Projects tagged "Sex & Gender"

SARS
Practitioner:
Emily Shinada and Haley SIlverman
Date:
Apr 19 2008
A video collaboration betweenHayley Silverman and Emily Shinada. Using clips from a Japanese pornography film, the video highlights fears of interpersonal connection and explores the objectification of women.  It was on view at Alogon Gallery for theWomen Get Fucked exhibition.
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Mamas de la Esquina
Practitioner:
AMMAR/Ogilvy & Mather
Date:
Jun 13 2013
Argentina's Sex Workers Get Creative
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Lebanon rape law: Wedding dresses hang in Beirut sea front protest
Practitioner:
Lebanese Activists
Date:
Apr 22 2017
Activists campaigning to change Lebanon's law on rape have staged a macabre protest on Beirut's famous sea front. What appeared to be more than 30 white wedding dresses were hung from nooses, strung up between the palm trees. Lebanese law currently allows a rapist to be exonerated if he marries his victim. The activists are pressing to have the legislation abolished at an upcoming session of parliament.
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#OpSteubenville
Practitioner:
KYAnonymous, KnightSec
Date:
Dec 12 2012
During the Steubenville, Ohio rape case in 2012, members of Anonymous uncovered and promised to release names of unindicted participants in the rape of a teenager by high school athletes.
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The Swiss Public Welfare Outdoor Interactive Facility for Domestic Violence "Shut Him Down"
Practitioner:
The Swiss Public Welfare
Date:
Jan 12 2016
Neighbors in modern cities have less and less communication, and they all go about their business as soon as they close the door. In Switzerland, a woman dies every week as a result of domestic violence, so in an effort to get everyone to act, the charity has put up an interactive billboard in a shopping mall that shows a man in a family doing violence to a woman.
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Polylogues
Practitioner:
Xandra Clark
Date:
Nov 1 2018
Journalist and playwright Xandra Clark began creating Polylogues, a one woman show exploring non-monogamy, in 2017. The show is created from interviews Clark conducts around the world with people of different ages, genders, and races about their relationship with non-monogamy or polyamory (hence the name of the performance Polylogues).
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Is A Barbie Body Possible?
Practitioner:
Rehabs.com
Date:
Apr 18 2013
With her long slender limbs, small waist and 'flawless complexion' (at least when she has makeup on), it is no surprise that many young girls dream of being just like Barbie. However, it turns out that attaining Barbie’s dream bod is almost close to impossible—as highlighted in an infographic by Rehabs.com.
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Underrepresentation of Marginalized Women in Spain
Practitioner:
Cristina Gracia Rodero
Date:
Jan 1 1989
The artist I chose to focus on personally is the photographer Cristina Garcia Rodero. I used photos from her photography essay España Oculta, in which Rodero traveled to small villages in Spain to document the resident’s lives. Our group's main focus is on gender issues, and I personally wanted to focus on activism involving women and representation. Rodero uses photos of rituals and activities among those outside of the majority population.
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"Las sinsombrero": Bare heads against the tyranny of being respectable.
Practitioner:
Las sinsombrero
Date:
Jan 1 1925
"Las sinsombrero" ("without hat") were a group of spanish women formed by the artists Maruja Mallo, Margarita Manso, Concha Méndez and the socialist activist Margarita Nelken.
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Guerrilla Girls- Twin Cities “takeover”
Practitioner:
Kahlo and Kollwitz
Date:
Jan 20 2016
A project as expansive as the Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover is a first for them. Kicking off on January 21, the festival will comprise a series of events by 30 different groups, which will take place until March 6 at more than 20 arts and cultural organizations in and around Minneapolis/St. Paul. A network of local art activists will be mobilized, and the Guerrilla Girls have been working in tandem with the area’s youth groups to prepare.
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The "marriage effect"
Practitioner:
Amnesty International
Date:
Mar 20 2014
Rights activists in Mozambique have marched through the capital Maputo to protest a colonial era law still included in new legislation that allows rapists to go unpunished if they marry their victims. The "marriage effect" clause sees convicted rapists given a five-year suspended sentence if they marry their victims and stipulates that the perpetrator should stay married to the victim for at least five years.
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FAITH is the Vaccine to calm down TURBULENCE-Brave Voices@70
Practitioner:
Mbizo Chirasha-Publisher/Projects Curator, Francis Otole-Guest Editor, Rebecca Robinson-Artist in Residence
Date:
Jun 29 0020
BRAVE VOICES POETRY JOURNAL is the scripture of FREEDOM religion, with her twin’s doctrine of justice and resilience. It comprises two Testaments. (1) the old testament of precolonial Africa; from Genesis of civilization through Exodus to slavery. From kings; Mansa,Tshaka , Selassie…through Psalms; Senghor, Diops,Okara,Brutus.
