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Pedro Reyes
In Reyes’s words, “We should be able to extract the technological nutrients before we excrete our waste. There is a missing organ in our social metabolism which would work as a stomach or intestines. The Recyclone is a device made of plastic containers that fit into each other.
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Pedro Reyes
Pedro Reyes’s Los Mutantes ( Mutants , 2012) is composed of 170 plates that combine characters from ancient and modern mythologies. As in a periodic table, animals and objects are combined with humans (male or female), providing a rational framework for the irrational products of human imagination. A Cartesian matrix such as this must follow certain rules.
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Reza Aramesh
The photographed plaster heads set against the idyllic landscapes of the south of England, subvert the process of image production and memory. Based on photographic sources from journalism, they have preserved a ‘memento mori’ in the intimate form of a sculpture, yet derived from a source which is not only public but also voyeuristic. They have been entirely dislocated from their original context, and transferred to the realm of photography again, into fragile silver gelatin prints.
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Reza Aramesh
The photographed plaster heads set against the idyllic landscapes of the south of England, subvert the process of image production and memory. Based on photographic sources from journalism, they have preserved a ‘memento mori’ in the intimate form of a sculpture, yet derived from a source which is not only public but also voyeuristic. They have been entirely dislocated from their original context, and transferred to the realm of photography again, into fragile silver gelatin prints.
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Yang Guangnan
In Action no. 1 Yang Guangnan reflects on the interiority and exteriority of human-technological experience with mechanical gestures that are semi-human and semi-machine. A hanged shirt mounted upon the artist’s machine rhythmically bounces and rotates in a way that suggests a skeletal interior.
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Leonardogillesfleur
Leonardogillesfleur describe Action 3:02 as their “first New York blizzard storm at about 5am. The photographic moment of a photo album which could have been taken by anybody in any familiar situation with the intention to immortalize that moment.”
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Leonardogillesfleur
Of Action 26:15 leonardogillesfleur notes: “There is almost an ice-cream store in every corner of Buenos Aires. The family [in the video] is having an ice-cream in the hot summer afternoon. Small tics appear on people’s faces from a fly or the attempt to hold still while the ice-cream top melts or drops off its sugar-cone.”
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Christoph Draeger
In his performative action Subterranean Doomsday Vendor , Draeger positions himself in the subway system of Mexico City, as part of the common occurrence of bootleg media vendors. His contribution lies in dissemination of prophecy as he tests the public’s reactions to the types of content and media which can be circulated in such common spaces.
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Marie Voignier
Tourisme International was shot as the recording of a show on the scale of a country. In the urgency of perpetual travel, this tourist journey visits monuments, museums, institutions presented by North Korean guides whose voices we do not hear. Marie Voignier entirely redesigned the sound of each sequence in post-synchronization, making only the living experiences of footsteps and rustling of clothes audible, to create a new universe, disconnected from the official discourses.
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Marie Voignier
“Na China” means “In China” in Igbo language. Marie Voignier’s film NA CHINA! focuses on the African women communities who have emigrated to Guangzhou, in the southeast of China.
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Edgardo Aragón
Efectos de familia (Family Effects, 2007–9) is a series of 13 videos that dramatize an array of abusive events derived from Edgardo Aragón’s family’s history—specifically its involvement with organized crime. Each episode is an action performed by some combination of his two young cousins, nephew, and younger brother. In one, a boy is shot to death inside a pickup truck.
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Koki Tanaka
This artwork was part of a group of projects presented in the Japanese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2013. These videos show several participants from different backgrounds gathering to create and object or an action. For this video, he brought together five Japanese poets from different movements and styles.
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Aaron Young
The artist describes the work as “very performative video-pieces but they take on a more sculptural feel. The action is simple: I kick a video camera through a site that is embedded with sociological elements, which I try to question through my practice. I chose Red Square as the site to work in Moscow.
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Igor Grubic
366 Liberation Rituals is a series that gathers a number of actions related to the artist’s micro-politics. They materialize as a plurality of pointers that destabilize reality and interrogate our outlook on the political historicity of former Yugoslavia. These actions were realized over the course of the year the artist turned forty and revolved for one part around the revolutionary movement of 1968 and on the other on the informal group called Grupa šestorice autora (Group of Six Authors)* which was active in Zagreb between 1975 and 1979.
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Koki Tanaka
Walking Through is one of a series of videos—sometimes humorous, often absurd—that record the artist’s performative interactions with objects in a particular site. Here, Tanaka has spread out various objects he collected throughout the city of Guangzhou. By fiddling with a window frame, water buckets, plastic bags, cardboard, soda bottles, and many other things, Tanaka creates fragile, temporary sculptures.
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Koki Tanaka
Tanaka’s unique understanding of objects and materials is reflected in the four photographs that document his Process of Blowing Flour . The images depict the gradual blowing away of a plate of flour held by Tanaka. Because his pose is static throughout the images, his presence is deemphasized and instead the viewer’s attention is drawn to the motion of the flour.
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Martha Araújo
In Habito/Habitante , the suspended material renders the wall a prison and the participant a prisoner. The liberating impulsion releases the participant. The act of freeing oneself, of flying, and escaping from constraints is an action that is both extremely symbolically and physically significant.
