Projects tagged "palestine"

On the Internet people only look at pictures of kittens.
Practitioner:
Banksy
Date:
Feb 26 2015
On the Internet people only look at pictures of kittens. British street artist Banksy has posted pictures and video of works made during a trip to the war-torn Gaza Strip. One shows a figure reminiscent of Rodin’s “The Thinker” — though, set in a still-standing doorway surrounded by nothing but rubble, the figure seems more distraught than contemplative.
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Brooklyn College Stands Behind BDS Event
Practitioner:
BDS movement, students
Date:
Feb 7 2013
An event in support of the BDS movement( a "non-violent tool aimed at pressuring Israel to comply with international law and end its control over Palestinians") scheduled for FEBRUARY 7th, 2013 at Brooklyn college has been denounced by city politicians threatening to withdraw sponsorship funds. See Alex Kane's Feb 1st article in MONDOWEISS below:
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Drawing with gunpowder ink: Interview with Carlos Latuff
Practitioner:
Ana Barata (interviewer), Carlos Latuff (interviewed activist artist)
Date:
Oct 10 2012
In the context of the PhD research “Consciousness-raising: Activism in Digital Art” (by Ana Barata, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da UNL, Lisbon, Portugal) Carlos Latuff was interviewed concerning his political graphical work that focuses on present conflicts and issues.
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Palestine: Cartography of an Occupation
Practitioner:
MTL
Date:
Sep 16 2013
From creativetimereports.org: Artist-activist collective MTL's clickable collages connect disparate aspects of Palestine's geographical and political landscape, offering provocative insight into "how Palestinians suffer and struggle in ways that are parallel to those elsewhere" according to philosopher Michael Hardt.
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Russell Tribunal on Palestine
Practitioner:
Russell Tribunal on Palestine
Date:
Mar 4 2009
“May this Tribunal prevent the crime of silence“…
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Guerilla Projections for Palestine
Practitioner:
Decolonize This Place, Within Our Lifetime
Date:
May 13 2021
As the death toll from Israel’s attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip continues to rise, a guerrilla projection on May 13, 2021 illuminated a building in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood with messages of solidarity with Palestinians.
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Fake Eviction Notices
Practitioner:
NYU Students for Justice in Palestine
Date:
Apr 25 2014
On the morning of April 24th, 2014, members of NYU's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine signed into several NYU dorms and slipped eviction notices under all of the doors. The eviction notices were written to raise awareness about the eviction of Palestinians from their homes by the Israeli government and stated very clearly at the bottom of the page that they were not real.
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Ex Libris
Practitioner:
Emily Jacir
Date:
Jul 1 2012
Recurrent themes in Emily Jacir's practice—which spans a range of strategies including film, photography, interventions, archiving, performance, video, writing, and sound—are silenced historical narratives, resistance, movement, and exchange.
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Visualizing Palestine
Practitioner:
Visualizing Palestine
Date:
Oct 9 2013
Over the past 2 years, Visualizing Palestine (VP) has harnessed visual storytelling to bring public attention to the daily injustices facing Palestinians, from demolition of homes to mothers forced to give birth at military checkpoints. VP wants to start 2014 by raising global awareness around two key issues.
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I am Palestine
Practitioner:
International Solidarity Initiative
Date:
Jul 1 2011
An identity project about what its is like being Palestinian.
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Design4Peace
Practitioner:
Leslie Dwyer
Date:
Mar 8 2014
Design4Peace is a collection of political posters created by Leslie Dwyer. Images speak to issues of war and peace, prisons, solidarity and movement, immigration, economy and class, violence against women, ecology, agriculture, racism, and gender. Leslie works with movement and educational organizations, such as Veterans for Peace and Teaching for Change to support their work visually.
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Picasso In Palestine
Practitioner:
Picasso
Date:
Jun 27 2011
Last Friday, Pablo Picasso’s Buste de Femme, (1943), was put on display at the International Art Academy Palestine in Ramallah. Marking the very first time that the Picasso’s work has been shown in Palestine and as the result of a loan request to the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, this project is the tenacious vision of artist Khaled Hourani (also the Artistic Director of IAAP).
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Welcome to Palestine
Practitioner:
Palestine Justice Network
Date:
Apr 15 2012
Welcome To Palestine by Saed Bannoura Israeli daily Haaretz, reported that 470 of the 1200 persons that Israel blacklisted as “pro-Palestinian” and part of the Welcome To Palestine campaign, were not activists; two of them were a French diplomat and his wife.
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Dubai Man Aims to Enable Filmmaking Skills Among West Bank Youngsters
Practitioner:
Handheld Stories
Date:
Jul 4 2011
Youngsters on the West Bank will have the chance to benefit creatively from a new project this summer. From the beginning of July, Handheld Stories plans to teach filmmaking skills to groups between eight and 16 years old from youth centres and refugee camps in East Jerusalem, Nablus and Hebron, while also giving them video equipment, computers and software.
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Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
Practitioner:
Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
Date:
Mar 7 2013
Jews For Palestinian Right of Return January 1, 2013 “For Palestinians, the right to return home and the right to live in dignity and equality in their own land are not any less important than the right to live free of military occupation.” –Prof. Saree Makdisi[1] For more than a century, Zionists have sought to construct a “Jewish state” through forced removal of the indigenous Palestinian people.
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