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Gallery Projects

STITCHING TOGETHER: GARMENT WORKERS IN SOLIDARITY
Practitioner
Taslima Akhter, Magnum Foundation
Date
Sep 12 2018

On April 24, 2013, more than 1,000 lives were taken in the Rana Plaza Collapse. While history remembers this tragic event as the deadliest garment factory accident, activist and photographer Taslima Akhter reveals a story of dreams crushed by structural murder. Dedicating her career to the lives and struggles of garment workers in Bangladesh, she has continued to foster a community rallying together for safer working conditions.

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Viral Trans Uplifting Art & Apparel
Practitioner
Meg, @megemikoarat
Date
May 13 2021

By going viral for the fashionable and aesthetically appeasing art for Trans lives, she has developed a new way to advocate for this cause while simultaneously growing her business. By starting by documenting their journey to living their most authentic life on youtube, they have gravitated to TikTok where they have found particular success in spreading awareness through their art and apparel.

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“Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)
Practitioner
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Date
Jan 24 1991

Felix Gonzalez-Torres produced meaningful and restrained sculptural forms out of common materials. “Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) consists of an ideal weight of 175 pounds of shiny, commercially distributed candy. The work’s physical form and scale change with each display, affected by its placement in the gallery as well as audience interactions.

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Kissing Doesn’t Kill and other projects
Practitioner
Gran Fury
Date
Jan 1 1989

Gran Fury was an AIDS activist artist collective from New York City consisting of 11 members, all artists - but action, not art, was the aim of the collective. Gran Fury member Loring McAlpin described the collective's mass-market ambition to “...fight for attention as hard as Coca-Cola fights for attention.”

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Art, Activism and the Age of AIDS
Practitioner
David Wojnarowicz
Date
May 15 1981

David Wojnarowicz as a Catalyst for Collective Action

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How Art Gives Shape to Cultural Change
Practitioner
Thelma Golden
Date
Jul 2 2009

Thelma Golden, curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, talks through three recent shows that explore how art examines and redefines culture. The "post-black" artists she works with are using their art to provoke a new dialogue about race and culture -- and about the meaning of art itself.

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Latino Punk Festival NYC
Practitioner
punk bands from the Americas
Date
Aug 7 2015

Promoted as a DIY festival with no corporate sponsorship, the 2015 Latino Punk festival in Brooklyn, NY featured bands from all over the Americas. With an emphasis on local bands supporting each other and nurturing local scenes, this festival functions in reference to the ideals of the punk and Riot Grrrl movements in the 1990s.

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Why the Music of Protest Is Still Worth Defending
Practitioner
Dar Williams
Date
Mar 7 2014

It's become fashionable to say that political music is either dead or irrelevant.

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