Projects tagged "Visual Arts"

Tiffany Sia: Slippery When Wet - Artists Space
Practitioner:
Tiffany Sia
Date:
Feb 17 2021
Slippery When Wet proposes a wet ontology of Hong Kong—a city in ongoing transfiguration shifting into an uncanny vision of itself. Hong Kong secretes, leaving a trail of ink, tears, humidity, logistic flows, and leaks.
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I shop therefore I am
Practitioner:
Barbara Kruger
Date:
Jan 1 1987
I Shop Therefore I Am (1987) is the work of Barbara Kruger . It became an iconic artwork, being reproduced on items such as shopping bags and other consumer products such as t-shirts. Kruger has often derived images from the mass media and pasted the words over them, particularly in Futura Bold . She then uses advertising to design her works.
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IMPEACH
Practitioner:
Patricia Dahlman
Date:
Jul 4 2017
IMPEACH An online exhibition of art work by twenty artists Katherine Aoki, Deborah Harris, Nicolas Lampert,Cicely Cottingham, Art Hazelwood, Ilse Schreiber-Noll, Priscilla Stadler, Tim Fite, Anne Q McKeown, Anne Dushanko Dobek, Robyn Ellenbogen, Joseph O’Neal, Donna Coleman, Robert Geshlider, Michael Dal Cerro, Leona Strassberg Steiner, Barbara Madsen, Ray Must, Carol Radsprecher and Patricia Dahlman
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Melting Man: Red Cross-Sponsored Activist "Melts" On Sidewalk
Practitioner:
Red Cross
Date:
Dec 10 2008
A young man melting into a puddle of himself is something you don’t see everyday, much less in a busy public square. Yet this humourous but surprisingly effective spectacle is the latest effort by the Red Cross of Argentina to raise awareness about climate change.
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The People's Prison
Practitioner:
Indecline Artist Collective
Date:
Mar 31 2018
For one day, a group of artists known as the INDECLINE Artist Collective turned a hotel room in New York City's Trump International Hotel into a single jail cell for Donald Trump without the hotel's knowledge. The inside the jail cell was a Donald Trump impersonator in a suit and a "Make America Great Again" hat and at his feet were McDonald's food wrappers and live rats.
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The Rage Over Ramen: A Tale of Classism
Practitioner:
Cami Gomez, Medium
Date:
Sep 28 2020
As the cold air bit our faces, and we hid deeper into our layer of sweaters, my family and I continued to wander around Manhattan, seeking a place which would provide warmth and food. And there it was, dimly lit: the Michelin-starred ramen restaurant, Tonchin. We ordered the highly-sought after ramen bowl, Tonkotsu, and awaited our meal. Out of the kitchen, the steam arose from a bowl of a warm, salty pork broth.
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A Call to Action
Practitioner:
Unknown
Date:
Jul 1 2022
This piece is fascinating because of its use of just a few words and country names, muted colors, and the recreation of famous art. The artist used this canvas to depict a concern about events happening in the Gaza strip.
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Song Ta Scandal Puts Art World's Sexism on Full Display
Practitioner:
Song Ta
Date:
Jan 1 2013
Ahead of a recent exhibition at the prestigious modern art museum OCAT Shanghai, the artist Song Ta described the process of creating his multimedia piece “Uglier and Uglier.” After secretly filming thousands of unsuspecting female college students, Song and three assistants painstakingly ranked them by their perceived attractiveness; those deemed most appealing featured early in the show, with the women on display getting progressively “uglier” as the
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People's History Markers
Practitioner:
The Howling Mob Society
Date:
Jan 1 2010
The Howling Mob Society has created ten historical markers representing history from the perspective of the working class. In particular, these markers detail events and significant locations from the Great Strike of 1877 - a historical event in Pittsburgh's labor history that ignited a popular uprising of workingmen, families, and neighbors alike as citizens stopped train services, burned railroad
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The Mirror Casket Project
Practitioner:
De Andrea Nichols, Marcis Curtis, Sophie Lipman, Damon Davis, Mallory Nezam, Derek Laney, Elizabeth Vega
Date:
Sep 24 2014
The Mirror Casket project is a sculpture, performance, and visual call to action designed and orchestrated by a collaborative of St. Louis community artists in response to the shooting death of Michael Brown on August 9, 2014 in Ferguson, MO.
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Street Art Projects
Practitioner:
Gary Palmer
Date:
Aug 2 2013
Street Art Projects brings talented visual artists to public events, community groups, and schools, to offer a window into the creative process. Our workshops and projects combine chalk art with story telling, encouraging a deeper understanding between different cultures through the creation of collaborative public artworks. The work is not just about public art, its about making a public places as a focal point for education.
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CLIMAVORE: environmental restoration through artistic practices
Practitioner:
Cooking Sections
Date:
Mar 1 2020
In 2016 an eye-catching sparrow was spotted in Scotland. The bird had ingested feed pellets from a nearby salmon farm, turning its feathers pink. Cramped in underwater feedlots, farmed salmon have no access to the prey that colour their flesh in the wild. Instead, they are fed artificial colourants mixed with supplements, drugs, and hormones, causing them to relentlessly produce the additive-filled flesh that fills supermarket shelves.
