Art

UC Berkeley Shuts Down Beehive Collective Art

October 24, 2014 Sue Udry, www.defendingdissent.org Resist! Art, Berkeley, Drought, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, GMOs

Students at the University of California at Berkeley were forced to bring an art project on drought and California water policy to the main campus on October 21 after a dean prevented them displaying it at Gill Tract Community Farm, an “urban farm” in nearby Albany run by the university and community volunteers. The students say that Steven Lindow, executive associate dean of Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources, kicked the exhibit—a collaboration with the Beehive Collective, a political art group based in Maine—off the farm for clearly political reasons. They say that Lindow is tied to the genetically modified organism industry, and their event criticized Proposition 1, a state ballot initiative supported by the GMO industry.

Underground Rally Defends Subway Performers From Abuse

October 23, 2014 Yari Osorio, www.liberationnews.com Resist! Art, Human Rights, New York City (NYC), police brutality

Over 50 people gathered on a busy NYC subway passageway connecting the G and L Lines the afternoon of Oct. 21 to show support to the men and women who perform on NYC subway trains and platforms. The rally was called in response to the rapid increase in NYPD false arrests and tickets of subway performers. BuskNY, a subway performer advocacy group and New Yorkers Against Bratton held a rally to protest the recent arrest of Andrew Kalleen. Andrew is a 30-year-old guitarist whose arrest was caught on camera and subsequently went viral. In the video, the NYPD officer can be clearly heard reading out loud the specific statue allowing Andrew to perform before forcefully arresting the young guitarist anyway. At today’s protest Liberation News interviewed Andrew who told us he has been performing on NYC subways since December 2008. In that time, he has been ticketed, ejected, harassed and arrested multiple times despite the legality of performing for tips in subway stations.

Police Get Mike Brown Mural Removed In Trenton

October 21, 2014 Jenna Pizzi, www.nj.com Resist! Art, Ferguson, Michael Brown, New Jersey (NJ)

TRENTON – A mural was painted over Monday afternoon after Trenton police expressed concern that the painting, depicting Michael Brown, a Ferguson, Mo., teen who was fatally shot by police in August, sent the wrong message about community and police relations. The painting depicted Brown’s face with the caption “Sagging pants … is not probable cause.” Will "Kasso" Condry, the artist behind the mural, said he wanted to start a conversation about racial profiling. The Trenton Downtown Association elected to remove the image after hearing concern from police officers that the mural sends a negative message about the relationship between police and the community. The mural was painted by artists from the Sage Coalition about two weeks ago on a gate covering the entrance to a vacant storefront on the corner of North Broad and Hanover streets to cover an illegal advertisement for a nearby liquor store.

How Public Art Builds Safer, Stronger Neighborhoods

October 20, 2014 Anna Clark, www.freshwatercleveland.com Create! Art, Detroit, Housing

Art that merges with the landscape brings human presence, safety, and physical activity into the city’s spaces. This kind of art triggers more than one sense: it is something you move in, touch, and, in some cases, even eat. In Detroit, a spread-out city of single-family homes that is difficult to traverse and pockmarked by vacancy, these artistic interventions are an uncommonly powerful nexus of community life. They create welcoming traffic, as well as opportunities for neighbors to interact and work together. And rather than being a temporary show, in the style of a traveling exhibition or ephemeral installation, this is art for the long-term. It is for a city with a future.

Snowden’s Closest Confidant Tells About Spilling NSA Secrets

October 15, 2014 Dustin Volz, www.nationaljournal.com Educate! Art, Edward Snowden, Media, NSA, Surveillance

There's a prolonged scene in Laura Poitras' new documentary, Citizenfour, when Edward Snowden looks in his hotel room's mirror and tussles his hair in a nervous—and, ultimately fruitless—attempt to defeat bedhead. The shot is a revealing and humanizing moment for Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who became known the world over last summer after his leaks exposed the agency's vast phone and Internet surveillance programs. Despite his notoriety, such an intimate look at Snowden has been missing from the story of arguably the greatest heist and disclosure ever of U.S. government secrets—until now. In the conversation that follows, Poitras discusses her motivations for making the film, how she came to trust Snowden and why she has lost faith in elected leaders—even those who are the most vocal champions of surveillance reform.