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Tuan Andrew Nguyen
This work presents the image of an immolated monk engraved on a baseball bat. The flames surround him eroding the extremity of the bat. The delicate sculpture refers to the sacrifice of the Buddhist monk, Thich Quang Duc, who immolated himself on June 16th 1963, in reaction to the discrimination and the repressive politics of the Diem Catholic regime (regime installed by the Americans) towards the Buddhists.
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Jiri Kovanda
Kovanda’s ‘discreet’ actions (leaving a discussion in a rush, bumping into passers-by in the street, making a pile of rubbish and scattering it, looking at the sun until tears come…) are always documented according to the same format: a piece of A4 paper, a concise typewritten text, and sometimes a photograph taken by someone else. This action, walking abnormally slowly, questions the place of the individual within the space of a city with regards to social habits. Kovanda places himself slightly outside the regulated rhythm of the city walking.
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Hikaru Fujii
Les nucléaires et les choses by Hikaru Fujii is the first video produced in the artist’s long-term project focusing on the Futaba Town Museum of History and Folklore, located in the “difficult-to-return zone” since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in 2011. Over four years, Fujii filmed the rescue and displacement of this museum’s collection of archeological, historical, or cultural artifacts outside the zone, in order to avoid radioactive contamination and biological damage. He followed the actions, gestures, and reflections of the Futaba Museum curator Takamitsu Yoshino and his collaborators, charged with the preservation of these objects and the knowledge they contain about the territory they come from and the life of its community, struck by the disaster.
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Maria Taniguchi
Untitled (Celestial Motors) is a visual meditation on an icon of modern urban Philippine life—the jeepney. This ubiquitous form of public transportation, originally built from U. S. military jeeps left on the islands after World War II, is normally exuberantly painted and personalized. They are known for their crowded seating and kitsch decorations, which have become an omnipresent symbol of Philippine culture.
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Futurefarmers
Erratum: Brief Interruptions in the Waste Stream exists as performance, sculpture, drawing, video and the printed word. In a short video the two artists Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine transform a porcelain toilet into bricks in four movements. In quite brutal actions, they use sledgehammers to smash the toilet into small shards that are then reshaped to form a stack of bricks.
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Chantal Edie and Zacharie Ngnogue
Au non de la liberté (Tiko drink Kumba drunk) is a photographic series by Zacharie Ngnogue and Chantal Edie that considers the correlation between those who hold power in Cameroon and how their actions affect the populations they rule in often compromising ways. “Tiko drink-Kumba drunk” is an adage that is commonly used in the Southwest province of Cameroon to speak of how one’s actions affect others. Civil liberties are next to non-existent in Cameroon, the law is lawless, and structured in a way that is intended to attack its citizens’ human rights.
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Chantal Edie and Zacharie Ngnogue
Au non de la liberté (Tiko drink Kumba drunk) is a photographic series by Zacharie Ngnogue and Chantal Edie that considers the correlation between those who hold power in Cameroon and how their actions affect the populations they rule in often compromising ways. “Tiko drink-Kumba drunk” is an adage that is commonly used in the Southwest province of Cameroon to speak of how one’s actions affect others. Civil liberties are next to non-existent in Cameroon, the law is lawless, and structured in a way that is intended to attack its citizens’ human rights.
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Chantal Edie and Zacharie Ngnogue
Au non de la liberté (Tiko drink Kumba drunk) is a photographic series by Zacharie Ngnogue and Chantal Edie that considers the correlation between those who hold power in Cameroon and how their actions affect the populations they rule in often compromising ways. “Tiko drink-Kumba drunk” is an adage that is commonly used in the Southwest province of Cameroon to speak of how one’s actions affect others. Civil liberties are next to non-existent in Cameroon, the law is lawless, and structured in a way that is intended to attack its citizens’ human rights.
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Igor Grubic
The installation “East Side Story” is based on events that took place in the streets of Belgrade in 2001 and Zagreb in 2002, during the Gay Pride demonstrations, where the participants were the victims of verbal and physical injury by neo-Nazi groups and other citizens. This work is composed of two projections: the first uses television images of the demonstrations while the second is the reconstitution of the events performed by dancers. This piece witnesses nationalism at work in society, aiming particularly at the “internal enemy that sexual minorities might represent”.
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Subas Tamang
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Study of History IV by Subas Tamang is an etching and aquatint print based on photographs taken by German photographer Volkmar Wentzel in 1949. Wentzel’s original color photographs document the transportation of a Mercedes Benz, carried on a wood armature by sixty porters, over a rocky trail from Bhimphedi to Kathmandu in Nepal. At the time of Wentzel’s photographs, paved roads in Nepal only existed within the Kathmandu Valley and cars had to be carried into the city from the surrounding hills on foot.
Subas Tamang
Part of the Indigenous Tamsaling community in Nepal, Subas Tamang comes from a family of traditional stone carvers...
Pedro Reyes
- location: Mexico City, Mexico
- year born: 1972
- gender: male
- nationality: Mexican
- home town: Mexico City, Mexico
Mary Reid Kelley
Drawing from literature, plays, and historical events, Mary Reid Kelley makes rambunctious videos that explore the condition of women throughout history...
