Régine Debatty
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Art critic, curator and forever blogger
https://we-make-money-not-art.com/
My favourite art podcast interviews one of my favourite artists about the consequences of the Apartheid wall in Israel, the toxicity of photography that pretends to expose injustice while reinforcing its power dynamics, why cultural workers should platform the work of Palestinians, etc.
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AI systems revisiting the colonisation of the Americas, migrant itineraries in the Mediterranean, dying for one's country and museums exercising censorship in the face of a genocide, etc. Politically-minded art at @ArtissimaFair
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Artissima, a fair to discover politically-minded artists
AI systems revisiting the colonisation of the Americas, migrant itineraries in the Mediterranean, dying for one’s country and museums exercising censorship and coercion in the face of a genoc…
https://we-make-money-not-art.com/artissima-a-fair-to-discover-politically-minded-artists/
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Sonic Worldings: Crafting realities through artistic research. Call for proposals that engage critically or experimentally with worlding in music, including but not limited to composition, performance, historiography and transdisciplinary research.
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Call for proposals: ODC 2026
The Orpheus Doctoral Conference (ODC) is a yearly event organised by docARTES PhD researchers, bringing together artist-researchers from across the world…
https://orpheusinstituut.be/nl/nieuws-en-events/call-for-proposals-odc-2026
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Realising they don't murder enough people already, the "only democracy in the ME" approves death penalty bill for Palestinian prisoners in first reading
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Israel bill proposing death penalty for those it deems terrorists passes first reading
The requirement means the penalty would likely be used only against Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks on Israelis.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpv13rxpgk9o
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YouTube erased 700+ videos documenting Israeli human rights violations in response to a U.S. government campaign to stifle accountability for war crimes against Palestinians. Meanwhile Google (owner of YT) signed $45m contract to amplify Israel's talking points
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Everybody panic – the workplace has become too ‘feminized’! | Arwa Mahdawi
This week, Mexico’s president was groped in public. But a New York Times podcast is fretting about excessive wokeness
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/08/workplace-feminized-office-wokeness
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Israel is holding dozens of Palestinians from Gaza isolated in an underground jail where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food and barred from receiving news of their families or the outside world.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse deprived of natural light since January, and teenager held for nine months
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/08/israel-underground-jail-rakefet-palestinians-gaza-detainees
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100 years ago, biophysicist Alexander Chizhevsky argued that the main historical events followed the 11-year solar cycle. According to him, periods of high sunspot activity lead to increased mass “excitation” and brought about war and riots
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Comrade Sun: To what extent does the cosmos play a part in historical processes?
Is there, as Chizhevsky and the Soviet cosmists claimed, a connection between solar storms and socio-political upheavals?
https://we-make-money-not-art.com/comrade-sun-to-what-extent-does-the-cosmos-play-a-part-in-historical-processes/
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Akademie Schloss Solitude
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APPLICATION PLATFORM NOW OPEN! Call for Applications // Solitude Fellowship Program 2026–2028 Visit:
https://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/fellowship/solitude-fellowship/
or Application platform:
https://application.akademie-solitude.de
Deadline for the first stage: November 14, 2025 – 6 pm CET.
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Artists Call to Boycott @Museo_MAXXI in Rome over alleged Israel ties & denounce the museum’s role in legitimising zionist propaganda and narratives that enable the systematic erasure of Palestinian culture, history and life
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Artists Call to Boycott Maxxi Museum Over Alleged Israel Ties
Tania Bruguera, Phil Collins, and others said they withdrew their work, citing the institution’s “stance on the ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
https://hyperallergic.com/1053965/artists-call-to-boycott-maxxi-museum-over-alleged-israel-ties/
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AI companies are building massive data centers near major gas-production sites, often tapping directly into fossil fuels. The trend is overshadowed by headlines about the intersection of AI and solving climate change), but it’s one that could reshape the communities that host these facilities.
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Open call for KUBU exhibition in Finland. The theme for the year 2026 is water. Write a short free-form application in which you describe your proposal for the interior and/or exterior spaces of KUBU. Deadline: 19 October
kubu.fi/call/
#kulturhuskubu
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Like many health workers before him, Dr. Abu Safiya was detained while caring for his patients and carrying out his medical duties
#FreeDrHussam
#FreeThemAll
www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...
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Release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya!
