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consumerism
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Fur in Madrid: Controversy and Critique
Read more: Fur in Madrid: Controversy and CritiqueDuring a cold January morning in 2020, Animanaturalis, a nonprofit group focused on ending the suffering of animals across Spain and Latin America gathered to protest the use, production, and sale of fur in Spain. In a blog post on…
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Fur in Madrid: Controversy and Critique
Read more: Fur in Madrid: Controversy and CritiqueDuring a cold January morning in 2020, Animanaturalis, a nonprofit group focused on ending the suffering of animals across Spain and Latin America gathered to protest the use, production, and sale of fur in Spain. In a blog post on…
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German Supermarket Removes All Foreign Products For A Day
Read more: German Supermarket Removes All Foreign Products For A Day“A German Supermarket Removed All Foreign Products for a Day to Make a Point About Diversity” “To emphasize the importance of global diversity in a context everyone can understand, German supermarket Edeka made a surprising decision: It emptied its Hamburg…
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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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Blind Ones
Read more: Blind OnesStudents from the School of Communication and Art of the University of Sao Paulo perform a skit titled ‘Blind Ones’ as a protest against consumerism inside a shopping mall of Natal, capital of Rio Grande do Norte state, December 9,…
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Spring has Sprung. One for One. Lets Have Some Fun.
Read more: Spring has Sprung. One for One. Lets Have Some Fun.Hello and thanks for viewing. This was a little installation that took place in the beauty of West Texas. The goal was to reorientate the site specific Prada Marfa into something more relevant, TOMS Marfa. Prada Marfa, being in the…
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Read more:On a freezing Friday in January, Khmer-American artist Kat Eng sits in front of retail giant H&M’s Time Square store working on a manual sewing machine. For eight hours, Eng stitches together U.S. dollar bills while wearing a surgical mask…
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A Call That Makes Change Approachable
Read more: A Call That Makes Change ApproachableThe Story of Stuff Project launches a new video. What is instructional, educational, and inspirational is a call for all the people in America to exercise their citizenship rather than their right to consume. Here is what Annie Leonard (co-founder…
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Break Down
Read more: Break DownArtist Michael Landy catalogued, inventoried, and systemically destroyed all of his possessions for the 2001 public installation Break Down, commissioned by British arts organization Artangel. It took him three years just to itemize the 7,227 objects included in the project.…
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Brinco
Read more: BrincoCreative Time, Social Practice Archive: Brinco is an art project, product, and intervention created by the Argentinean artist Judith Werthein for the 2005 inSITE Biennial held on the border of Tijuana and San Diego. Brinco—Spanish for “jump”—is a specially designed…