Wong Wai Yin
Wong Wai Yin is an interdisciplinary artist who experiments with a variety of media ranging from painting, sculpture, collage, performance, video, installations and photography...
Chantal Edie and Zacharie Ngnogue
Chantal Edie and Zacharie Ngnogue are a photography duo who channel their personal experiences into social commentaries...
Amapola Prada
As the daughter of an actor, Amapola Prada recalls frequently attending the theater as a child and noticing that she never saw herself (her body or reality) represented...
Paolo Cirio
Artist Paolo Cirio engages with legal, economic, and cultural systems of information...
Koki Tanaka
- location: Los Angeles, California
- year born: 1975
- gender: male
- nationality: Japanese
- home town: Tochigi, Japan
Jiri Kovanda
- location: Praha, Ceská Republika
- year born: 1953
- gender: male
- nationality: Czech
Rossella Biscotti
Departing from social and political history, the work of Rossella Biscotti (b...
Marie Voignier
Marie Voignier’s work presents a subtle criticism of the transitory status of action within the social and political elds...
Igor Grubic
- location: Zagreb, Hrvatska
- year born: 1969
- gender: male
- nationality: Croatian
Andrea Bowers
- location: Los Angeles, California
- year born: 1965
- gender: female
- nationality: American
- home town: Wilmington, Ohio
Reza Aramesh
Working across a wide range of materials and processes, Aramesh examines simultaneously the history of Western art and contemporary commentary on the politics and history of the Middle East, concocting a unique visual language to address the contemporary conditions of violence and bio-politics...
Carolina Caycedo
Carolina Caycedo’s work triumphs environmental justice through demonstrations of resistance and solidarity...
Maria Taniguchi
Throughout her paintings, sculptures, and videos, Maria Taniguchi unpacks knowledge and experience—connecting material culture, technology, and natural evolution—and investigates space and time, along with social and historical contexts...
Leonardogillesfleur
The artistic entity “leonardogillesfleur” is the alliance between two artists, Leonardo Giacomuzzo (b...
Som Supaparinya
Humanity is not ontologically transcendent, artist Som Supaparinya’s work makes adamantly clear: actions energetically create impacts, experience dictated not only by our perceptions but equally the world that surrounds us, tethered inextricably...
Mithu Sen
Mithu Sen’s writing is central to her practice, as a poet from West Bengal, a region of great Indian literary history, poetic and visual tropes giving ground to her challenge of semiotics...
Yang Guangnan
- location: New York City, United States
- year born: 1986
- home town: Inner Mongolia, China
Amol k Patil
Interested in vernacular theater and performance, Amol k Patil works within family tradition: his grandfather was an interpreter and a poet (Powada Shahir, a troubadour telling epic stories as he went from one village to another), and his father was an avant-garde playwright, who addressed issues, such as the devastating effects of immigration and its traumas through absurd situations in his plays...
Pak Sheung Chuen
- location: Hong Kong, China
- year born: 1977
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Fujian, China
Zarina Bhimji
- location: Mbarara, Uganda
- year born: 1963
- gender: female
- nationality: Ugandan
Seba Calfuqueo
Seba Calfuqueo is an artist of Mapuche origin whose work critically reflects on the social, cultural, and political status of the Mapuche people in contemporary Chilean society...
Hikaru Fujii
Hikaru Fujii utilizes film to bridge art and social activism...
Helina Metaferia
Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist working across collage, assemblage, video, performance, and social engagement...
Patricia Belli
Since the 1980s, Patricia Belli has been a driving force behind the rise of experimental work in Nicaragua...
Nick Mauss
There is a frenetic energy to the work of American artist Nick Mauss, whose drawings, sculptures, performances, and installations often exceed their own boundaries...
Tom Nicholson
Tom Nicholson is trained in drawing, a medium which he has used to think about the relationships between public actions and their traces, between propositions and monuments, and between writing and images...
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about 8 months ago (02/12/2024)
10 Arrested in Protest Outside Brooklyn Museum Skip to content At least 300 demonstrators gathered in front of the Brooklyn Museum to call for ceasefire and denounce widespread institutional suppression of Gaza activism...
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about 9 months ago (01/21/2024)
The intersection of art and artificial intelligence has recently taken a contentious turn, with thousands of British artists......
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about 11 months ago (12/05/2023)
Action-Packed Winners of the 2023 Red Bull Illume Awards Home / Photography / Photo Contest Action-Packed Winners of the 2023 Red Bull Illume Image Quest By Jessica Stewart on December 5, 2023 Overall Winner & Winner, Innovation by MPB, Photographer: © Krystle Wright / Red Bull Illume, Athlete: Angela VanWiemeersch, Location: Long Canyon, UT, United States “Turns out by slowing down life and embracing boredom again into my life, my dreams have come back that ignite new passion projects...
