Projects tagged "Arts & Culture"

Undertale
Practitioner:
Toby Fox
Date:
Sep 15 2015
Undertale is a critically acclaimed JRPG indie title that was recently released, and you can get it on the game’s official website or Steam.
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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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The Black Cinema House
Practitioner:
Theaster Gates
Date:
Oct 2 2013
Black Cinema House hosts screenings and discussions of films by and about people of the African diaspora, and offers video classes to neighborhood youth, teaching the next generation to make their own films and tell their own stories.
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"Be the first follower" dance video
Practitioner:
Shirtless guy
Date:
May 26 0200
If you've learned a lot about leadership and making a movement, then let's watch a movement happen, start to finish, in under 3 minutes, and dissect some lessons: A leader needs the guts to stand alone and look ridiculous. But what he's doing is so simple, it's almost instructional. This is key. You must be easy to follow!
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Every Month: One Week. One Film. One Global Audience.
Practitioner:
SIMA RAMA
Date:
Mar 16 2017
For the past five years, we’ve screened SIMA juried films in communities and classrooms across six continents and witnessed an increasing demand to use the inspirational force of documentary filmmaking to build a global digital community around today’s most pressing issues.
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Female Pressure
Practitioner:
Electric Indigo, Andrea Mayr
Date:
Jan 1 2013
female:pressure is an international network of female artists in the fields of electronic music and digital arts founded by Electric Indigo: from musicians, composers and DJs to visual artists, cultural workers and researchers. A worldwide resource of female talent that can be searched after criteria like location, profession, style or name.
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The Grace Period Blog/Performance
Practitioner:
The Grace Period Blog: 7 Anonymous Artists/Activists
Date:
Nov 21 2013
“The Grace Period” is a live blogging platform with seven anonymous contributing bloggers called: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Through, videos, writings, and visuals they present multiple perspectives of landing/creating a meaningful job after school in a country where personal and national debt is high and jobs are few. In this environment, will our creative spirits be resilient?
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What Is Obscenity? The Story Of A Good For Nothing Artist And Her Pussy.
Practitioner:
Rokudenashiko
Date:
Jan 1 2014
Rokudenashiko is on a mission to free the vagina. In her native country of Japan, the vaginal slang word “manko” is considered taboo while the penis equivalent, “chinko,” is used freely. Rokudenashiko (the pseudonym of artist Megumi Igarashi) uses her manko art to destigmatize the vagina, using it as the basis for whimsical figurines, iPhone cases, dioramas, and, in her most infamous piece, a kayak.
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Comusitària
Practitioner:
Comusitària
Date:
Oct 1 2013
Comusitària is a Community Cultural Development agency based in Barcelona run by Noemi Rubio and Laia Serra. They work in the production, management, research and dissemination of artistic projects that build social capital and enable citizens to live more active, critical and creative lives.
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Fear Eats the Soul
Practitioner:
Rikrit Tiravanija
Date:
Mar 5 2011
If the way to one’s heart really is through the stomach, Rirkrit Tiravanija must have more than his share of admirers. Now at GAVIN BROWN, the Buenos Aires-born artist with a history of dishing out tasty edibles in his exhibitions invites viewers to enjoy a bowl of soup in his interactive show, Fear Eats the Soul.
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Just Be - Challenging perceptions & changing attitudes on forced migration
Practitioner:
Participants of the Creativity and Change course Cork City
Date:
Apr 13 2017
The participants are taking part in a one week empathy to action training in Cork.
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Banksy in Brooklyn
Practitioner:
Banksy
Date:
Oct 10 2013
Enterprising Brooklyn men CHARGING people to see the new NYC Banksy street art by hiding it behind cardboard. Some men in the tough Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York decided to charge admission when a Banksy piece showed up on their block. It was the October 10 addition to the British artist's month-long street art residency he's dubbed Better Out Than In.
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“WakEUp!” Festival
Practitioner:
Hatrefact Foundation
Date:
Dec 7 2015
Festival “WakEUp!” (organized by “Heartefact”) happened at several locations, and included film and exhibition program. Festival originated from the need for a reaction to the present moment refugee crisis and the situation in the world, began on the 7 th of December at Gallery “G12 Hub” in Belgrade with two days performance that was dedicated to the current problem of refugees and their historical destinies.
