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Projects with Clear Short-Term Goals
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You Don’t Need Stuff To Love Yourself!
Read more: You Don’t Need Stuff To Love Yourself!New York performance artist Matthew Silver is at it again. In his most recent stunt he reminded people that self love can’t be achieved through commodities. Chanting “You don’t need stuff to love yourself” in his underwear at Columbus Circle…
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Looping! Finding Your Inner Child in Your Underwear on the Streets
Read more: Looping! Finding Your Inner Child in Your Underwear on the StreetsWhat is looping? Somewhere in between art, activism, and wackiness is this liberating experience. Matthew Silver and Fritz Donnelley, two New York City based performance artists got lonely acting silly in their underwear in public. Knowing that there were enough…
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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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With Red Lipstick, Indian Acid Attack Victim Makes a Bold Statement
Read more: With Red Lipstick, Indian Acid Attack Victim Makes a Bold StatementIn her peppy and helpful online video tutorial, Reshma Bano Quereshi promises to teach her viewers “how to get perfect red lips.” But unlike the more than 200,000 other online videos dedicated to the application of lipstick, this one goes…
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Yoga Joes
Read more: Yoga JoesIf something is a total opposite to war, that is the practice of yoga. Concentrating or relaxing your muscles and mind in order to release tension, is something a soldier would never have the luxury to do under the dangerous…
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The Police are Present
Read more: The Police are PresentIf you happened to be walking in the neighborhood of Madrid’s Congress of Deputies this month, you might have noticed a strange sight. Flanking the Marqués de Casa Riera stood 30 neatly parked cars equipped with flashing police lights. But…
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Art Show Captures the Wrenching Effects of Closing a School
Read more: Art Show Captures the Wrenching Effects of Closing a SchoolA school may be made of bricks and mortar, but when one closes, the loss can feel like a death in the family. So, when Philadelphia started to close 31 public schools three years ago, there was an outpouring of…
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FTSE – A British Anti-Capitalist Rapper
Read more: FTSE – A British Anti-Capitalist Rapper“FTSE” is Birmingham-born producer and rapper Sam Manville. As an anti-captialist, he though it would be funny to take the name of the British stock market index (Financial Times and Stock Exchange), but he also jokes the acronym stands for…
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Wallyball
Read more: WallyballThe frontier between the United States and Mexico is the busiest land border in the world. It is also among one of the world’s most heavily regulated and policed border zones—the arid climate of which is responsible for many migrant…
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The technopolitical struggle for free culture
Read more: The technopolitical struggle for free cultureThe Spanish 15M/Indignados movement represents a citizen break-up with the current political system while proposing an alternative one, changing the prevailing participation patterns while transforming the cultural, social and political structures in the country. Nobody expected the Spanish r-Evolution and…
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Action Man! Battlefied Casualties
Read more: Action Man! Battlefied CasualtiesA commercial for action figures, after the action. Working towards a campaign to raise the age of recruitment in the UK. Action Man: Battlefield Casualties from Veterans For Peace UK on Vimeo. BattlefieldCasualties.co.uk A Veterans for Peace UK film, directed…
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Embassy Of Iran in Jerusalem
Read more: Embassy Of Iran in JerusalemThere is no embassy of Iran in Jerusalem. We ask why. We are a group of artists living and creating in Jerusalem, trying to create a new reality. one which we can identify with. A reality of dialogue between the…