Projects tagged
Projects with Clear Short-Term Goals
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Teeter-Totter Wall, 2019
Read more: Teeter-Totter Wall, 2019hot pink see-saws installed along the US-Mexico border where one person on each side can sit and see-saw with the other. installed at Sunland Park, nine miles northwest of El Paso, on the 18 feet slats border wall between Mexico…
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Creative Time NYC’s unique flag project
Read more: Creative Time NYC’s unique flag projectThe 14th day of June each year is celebrated as Flag Day, and in 2017 it was no different save for the fact that the project took center stage. The celebrations kicked off with hoisting the resist flag, a creation…
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Be Clean!
Read more: Be Clean!On October 16, 1964, the artist collective Hi Red Center, clad in sanitation masks and white uniforms and wielding small brooms and toothbrushes, spent several hours meticulously cleaning the streets of the Tokyo district of Ginza, amid the hustle and…
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Once banned for his work, anti-apartheid activist highlights role of politics in art
Read more: Once banned for his work, anti-apartheid activist highlights role of politics in artIn 1978, while studying print-making in Hamburg, Gavin Jantjes was deemed a persona non grata by South Africa. His crime? Creating a series of prints that documented the violence and discrimination in the apartheid state, which he gathered together under…
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Giving the World a Middle Finger
Read more: Giving the World a Middle FingerAi Weiwei is a Chinese artist and activist. He has been vocal and openly critical of the Chinese government’s stance on democracy and human rights. His work has captured global attention and served to bring attention to social injustices, human…
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Kacey Wong & his provocative pink tank at Hong Kong’s 1 July marches
Read more: Kacey Wong & his provocative pink tank at Hong Kong’s 1 July marchesThe Hong Kong 1 July protests are a surprising sight on the often chaotic stress. This day marks the transfer of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China (PRC) and is a public holiday it was originally thought to…
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‘0 to 1939 in 3 seconds’: Why Anti-Elon Musk Satire Is Flourishing in Britain
Read more: ‘0 to 1939 in 3 seconds’: Why Anti-Elon Musk Satire Is Flourishing in BritainThe mischievous posters began appearing all over London in the past two months. On the side of an East London bus stop, one of them shows Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, emerging from a Tesla’s roof with his hand…
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Howard University students protest housing conditions with on-campus tent city
Read more: Howard University students protest housing conditions with on-campus tent cityDozens of Howard University students are sleeping outdoors in a tent encampment on campus grounds to protest what they describe as “poor” and “unlivable” conditions in the college dormitories. Students told ABC News that portions of the university living quarters…
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Bed-Stuy Aquarium
Read more: Bed-Stuy AquariumThe Bed-Stuy Aquarium (also known as the Hancock Street Bed-Stuy Aquarium) is a makeshift goldfish pond located on a sidewalk in the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn neighborhood of New York City. The pond, originally formed by a puddle from a leaky fire…
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Art, Activism, and the City: Illuminating Social Change
Read more: Art, Activism, and the City: Illuminating Social ChangeThe creative fusion of art and activism in urban spaces has propelled the British collective Led by Donkeys into the spotlight, garnering millions of views for their interventions on social media. Their critical visual occupations – whether billboard messages during…
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AUSSIE Posters
Read more: AUSSIE PostersI am traveling Australia sticking up 1000 poster of Monga Khan, the Aussie folk hero…. The photograph of Monga Khan was taken 100 years ago in Australia. He was one of thousands of people who applied for exemptions to the…
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Transparency and translation of scientific data to mitigate climate change
Read more: Transparency and translation of scientific data to mitigate climate changeAmongst the European network of cultural institutions there has been widespread recognition that the climate crisis is a cultural crisis. In 2019 members of the European Theatre Forum convened and adopted the Dresden Convention, a revolutionary text that aimed to…