An Eye from History and Reality: Woeser and the Story of Tibet
Dechen Pemba — March 7, 2012 1 Comment
Dechen Pemba, Editor of High Peaks Pure Earth, interviews Tibet's foremost poet Woeser. Woeser is currently under house arrest in Beijing. …
Culture, Editor's Pick
[Video] Reverend Billy and the Church of Earthalujah
Leah Borromeo — March 5, 2012 8 Comments
What do you get when you cross an Elvis impersonator with an evangelical preacher and throw in a protest against corporate sponsorship of the arts? Reverend Billy, his choir and …
Culture, Editor's Pick, Film and Video
German street artist Evol on fighting the corporate takeover of public space
Matt Kennard — March 4, 2012 0 Comments
People have to define themselves somehow, and this is too anonymous. Mostly those areas are pushed aside at the city borders. So for me, this is also quite …
Culture, Editor's Pick
New York artist Swoon on bringing social transformation through creativity
Matt Kennard — March 3, 2012 0 Comments
I think for me, I’m really interested in how art is a thought process, which also is something that affects change, that through enacting that thought process, you also are …
Culture, Editor's Pick
Krzysztof Wodiczko on critical aesthetics in the age of resistance
Matt Kennard — March 1, 2012 0 Comments
I know very small number of people who are relatively successful in art market, who are called political, or the label political art is imposed on them. But that label …
Culture, Editor's Pick
Global Art Uprising: How the revolutionary spirit transformed creativity
Matt Kennard — February 27, 2012 1 Comment
When Soraya Morayef, a budding Egyptian art curator, walked into Townhouse gallery in Cairo in the aftermath of the ousting of Hosni Mubarak, she expected the usual brush-off. Her friends …
Culture, Editor's Pick
[Podcast] Reverend Billy on the Occupy movement
Leah Borromeo — December 13, 2011 1 Comment
Leah Borromeo speaks with Reverend Billy about Occupy, friends, communities and Elvis on Resonance FM's "The Left Bank Show". …
Art, Culture, Editor's Pick, Podcast
[FILM] What would Jesus buy?
Reverend Billy — November 21, 2011 0 Comments
An examination of the commercialization of Christmas in America while following Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the …
Art, Culture, Film and Video, Media, Resistance
Olympic ideal puts money before democracy
Leah Borromeo — November 21, 2011 2 Comments
A series of Home Office proposals could ban protests during the London 2012 Olympic games. This is a slight to democracy and free expression. …
Culture, Editor's Pick, Politics, Resistance
Stephen Donald Wins All Blacks’ the World Cup (Hell fails to freeze over)
Jordan Pearson — November 3, 2011 0 Comments
The All Blacks finally won the Rugby World Cup last weekin a tough 8-7 victory over France and it was a penalty kick from the most unlikely of heroes that …
Culture
Sublime All Blacks reach world cup final
Jordan Pearson — October 22, 2011 4 Comments
it’s been 24 years, not since the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987 that an All Blacks captain has held up the William Webb-Ellis trophy, earning the All Blacks the …
Culture
Who is a Jew? Who is pro-Israel? A conversation between two Jews
jeff pozmantier — August 18, 2011 1 Comment
It was a dark and stormy night. Discussions about Israel can produce that effect, especially if the wrong topics are thrown into the conversation. …