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public art
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Immigrant Yarn Project
Read more: Immigrant Yarn ProjectThe Immigrant Yarn Project (IYP), organized and created by Cindy Weil was a massive work of public and democratic (crowd-sourced), yarn-based art honoring our immigrant heritage and promoting tolerance, difference, and community. Weil reached out across the state and beyond…
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Pretend to govern while playing and pretend to play while governing
Read more: Pretend to govern while playing and pretend to play while governingIn 1995, Bogota was a chaotic city. Among others, it presented high ranges of homicides, delinquency, corruption, no sense of belonging, traffic chaos and financial problems. People were desperate and they were ready to accept any alternative to a change…
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HOME
Read more: HOMEIn partnership with Southwark Council, Peckham Settlement, Peckham Space and Resonance FM. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and Kickstarter Campaign supporters. HOME is a public art work, audio and visual, reflecting Peckham residents’…
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Bogota smiles: canned Sardines
Read more: Bogota smiles: canned SardinesA Colombian college student created this idea to improve Bogotas citizens experience when using the public transportation. According to one scientific study, the worst problem Bogota citizens had to deal within the public space was public transportation; this problem represented…
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Nana Van
Read more: Nana VanThe Nanny Van is a public art initiative run by REV- and the National Domestic Workers Alliance. This project aims at shorting distances, gaps and obstacles between domestic workers and the proper information of their rights. Therefore, Nanny Van is…
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Mapping skin deep
Read more: Mapping skin deep“Mapping skin deep” is an audiovisual public installation consisting of portraits with testimonies from refugee/undocumented immigrants currently residing in Montreal and elsewhere. Their bodies have been scarred in post-production tracing the route they took from their homeland to Montreal, hence…
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Procedure Room
Read more: Procedure RoomThe project (created in 2009-2010) consists of painted plats and posters depicted with drawings of police torture scenes. Images also include snippets of email exchanges. The plates have been exhibited in numerous galleries in Ukraine, and posters were hung in…
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‘The Bus’ memorial for Ken Saro-Wiwa
Read more: ‘The Bus’ memorial for Ken Saro-WiwaIn 1994, the human rights and environmental activist KenSaro-Wiwa was arrested and accused of incitement to murder. Eighteen months later, following a show trial condemned by human rights organisations, he and eight other leaders of the Movement For the Survival…
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The State of Things
Read more: The State of ThingsThe State of Things was first performed in the spring of 2006 on the 3rd anniversary of the Iraq war. On September 1st, 2008 in collaboration with Northern Lights as part of the UnConvention, Ligorano/Reese recreated The State of Thing’s…
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DIWO (DO-It-With-Others)
Read more: DIWO (DO-It-With-Others)DIWO (Do It With Others) is a distributed campaign for emancipatory, networked art practices instigated by arts and activist network Furtherfield in 2006. The term DIWO – Do It With Others was first defined in 2006 on Rosalind – Upstart…