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White Walls Say Nothing (Film)
Practitioner:
White Wall Industries, Grafittimundo
Date:
Feb 27 2013
This film is being produced by White Wall Industries in association with graffitimundo.
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Arruinados
Practitioner:
O Teatrão/Companhia Fantasma
Date:
Aug 1 2013
In July and August 2013, O Teatrão, a Coimbra based theatre company, presented the project Arruinados, comprising three theatre performances in three abandoned spaces (‘ruins’), one in each of three cities in the Centre region of Portugal located along the Mondego River:Coimbra, Montemoro Velho, and Figueira da Foz.
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Murales Imborrables
Practitioner:
Murales Imborrables
Date:
Mar 20 2015
In March this year, less than 100 days since he took office again, Luis Castañeda Lossio, Mayor of Lima, announced that the Municipality would remove the street art murals painted on the walls of downtown Lima’s historical city streets. “Lima has to recover all the architectural quality it has. They have chosen us and we will comply with the obligation that the population has consigned us,” said the mayor.
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Djerbahood
Practitioner:
Curated by Mr. Mehdi Ben Cheikh
Date:
Jul 13 2014
Djerbahood Project, which took place during the months of July and August on a small island called Djerba and is located in the Gulf of Gabes. Better known as the island of dreams, the tiny village of Djerba boasts a traditional and authentic Tunisian setting which acted as a blank canvas for hundred and fifty street artists from thirty different countries.
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Women's Voices for (a) Change
Practitioner:
Livingkindness Foundation
Date:
Jun 20 2013
A 3 DAY body/mind/spirit symposium on USING YOUR CREATIVITY AS A TOOL FOR CULTURAL CHANGE
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No Home Gallery
Practitioner:
Victoria Manganiello, Anastasia Voron
Date:
Aug 1 2014
No Home Gallery is a traveling gallery that curates exhibitions and happenings in various living and studio spaces in New York City. In an attempt to make contemporary art accessible and inviting, No Home offers emerging artists and art enthusiasts a forum for collaboration and creation.
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The Arte Útil Archive
Practitioner:
Asociación de Arte Útil
Date:
Dec 15 2013
The Arte Útil archive presents a growing archive of over two hundred case studies that imagine, create and implement beneficial outcomes by producing tactics that change how we act in society.
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Burkaphilia
Practitioner:
Behnaz Babazadeh
Date:
Jun 1 2012
When Behnaz Babazadeh was young, her family moved from Afghanistan to the US. She loved almost everything about her new home — especially America’s amazing selection of candy — but she also loved wearing her familiar pink-flowered headscarf, which she’d grown used to wearing as part of her school uniform in her old home.
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BlindWiki
Practitioner:
Antoni Abad
Date:
Feb 10 2015
Unveiling the Unseen BlindWiki is a location-based audio network where citizens who are blind or partially sighted use smartphones to share their findings by posting sound recordings. The platform does not just contain information about difficulties and barriers but is also a repository for experiences, opinions and stories, generating a creative and collaborative cartography of the unseen.
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Artist Relocates Abandoned Detroit Home
Practitioner:
Ryan Mendoza
Date:
Feb 26 2016
As art projects go, it's pretty audacious.
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Chats About Change: The Intersection of Art and Activism
Practitioner:
Chats About Change
Date:
Jan 15 2015
Los Angeles is at a critical moment when it comes to art. Not because it's "underappreciated as a world art center" as The New York Times informed us in 2011. Or because it's a "burgeoning art capital" as The New York Times revised in 2014. No, it's because L.A. has actually moved past the "up-and-coming" stage into a fully integrated part of the art world.
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A street art project paints a brighter future for Syrian refugee camps
Practitioner:
Awareness & Prevention Through Art (AptART)
Date:
Feb 1 2014
Following on from Ruben Shanchez's mural on the Syrain boader, we head back to the same subject with Awareness & Prevention Through Art (AptART) is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to give vulnerable children an artistic experience with an opportunity to express themselves as well as an outlet to build awareness and promote prevention about the issues that affect their lives.
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