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activist art
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Dark Matter
Read more: Dark MatterDark Matter is a trans South Asian performance art duo comprised of Alok Vaid-Menon and Janani Balasubramanian, a prominent pair of voices operating at the intersection of the arts and activism. The work of Dark Matter is complicated, much like…
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Art AIDS America traveling exhibition
Read more: Art AIDS America traveling exhibitionIf you visit the Art AIDS America exhibition expecting to see activist slogans and memorial pieces along with some art-world superstars, you won’t be disappointed—Keith Haring, Robert Mapplethorpe and the “Silence = Death” slogan are present and accounted for—but you…
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The time when Colombian students hugged and kissed the police
Read more: The time when Colombian students hugged and kissed the policeDuring 2011, students around Colombia decided to create a National Student organization that would organize thousands of them to reject a harmful educational reform (Reforma a la ley 30). Before this year, student organizations were characterized by their segmentarity and…
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Activists Use Balloons to Drop 10,000 Copies of The Interview Into North Korea
Read more: Activists Use Balloons to Drop 10,000 Copies of The Interview Into North KoreaA group of South Korean activists is determined to send copies of The Interview across the North Korean border, despite threats from the state to respond with “cannons or missiles” if the plan succeeds. Around March 26, the dissidents will…
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All The Time. Every Day.
Read more: All The Time. Every Day.Last September, Fusion commissioned artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, 29, to travel to Mexico City and create an installation of her highly-acclaimed art project protesting street harassment, “Stop Telling Women to Smile.” Fazlalizadeh’s visit to Mexico was her first to the country;…
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Africa’s Political Cartoons
Read more: Africa’s Political CartoonsTejumola Olaniyan founded Africacartoons.com, the first continent-wide digital encyclopaedia of political cartoons by African artists. The primary motivation for starting Africa Cartoons was to stimulate more scholarly interest in African cartoons. The secondary motivation was to entertain enthusiasts of cartoons…
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“Las sinsombrero”: Bare heads against the tyranny of being respectable.
Read more: “Las sinsombrero”: Bare heads against the tyranny of being respectable.“Las sinsombrero” (“without hat”) were a group of spanish women formed by the artists Maruja Mallo, Margarita Manso, Concha Méndez and the socialist activist Margarita Nelken. During the 20s they were part of Madrid’s artistic and intellectual scene, and they…
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Faces of the Movement
Read more: Faces of the MovementFaces of the Movement is a daily-release photo project that highlights the stories of everyday people who have joined together to fight for justice against police brutality in the United States. In news photos, they either have their faces covered…
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Carry that Weight
Read more: Carry that WeightIn a Mattress, A Lever for Art and Political Protest by Roberta Smith You can, for the moment, call Emma Sulkowicz a typically messianic artist, and she won’t object. I used the phrase, sitting in her tiny studio at Columbia…
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The Oatmeal Protests SOPA and PIPA
Read more: The Oatmeal Protests SOPA and PIPAOn January 18, 2012, numerous website across the internet called for an internet blackout in protest of SOPA and PIPA. SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, and PIPA, the Protect IP Act, were a series of bills promoted by…