Act now to free Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya!
https://www.amnesty.org/en/petition/release-dr-hussam-abu-safiya/?utm_source=TWITTER-IS&utm_medium=social&utm_content=18477710030&utm_campaign=Other&utm_term=-Yes
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CommunicatingPalestine.org
, a new and incredibly useful guide offering tools to write or talk about Palestine ethically and responsibly. From best practices for countering disinformation to fostering ethical reporting and centring Palestinian agency
www.communicatingpalestine.org
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Communicating Palestine | Narrate for Liberation, Engage with Dignity
Explore Communicating Palestine, a go-to guide offering tools to unlearn and relearn narratives, visuals, and practices rooted in Palestinian agency.
https://CommunicatingPalestine.org
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The book argues that design and conspiracy theory mirror each other. They intersect in their practices and in their artifacts because they share a common ground at their fundaments. This common ground is Conspiratorial Design.
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Support for Palestinian Students to Study Abroad (SPSSA). This fundraiser provides direct support to Palestinian students in Gaza, helping evacuate eligible photographers and filmmakers to study at colleges and universities across Europe
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Support for Palestinian Students to Study Abroad (SPSSA)
Support for Palestinian Students to Study Abroad (SPSSA) has been organised by collaborators in the UK, Germany and France, working directly with colleges, universities and the relevant bodies grantin...
https://chuffed.org/project/152090-support-for-palestinian-students-to-study-abroad-spssa
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A member of the Flotilla: If they have been able to treat us like this, many of whom are Westerners, what will they do to Palestinian prisoners? The feeling of total impunity has been one of the great frustrations of all of us
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El periodista de EL PAÍS en la flotilla de Gaza: “No hay médicos para animales como vosotros’, nos dijeron los guardias israelíes”
Carlos de Barrón narra las humillaciones, el maltrato psicológico, las agresiones y las intimidaciones que él y el resto de la tripulación sufrieron durante su cautiverio de tres noches en la cárcel d...
https://elpais.com/internacional/2025-10-06/el-periodista-de-el-pais-en-la-flotilla-de-gaza-no-hay-medicos-para-animales-como-vosotros-nos-dijeron-los-guardias-israelies.html
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“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
#VisitIsrael
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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/04/greta-thunberg-israel-gaza-sweden
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“At a time when Israel continues to escalate its genocide with the destruction and ground invasion of Gaza City, following months of enforced famine, the Biennale should be ashamed to be in dialogue with the cultural representatives of the Israeli occupation”
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Artists Threaten to Boycott Venice Biennale Over Israeli Pavilion
Plans to set up an “alternative pavilion” for Israel inside the historic Arsenale sidestep the issue of its continued inclusion in the storied art festival, activists said.
https://hyperallergic.com/1044678/artists-threaten-to-boycott-venice-biennale-over-israeli-pavilion/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Larry%20Bell%2C%20Lorna%20Simpson%2C%20Theatre%20Picasso&utm_campaign=W100425&vgo_ee=OodFnmrb3AN7WL%2F3Q5jGuWxKoJjmlvEf%2Bc2Ykmw%3D%3A4IXxoa1iXpahmL5LS9V%2F7SZMma2DDxHI
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"We're looking for projects that fit 4 themes: Network Commons (reimagining how we connect), Public Personas (navigating fame & identity in algorithmic environments), Narrative Systems (breaking free from traditional interaction mechanics) & Synthetic Agents (collaborating with other intelligences)"
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In Milan, policemen are joining citizens protesting against the genocide in Gaza & the arrest of the members of the Gaza aid flotilla
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Grande, anche loro non possono negare l’evidenza. Il governo Meloni una vergogna a livello mondiale.
TikTok video by ggianni7
https://www.tiktok.com/@ggianni7/video/7556746810845646102?_r=1&_t=ZN-90EvxLDI9Kw
about 2 months ago
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I am a lady, 2009, by Mary Sibande, South African artist who uses painting and sculptures depicting figures to explore the construction of identity in postcolonial South Africa
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Its products ship from the Israeli port of Haifa but the journey is protracted. The vehicles must make detours to go through checkpoints, and the pallets need to be stacked far lower than capacity to allow sniffer dogs to jump over them.
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Palestinian food brand says UK sales up 50% as shoppers show solidarity
Zaytoun’s olive oil and dates provide a tangible way to help Palestinians, says the business’s managing director
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/02/palestinian-food-brand-uk-sales-up-shoppers-solidarity-zaytoun
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The artists selected for the
#MarioMerzPrize
explore various forms of slow violence: rampant mechanisation, oppression of trans bodies, legacy of colonisation, racial discrimination and rising social inequalities
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Mario Merz Prize. Forms of slow violence
The five artists selected for the prize explore different forms of slow violence: rampant mechanisation, oppression of trans bodies, legacy of colonisation, racial discrimination and rising social …
https://we-make-money-not-art.com/mario-merz-prize-forms-of-slow-violence/
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Call 4 entries! The 2026 European Media Art Festival welcomes works in the categories Film, Installation (installative, interactive, spatial or sculptural media artworks) and Expanded (performances, live events, workshops) Deadline: 22/12/2025.