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about 11 months ago (11/27/2023)
DaDa Return With Their Annual Social Justice Lecture by Artist Ashokkumar D Mistry - FAD Magazine Skip to content By Mark Westall • 27 November 2023 Share — Liverpool-based arts organisation DaDa return in December with their annual Edward Rushton Social Justice Lecture which takes place at Museum of Liverpool on Sunday, 3rd December from 1-3pm, held on United Nations International Day for People with Disabilities and named after the local poet, activist, abolitionist, and disabled man, Edward Rushton ...
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about 11 months ago (11/16/2023)
The Rockefeller Foundation Launches The Artist Impact Initiative with Creative Time and Pioneer Works - Creative Time The Rockefeller Foundation Launches The Artist Impact Initiative with Creative Time and Pioneer Works November 16th, 2023 Tweet Email Today, The Rockefeller Foundation launches The Artist Impact Initiative with Creative Time and Pioneer Works...
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about 20 months ago (02/16/2023)
Update on Americans for the Arts Events in 2023 | Americans for the Arts Jump to Main Content Americans for the Arts Arts Action Fund National Arts Marketing Project pARTnership Movement Animating Democracy Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Instagram YouTube Load Picture Home News Room Update on Americans for the Arts Events in 2023 Hello Guest | Login Update on Americans for the Arts Events in 2023 Thursday, February 16, 2023 It is an exciting time at Americans for the Arts, full of change and new energy...
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about 22 months ago (12/15/2022)
Americans for the Arts and rootoftwo Publish Resource Bank on Cultural Asset Mapping | Americans for the Arts Jump to navigation Americans for the Arts Arts Action Fund National Arts Marketing Project pARTnership Movement Animating Democracy Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Instagram YouTube Load Picture Home News Room Americans for the Arts and rootoftwo Publish Resource Bank on Cultural Asset Mapping Hello Guest | Login Americans for the Arts and rootoftwo Publish Resource Bank on Cultural Asset Mapping Thursday, December 15, 2022 Americans for the Arts, in collaboration with rootoftwo , is pleased to share a new online database of research and resources related to cultural asset mapping and identification ...
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about 22 months ago (12/14/2022)
The Rod Stewart of Thailand, the Queen of Action Movies, a novelist persecuted by the government, seven National Artists and an iconoclastic Thai critic...
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about 24 months ago (11/02/2022)
Americans for the Arts Partners with Free People to Advocate for the Importance of Arts in Early Public Education | Americans for the Arts Jump to navigation Americans for the Arts Arts Action Fund National Arts Marketing Project pARTnership Movement Animating Democracy Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Instagram YouTube Load Picture Home News Room Americans for the Arts Partners with Free People to Advocate for the Importance of Arts in Early Public Education Hello Guest | Login Americans for the Arts Partners with Free People to Advocate for the Importance of Arts in Early Public Education Thursday, November 3, 2022 Americans for the Arts and lifestyle brand Free People today announced a first-time partnership, which includes a Creative Spirit Fund that empowers public school arts educators to fund the next generation of diverse creators...
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about 24 months ago (11/01/2022)
The Utopia Project at Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum - Steve Lambert The Utopia Project at Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum - Steve Lambert Steve Lambert wrote a book!!! Art Works News Writing About Steve Contact Resume Now Newsletter Book Creative Commons BY-NC-SA November 2022 Exhibitions Center for Artistic Activism The Utopia Project Location: Anacostia Community Museum, Washington D...
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about 25 months ago (10/05/2022)
The Metallica drummer also revealed his favorite music of 2018 and "the best action movie of the year by far."...
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about 25 months ago (10/05/2022)
We caught up with Belgian collector Gaelle Alexis at her home in Dubai, where she is using art's soft power to push boundaries....
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about 25 months ago (10/05/2022)
Private art collections are notoriously secretive...
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about 25 months ago (09/23/2022)
Announcing India Carney as the 2022 National Arts & Humanities Month Ambassador | Americans for the Arts Jump to navigation Americans for the Arts Arts Action Fund National Arts Marketing Project pARTnership Movement Animating Democracy Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Instagram YouTube Load Picture Home News Room Announcing India Carney as the 2022 National Arts & Humanities Month Ambassador Hello Guest | Login Announcing India Carney as the 2022 National Arts & Humanities Month Ambassador Friday, September 23, 2022 Americans for the Arts is thrilled to collaborate with musician India Carney as our 2022 Ambassador for National Arts & Humanities Month (NAHM)...
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about 26 months ago (09/08/2022)
Arts ARE Education Statement and Town Hall Event | Americans for the Arts Jump to navigation Americans for the Arts Arts Action Fund National Arts Marketing Project pARTnership Movement Animating Democracy Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Instagram YouTube Load Picture Home News Room Arts ARE Education Statement and Town Hall Event Hello Guest | Login Arts ARE Education Statement and Town Hall Event Thursday, September 8, 2022 Americans for the Arts has endorsed the Arts ARE Education statement and national arts education campaign sponsored by the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards...
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about 26 months ago (08/16/2022)
Americans for the Arts Welcomes New Vice President of Strategic Communications | Americans for the Arts Jump to navigation Americans for the Arts Arts Action Fund National Arts Marketing Project pARTnership Movement Animating Democracy Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Instagram YouTube Load Picture Home News Room Americans for the Arts Welcomes New Vice President of Strategic Communications Hello Guest | Login Americans for the Arts Welcomes New Vice President of Strategic Communications Tuesday, August 16, 2022 Americans for the Arts is pleased to announce that Mariaesmeralda Paguaga has joined the organization as its new Vice President of Strategic Communications...
