Dispatches

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  Dispatch

  Billionaires and Politicians: Rand Paul

  June 17, 2013 - 

  Investigating the corrosive effects of massive financial contributions to political campaigns, Michelle Marozik’s drawing series “Billionaires and Politicians” profiles elected officials and their wealthy patrons. Here, she shares her portrait of libertarian Congressman Rand Paul.  More

  By Michelle Marozik

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  Uprisings

  Here We Are: The Imagination of Public Space in Gezi Park

  June 14, 2013 - 

  Protests have gripped Turkey for the past two weeks, transforming public space in the minds of the country’s inhabitants. Istanbul-based artist Can Altay explores the role of art and humor in the uprising, writing, “Imagination expands slowly and strikes suddenly.”  More

  By Can Altay

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  Election Report

  Fitna and the Iranian Elections

  June 12, 2013 - 

  On Friday, Iran is set to elect a new president to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, four years after the country’s last elections triggered widespread protests and a brutal crackdown. An anonymous artist pays tribute to the Green Movement, its creative forms of subversion and its imprisoned protesters.  More

  By L'Anonyme

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  Special to Creative Time Reports

  The Heidelberg Project: A Resilient Community Rebuilds, Again

  June 3, 2013 - 

  Last month, a fire razed an iconic house at the center of Tyree Guyton’s Heidelberg Project, which has assembled public art installations from discarded materials since 1986, inspiring Detroit communities beset by deep poverty.  More

  By The Heidelberg Project

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  Dispatch

  Rana Plaza: A Last Gesture Recorded

  May 6, 2013 - 

  On April 24, an eight-story building in a suburb of Dhaka, Bangladesh collapsed, killing hundreds of factory workers. Examining a photograph of a boy buried in the rubble, Bangladeshi writer Shameema Binte Rahman asks how his last gesture will be remembered.  More

  By Shameema Binte Rahman