Projects tagged "East Asia"

How Song Dong's "Waste Not" Elicited Much Sympathy
Practitioner:
Song Dong, Zhao Xiangyuan(Song Dong's mother)
Date:
Jan 1 2005
Song Dong's Waste Not consisted of a single installation comprising over 10,000 commonplace, domestic items of daily life that had been used and amassed by the artist’s mother (Zhao Xiangyuan) over fifty years.
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"Goo Phone" Chinese Company Used Leaked iPhone 5 Specs to Build Knockoff, Hopes to Sue Apple for Patent Infringement
Practitioner:
Goophone Company
Date:
Sep 6 2012
Just the other day, we were hearing about Samsung getting in legal trouble over patent violations with Apple. A federal court decision ruled that Samsung owes Apple more than $1 billion in restitution.
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Video Art on China's Demolished Urban Scenery
Practitioner:
Cao Fei, Gucci
Date:
Feb 3 2015
Rumba II: Nomad (3'24'' excerpt) 2015 / video / 14mins 16secs Sound by Dickson Dee Commissioned by GUCCI
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"100 Sexual Questions from Children" , interactive sex education exhibition
Practitioner:
Maylove
Date:
May 16 2021
"100 Questions About Sex from Children" is an annual touring sex education exhibition founded and curated by Se A, a leading advocate of inclusive sex education in China. Since its launch in 2021, the exhibition has been held in major cities such as Shenzhen and Guiyang, with plans to expand into regions where sex education and gender awareness remain underdeveloped.
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Protest in Inner Mongolia against CCP's Mandarin-only Education
Practitioner:
Ethnic Mongolians in China
Date:
Sep 1 2020
Thousands of ethnic Mongolians have protested across northern China in opposition to Beijing plans to replace the Mongolian language with Chinese in some school subjects.
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Umbrella Man - Occupy Central Hong Kong
Practitioner:
Milk
Date:
Oct 7 2014
The pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong have a new mascot: a roughly 12-foot-high figure of wood blocks holding a bright yellow umbrella in its outstretched right hand. The students call it Umbrella Man. Umbrellas emerged as a symbol of the demonstrations after dozens of students wielded them on the night of Sept. 28 to fend off pepper spray as they jostled with the police.
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Free the Beijing Five
Practitioner:
Wang Man, Wei Tingting, Zheng Churan, Li Tingting, Wu Rongrong
Date:
Mar 6 2015
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale write: Five Chinese feminists have been arrested for planning to protest against sexual harassment. They face five to ten years in jail. This post explains the background to the case, and suggests ways that other activists around the world can show solidarity.
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'Orheim, Light of Life' exhibition with three generations
Practitioner:
Seungkyoo Han; Lee Woon-sik, Lee Sunkyeong, and Han Junkyu
Date:
May 28 2023
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'Alchemy' Series Spearheads Conversations on Sustainable Art
Practitioner:
Choi Jeong Hwa
Date:
Dec 18 2018
For one artist, the ugly and the beautiful are equivalent concepts. In 2018, designer and artist Choi Jeong Hwa featured an exhibition titled 'Alchemy' at The Artling where he uses recycled and non-biodegradable materials in his work that he has been collecting for 30 years, such as household trash, glass, and steel. 'Dandelion' is one of his masterpieces installed in the outdoors in Seoul, South Korea.
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Alzheimer's Disease Fonts
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Date:
Sep 21 2017
On Sept 21, 2017, the professional committee of dementia and related diseases of China geriatric health association, together with many caring enterprises, jointly launched a public welfare activity entitled "no longer forget", hoping to call on the public to pay attention to Alzheimer's disease and promote early screening.
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Chinese Feminist Occupy the Men's Toilets
Practitioner:
Li Maizi
Date:
Jun 25 2014
Women around the world fed up with long lines for the ladies’ restroom have a new folk hero: a Beijing college student leading her own version of an “occupy” movement in southern China.
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Be Clean!
Practitioner:
Hi-Red Center
Date:
Oct 16 1964
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 bustle of a “normal” day.
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Left Litter in the Park? Thailand Officials Will Mail It to Your Home
Practitioner:
Varawut Silpa-archa, Environment Minister of Thailand
Date:
Sep 15 2020
Officials in Thailand had an unorthodox approach to deal with visitors who left a tent filled with litter in a national park: mail the trash to the offenders.