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about 27 months ago (08/08/2022)
Center for Artistic Activism's Unstoppable Voters Fellowship - Steve Lambert Center for Artistic Activism's Unstoppable Voters Fellowship - Steve Lambert Steve Lambert wrote a book!!! Art Works News Writing About Steve Contact Resume Now Newsletter Book Creative Commons BY-NC-SA August 2022 News , Studio Log Center for Artistic Activism I spent last week training the inaugural fellows for the Center for Artistic Activism’s Unstoppable Voters program ...
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about 27 months ago (08/02/2022)
Americans for the Arts Members Give Feedback | Americans for the Arts Jump to navigation Americans for the Arts Arts Action Fund National Arts Marketing Project pARTnership Movement Animating Democracy Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Instagram YouTube Load Picture Home News Room Americans for the Arts Members Give Feedback Hello Guest | Login Americans for the Arts Members Give Feedback Tuesday, August 2, 2022 Changes are underway at Americans for the Arts and the membership program is no exception...
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about 28 months ago (07/13/2022)
Parastoo Theatre: Art, Refuge, Action | ArtsEquator Skip to content The pioneering theatre company, founded and run by Afghan theatre maker and refugee, Saleh Sepas, is creating a practice that enriches the cultural landscape for all Malaysians...
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about 33 months ago (02/01/2022)
Virtual Author Event at Greenlight Bookstore - Steve Lambert Virtual Author Event at Greenlight Bookstore - Steve Lambert Steve Lambert has a book coming out Art Works News Writing About Steve Contact Resume Now Newsletter Book Creative Commons BY-NC-SA February 2022 News , Talks artofactivismbook , Center for Artistic Activism , MarleneRamirezCancio , Stephen Duncombe , talk Marlène Ramírez-Cancio Steve Lambert and Stephen Duncombe Steve Lambert & Stephen Duncombe, with Marlène Ramírez-Cancio Register for the Event VIRTUAL: Live via Zoom Thursday, February 3, 7:30 PM ET Steve Lambert and Stephen Duncombe present The Art of Activism: Your All-Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible In conversation with Marlène Ramírez-Cancio Greenlight Bookstore , Brooklyn NY Join the co-founders of the Center for Artistic Activism , Stephen Duncombe and Steve Lambert, as they discuss their new book The Art of Activism , an all-purpose guide that falls somewhere between Che Guevara’s Principles for Guerrilla Warfare and Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way ...
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about 33 months ago (01/17/2022)
4 Movies That Showcase The Amazing Action Talent In Indonesia Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles January 17, 2022 By Nabilah Said (1,355 words, 4-minute read) There is no denying the spectacle that modern Hollywood blockbusters are capable of producing...
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about 34 months ago (12/23/2021)
You Won! - Steve Lambert You Won! - Steve Lambert Steve Lambert has a book coming out Art Works News Writing About Steve Contact Resume Now Newsletter Book Creative Commons BY-NC-SA December 2021 Work Art of Activism Book , Center for Artistic Activism , Prints , risograph 11×17 (approx) 2-color Risograph Print on French Paper Printed at Eureka House in Kingston, NY Illustration from The Art of Activism book Available as a thank you for 2021 donors to the Center for Artistic Activism Share this: Twitter Facebook Related Posts November 07, 2021 Art and Fear of Propaganda Work June 19, 2021 The Art of Activism – Pre-order the Book News October 04, 2020 Talk at frank Gathering Talks September 28, 2020 Living the City Exhibition – Berlin Exhibitions June 07, 2020 Conversation with Avram Finkelstein Talks May 10, 2020 Free the Vaccine for COVID-19 Work May 03, 2020 Teaching artistic activism through infomercials Studio Log January 22, 2020 Frank Gathering 2020 Talks August 25, 2019 508 at Seattle City Hall Work August 18, 2019 Delays Mean Deaths site Work July 27, 2019 Laser cut case for HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Sonar Sensor News November 21, 2018 Macedonia Art Action Academy 2018 Work November 05, 2018 Art as Social Action Work October 28, 2018 2018 C4AA Print: The Jedi Mind Trick For Sale October 25, 2018 C4AA at Yale Talks October 22, 2018 C4AA in Macedonia Work April 30, 2018 Cancel the Apocalypse at Re:Publica Talks December 27, 2017 C4AA Workshop in Guinea, West Africa News December 15, 2017 Imagine Winning For Sale November 21, 2017 I HEART SCS Print series Work April 25, 2017 3 Workshops in April/May Talks April 15, 2017 Fight Back Pack #2: Defend U...
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about 36 months ago (11/15/2021)
Last October, as part of Tacoma Arts Month, I drove around the city with my sister, artist Teruko Nimura...
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about 39 months ago (08/12/2021)
Caring for the Carers: How Malaysian artists working with communities hold space | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Courtesy of Syarifah Nadhirah August 12, 2021 By Rahmah Pauzi (1,300 words, 5-minute read) I had forgotten how loaded the words “how are you,” or “apa khabar,” can be...
