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.
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).
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.
Four33 is hosted and produced by Carey West and Stephen Donnelly in partnership with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI).
A collection of artistic works that show the broad range of contemporary practices in the world today.
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 · Four33 – Graphic Scores Episode 8 presents four composers, Raven Chacon and Candice Hopkins, Scott Thomson, and Francis Carpo, in a discussion on graphic scores and how they
The entangled artistic and activist contexts of these drawings reveal the complex political regime under which artists are working in Russia today.
The starving person must have some kind of demand. My demand is simple. I ask the state to “come out and fight.”
A Palestinian girl growing up in suburban Ohio is proud to receive an A- on her 9th grade genocide report. Later, grown up, she asks Can a fact be sad? I wish to know.
I ran a cello program on Rikers Island, New York City’s largest jail, for four years. My days consisted of bringing my instrument to the housing units and performing for
When a school is too punishing and racist to teach a child, how will he learn to read and write? Harry Gamboa Jr. shows us how.
From urban exploration to Olympic sport. Episode 7 explores Skateboarding as improvised movement connected with ideas of community and social justice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We seek to learn from the new, but it confuses and offends us. The editor of the Polity of Literature series, Matthew Stadler, reevaluates some key concepts of our project to better hear those from whom we all must learn—the oppressed.