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This thesis explores a pedagogical enquiry that has transformed the way I think and the way I teach. I used a variety of critical and theatre theories to frame my enquiry and for four years consecutively, visited a non-government... more
This paper applied an ecocritical perspective on street art to expand on the notion that street art can have an impact on how we relate to urban public space. In doing so, it argued that street art is particularly well positioned to... more
TEN: Territory, Encounter & Negotiation (2014) is a self-published critical memoir, produced as a learning tool for the sectors of collaborative arts, education and youth/community work. The publication explores a decade of collaborative... more
This thesis is a historical and intersectional investigation of the contemporary use of queer poetry as a grassroots activist tool in South Africa. The research in this thesis includes an analysis of in-depth qualitative interviews and... more
Ante la siempre actual y urgente necesidad de otorgar visibilidad a las mujeres creadoras, este libro busca conceder un espacio para el análisis de la obra de mujeres artistas, escritoras, divulgadoras y transformadoras sociales en el... more
With Paul Routledge and Alex Sutherland This Arts Activism Toolkit can be used to stimulate thinking, reframe dominant stories and issues, understand the places in which you live and work and build creative relationships and practices... more
国連人権理事会(UNHRC)は、国際的な人権擁護のための措置として設置しているThematic Special... more
This thesis explores a pedagogical enquiry that has transformed the way I think and the way I teach. I used a variety of critical and theatre theories to frame my enquiry and for four years consecutively, visited a non-government... more
During his stay in Athens at Kappatos Athens Art Residency, Santiago Sierra conceived of a new piece entitled “Athens Stray Dogs Project” that takes place in the public sphere of the center of Athens. The work is dedicated to the stray... more
In the fall of 2019, the University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press will present an exhibition of work by the African American artist Elizabeth Catlett (1915 – 2012). Drawn primarily from the collection of artist, scholar, and... more
Hong Kong’s story is difficult to tell, commented Leung Ping-kwan (1949–2013) in consideration of the city’s complicated historical configuration as well as the aesthetic reflection on the same by the writers and artists that have come to... more
The text was published alongside the exhibition Fawaran - (Unrest) - Housing, Language, History - A New Generation in Jewish-Arab Cities (Gutman Museum of Art, 2013: http://www.ronasela.com/en/details.asp?listid=63) Palestinian voice of... more
In this essay, Cheryl J. Fish argues that film and photographs by Sami artists Liselotte Wajstedt and Marjar Helander are part of an activist/artist response to extractive industry practices in Sápmi that challenge cultural perceptions of... more
In dit artikel worden de verschillende literatuurpolitieke visies tijdens het Tweede Schrijversprotest (Nederland, 1970) geanalyseerd. Dit protest, bedoeld om de financiële en artistieke positie van literaire auteurs te verbeteren, zette... more
Women Exposed is an annual art exhibit by women, for women. Its mission is two-fold: to create an opportunity for women artists, and to empower victims of domestic violence through education and financial donations. The money raised by... more
El arte activista no sólo aparece acompañando las luchas urbanas actuales, sino que en buena medida las impregna de sus postulados teóricos y estéticos, sobre todo en lo que hace a su voluntad de resignificar el espacio público. Ese... more
A mediados de 2020, Jesús Antuña, Verónica Giordano y Eduardo Molinari organizaron el ciclo Comunidad, Territorio, Futuro. Este libro compila buena parte de las intervenciones que tuvieron lugar en ese marco. A partir de unos encuentros... more
In 2007, the goal of the public prosecutor was to bring me to trial. What I brought to trial was a representation of politics as such; a truth in the form of a living martyr yet un-coded within the law of the state. The evidence of this... more
The pandemic showed that theatres will be adapting, re-positioning and re-focusing their work through digital means and by using diverse social media tools, in order to stay present and active during the period which will be limiting... more
Ante la siempre actual y urgente necesidad de otorgar visibilidad a las mujeres creadoras, este libro busca conceder un espacio para el análisis de la obra de mujeres artistas, escritoras, divulgadoras y transformadoras sociales en el... more
Paulauskas, Donatas. 2015. “Inverting Monstrosity: ACT UP’s Fight Against Scientific-Popular Discourses of AIDS.” Pulse: A Graduate Journal of History, Sociology & Philosophy of Science 3: 125-144. ISSN: 2416-111X.
ABSTRACT In this document we describe our experience relocating precarity and resiliency by way of arts activism, to denounce and make visible social injustices experienced by im/migrant communities in Montreal. Under the umbrella of the... more
Public monuments function as cultural agents, reifying dominant public narratives or fostering change. Either way, their representation of people and events intervene in public discourse and contribute to cultural, economic, political,... more
Ante la siempre actual y urgente necesidad de otorgar visibilidad a las mujeres creadoras, este libro busca conceder un espacio para el análisis de la obra de mujeres artistas, escritoras, divulgadoras y transformadoras sociales en el... more
In the following, I want to discuss some of the psychosocial implications of COVID-19 on artists’ individual and collectivized practices of self-organized work and self-employment (even though there are certainly artists who are employed... more