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about 39 months ago (08/12/2021)
Dialogues with Mountains: Preserving indigenous culture in Taromak and Kelecung | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Kelecung, Bali...
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about 39 months ago (08/03/2021)
Fragments of History: Loc Vang, the Yellow music singer from Hanoi | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Nguyen Dinh Toan August 3, 2021 By Duong Nguyen Thuy (800 words, 3-minute read) It was perhaps the melancholy of history that was the most palpable presence in the livestream action Fragments of History , which I organised as part of Mekong Cultural Hub’s Mini-Meeting Point held on 17 July 2021...
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about 40 months ago (07/14/2021)
Can the arts solve community issues in the region? The SEA*5 think so...
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about 40 months ago (06/29/2021)
Podcast 91: Curated Conferences with Chung Shefong, Janet Pillai and Anmol Vellani at Meeting Point 2021 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints June 30, 2021 Nabilah Said and Wennie Yang speak to Chung Shefong, Janet Pillai and Anmol Vellani the three curators who led the Curated Conference programme as part of Meeting Point 2021 ...
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about 41 months ago (06/07/2021)
Meeting Point 2021: The cultural worker in a time of social change | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Mekong Cultural Hub June 7, 2021 By Wennie Yang (2,000 words, 8-minute read) Laptop fully charged, professional Zoom background selected – Meeting Point 2021 organised by Mekong Cultural Hub and its partners took place virtually between 20 to 22 May 2021...
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1970-1979
Luis Pazos
1971La Cultura de la Felicidad (The Culture of Happiness) is a series of five photographs addressing everyday life—a couple in a bed, lovers on a bench and a family reunion...
Allan Sekula
1973San Pedro is a seaside city, part of the Los Angeles Harbor, sitting on the edge of a channel...
Jiri Kovanda
Drawing & Print
1977(Drawing & Print) All Kovanda’s artistic practice poses the question of visibility...
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1980-1989
Martha Araújo
1982In Habito/Habitante , the suspended material renders the wall a prison and the participant a prisoner...
Mladen Stilinovic
1985The Exploitation of the Dead cycle is composed of a very large number of elements which the artist reorganizes differently every time...
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1990-1999
John Wood and Paul Harrison
1996One of John Wood and Paul Harrison’s earliest works, Device features Harrison performing a series of actions, assisted by the titular ‘devices’, that use physics to force his body into unusual and uncomfortable positions...
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2000-2009
Patricia Belli
2000In the mid-1990s, Belli started to create soft sculptures that allowed her to reconnect with manual labor and sewing learned from her seamstress mother...
Zarina Bhimji
2001Born in Uganda of Indian descent, Bhimji has lived in London after her family sought refuge from the regime of Idi Amin who compulsorily expelled all Asians from Uganda...
Ben Kinmont
2004The archive proposes to examine the difference between helping others in the context of an artistic project and in the context of social work in order to question authorship...
Francis Alÿs
2004The Nightwatch , which is an ironic reference to the celebrated painting by Rembrandt, follows the course of a fox wandering among the celebrated collections of the National Portrait Gallery in London...
Pedro Reyes
2005In Reyes’s words, “We should be able to extract the technological nutrients before we excrete our waste...
Leonardogillesfleur
2005Leonardogillesfleur describe Action 3:02 as their “first New York blizzard storm at about 5am...
Leonardogillesfleur
2005Of Action 26:15 leonardogillesfleur notes: “There is almost an ice-cream store in every corner of Buenos Aires...
Christoph Draeger
2006In his performative action Subterranean Doomsday Vendor , Draeger positions himself in the subway system of Mexico City, as part of the common occurrence of bootleg media vendors...
Mikhael Subotzky
2006At the halfway point along South Africa’s Highway N1, running from Cape Town to Johannesburg, sits the small town of Beaufort West...
Francis Alÿs
Drawing & Print
2006(Drawing & Print) This series of small drawings is executed with varying materials—pen, ink, colored pencil, charcoal, and masking tape—on architect’s tracing paper...
Edgardo Aragón
2007Efectos de familia (Family Effects, 2007–9) is a series of 13 videos that dramatize an array of abusive events derived from Edgardo Aragón’s family’s history—specifically its involvement with organized crime...
Aaron Young
2007The artist describes the work as “very performative video-pieces but they take on a more sculptural feel...
Igor Grubic
2008366 Liberation Rituals is a series that gathers a number of actions related to the artist’s micro-politics...
Sergio De La Torre
2008Nuevo Dragon City is a reenactment of a historical event from 1927 in which six Chinese were either trapped or voluntarily hid themselves inside a building in northern Mexico...
Pak Sheung Chuen
2008Pak created New York Public Library Projects (NYPLP) (2008) during a residency in New York, using public libraries as exhibition spaces and the books they house as raw materials...
Koki Tanaka
2009Walking Through is one of a series of videos—sometimes humorous, often absurd—that record the artist’s performative interactions with objects in a particular site...
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2010-2019
Koki Tanaka
2010Tanaka’s unique understanding of objects and materials is reflected in the four photographs that document his Process of Blowing Flour ...