www.emaf.de
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Plants_Intelligence. Learning Like a Plant. This year, the
@rixcriga.bsky.social
festival invites us to consider what vegetal life can teach us about sensing, adapting and coexisting on a changing planet
festival2025.rixc.org
#plantintelligence
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Terms such as “climate change” or “global warming” do not express the urgency of the problem and the action needed. I generally use “climate breakdown” or “climate disruption”, but I love it when, in the process of collaborating with Matthew Hyland, new terms such as “global heat death” emerge.
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In "The Hour of the Predator", Giuliano da Empoli explains that we have more information, yet are less able to predict the future. It is a situation that the “predators” help foment. Our abandoned future is the free open space they make their playground.
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How autocrats and tech billionaires are disintegrating history
A striking new political analysis by Giuliano da Empoli explores a threat so thoroughly novel that it has paralysed the old guard.
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/how-autocrats-tech-billionaires-are-disintegrating-history
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"The results show a clear decline in expressive freedoms over the past decade, a trend echoed by Freemuse, which recently flagged artistic freedom as “at its lowest point.”"
hyperallergic.com/1043369/new-...
#censorship
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New Reports Expose the Global Toll of Censorship
Two dossiers paint an urgent quantitative picture of the rapidly growing suppression of free expression and artistic freedom.
https://hyperallergic.com/1043369/new-reports-expose-the-global-toll-of-censorship/
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A study has found that AI 'workslop', where coworkers use AI and their colleagues have to spend time fixing it, is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable."
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AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable
AI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."
https://www.404media.co/ai-workslop-is-killing-productivity-and-making-workers-miserable/
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Madeline Schwartzman's book aims to expand our views of what it means to be alive in a world where hybrid beings are being manufactured, engineered or bred
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@ThamesHudsonUSA
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Alive. Synthetic Cells, Feral Robots, Rebellious AI & the Design of Radical Life
Curated from new developments in synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, robotics, engineering, biology, and art, this survey demonstrates the myriad ways in which our perception of what it mea…
https://we-make-money-not-art.com/alive-synthetic-cells-feral-robots-rebellious-ai-the-design-of-radical-life/
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Yesterday, during Italy’s nationwide strike in solidarity with Palestine, protesters in Rome brought traffic to a standstill by blocking the city’s ring road. Motorists showed their support and applauded 😍🇵🇸🇮🇹
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Corteo pro Pal occupa la tangenziale a Roma: applausi dagli automobilisti
Solidarietà ai manifestanti delle persone in coda per il sostegno a Gaza
https://video.corriere.it/roma/corteo-pro-pal-occupa-la-tangenziale-a-roma-applausi-dagli-automobilisti/b444e716-d85e-4880-871b-98bad8a65xlk
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"From attention-sucking algorithms to AI-generated slop, the book explores how our information environment is shaping & influencing opinion on climate and offers strategies to decode disorder, challenge tech paradigms, and counteract division. Download a PDF copy for free or order a printed version
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When it comes to fighting techno-fascism, we’ve lost the battle of imagination. “On the other hand, it seems to me that the Marxist toolbox offers strategic possibilities that are worth revisiting”, says Nastasia Hadjadji in
#ApocalypseNerds
www.faketech.fr/p/apocalypse...
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"Apocalypse Nerds" : le technofascisme dans tous ses états
Entretien avec les journalistes Nastasia Hadjadji et Olivier Tesquet autour de leur dernier essai, Apocalypse nerds, qui parait aux éditions Divergences.
https://www.faketech.fr/p/apocalypse-nerds-le-technofascisme
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Love is Resistance: a collection of 77 posters from Michael Rakowitz, Aya Haidar, Brian Eno, Dima Srouji, Emily Jacir, Larissa Sansour, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Adam Broomberg, Jeremy Deller and other artists standing in solidarity with Palestine
www.loveisresistance.art
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LOVE IS RESISTANCE
https://www.loveisresistance.art
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Early US suffragists were inspired by the equality they saw in the indigenous Haudenosaunee matrilineal society. In contrast to European women of the era, Haudenosaunee women owned property in addition to holding leadership positions in their communities
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Mahmoud Khalil talking to Nan Goldin: "nothing will make up for the lost lives. But I just don’t think we have an option. We shouldn’t lose hope, because that’s how they think they will defeat us: if we feel that we are against this big machine"
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Mahmoud Khalil and Nan Goldin in conversation
Mahmoud Khalil’s detention for his part in the pro-Palestine campus protests at Columbia was a chilling watershed moment for free speech in the US. Here, he talks to Nan Goldin about his ordeal, advoc...
https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/68556/1/mahmoud-khalil-nan-goldin-palestine-students-dazed-autumn-2025-issue-interview
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For its 25th anniversary, iMAL Brussels asks, "Big Tech monoculture promotes consumerism while obfuscating its social and ecological impact. What does that mean for artists working with digital media ?"