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The Monument Quilt
Practitioner:
Force
Date:
Mar 1 2014
The Monument Quilt: a public healing space by and for survivors of rape and abuse.
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Keith Haring's AIDS Activism
Practitioner:
Keith Haring
Date:
Jan 1 1980
Keith Haring was an American artist and activist in 1980s New York, whose artwork raised awareness on social issues at the time. One the main awareness campaigns Haring participated on was AIDS awareness and activism.
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School of Echoes
Practitioner:
Ultra-Red
Date:
Apr 18 2001
Ultra-Red is a collective founded by two AIDS activists in 1994 to explore the intersection of the political and aesthetic through "militant sound investigations".
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I'm Every Woman
Practitioner:
Cati Vanrell, Lorraine King Marshall, Marie Cronin, Fala Buggy
Date:
Mar 11 2017
Our Action: We set up “I’m every Woman” as a 3D street installation. It took place on the Boardwalk, Cork City on the weekend of International Women’s week. Our aims were to promote gender-equality. As a group we identified women as locally and globally dehumanized. We challenged this by honouring women and interacting with people we encountered to celebrate women, both locally and globally.
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Her Story homeless people
Practitioner:
Participants of the Creativity and Change course Cork City
Date:
Apr 13 2017
Brainstorm of ideas and collection of the group individual experiences and input. Preparation and design of the action. Interview of a member of local organization that is working with homeless. Research of data,concrete stories. Build up the scenario to establish the environment to raise awareness of the rising local issue of homeless, specifically female homeless and their challenges in daily life.
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Activists Illustrated - Women at the Heart of Global Struggles
Practitioner:
María María Acha-Kutscher
Date:
Jul 8 2015
Latin American Artist María María Acha-Kutscher takes photographs from social and feminist movements and turns them into stunning pop art illustrations.
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Invisible Women - A World Designed for Men
Practitioner:
Caroline Criado Perez
Date:
Mar 7 2019
The problem with feminism is that it’s just too familiar. The attention of a jaded public and neophiliac media may have been aroused by #MeToo, with its connotations of youth, sex and celebrity, but for the most part it has drifted recently towards other forms of prejudice, such as transphobia. Unfortunately for women, though, the hoary old problems of discrimination, violence and unpaid labour are still very much with us.
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Marisela Escobedo and the quest for justice
Practitioner:
Marisela Escobedo
Date:
May 11 2010
Marisela Escobedo was 52 when she was shot dead on a sidewalk outside of the Government Palace of Chihuahua City, northern Mexico. She had set up camp in one of Mexico’s most dangerous cities – a place where people won’t leave their homes at night to protest day and night against corruption and impunity in her daughter’s murder case.
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The Guerrilla Girls and the "HORROR ON THE NATIONAL MALL!"
Practitioner:
Guerrilla Girls
Date:
Apr 22 2007
“The Washington Post” asked the Guerrilla Girls to create a full page for their section on feminism and art, which was published on April 22, 2007. The Guerrilla Girls’ page contains an image of a fake tabloid, called “NOT OK! The Guerrilla Girls’ Scandal Rag,”. The tabloid’s cover features a sensational headline and some statistics, which highlight the fact that national museums rarely feature female artists and artists of color.
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Artist's self record of a Chinese marriage market
Practitioner:
Yingguang Guo
Date:
Aug 1 2015
A photography project on China's marriage market has recently reignited the debate about marriage in China, and the phenomenon of women deemed too old to marry, or "leftover women" in the country.
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Living Pain Art
Practitioner:
Petr Pavlensky
Date:
Jul 23 2012
Often referred to as a ‘living pain’ artist, Petr Pavlensky chooses performance art that often takes form of extreme acts as his political language.
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Weaponizing pink glitter
Practitioner:
Feminist Organizations
Date:
Aug 16 2019
On August 16, 2019 thousands of women marched in various cities across Mexico. One particular case may have triggered them, but these marches were an answer to the systematic violence against women and girls in our country.
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Shirin Neshat Addresses Iranian President at the WEF in Davos
Practitioner:
Shirin Neshat
Date:
Jan 22 2014
Shirin Neshat is an Iranian visual artist who works and resides in New York City. Her work refers to the social, political and religious codes of Muslim societies. She particularly addresses the psychological dimensions of women's experience in contemporary islamic societies. Using Persian poetry and calligraphy she has examined concepts such as martyrdom, space of exile, and the issues of identity and femininity.
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