Futurefarmers
2010Erratum: Brief Interruptions in the Waste Stream exists as performance, sculpture, drawing, video and the printed word...
Andrea Bowers
Drawing & Print
2010(Drawing & Print) The small drawings that comprise Study from May Day March, Los Angeles 2010 (Immigration Reform Now) and We Are Immigrants Not Terrorists are based on photographs taken at a political rally in downtown Los Angeles in which thousands of individuals demonstrated for immigrants’ rights...
Mary Reid Kelley
2010Situated in German-occupied Belgium at the end of World War I, Y ou Make Me Iliad by Mary Reid Kelley focuses on the story of two...
Polina Kanis
2011In the seminal video Workout , Kanis looks at the phenomenon of exercise in public space—specifically aerobics exercises in parks around Moscow today—as a broader lens for thinking about generational change...
Mary Reid Kelley
2011In the video The Syphilis of Sisyphus (2011), Reid Kelley transported her heroine to the French demimonde...
Pedro Reyes
2012Pedro Reyes’s Los Mutantes ( Mutants , 2012) is composed of 170 plates that combine characters from ancient and modern mythologies...
Tuan Andrew Nguyen
2012This work presents the image of an immolated monk engraved on a baseball bat...
Maria Taniguchi
2012Untitled (Celestial Motors) is a visual meditation on an icon of modern urban Philippine life—the jeepney...
Amol k Patil
2012The title of the performance video work Impression by Amol k Patil refers to an Indian tradition...
Tom Nicholson
2012Tom Nicholson’s Comparative Monument (Palestine) engages a peculiar Australian monumental tradition: war monuments that bear the name “Palestine”...
Som Supaparinya
2012The flat, wide river holds on its surface a tour-boat of memories, as Som Supaparinya documents her Grandfather’s return via cruise to familiar territories in rural Thailand that were submerged after the Thai government installed a series of dams...
Koki Tanaka
2013This artwork was part of a group of projects presented in the Japanese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2013...
Igor Grubic
2013The installation “East Side Story” is based on events that took place in the streets of Belgrade in 2001 and Zagreb in 2002, during the Gay Pride demonstrations, where the participants were the victims of verbal and physical injury by neo-Nazi groups and other citizens...
Phan Thao Nguyên
2013On September 22, 1940 the French signed an accord, which granted Japanese troops the right to occupy Indochina...
McCallum + Tarry
2013In Endurance, 26 homeless youths stand still looking directly into the camera for an hour without speaking...
Carolina Caycedo
2013In this two-channel video installation, Spaniards Named Her Magdalena, But Natives Called Her Yuma , Carolina Caycedo gathered footage during numerous research trips to dam sites in the Harz Mountains, Saxony, Westphalia and the Black Forest in Germany interspersed with images of the Rio Magdalena region in Colombia...
Mary Reid Kelley
2013Priapus Agonistes by Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley is the first work in The Minotaur Trilogy (2013-2015), a trio of videos that reimagine the Greek myth of the Minotaur...
Tobias Fike & Matthew Harris
2013Facing one another, each projection screen of the work Food Fight respectively features Tobias Fike and Matthew Harris preparing multi-course meals at a kitchen counter...
Amapola Prada
2013In Amapola Prada’s work Movement, we see three spotlit, female bodies lying inert in a darkened room, alongside three dressed, standing figures holding long, wooden spoons...
Amapola Prada
2013n the opening scene of the video Power (La Fuerza) we see a mature woman asleep in a dark room...
Amapola Prada
2013In the video Unit/y we see Amapola Prada in the center of the screen wearing an oversized, worn out sweatshirt, socks and flip-flops—standing motionless on a dimly lit street in her native Lima, Peru...
Marie Voignier
2014Tourisme International was shot as the recording of a show on the scale of a country...
Kota Ezawa
2014Paint and Unpaint is an animation by Kota Ezawa based on a scene from a popular 1951 film by Hans Namuth featuring Jackson Pollock...
Carolina Caycedo
2014YUMA o la tierra de los amigos (YUMA, or the Land of Friends) by Carolina Caycedo is a large mural containing a series of satellite photographs mounted on acrylic...
Li Binyuan
2014Freedom Farming presents how, after being given the right of farming, Li Binyuan began to re-dig his land...
Rossella Biscotti
2014Rossella Biscotti’s “10×10” series investigates the relationship between demographics, data processing, textile manufacturing and social structure...
Som Supaparinya
2014When Need Moves the Earth is a three-channel video that combines elements of documentary footage, archival material and abstract aerial shots to encompass a painterly yet forthright exploration of a coal mine and a water dam in Thailand...
Maria Taniguchi
2015Maria Taniguchi works across several media but is principally known for her long-running series of quasi-abstract paintings featuring a stylized brick wall device...
Andrea Bowers
2015Bowers’ Radical Hospitality (2015) is a sculptural contradiction: its red and blue neon letters proclaim the words of the title, signaling openness and generosity, while the barbed wires that encircle the words give another message entirely...
Lola Gonzàlez
2015In Summer Camp , Lola Gonzàlez filmed a group of friends at the home of her parents in the department of Charente (France) in the process of transforming the house into a training camp...
