The Face of Human Rights.(media received)(Book review)
The Face of Human Rights edited by Walter Kalin, Lars Muller, and
Judith Wyttenbach. Lars Muller Publishers/720 pp./$50.00 (hb).
The basic notion of human rights transcends into something real . . .
1000 Peace Women Across the Globe.(media received)(Book
review)
1000 Peace Women Across the Globe published by 1000 Peace Women
Across the Globe Scalo/2208 pp./$45.00 (hb).
1000 Peace Women Across the Globe (2005) is the internationally
coordinated work of . . .
Neo-Pop anti-product.(Product)(Video recording review)
PRODUCT
BY DIMITRIOS ANTONITSIS & JEFFREY APOIAN
9 MINUTES, 30 SECONDS, 2006
Emphatically titled Product, in a gesture well-suited for the
"enfant terrible of Greek art," (1) Dimitrios . . .
The Body at Risk.(photo exhibition)
In her catalog for the "The Body at Risk" exhibition,
curator Carol Squiers has created an essential document of the history
of concerned photography as it addresses issues relate to the health . . .
Cartography of resistance.(art & activism)(Palestinian Art
)(Book review)
PALESTINIAN ART
BY GANNIT ANKORI
LONDON: REAKTION Books, 2006
256 pp./$35.00 (SB)
Gannit Ankori's book Palestinian Art, a prime model of art
historical research, deviates from the narrow . . .
Domestic politics, activist graphics.(art & activism)(The
Flag Project)(Book review)
THE FLAG PROJECT
BY MAUREEN CUMMINS
NEW YORK: SELF PUBLISHED, 2006
64 pp./$1,800.00 (HB)
Maureen Cummins's The Flag Project is a passionate inquiry
into the connection between personal and . . .
Power of mercy.(art & activism)(art exhibition curated by
Jerome Jacobs)
BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL
FEIGEN CONTEMPORARY
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
FEBRUARY 10-APRIL 29, 2006
The exhibition "Blessed Are the Merciful," currently
showing at Feigen Contemporary, is rich in . . .
Political art, distracted.(Utopia, Utopia = One World, One War,
One Army, One Dress)
THOMAS HIRSCHHORN: UTOPIA, UTOPIA = ONE WORLD, ONE WAR, ONE ARMY,
ONE DRESS
CCA WATTIS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
MARCH 10-MAY 13, 2006
I imagine Thomas . . .
Toward activist photography.(art & activism)
THE BODY AT RISK: PHOTOGRAPHY OF DISORDER, ILLNESS, AND HEALING
INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
DECEMBER 9, 2005-FEBRUARY 26, 2006
THE BODY AT RISK: PHOTOGRAPHY OF . . .
Bringing to light.(art & activism)(exhibitions of Jenny
Holzer)
JENNY HOLZER: ARCHIVE
CHEIM & READ AND YVON LAMBERT
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
MAY 12-JUNE 17, 2006
JENNY HOLZER: REDACTION PAINTINGS
ESSAY BY ROBERT STORR
NEW YORK: CHEIM & READ, 2006
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New art practices in the field of political decision-making: a
process report from projektgruppe.(art & activism)
With this article, the collaborative projektgruppe of Hamburg,
Germany, would like to offer an insight into the group's collective
practice. A major part of the group's activities includes . . .
Reverse engineering: dismantling and customizing for the new
global media ecology.(art & activism)
In engineering, reverse engineering identifies the system's
components and their interrelationships. It then creates representations
of the system at another level of abstraction. (1) Reverse . . .
Womanf of Conscience: an interview with Victoria Alvarado.(art
& activism)(Interview)
Victoria Alvarado, born and raised in San Francisco, California,
grew up in a socially active home environment. Her father was
conscripted into both the Federal Army and the Revolutionary Army . . .
Activating Exodus: the art of Melissa Shiff.(art &
activism)(Critical essay)
Immediately, the viewer confronts a screen embedded in a crushed
velvet pillow surrounded by a wall of matzah, showing a montage of video
clips imaging the ten ancient plagues that Yahweh cast on . . .
Reconfiguring the system: RTMark and Agricola de Cologne.(art
& activism)
The 1990s were a fabulous time for opportunists, visionaries, and
entrepreneurs. With the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web,
the potential to communicate with a global audience, with . . .
Spy art: infiltrating the real.(art & activism)
As art's actual purchase on public life steadily diminishes,
artworlderers make certain assumptions, perhaps in an unconscious
reaction to the ongoing erosion of its social role; they tend to come . . .
Uncompromising hostility: an interview with Lanfranco Aceti.(art
& activism)(Lanfranco Aceti)(Interview)
Lanfranco Aceti holds a PhD in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins
College of Art and Design in London, United Kingdom. He is currently an
Honorary Research Fellow at the Slade School of Fine Art, . . .
Activating the future: political documentaries and media
activism.(art & activism)
In January 2006, the Jakarta Film Festival in Indonesia banned the
screening of a documentary film about the recent political events in
East Timor. This attempt at deactivation ironically, and . . .
Terror.com.(Brief article)
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Seven months before September 11, a widely quoted newspaper report
had claimed that bin Laden's followers were operating a
communications network based on encrypted messages concealed . . .
Framing art as action: rethinking refusal in contemporary Israeli
art.(art & activism)(Critical essay)
In January 2004 five Israeli men were tried for disobeying a
military order. Noam Bahat, Matan Kaminer, Adam Ma'or, Hagai Matar,
and Shimri Tzameret had refused to enlist in the Israeli army, . . .
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