Art after activism? This question was the prompt of a debate at the 3rd Next 5 Minutes tactical media conference in 1999.[1] The debate addressed political activists’ skepticism about the potential and usefulness of art in activism. The proposal written by David Garcia posits that […]

Dr. Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, teacher, and activist whose forthcoming book, The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art (Lund Humphries) joins Dark Matter, Delirium and Resistance, and Art as Social Activism to focus on issues of collective cultural labor, activist art, and counter-historical representation. He is […]

PART ONE O Sister, Where Art Thou? You are walking through Budapest. The city is hot and stinky. The urine smell merges with the stench from trash bins and car smog. You are crossing a square. The grass is sunburned. A lot of homeless people […]

According to Mexico’s Ministry of Public Safety and Civil Protection, on average more than 10 women were killed every day in the first half of 2021.[1] Out of the 1,899 crimes, only 508 were considered a feminicide and yet,[2] the rate went up compared to […]

The government of Hungary has been working on restructuring the framework of public higher education for years now, a thing they call remodeling or model-shift. This means that the majority of the universities which have been public universities are now functioning under the aegis of […]

In Belarus, the presidential elections of 2020 and the following protests provoked an unprecedented boom in art activism. The violation of political and human rights did not start in 2020, but they reached a new intensity that year. Unwilling to use violence in response to […]

Project EATS, founded by artist Linda Goode Bryant, is a network of urban food systems that uses empty lots and rooftops in partnership with landowners and long-term renters throughout New York City to create community-based farms to sustainably grow organic food that is distributed to […]