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Principality of Sealand

Principality of Sealand is an acclaimed country but it has never been official recognized internationally. Although the founder think it is a country, there are only 22 citizens altogether, and its territory is just a floating platform on the North Sea. Interesting enough though, the founding of Principality of Sealand prompts us to think about the …

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Would you eat your own leg?

Would you eat your own leg? I’m sure we’re all quick to firmly say no, and I’m willing would bet there would be other comments of assurance afterward, redeclaring how revolting that statement sounds. But, we consider these questions under relatively normal circumstances. Anthropophagy, or cannibalism, was a big staple piece for Brazilian artist Paulo …

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Earth Travel Apparel Pop-Up Venders

https://www.facebook.com/earthtravelapparel Earth Travel Apparel is my sisters clothing line her and her boyfriend created during their Sophomore year of college. At first the clothing line was entirely operated online and by venders they’d set up at festivals they would travel to in the RV that was also their home at the time. As of last …

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“I Wish to Say”

Interactive public art project where Sheryl Oring dresses in vintage secretary clothing and sets up a mobile office with a typewriter and invites people to share their thoughts in the form of letters. Initially performed in 2008, where she invited people to send messages for President George Bush’s 60th Birthday. The project has seen other iterations …

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Museum of Impact

The Museum of Impact presents pop-up exhibitions that examine art and activism through a social justice lens. Museum of impact also faciliatates The Activist Love Letters program for teens to engage with each other and share their feelings about #BlackLivesMatter movement.

Let’s escape the modern world

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/21/utopias_n_3768023.html Be honest with yourself right now. Have you ever wished you could just move to a place where ‘x, y, & z’ did not exist? Or how about where ‘x, y, & z’ only existed? I think at some point in everyone’s life they say these types of things to themselves as we proceed through …

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Collective Art Spaces

I was particularly interested in the Ruangrupa collective in Indonesia, which has recently celebrated 15 years in existence. One of the projects that the collective encompasses is RURU Gallery, described as ” a contemporary art gallery opened by ruangrupa since 2008 to make room for the work of visual artists, writers, and young curators through six …

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The Blending of Art and Corporations: ArtLifting

One of the questions posed in Module 3 is on the relationship between art and corporations – can corporations be art projects? A recent NY Times article profiled the work of ArtLifting, a for-profit company that partners with homeless and disabled artists to exhibit and sell their work. The start up was begun by brother …

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Information Circulation and the News Museum

References to alternate or mainstream forms of communication led me to research the News Museum, recently mentioned by a friend. The museum was opened in 2008 in Washington DC, and states that it is dedicated “to free expression and the five freedoms of the First Amendment: religion, speech, press, assembly and petition.” Highlights of the …

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Felipe Ehrenberg and Mail Art

The Mail Art movement is one example of the successful inversion of an existing system – using the mail to assemble often forbidden artworks in a new artwork. One artist that immediately came to mind was Felipe Ehrenberg, and his work Ariiba Y Adelante. This black and white illustration shows a sexualized image of a …

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