Mary Reid Kelley
2015Kelley’s 2015 portrait of the poet Charles Baudelaire is one of a series of poets, rappers, and other thinkers who have influenced the artist’s ideas about beauty, creativity, and expression...
Nick Mauss
Drawing & Print
2015(Drawing & Print) As in other Mauss’ works that often look unfinished, the drawings in Untitled seem ever at the phase of the sketch, his segments as if they may uproot and reorient themselves at any moment...
Reza Aramesh
2016The photographed plaster heads set against the idyllic landscapes of the south of England, subvert the process of image production and memory...
Reza Aramesh
2016The photographed plaster heads set against the idyllic landscapes of the south of England, subvert the process of image production and memory...
Seba Calfuqueo
2017Alka domo by Seba Calfuqueo is a performative video work that recontextualizes a story about Caupolicán, the Mapuche toki (meaning symbol of strength and perseverance in the face of adversity)...
Subas Tamang
Drawing & Print
2018(Drawing & Print) Study of History IV by Subas Tamang is an etching and aquatint print based on photographs taken by German photographer Volkmar Wentzel in 1949...
Subas Tamang
Drawing & Print
2018(Drawing & Print) Study of History III by Subas Tamang is an etching and aquatint print based on photographs taken by German photographer Volkmar Wentzel in 1949...
Subas Tamang
Drawing & Print
2018(Drawing & Print) Study of History V by Subas Tamang is an etching and aquatint print based on photographs taken by German photographer Volkmar Wentzel in 1949...
Jota Mombaça
2018The performance title A Gente Combinamos De Não Morrer (BANDEIRA #1) / Us Agreed Not To Die (FLAG #1) is taken from a short story by Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo, whose work addresses violence, resilience, and necropolitics with an Afro-diasporic lens...
Walead Beshty
2018Office Work by Walead Beshty consists of a partially deconstructed desktop monitor screen, cleanly speared through its center onto a metal pole...
Hikaru Fujii
2019Les nucléaires et les choses by Hikaru Fujii is the first video produced in the artist’s long-term project focusing on the Futaba Town Museum of History and Folklore, located in the “difficult-to-return zone” since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in 2011...
Matt Kane
Advanced Technology
2019(Advanced Technology) Matt Kane initiated the project Right Place & Right Time – Bitcoin Volatility Art in 2019...
Helina Metaferia
2019By Way of Revolution is a series of works by Helina Metaferia that addresses the inherited histories of protest that inform contemporary social movements...
Naomi Rincón-Gallardo
2019Resiliencia Tlacuache / Opossum Resilience by Naomi Ricón Gallardo is a fabulation in which four characters find themselves in temporalities that overlap Mesoamerican narratives about the creation of the world with the contemporary time of accumulation by dispossession...
Angela Su
Drawing & Print
2019(Drawing & Print) In the first part of Cosmic Call by Angela Su the voiceover proposes in a neutral, documentary-like tone, a series of stories to rethink the way we usually understand, justify, or place blame for epidemiological events...
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2020-2029
Chantal Edie and Zacharie Ngnogue
2020Au non de la liberté (Tiko drink Kumba drunk) is a photographic series by Zacharie Ngnogue and Chantal Edie that considers the correlation between those who hold power in Cameroon and how their actions affect the populations they rule in often compromising ways...
Chantal Edie and Zacharie Ngnogue
2020Au non de la liberté (Tiko drink Kumba drunk) is a photographic series by Zacharie Ngnogue and Chantal Edie that considers the correlation between those who hold power in Cameroon and how their actions affect the populations they rule in often compromising ways...
Chantal Edie and Zacharie Ngnogue
2020Au non de la liberté (Tiko drink Kumba drunk) is a photographic series by Zacharie Ngnogue and Chantal Edie that considers the correlation between those who hold power in Cameroon and how their actions affect the populations they rule in often compromising ways...
Subas Tamang
Drawing & Print
2020(Drawing & Print) Study of History VI by Subas Tamang is an etching and aquatint print based on photographs taken by German photographer Volkmar Wentzel in 1949...
Paolo Cirio
2020Capture is a photographic series by Paolo Cirio in which the artist sourced 1000 public images of police officers’ faces and processed them with facial recognition technology...
Paolo Cirio
2020Capture is a photographic series by Paolo Cirio in which the artist sourced 1000 public images of police officers’ faces and processed them with facial recognition technology...
Paolo Cirio
2020Capture is a photographic series by Paolo Cirio in which the artist sourced 1000 public images of police officers’ faces and processed them with facial recognition technology...
Jesse Krimes
2020Raybrook by Jesse Krimes takes its name from The Federal Correctional Institution, Ray Brook (FCI Ray Brook), a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates located in Essex County, NY...
Subas Tamang
Drawing & Print
2021(Drawing & Print) Masiniya Matawali by Subas Tamang is an etching and aquatint print based on photographs taken by German photographer Volkmar Wentzel in 1949...
Wong Wai Yin
2021Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages...
Wong Wai Yin
2021Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages...
Wong Wai Yin
2021Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages...
Wong Wai Yin
2021Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages...