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100 'Radioactive Figures' Haunt Hamburg Landscape
Practitioner:
Luzinterruptus
Date:
Aug 28 2011
ART COLLECTIVE LUZINTERRUPTUS has created an installation made up of 100 glowing “radioactive” figures for the Dockville Festival in Hamburg. The human-size figures appear to be wearing special white protective clothing and marching, heads down, across the landscape. The eerie structures contain a number of lights which make them appear to glow ominously in the dark.
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Soviet Lives of Uncle Tom
Practitioner:
Dmitry Borshch, Regina Khidekel
Date:
Feb 4 2019
"Soviet Lives of Uncle Tom" 105 NY-110, Melville, NY 11747 February 4, 11 am – March 1, 7 pm Monday – Friday, 11 am – 7 pm, free admission Artist talk – February 28, 2 pm Please write to racc.ny@mail.ru or call (347) 662 1456 The artist is available for interviews
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The Sacred Art of Ori
Practitioner:
Laolu Senbanjo
Date:
Apr 27 2017
The story of an artist. Laolu Senbanjo grew up surrounded by the culture and mythology of the Yoruba, an ethnic group from the southwest of Nigeria, but he never imagined how it would influence the artist he is today. After a career as a human rights attorney, Senbanjo moved to New York City to pursue art full time. “With my art, I like to tell stories, I like to start a conversation,” says Senbanjo, but life as an artist in New York was tough.
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Blu Gets Political in Mexico
Practitioner:
Blu /Fifty24MX
Date:
Mar 3 2015
Italian street artist Blu was recently in Mexico to participate at the ManifestoMX Street Art Festival where he completed this intense and politically charged mural in opposition to the Mexican authorities.
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The body as a living artwork: Olivier de Sagazan’s Transfiguration
Practitioner:
Olivier de Sagazan
Date:
Jan 1 2024
As the audience enter, Olivier de Sagazan is pacing the stage, deep in thought. A slight, barefooted figure dressed in suit and tie, he circles in and out the shadows, head bowed, sometimes muttering to himself. As the audience settle and hush, his footsteps gradually become more audible (the floor is mic-ed) and begin to pound like a calling drum.
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"Turkish past, Ottoman present" and "Spengler in Turkey"
Practitioner:
Dmitry Borshch, Slavs and Tatars collective
Date:
Aug 5 2019
"Turkish past, Ottoman present" and "Spengler in Turkey" 105 NY-110, Melville, NY 11747 August 5, 11 am – August 30, 7 pm Monday – Friday, 11 am – 7 pm, free admission Please write to racc.ny@mail.ru or call (347) 662 1456 The artist is available for interviews
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Funk Lessons
Practitioner:
Adrian Piper
Date:
May 6 1982
Adrian Piper's "Funk Lessons" (1982-84) was a series of performances and collaborative events in which the artist taught white participants about black funk music, its culture, and its history, aiming to deconstruct stereotypical ideas about Black culture.
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Tom of Finland
Practitioner:
Touko Valio Laaksonen
Date:
Jan 1 1980
Touko Valio Laaksonen (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991), known by the pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist who made stylized highly masculinized erotic art, and influenced late 20th-century gay culture. He has been called the "most influential creator of gay pornographic images" by cultural historian Joseph W.
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The Georgian artists at the forefront of anti-government protests
Practitioner:
Georgian Artists
Date:
Mar 1 2023
The Georgian government’s attempt in March to impose a repressive Russian-style “foreign agent” law has galvanised the cultural community in the country. Museum workers and artists have been at the forefront of dramatic protests during which police fired water cannons at crowds waving European Union flags, and say they plan to continue the battle despite the government backing down from the legislation.
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It Never Ends: The Everlasting Battle on Fighting for Female Equality
Practitioner:
https://www.instagram.com/elreydelaruina/
Date:
Mar 8 2018
El Rey de la Ruina, aka The King of Ruin, is a local artist based in Madrid, Spain, who creates artistic activist pieces that range from the impact Covid-19 had on the social life of people in Spain, to the impact gentrification has taken on various groups of people. He tends to utilize (at least in his more recent pieces) bright colors and fun, geometric shapes in his art.
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Myanmar coup: How citizens are protesting through art
Practitioner:
Myanmar's citizens
Date:
Feb 7 2021
"An atmosphere of fear and anger spread across Myanmar this week as millions of people awoke to find out the military had taken control, ousting the elected government. But how do you fight back in a country where protests have been violently suppressed before? For some, it has meant putting pen to paper and taking the battle online.
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Women Series: IUD 2014
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Date:
Mar 5 2014
According to the World Health Organization, China is home to two-thirds of the world's women who wear IUD devices. This is a form of contraception that was developed after World War II, and in essence, comes from discrimination against women. In 2014, artist Zhou Wenjing made a work of IEDs, which was recently exhibited in Beijing.
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'Wolf Warrior artist' strives to use new art to spread truth and inspire patriotism
Practitioner:
Wuheqilin
Date:
Jun 18 2020
With delicate composition, striking details and strong emotion, five editorial posters drawn by Wuheqilin have attracted some half million followers to his account on Sina Weibo, China's Twitter-like social media platform. His political views expressed in his art have led to some netizens dubbing him the "Wolf Worrier artist."
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