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A Relationship with the Unknown
From urban exploration to Olympic sport. Episode 7 explores Skateboarding as improvised movement connected with ideas of community and social justice.
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Extractivismo: Oaxaca
A series of dispatches from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, documenting the social, political, and environmental impacts of Transistmico, a planned interoceanic railway corridor to rival the Panama Canal.
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Polity of Literature
This series asks how writing and reading can become the site of politics, especially for those excluded from state politics (such as prisoners, refugees, or children).
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Quarantine
As COVID-19 travel restrictions in 2020 brought our international projects to a halt, ArtsEverywhere commissioned artists, writers, and activists to explore parallels and intersectionality between the varied experiences of social distancing and quarantine.
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Four33: An Improvisation Podcast
Four33 is hosted and produced by Carey West and Stephen Donnelly in partnership with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI).
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Artistic Practice
A collection of artistic works that show the broad range of contemporary practices in the world today.
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Curse of Geography
Investigative reports on the relationship of geographic proximity/isolation to social justice, human rights, and public policy in under-reported locations around the world.
ArtsEverywhere is a platform for artistic experimentation and exploration of the fault lines of modern society.
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Escaping Moria
Karima Qias was seventeen years old when her family arrived at the Moria refugee camp, on Lesvos Island, Greece. She knew immediately that they had to get out to survive, and this is how they did it.
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MINE
The first installment of the “Blood From a Stone” series examines artisanal mining, and its artistic representation, through the lens of photojournalism and historic documentation.
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“¿Quiénes son?”
Oaxacan hip hop crew Juchirap has gained acclaim as one of Mexico’s up and coming acts, earning praise for their old-school rhythms and performances in their native Diidxazá (Zapotec) language.
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And Here Is War, Yet Again
In early 2020, graphic journalist German Andino and filmmaker Ray Styles were preparing to launch the Bidi Bidi Media Lab in Uganda when Covid-related travel restrictions forced them to improvise and collaborate across thousands of miles to co-produce their first animated film together.
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Literacy, Imaginary Politics, and Children
The 27th piece in the Polity of Literature series proposes that we leave the drama of “speech versus writing” behind and speak of an “imaginary politics” in reading and writing.
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The Roads of Yemoja
Africans sold into slavery were forced to disguise their deities as Catholic saints when they arrived in the New World. Laeïla Adjovi, ArtsEverywhere’s first recipient of the Fay Chiang Fellowship in Artistic Journalism, is retracing the journey of the African deity Yemoja across the Middle Passage to Cuba, where the old rituals still exist in syncretic form.
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Breathing 2020
In early 2020, visual artist Zhao Rongjie cocooned herself in her home in the mountains of southwest China and raised 1,000 silkworms over two months, creating a series of videos, cocoon artworks, and silk embroidery as she underwent her own process of metamorphosis.
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Make the Future Happen
Learn about musical events that used existing knowledge about improvisation to reimagine collaborative music-making in a time of social distancing.
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Zines From a Revolution
The 26th piece in the Polity of Literature series describes an extensive archive of 1970s and ’80s gay poetry collected by literary activist Charles Shively.
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Corky Lee: Memories of a Seeker
Corky Lee was a beloved community organizer, activist, and artist who worked tirelessly on behalf of Asian-American communities, using photography to document the wave of cultural pride that swept from New York to San Francisco.
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Gay Ancestry
Reading between the lines of history, the author finds queer kinship in the literature left behind by his gay ancestors.