‘Citizen Four’ Snowden’s Story By Laura Poitras

October 11, 2014 Shooting People, www.shootingpeople.org Educate! Art, Edward Snowden

The new Edward Snowden documentary, Citizen Four, by Academy Award nominee and Pulitzer prize-winner Laura Poitras will be premiering at the BFI London Film Festival on October 17th. The premiere will be followed by a Q+A and will be broadcasted live to over 50 cinemas nationwide, you can get your tickets from: https://citizenfourfilm.com/. This interview is between Shooting People member Jamie Kennerley, who shot this interview with Laura, back in 2012 for the MacArthur Foundation after they awarded her one of their annual “genius grants”. And Luke Moody, another Shooting People member and one of the distributors of Citizen Four at Britdoc who also gave early seed funding, just after Laura met with Edward Snowden.

Demonstrators ‘Disrupt’ St. Louis Symphony For Mike Brown

October 6, 2014 Rebecca Rivas, www.stlamerican.com Resist! Art, Direct Action, Ferguson, Racial Justice

Just after intermission, about 50 people disrupted the St. Louis Symphony’s performance of Brahms Requiem on Saturday night, singing “Justice for Mike Brown.” As symphony conductor Markus Stenz stepped to the podium to begin the second act of German Requiem, one middle-aged African-American man stood up in the middle of the theater and sang, “What side are you on friend, what side are you on?” In an operatic voice, another woman located a few rows away stood up and joined him singing, “Justice for Mike Brown is justice for us all.” Several more audience members sprinkled throughout the theater and in the balcony rose up and joined in the singing.

The Umbrella Revolution

September 30, 2014 Vivienne Chow, www.creativeresistance.org Resist! Art, Creative Resistance, Democracy, Hong Kong, Protests

From CreativeResistance.org. Through tear gas and the sweltering sun, umbrellas have been an indispensable tool for Occupy Central protesters in the streets — becoming a new symbol of protest for a more democratic Hong Kong. As the civil disobedience movement entered a second day on Monday, logos for the “umbrella revolution” or “umbrella movement” began spreading on social media. Kacey Wong, an artist and assistant professor at Polytechnic University, shared images of an umbrella in fiery red-orange, from the Resident Evil films, in an attempt to inspire other artists to come up with designs.

Laura Poitras Film On Edward Snowden Premiers October 10

September 20, 2014 Brian Brooks, www.filmlinc.com Educate! Art, Edward Snowden, NSA

The third installment of a trilogy of nonfiction films that look at the post-9/11 era,CITIZENFOUR is set amid the recent revelation of a labyrinth of secret surveillance by the National Security Administration (NSA) within the U.S. and beyond. In association with Participant Media and HBO Documentary Films, RADiUS will release the film in the U.S. on October 24, 2014. In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was several years into the making of a film about abuses of national security in post-9/11 America when she started receiving encrypted e-mails from someone identifying himself as “citizen four,” who was ready to blow the whistle on the massive covert surveillance programs run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies.

Artists To Occupy Edmonton Parking Stalls

September 18, 2014 David Staples, www.edmontonjournal.com Resist! Art, Protest

Park(ing) Day is a worldwide event where activists and artists try to make their cities a bit more difficult for cars to park, but a bit more interesting to live in. On Friday, about 30 people will take over parking stalls between 97th and 96th streets on 101A Avenue. One participant is going to set up an outdoor recording studio in his stall. One group plans to sit and knit all day. A croquet tournament is planned for another stall. Park(ing) Day is occupying the city in an unusual way, but it’s not to be a grandiose, aggressive and indefinite occupation. Participants plan to only be there from noon to 8 p.m. They also plan to plug the meters. Artist and activist Chelsea Boos is organizing Edmonton’s Park(ing) Day. Boos is fascinated by public art, especially art that isn’t meant to last, such as guerrilla knitting, where people put colourful knitted items on a tree or a statue to change the scene temporarily.