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Ghostly energies, primitive spears and electric gardens at iMAL
Big Tech monoculture promotes consumerism while obfuscating its social and ecological impact. What does that mean for artists working with digital media ?
https://we-make-money-not-art.com/woven-antennas-primitive-spears-and-electric-gardens/
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The announcement of an all-woman artistic team was celebrated by many. But cultural workers, such as women, people of color and individuals from other traditionally marginalized groups, have long been used as Trojan horses for the German cultural ministry
hyperallergic.com/1040816/the-...
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The Twisted Logic of Documenta’s “Artistic Freedom”
The consensus of the German art world is aligned with the status quo of the State of Israel: Anything goes, except Palestine.
https://hyperallergic.com/1040816/the-twisted-logic-of-documentas-artistic-freedom/
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"Are You a Software Update? explores how power might be disrupted not by digging deeper, but engaging its own seemingly superficial terrain: weaponizing seduction in memes, Girls, glitches, and camp; cultivating habits; deploying enchantments."
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Me robé esto de la cuenta de marianapordios en tuister.
#PalestinaLibre
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A distressing sign for tech investors & CEOs who "have held that enterprise AI — stuff that would prop up powerful companies in tech, finance and beyond — was the key to building a sustainable business model off of AI development."
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"We invite submissions for new media works that critically respond, engage, explore, or even question the phenomenon of the digital itch." Deadline: 12 September
www.creativeapplications.net/news/call-fo...
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Call for Artworks: IA Current 2025
A call for artworks for inclusion in the 24th annual IA Current exhibition, curated by Lingxiang Wu. We invite submissions for new media works that critically respond, engage, explore, or even questio...
https://www.creativeapplications.net/news/call-for-artworks-ia-current-2025/
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"With this conference we want to address the role of direct action, art and activism in producing evidence in the context of war conflicts, border regimes and the systematic and strategic targeting of minorities for security purposes at the city level. "
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For its 60th issue,
@thefunambulist.bsky.social
commemorated the 80th anniversary of the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by convoking Indigenous perspectives from lands that have been exploited for these two massacres
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The Colonized & the Atomic Bomb
The contributors of the magazine convoke Indigenous perspectives from lands that have been exploited for the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
https://we-make-money-not-art.com/the-colonized-the-atomic-bomb/
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"Other activities lumped in as sabotage include entering company information into non-approved gen AI tools (27%), using non-approved gen AI tools (20%), and knowing of an AI security leak without reporting it (16%)."
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This year's edition of
#TriennaleMilano
demonstrates that inequalities are not just political, economic and social; they are also biological
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#ArtInMilan
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Triennale di Milano: what fatberg, compost and soil have to do with inequality
This year, the Triennale di Milano examines the global issue of inequality through an impressive inquiry encompassing architecture, design, technology, bioscience and data
https://we-make-money-not-art.com/triennale-di-milano-what-fatberg-compost-and-soil-have-to-do-with-inequality/
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Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.
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What happens when Black and Indigenous artists intervene not just with content, but with form, temporality, and ownership models that defy the art market’s rules?
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On
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: Lara & Stephen Sheehi walk us through the day-to-day reality of psychoanalysis under occupation, Zionist psy-ops and (anti)oppressive praxis. They talk about psychological warfare and about Sumud—or the reverie of resistance...
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SON[I]A #405 | Podcast | Radio Web MACBA | RWM Podcasts
Lebanese writers, researchers, and activists Lara and Stephen Sheehi have long been politically active, supporting and thinking alongside the Palestinian resistance and liberation struggles.
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-405/
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Giovanni Aloi delves into the history and representation of plants in art, advocates for a change in our relationship with the botanical world, and presents an alternative history of art that foregrounds the truly indispensable contributions of plants
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Botanical Revolutions: How Plants Changed the Course of Art
Botanical Revolutions: How Plants Changed the Course of Art, by Giovanni Aloi, an author, educator, and curator specializing in environmental subjects and the representation of nature in art. Publi…
https://we-make-money-not-art.com/botanical-revolutions-how-plants-changed-the-course-of-art/
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