Drinking from the Spring of Liquid Love (dj sniff)
Drinking from Spring of Liquid Love is a spatial representation of a compositional process that emerges through negotiations between media, technology, and musicians. Taking inspiration from more than 10 hours of music collected from the internet with the title of “Liquid Love”, a new song was made in collaboration with Japanese singer songwriter mmm (me/my/mo). […]
ALTERing NATIVism at Taishin Arts Awards
ALTERing NATIVism－Sound Cultures in Post-War Taiwan (Taishin Arts Award EXhibition) currently shown at the Museum of National Taipei University of Education is an excerpt of the exhibition which was held at the Museum of National Taipei University of Education in Taipei and the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts respectively in 2014, including part of the […]
Women on Waves
Women on Waves rocked the boat well before setting sail in 2001. Lead by physician Rebecca Gomperts, this women’s healthcare advocacy group aimed to provide abortion services in countries where the procedure is illegal. They built a seafaring abortion clinic registered in The Netherlands, anchored it 12 miles away from harbors in international waters, where […]
WikiLeaks
In April 2010, a shocking video of an American helicopter firing upon a group of Iraqi journalists on the ground in Bagdad stunned mainstream media and the diplomatic world, and inspired a global debate about the relationship between news outlets and the governments they report on. The video, titled Collateral Murder, was released by WikiLeaks, […]
U.S. Social Forum
The U.S. Social Forum gathers tens of thousands of activists over several days with the goal of building a unified, national social justice movement across the country. Since its inception, two forums have taken place, in Atlanta in 2007 and in Detroit in 2010. Each forum drew over 15,000 activists, and offered a multitude of […]
Tahrir Square
For one month in January 2011, Cairo, Egypt, reverberated as thousands of citizens flooded Tahrir Square in mass protest of former president Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year-rule, which was marked by human rights abuses, corruption, economic depression, and food shortages across the region. The protests transpired for a mere 18 days, yet the during that time the […]
Athi-Patra Ruga
Johannesburg-based artist Athi-Patra Ruga has a habit of inserting himself into challenging situations. He once sat in the middle of a basketball court, mid-game, wearing Jane Fonda-era aerobics gear. He also teetered in stiletto heels and a black sheep costume atop a hill in Switzerland, while corralled in a pen with actual, white sheep. In […]
Chemi Rosado-Seijo
The houses of Naranjito, located outside of San Juan, Puerto Rico, follow the contour of the mountain beneath them, rising and falling along the ridges. This is the first thing Chemi Rosado-Seijo noticed from the foot of the hillside; not the boarded windows or trash-lined streets–signs of a declining economy in what was once a […]
Navin Rawanchaikul
Chiang Mai’s Warorot Market, which dates back to the 19th century, is best characterized by the word “epic”: The densely packed stalls and stores feature inexhaustible rows of wares, from vegetables and chickens to brightly dyed textiles and plastic knick-knacks. Likewise, the market’s population has become an equally diverse cross-section of religious and ethnic identities […]
Katerina Šedá
One Saturday morning in 2003, the mayor of a small, Czechoslovakian village, Ponetovice, broadcast a message to all 350 residents: He asked them to go shopping–at the same time. For the rest of the day, the people continued to synchronize their routine according to a schedule that was posted on the village bulletin board. They […]
