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Gallery Projects

Chinese Contemporary Artist Liao Guohe’s “Bad Paintings” on Exhibition in Nanjing
Practitioner
Liao Guohe
Date
Nov 14 2014

Liao Guohe’s solo exhibition ----“Satisfaction Guaranteed”, the first-time all-round summary of his paintings in last 10 years, is held from November 14, 2014 to March 14, 2015 at Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing, China.

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Miss Landmine
Practitioner
Morten Traavik
Date
Apr 2 2008

A beauty contest for landmine victims challenges normal concepts of beauty. The search for beauty takes many forms. The traditional beauty pageant might be thought to be one of the less acceptable, concentrating as it does on conventional ideas of female perfection. Miss Landmine is a challenge to normal concepts of beauty. It is a beauty pageant held in Angola, a country ravaged by war and its aftermath, for women who have lost limbs from landmines.

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Theater for Incarcerated Women
Practitioner
The Medea Project
Date
Jan 1 1989

Creative Time, Social Practice Archive: In 1989 actress/writer Rhodessa Jones was conducting classes at the San Francisco County Jail. Working with female inmates, she developed material for a performance piece called Big Butt Girls, Hard-Headed Women based on their lives and shared experiences.

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Nongfu Spring Market
Practitioner
Brother Nut
Date
Jun 1 2018

The 9,000 bottles of water on display at an art gallery in Beijing last month appeared identical to those of Nongfu Spring, one of China’s most popular spring water brands, with one jarring difference. Inside each bottle was brown, murky groundwater collected from a Chinese village.

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CONVICTED KILLER WINS BEAUTY PAGEANT IN WOMEN'S PRISON
Practitioner
The Instituto Penal Talavera
Date
Dec 6 2019

In its thirteenth year, the annual Miss Talavera Bruce beauty pageant is held in unlikely surroundings: a women’s prison in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Instituto Penal Talavera is the only maximum-security women’s prison in the city with inmates serving life sentences for murder, fraud and drug trafficking.

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Miss HIV Stigma Free
Practitioner
Kesego Basha; Centre for Youth and Hope
Date
Feb 26 2005

To change Bostwana’s regional misconceptions about HIV, Kesego Basha-Muebli, founded the Miss HIV stigma free pageant. A pageant designed for women who are currently receiving health and wellness counseling and HIV antiretroviral treatment to come out to their friends and family as being HIV positive.

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Abortion Clinic - Ship Campaigns
Practitioner
Women on Waves
Date
Jun 11 2001

Women on Waves sails a ship to countries where abortion is illegal. With the use of a ship, early medical abortions (till 61/2 weeks of pregnancy) can be provided safely, professionally and legally.

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