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Taking Feminist Battle to China’s Streets, and Landing in Jail
Practitioner:
Young Chinese Feminists
Date:
Feb 2 2012
The young Chinese feminists shaved their heads to protest inequality in higher education and stormed men’s restrooms to highlight the indignities women face in their prolonged waits at public toilets.
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呼吸之痛 The Pain of Breath
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Date:
Sep 11 2018
Pneumoconiosis has become the most serious occupational disease in China, and the vast majority of sufferers, nearly 6 million, are migrant workers. Because of the long-term inhalation of dust caused by pulmonary fibrosis, they usually breathing if not oxygen machine help, easy to suffocate.
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The Many Faces of Yue Minjun
Practitioner:
Yue Minjun
Date:
Dec 5 2012
By NAZANIN LANKARANI PARIS — Five years after his rise to the top of the Chinese contemporary art market, Yue Minjun has something new to smile about. Best known for his large-scale paintings depicting his own smiling face, Mr. Yue, who is based in Beijing, has long been a star of the Chinese contemporary art scene, having achieved commercial success through a highly singular aesthetic.
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Shaving hair performance art in response to the gender discrimination existing in the Chinese educational system
Practitioner:
Xiao Meili, Liang Xiaomen, Li Maizi
Date:
Aug 23 2012
In early July 2012, after the Chinese college entrance examination results were announced, the media found that many colleges and universities had gender bias on the admitted scores, and the maximum difference between men and women was up to 40 points. This finding aroused widespread concern and dissatisfaction from the public.
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Memes, Jokes and Cats: South Koreans Use Parody for Political Protest
Practitioner:
South Korean citizens
Date:
Dec 20 2024
As South Koreans took to the streets this month demanding the ousting of their president, some found an unexpected outlet to express their fury: jokes and satire. They hoisted banners and flags with whimsical messages about cats, sea otters and food. They waved signs joking that President Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration of martial law had forced them to leave the comfort of their beds. Pictures of the flags spread widely on social media.
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FEMALE WORKERS AT SHOP IN JAPAN ASKED TO WEAR BADGES IF ON THEIR PERIOD TO COMBAT STIGMA
Practitioner:
Michi Kake Store
Date:
Nov 1 2019
Female staff members at a new shop in Osaka, Japan are being encouraged to wear badges to indicate when they’re on their period to tackle the stigma surrounding menstruation in the country. Women working at the Michi Kake store, which sells an array of female sexual and menstrual health products, do not have to take part in the scheme, but those that do will pin one of the “period badges” next to their regular name tags.
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New Beijing, New Marriage: A Milestone Film in China’s LGBTQ Movement
Practitioner:
Fan Popo, David Cheng
Date:
Feb 14 2009
New Beijing, New Marriage is a documentary shot by Fan Popo, a Chinese gay rights activist in 2009. The film recorded that a gay couple and a lesbian couple, who were volunteers instead of real homosexual couples, were having their wedding photos taken at Qianmen Street on Valentine’s Day. Qianmen Street is a crowded and famous shopping street in Beijing.
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Documentary --- The Two Lives of Li Ermao
Practitioner:
Jia Yuchuan, Li Ermao
Date:
Dec 1 2019
The documentary film "The Two Lives of Li Ermao" recorded the bumpy life experience of a transgender Li Ermao and her unique and moving story. "Others only live one life, I live two." Looking back, the "two lives" are not only the emotional disillusionment and the swing of identity that Li Ermao has experienced in the past 17 years, but also her helpless but accurate summary of her life.
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Chinese Air Quality Images Exhibition: The Breath of China
Practitioner:
Siyuefeng Photography Studio
Date:
Sep 19 2014
The Breath of China is a thematic photo exhibition of thousands of air-quality images taken by 44 photographers in 34 Chinese capital cities. The exhibition was displayed on the 14th Pingyao International Photography Festival (PIPF) in Shanxi Province, from September 19th to 27th, 2014.
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Women's March Taiwan 2018
Practitioner:
Women's March Taiwan
Date:
Mar 8 2018
Women's March Taiwan 2018
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In China, a Young Feminist Battles Sexual Violence Step by Step
Practitioner:
Xiao Meili
Date:
Sep 1 2013
A hundred days. That’s how long it took Xiao Meili to walk from Beijing, in the arid north, to the humid, central city of Changsha. Since September, the 24-year-old has been trekking south and west across the Chinese heartland, along rumbling highways, around construction sites, down dusty streets. She stops along the way to send letters to local officials. Her plea: China must change the way it handles sex abuse.
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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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