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Projects with Clear Short-Term Goals
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London’s “Free Butt Plug Catalogue” Confronts Hostile Architecture
Read more: London’s “Free Butt Plug Catalogue” Confronts Hostile ArchitectureHostile architecture—urban design features like ground spikes that deter the homeless from lying down or slanted benches that prevent lingering—inscribes exclusion into our streets. In response, a Chinese artist will launch the Free Butt Plug Catalogue, an art-activism project that…
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“100 Sexual Questions from Children” , interactive sex education exhibition
Read more: “100 Sexual Questions from Children” , interactive sex education exhibition“100 Questions About Sex from Children” is an annual touring sex education exhibition founded and curated by Se A, a leading advocate of inclusive sex education in China. Since its launch in 2021, the exhibition has been held in major…
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With the Help of an Art Installation, Ukrainian Activists in NYC Canvass Voters for Support
Read more: With the Help of an Art Installation, Ukrainian Activists in NYC Canvass Voters for SupportFour days before the U.S. presidential election, three Ukrainian activists gathered at a stranded fence in New York City’s East Village to hang an expansive information poster. “19546+ Ukrainian Children Abducted by Russia,” reads its headline in bold. From a…
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Korean women are fighting back against deepfakes
Read more: Korean women are fighting back against deepfakesA few dozen women, wearing white masks, held up signs protesting against pornographic deepfakes. On the afternoon of Friday, August 30, several South Korean feminist collectives demonstrated in Seoul to fight these sex crimes that are flooding the country. While…
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Björk to Launch Environmental Sound Installation at Paris’ Pompidou Centre
Read more: Björk to Launch Environmental Sound Installation at Paris’ Pompidou CentreBjörk and the French artist Aleph have collaborated on an immersive, AI sound piece that recreates extinct animal calls, set to run at the Pompidou Centre, in Paris, from November 20 until December 9. It will play as visitors travel…
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600 Days of Sanitary Pad Mutual Help Boxes in Universities: Stagnation, Perseverance, and Exploration
Read more: 600 Days of Sanitary Pad Mutual Help Boxes in Universities: Stagnation, Perseverance, and ExplorationFrom October to December 2020, Chinese university students nationwide launched a viral movement to install “menstrual pad mutual aid boxes” in women’s restrooms—free, wall-mounted containers stocked with disposable pads on a take-one, replace-one basis. Nearly 250 campuses joined within weeks.…
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Yang Li: The ‘punchline queen’ who offended Chinese men
Read more: Yang Li: The ‘punchline queen’ who offended Chinese menChina’s “Punchline Queen” Yang Li is no stranger to controversy. The 29-year-old is now one of the country’s most well-known comedians, having risen to fame in recent months on a Chinese television show called “Rock and Roast”. Every week, in…
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Iranian Women of Graphic Design
Read more: Iranian Women of Graphic DesignPlatform ‘Iranian Women of Graphic Design’ share open-access protest posters to amplify #WomenLifeFreedom movement—triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini—in Iran and beyond. Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died in hospital three days after being arrested by the morality…
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Climate Protesters Target NYC’s Iconic “Charging Bull” in Earth Day Protest
Read more: Climate Protesters Target NYC’s Iconic “Charging Bull” in Earth Day ProtestClimate activists took to the iconic “Charging Bull” sculpture in Manhattan’s Financial District on Earth Day today, April 22, to call out Wall Street’s “bullshit” in the face of a worsening environmental crisis — quite literally, by installing a display…
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‘forward-thinking’ art installation about climate change
Read more: ‘forward-thinking’ art installation about climate changeRice University’s O’Connor Building for Engineering and Science now houses an immersive public art installation titled “Climate Parliament,” a thought-provoking work by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Commissioned by Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts for the Rice Public Art collection,…
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The Story of “The President Sang Amazing Grace”
Read more: The Story of “The President Sang Amazing Grace”“The President Sang Amazing Grace” tells the story of the 2015 attack that claimed nine lives at the Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC. It first appeared on Zoe’s 2017 album “Small Brown Birds” and was widely played on independent…
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The Rhode Island-based artist creates sculptures from trash that look like wildlife from one perspective — but reveal themselves as much more when you take a closer look.
Read more: The Rhode Island-based artist creates sculptures from trash that look like wildlife from one perspective — but reveal themselves as much more when you take a closer look.“Works in Progress” highlights artists across a range of disciplines whose work deals with ecological themes. Considering the particular role that artists play in the climate movement, this column shares their voices and provides a glimpse behind the curtain into…