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How Snowden Canceled the 4th of July Diplomatic Reception in Bolivia

Date:
Jul 2 2013

On July 2nd, 2013, after attending the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) conference, Bolivian President Evo Morales departed Russia from Vnukovo Airport in Moscow aboard his presidential plane. However, a “leak” suggested that Edward Snowden was aboard, which led Spain,…

Tournons le dos ! / Turn our back ! [April 22, 2012 – April 23, 2017]

Practitioner:
Lino Tonelotto, the 22avril2012 collective, the 23avril2017 collective.

Date:
Jul 2 2013

In France, abstention, vote of protest, lassitude or violent reactions rise from all over the crisis of our “representative democracy ». What about thinking the other way round ? What if we reappropriate the iconography of the election? With Turn…

Oppressed Majority (Majorité Opprimée)

Practitioner:
Eléonore Pourriat

Date:
Jul 2 2013

On what seems to be just another ordinary day, a man is exposed to sexism and sexual violence in a society ruled by women… Eléonore Pourriat’s short film imagines how a man might experience a sexual assault in a matriarchal…

French Feminist Collective Bearded Stand-ins

Practitioner:
Le Barbe

Date:
Jul 2 2013

Founded in 2008, the French Feminist Collective, La Barbe, targets inequities of female representation in media and cultural/governmental institutions. La Barbe, meaning “beard” in French, is also an old colloquial expression for “enough is enough!”. Known as barbues, the female…