Projects tagged
Projects with Clear Short-Term Goals
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#1000BlackGirlBooks
Read more: #1000BlackGirlBooksFrom Jezebel: Marley Dias is an 11-year-old New Jersey resident who’s rounding up children’s books that feature black female leads so that she and her peers have more fictional characters to look up to. The project, titled #1000BlackGirlBooks, started when…
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“The shoes are marching for us”
Read more: “The shoes are marching for us”A 7-year-old’s sneakers. An accountant’s slippers. Gold heels with spikes and a piece of paper carrying a message: “Invest in renewable (energy) … now.” Thousands of shoes stood in silent protest on Sunday in Paris. Their owners, climate change activists…
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The Standing March as silent protest
Read more: The Standing March as silent protestRenowned French artist JR and Oscar-nominated American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky have collaborated on The Standing March, a major public artwork exhibited in Paris during the UN’s COP21 climate conference. The video projection will remind leaders that the world is watching…
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Chats About Change: The Intersection of Art and Activism
Read more: Chats About Change: The Intersection of Art and ActivismLos Angeles is at a critical moment when it comes to art. Not because it’s “underappreciated as a world art center” as The New York Times informed us in 2011. Or because it’s a “burgeoning art capital” as The New…
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Burkaphilia
Read more: BurkaphiliaWhen Behnaz Babazadeh was young, her family moved from Afghanistan to the US. She loved almost everything about her new home — especially America’s amazing selection of candy — but she also loved wearing her familiar pink-flowered headscarf, which she’d…
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That Time Art and Activism Met in Antarctica
Read more: That Time Art and Activism Met in AntarcticaWith a grand total of 0 permanent residents and an average winter temperature of –56.2°F, Antarctica is a bit more than your average “no man’s land.” This didn’t deter artist duo Lucy + Jorge Orta, however, who took an expedition…
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Las hijas de Violencia
Read more: Las hijas de ViolenciaBorn as a side project Las hijas de Violencia approaches the subject of street harassment and gender based violence through performance art, punk and video that is addressing socially legitimized male violence. “As actresses and as women we feel directly…
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Spec Ops: The Line
Read more: Spec Ops: The LineOften in military style video games we kill without much regard for the enemy. They are faceless or stereotypical, the Nazi or evil Cold War–era Russian. They are enemies that were fought on the battlefields of great wars, or they…
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No Soy Tu Chiste. I Am Not A Joke.
Read more: No Soy Tu Chiste. I Am Not A Joke.Daniel Arzola, a digital artist and activist originally from Maracay, Venezuela, began his series, ‘No Soy Tu Chiste’ (‘I Am Not A Joke’) in 2013 intent on combating the stereotypes and cruelty so often facing LGBT identifiers; youth in particular.…
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Above and Beyond Memorial
Read more: Above and Beyond Memorial“The massive “Above and Beyond Memorial” will be installed at the National Veterans Art Museum, The Harold Washington Library, and go on display starting Feb. 20, culminating a painstaking search to find a suitable — although temporary — home for…
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Land Minds: spreading internet freedom and privacy
Read more: Land Minds: spreading internet freedom and privacyIn the past few years we have seen a growing awareness and concern with Internet freedom and privacy, fuelled by Edward Snowden’s revelations of the vast U.S. government’s surveillance programs, by Wikileaks’ publications, by protests against the Stop Online Piracy…
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Estados de excepción
Read more: Estados de excepciónEstados de excepción (States of Exception) is series of participatory cultural interventions created for women to freely and joyfully exercise our rights in public and secure environments, currently being produced in Mexico and abroad. Conceived in response to the growing…