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Kassel: “Looking Good Meanwhile Selling Dope”
September 3, 2012 —
While in Kassel, Germany, home to the influential Documenta exhibition, artist Thierry Geoffroy addresses rumors the European city surreptitiously mass-produces weapons that are then sold to repressive regimes. More -
Death Chamber of Commerce
August 24, 2012 —
A.L. Steiner documents the killings of international environmental activists and shares her recipe for real social change in this Dispatch from a Self-Identified Ecofeminist Androgyne, OR How I’m Learning to Turn the Present into an Upside-Down Cake. More -
Art and Education Across the Pan-American Divide
August 22, 2012 —
In this episode of Forms of Life, Creative Time’s Chief Curator Nato Thompson talks to Pablo Helguera, a museum educator and pioneer of socially engaged artistic practice, about how art and education can foster new forms of participation and intercultural understanding. More -
Mystical and Political: Everything Happens across the Cameras
August 17, 2012 —
In June 2002, as Argentina faced a deep economic crisis, a protest at a Buenos Aires train station was brutally repressed and two young demonstrators were killed. Federico Zukerfeld documents how activists have transformed the site of their murder into a living cultural venue. More -
Russia: Was There a Ballot Box?
March 12, 2012 —
After the Russian presidential elections in March, the Mobile Observers Group walked around St. Petersburg exposing electoral fraud. Here, they learn that a portable ballot box was stuffed, unknowingly to the market workers who were supposed to use it, with ballots marked for Vladimir Putin. More