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Code of Acquisitions
Burak Arıkan & Ahmet Öğüt • codeofacquisitions.org ↗︎
“The Code of Acquisitions platform allows anyone to submit their cases anonymously or openly. Cases could range from gender and race discrimination to misconduct of payments. These submissions contribute to a database of conflicts, codes, and interactive visualizations that will increase awareness about the issues and hold organizations accountable through
-would be fascinated to see this model in other domains as well. Broadly holding institutions accountable in a public form can often over-prioritize the scandalous vs. the material when more subtle labor violations can be just as detrimental to the individual ...Read More
Balkan Erotic Epic (Marina Abramovic, 2006) - apologies for the Porn Hub link.
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"Children seen playing on art installation that aims to show unity amid Trump-era hostility"
*From 2013*
On Tumblr, users can look at art without even realizing it. Do they democratize the work or merely make it an advertisement for itself?.. ...Read More
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“A shaman had blessed the space in a ritual for employees on Monday, with a cacao ceremony that involved drinking bowls of bitter hot chocolate with special energy-giving properties. When cornered for details, Glimcher said, “Have you ever had ceremonial cacao? I was, like, on—you feel it!””
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"On the 5th Episode of Kerwin Frost Talks, Kerwin gets the tea from the legends Shayne Oliver & Ian Isiah of Hood by Air!"
Shayne and Ian go in on the fashion and cultural legacy HBA’s left on high fashion and the NY underground.
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From Boomkat: "...she set up and documented the interaction between a neural network, audio recordings of early Martian language, and footage of the movements of space bacteria. Effectively arriving at a consolidation of wetware and hardware, Jenna uses the computer as a shaman/conduit with the capacity to transmute light and ...Read More
Video on nowness profiling the consequences of climate change effects in Puerto Rico among others in a series on the site.
" Puerto Rico, the 1949 poem by Victor Hernández Cruz that extols the virtues of the US territory lays the foundation for Winther’s film. The New York-based director pairs Cruz’s words with moving images of the people, homes and landscapes that belong to the island. “Shadow of a Hurricane captures ...Read More
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" Celine Art Project, the curatorial endeavour signed by Slimane, which will bring site-specific artworks to each Celine store over the course of the next few months. " Seems like art mixed with select fashion corps, major retailers, and corporations is not just a trend but possibly the only way ...Read More
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Have not been able to load the website but Im sure once they get it fixed it will sweep the gram.
“Everything that exists on this earth has a sound,” Japanese ambient pioneer Midori Takada said in a recent interview. “Even if humans don’t call it an instrument, on this earth, there exists a significant vibrancy.” Amplify just one low-pitched ceramic vase and it sounds like the rumbling of a horror-movie ...Read More
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The Five Stirring Stanzas That Proved a Poem Can Help End a War
Story Stephanie Newman · Illustrations by James Heimer · 9.19.17 • narratively.com ↗︎
"Várnai seemed cognizant of the limitations imposed on her as a woman when she wrote “To my soldier-son.” The poem itself hinges on inverting gender roles and reclaiming a voice – the mother’s voice – that authorities don’t want to acknowledge. “To my soldier-son” suggests that by owning their maternal ...Read More