
Latin America & Caribbean
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White Walls Say Nothing (Film)
Read more: White Walls Say Nothing (Film)This film is being produced by White Wall Industries in association with graffitimundo. graffitimundo is a Buenos Aires based arts organisations, dedicated to promoting the city’s urban art culture and supporting its artists. For the past four years graffitimundo have…
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Lixo Extraordinário
Read more: Lixo ExtraordinárioOver the course of 3 years, from 2006 until 2009, the production team behind the film Wasteland (2010), also known as “Lixo Extraordinário” followed Brazilian, Brooklyn-based mixed-media artist, Vik Muniz, as he traveled back to Brazil to create self portraits…
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Palas Por Pistolas, or “Shovels for Guns”
Read more: Palas Por Pistolas, or “Shovels for Guns”An artist in Culiacan, Mexico—which has the highest rate of gun deaths in the country—has found a way to transform the agents of death into seeds of life. In 2008, artist Pedro Reyes started running television ads urging locals to…
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Honduran Graffiti Artist Uses Street Art to Protest Violence
Read more: Honduran Graffiti Artist Uses Street Art to Protest ViolenceIn the capital of one of the world’s most dangerous countries, a hooded, masked man jumped out of a car on an assault mission. His target: a crumbling wall on a garbage-strewn corner. With his accomplice acting as lookout, the…
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Cegos | Ciegos | Blind
Read more: Cegos | Ciegos | BlindA troupe of approximately thirty women and men of various ages, sizes, ethnicities and performance backgrounds marched through the performance art space of SESC-Vila Mariana in Sao Paulo and then through the streets of downtown Sao Paulo, silent, blind folded,…
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Regina José Galindo- Performance Art Guatemala
Read more: Regina José Galindo- Performance Art GuatemalaRegina Galindo is a Guatemalan performance artist that uses her body as a means to explore many of the human rights violations in Guatemala. In one of her performances, ” no perdemos nada con nacer,” or ” we don’t lose…
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Palas Por Pistolas
Read more: Palas Por PistolasPalas por Pistolas initiated in the city of Culiacán, a city in western Mexico with a high rate of deaths by gunshot. The botanical garden of Culiacán has been comissioning artist to do interventions in the park and my proposal…
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Brazil to give $25 monthly culture stipend to workers to go to movies, read books or visit museums
Read more: Brazil to give $25 monthly culture stipend to workers to go to movies, read books or visit museumsBRASILIA (AFP).- Despite the economic crisis, Brazil announced Thursday it planned to give workers here a 50-real ($25) monthly stipend for cultural expenses like movies, books or museums. “In all developed countries, culture plays a key role in the economy,”…
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GIMME THE POWER
Read more: GIMME THE POWERDirected by Fernando Sariñana, Todo el poder centers around the politics and corruption that shroud the Mexican police system. Featuring Demián Bichir as Gabriel, a filmmaker whose career has left him assaulted and robbed in broad daylight more times than…
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Witness to the ruins/Testigo de las ruinas
Read more: Witness to the ruins/Testigo de las ruinasThe starting point of this artistic project, carried out by MAPA within its Laboratory of Artists in Colombia, is the disappearance of one of the oldest “barrios” downtown Bogotá: El Cartucho. This place, where thousands of people survived for decades…