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performance
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The Democracy Machine
Read more: The Democracy MachineThe Democracy Machine! is a performative sculpture that gives participants the opportunity to experience the thrill of democracy in action, in a competitive game that challenges people to work together toward understanding a better society. Using the spectacle and play…
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Not Ready to Make Nice: 30th Anniversary of Guerrilla Girls
Read more: Not Ready to Make Nice: 30th Anniversary of Guerrilla GirlsNOT READY TO MAKE NICE: GUERRILLA GIRLS BIRTHDAY 30 YEARS AND STILL COUNTING! BLOWOUT PARTY WITH DJ AND CAKE! Friday, May 15 8-10 PM • ABRONS ARTS CENTER 466 GRAND ST, NY ALSO AT ABRONS ARTS CENTER 466 GRAND ST,…
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An Eternal Optimist: The Positive Message of Yoko Ono’s New MoMA Retrospective
Read more: An Eternal Optimist: The Positive Message of Yoko Ono’s New MoMA RetrospectiveAn Eternal Optimist: The Positive Message of Yoko Ono’s New MoMA Retrospective by Steff Yotka How did they ever make a Yoko Ono exhibit? The pop cultural icon is a figure either so beloved or so reviled that an individual’s…
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Imaginary Activism: The Role of the Artist Beyond the Art World
Read more: Imaginary Activism: The Role of the Artist Beyond the Art WorldIn this solo work, Gómez-Peña tests brand new material dealing with radical citizenship and what he terms “imaginary activism,” combining live art, literature, theory, and pedagogy in a wonderfully strange mix. Not one solo performance is ever the same. Gómez-Peña…
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Shoot
Read more: Shoot“I had an intuitive sense that being shot is as American as apple pie. We see people being shot on TV, we read about it in the newspaper. Everybody has wondered what it’s like. So I did it.” – Chris…
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Vaginal Knitting
Read more: Vaginal Knitting“Vaginal Knitting” Is the New Thing in Activist Performance Art by Adam Weinstein Casey Jenkins identifies herself as a former “craftivist”—a term she defines as “using traditional craft techniques for a political or social activism purpose.” She and her colleagues…
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Typing…SYRIA
Read more: Typing…SYRIA(SUBSCRIBE AT http://typingsyria.com/) Typing…SYRIA is a one month socio-artistic performance piece where any individual can subscribe to witness a WhatsApp conversation between two Syrian characters play out in real time. This performance piece addresses questions of voyeurism, the ethics of…
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Farmer’s Haat (Market)
Read more: Farmer’s Haat (Market)Farmer’s Haat As a part of the two weeks “Khoj International Art Residency” and “Good Artists of Pune,” Shweta Bhattad, along with others, organized a community art project, titled “Farmer’s Haat.” With the help of students from medical and engineering…
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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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Grammys 2015: Abuse Survivor Brooke Axtell
Read more: Grammys 2015: Abuse Survivor Brooke AxtellGrammys 2015: Abuse survivor Brooke Axtell talks Katy Perry, advocacy by Nardine Saad Domestic abuse survivor and advocate Brooke Axtell captivated audiences watching the Grammy Awards on Sunday with a stirring spoken-word piece before Katy Perry’s performance of her ballad…