Art & Activism

Art and Activism: Strange bedfellows?
A hand holds up the cover of a book which reads, 'I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.'
July 15, 2014
Art and Activism: Strange bedfellows?
An Artist Demands Civility on the Street With Grit and Buckets of Paste
Artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh stands infront of a wall that has a mural painted on it. She has short hair and is wearing a simple top with trousers. There is also a poster behind her that says "stop telling women to smile"

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Takes Her Public Art Project to Georgia By FELICIA R. LEE APRIL 9, 2014 Tatyana Fazlalizadeh pasted her self-portrait Friday…

By Curated Content
July 15, 2014
An Artist Demands Civility on the Street With Grit and Buckets of Paste
Interview: Sunil Gupta (Part II)
Artist Sunil Gupta stands infront of a wall which has two framed photos of his family. He has greying hair and is wearing a patterned woolen sweater.

Sunil Gupta is an artist, activist, and a curator, based in London UK. In this interview, he talks to Manak…

By Manak Matiyani
July 15, 2014
Interview: Sunil Gupta (Part II)
Social Media
Photo of Saudi Arabian women's rights activist Manal Al Shairf. She has black hair and is wearing a black headscarf, and is standing in front of a board that says 'women2drive'.

By: Women’s Rights Campaigning Info-Activism Toolkit People are more likely to trust – and act on – messages from people they…

By Curated Content
July 15, 2014
Social Media
To The Beat Of Activism
photo shows a brown wall which has an illustration of a woman dressed in a red saree and blur blouse. a man sits in fron of the wall, but his face is blacked out. The message written on the wall says, "i don't 'need to be protected'/ What are you 'protecting me' from? / Think / Make That Change #DelhiGangRape #SafeCityPledge

The rape and murder of a young woman in New Delhi on December 16, 2012, left the Indian public consciousness…

By Pattie Gonsalves
July 1, 2014
To The Beat Of Activism
Brushstrokes: Cartoons For Activism
A cartoon showing a scene at a bus stop, where a man seated on a bench ogles a woman that is passing by, and the woman's genitals seem to show him the middle finger.

[slideshow_deploy id=’3075′] I’ve always had a ridiculous cartoon view of the world. It’s natural that most of my life I…

By Liz Hilton
July 1, 2014
Brushstrokes: Cartoons For Activism
Interview – Sunil Gupta
Artist Sunil Gupta stands infront of a wall which has two framed photos of his family. He has greying hair and is wearing a patterned woolen sweater.

Sunil Gupta is an artist, activist, and a curator, based in London UK. In this interview, he talks to Manak…

By Manak Matiyani
July 1, 2014
Interview – Sunil Gupta
तारशी के अंकित गुप्ता के साथ एक संवाद में – बलबीर कृषन
Photo of activist balbir krishan against a blue background. he is wearing a grey suit and has short black hair and a stubble

बलबीर कृषन भारत के उन समकालीन कलाकारों में से एक हैं जिन्होंने  सांप्रदायिक हिंसा, आपदाओं, जेन्डर आधारित हिंसा, यौनिकता और…

By Ankit Gupta
July 1, 2014
तारशी के अंकित गुप्ता के साथ एक संवाद में – बलबीर कृषन
Gallery: Art and Activism
Photo shows a tiled floor lit by yellow lighting. Two different sets of feet stand facing each other.

[slideshow_deploy id=’3228′] OPA|CITY: Gender. Space. Intersections – An Interview For more on Vani Subramanian’s work, please visit her website.  

By Vani Subramanian
July 1, 2014
Gallery: Art and Activism
Finding Your Feet – Journeys within Dance Movement Therapy
A group of women circling each other and dancing while waving colourful streamers.

This is a good enough place to begin. From inside your own skin. Before we could speak, we moved. We…

By Arpita Bohra
July 1, 2014
Finding Your Feet – Journeys within Dance Movement Therapy
Voices: Poetry
Black and white sketch of two little boys chasing each other and playing with a toy wheel

Boys standing up to their fathers are invitations to patriarchy When boys become men it is marked by celebratory loud…

By Lean Deleon
July 1, 2014
Voices: Poetry
Videos by Breakthrough
Photo of a young female child in a white dress, saying 'who will melt my chains

Breakthrough’s video – Mann ke Manjeeré – winner of the Screen Awards 2001 in India and nominated for MTV’s ‘Best…

By Breakthrough
July 1, 2014
Videos by Breakthrough
The Editorial: Art and Activism
In Plainspeak English Audit In Plainspeak English Audit 100% 10 An illustration of a fist raised in the air, against a yellow background Screen reader support enabled. An illustration of a fist raised in the air, against a yellow background

Art has the potential of reaching out to wide and diverse audiences and speaks to them in different ways. Therein…

By TARSHI
July 1, 2014
The Editorial: Art and Activism
Art & Activism
Photo of performance artist and theatre personality Maya Krishna Rao. She is wearing black and her left hand raised in a dramatic pose. She has long white hair and there is a red bindi on her forehead.

Some propositions:  Nothing ‘activates’ like art. (I’ll speak here of theatre). It can touch, stir the senses, the head, the…

By Maya Krishan Rao
July 1, 2014
Art & Activism
Review: Women We Worship, Women We Abuse
A series of photos of Indian goddesses shown with bruises on various parts of their face.

It is almost a year old, but the Abused Goddesses campaign created ripples in the fabric of activism that are…

By Shweta Krishnan
July 1, 2014
Review: Women We Worship, Women We Abuse
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