Endurance Performance Art To Protest Rape: Carry That Weight

September 11, 2014 Casandra Guerrier www.creativeresistance.org Resist! Art, Feminism, Sexual Assault

No one should ever have to be afraid of speaking up. “There’s a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that’s because they’re treated as the criminals … The rapists are innocent until proven guilty but survivors are guilty until proven innocent, at least in the eyes of the police.” — Emma Sulkowicz In a day and age where respect for women is still lacking, hearing about the shaming and silencing of Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz is enraging. It says a lot about our society that with every step forward we take in the fight for gender equality and the right to be heard, we immediately take 15 steps back. Sulkowicz’s interview with the Columbia Spectator on the lack of action taken by the University — especially in having the plain decency of making her feel safe at her own school by not allowing her alleged rapist to basically roam the halls free — shines a spotlight on why blurred lines do not exist. As she carries around a mattress with her everywhere she goes until her attacker is expelled for an art project called “Carry That Weight”, she’s giving a voice to all of the women who’ve been wronged. We shine our own spotlight on the five reasons why Emma Sulkowicz is our hero. 1. She is so brave. By deciding to file a complaint against Nungesser, who was also accused of rape by two other students, she is not only taking a stand for herself but for all of the other brave women who have ever been brutally assaulted and felt too afraid to speak up about it.

Gaza = Guernica

August 10, 2014 Rivera Sun, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Art, Gaza, Israel, Wars and Militarism

In 1949, Picasso captured the horrors of war in his painting, Guernica, depicting a town devastated by bombings during the Spanish Civil War. Haunted by similar devastation occurring in Palestine, our Love-In-Action Network group in Taos, New Mexico, painted a seven by fifteen foot adaptation of Guernica, incorporating images of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. "Blood is on our hands. Shame is on our faces. We wear black in mourning. In our hearts is the courage to speak out against war crimes funded by our US tax dollars." - Rivera Sun

Radical Art Is An Act Of Uncompromising Passionate Resistance

May 18, 2014 Mark Karlin, truth-out.org Educate! Art, Revolution

Marxian playwright Bertolt Brecht declared of revolutionary art: "Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it." Brecht's work - whose artistic career in Germany (except for his exile during the Nazi era, after which he returned to found the Berliner Ensemble Theater company in East Berlin) spanned from the Russian Revolution to his death in 1966 - illustrated, during his career, that revolutionary art must avoid the pitfalls of becoming co-opted by propaganda or commercialization. Brecht believed that to be a radical and revolutionary artist is to be defiant of any imposition of form or content by any economic system, artistic academy or political status quo. "Mother Courage and Her Children," considered by some as the theatrical masterpiece of the 20th Century, combines a radical aesthetic with an anti-fascist theme: The masses suffer from wars fought to enrich profiteers. But Brecht also kept his distance from the Soviet-mandated art that glorified Stalin and communism.

Art, Puppetry, Music & Performance Bring Jack London’s ‘The Iron Heel’ To Life

May 16, 2014 David Solnit, www.creativeresistance.org Educate! Art, Worker Rights and Jobs

Jack London’s ‘The Iron Heel’ is the strongest articulation of London’s emerging anti-capitalism and may have been the first dystopian-utopian science fiction novel–written in 1907. The novel predicted the first World War, though with a different outcome, and the merger of corporate power with authoritarian government seen in fascist governments in the 1930-40′s and today in the escalating concentration of of power and wealth in our current corporate capitalism. Much of it reads like it could be now, which is why a group of community artists, activists and organizers have chosen to bring it to life using puppetry, painted picture-storycantastoria banners, readers theater and live music. It will will be performed by the community-based The Iron Heel Theater Collective: Sunday May 18, 7pm the theater of Hillside Community Church 1422 Navellier St. in El Cerrito.

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