A Sigil’s Landscape
For its first destination the Nomadic Pigment Lab travels to La Barbacoa, Dominican Republic to collaborate with artist and botanical enthusiast Eliazar Ortiz, working with natural pigments to create a unique language of sigils.
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ArtsEverywhere is a platform for artistic experimentation and exploration of the fault lines of modern society.
Yiddishland
A Country Whose Language Has No Military Terminology
Ladies & Ladies: Travesti Biológica
Travesti Biológica is the debut album by Mavi Veloso. Featuring 11 new songs, the transgenre electronic pop album traces the stories of trans and non-binary identities, struggles, resilience and empowerment spanning elements of pop, contemporary R&B, hip hop, trap, electropop, synth pop, dance, tecnobrega, and reggaeton.
The Non-Monogamy Letters
Living with risk during Covid-19: non-monogamy as a form of resistance
Complicating Care
This series holds a collection of articles by artists and writers who share the ways in which their practices, communities, and experiences engage with the complex and contradictory notion of care.
Life & Language: the Dictionary of the Queer International
This series on queer language gathers personal stories, linguistic histories, creative writing, and cultural narratives that gesture toward the realization of an internationalist solidarity infused with the struggles, histories, desires, and exuberances of queer life and language everywhere.
Breathing
The pandemic becomes inspiration as Chinese artist Zhao Rongjie focuses her two-decade-long Breathing project on the natural world in a ground-breaking blend of documentary film, conceptual art, and field work in the mountains of southwest China.
Rise Up & Talk: Refugee Radio
An ArtsEverywhere-supported project that provides refugees living in Bidi Bidi settlement, West Nile, Uganda with equipment, expertise, and a platform to share their stories with the world.
Art-Life Rituals for Radical Tenderness
A series by artists whose work travels between physical, social, and metabolic bodies, to create intimate art-life ritual responses to the text Co-sensing with Radical Tenderness.
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).
Artistic Practice
A collection of artistic works that show the broad range of contemporary practices in the world today.
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.
Ways of Seeing: Russian Colonialisms
This series was published on ArtsEverywhere in 2017 at a time when the spectre of Russian expansionism was still very present in our minds after their annexation of Crimea and incursions into Donbas. Now, in 2022, with Russia's aggression against Ukraine and its attempts to undermine Ukraine's sovereignty through war, make this series highly relevant to the conversations we need to have today.
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2000 Something
Invoking her previous work, “i wanna make revolution”, Mavi Veloso’s premiere music video for Travesti Biológica is a moody camcorder montage of landscapes, bodies, and nocturnal shapes.
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The Drop
A chance meeting in a park unearthed a treasure trove of expressive photographs documenting New York in the ’80s.
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The Roads of Yemoja: Archiving the Light
Analog triptychs from Cuba, Nigeria, and Benin depicting scenes of cultural transmission through a mixture of intimate portraits, religious ceremonies, and ritual objects from the three countries.
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Walking up the Roads of Yemoja
Fay Chiang fellow Laeïla Adjovi looks back at two years of research connecting the dots between religious systems in Benin, Nigeria, and Cuba.
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Is caring for everyone possible?
The new year has only increased the intensity of our global instability. What responsibility do we have to tend to the needs of those who make us feel unsafe?
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Lesben, Schwuchtel, and Creative Punctuation: Queer(ing) the German Language
The emergence of queer terminology in a language as gendered as German calls for creative appropriation and disruptive recombination.
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Care and Historical Memory: An Exchange
Introduction content notes: residential schools From the perspective of psychoanalysis, curation, and care, X University* researcher and postdoctoral fellow Ricky Varghese and Toronto-based curator Vince Rozario discuss both the significance
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Unmute: Scattered Thoughts on Zoom Fatigue
Our definitions of “Zoom fatigue” are as varied as our symptoms—from anxiety to loathing to fits of laughter and primal screams. Neta Alexander offers differing perspectives on this new fatigue that has forced its way into our lexicon.
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For What It’s Worth
Wandering the streets of San Francisco, browsing the city’s bookshelves, a writer reflects on twenty years of literary and artistic influence, navigating an increasingly unfamiliar landscape in New York City.
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Rise Up & Talk: Refugee Radio, Ep. III
In episode III of the Bidi Bidi podcast we hear seldom heard stories of survival from refugees on the road from Equatoria, South Sudan to Uganda.
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Queer Transgression & Belonging: Lesbian / Lesbijką / Lezbianke / Mishkev-zokhernitse
Finally becoming comfortable saying “I am a lesbian” in Poland, Zohar Weiman-Kelman unpacks layers of meaning in the Yiddish words for queer identity.
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Goat Literature: A Future PoL
Trained to be producers and consumers in a marketplace of literature, most writers don’t know how to be citizens of a polity. In the concluding essay of the Polity of Literature series the editor, Matthew Stadler, proposes an experiment to help us: The GOAT PoL (The Geopolitical Open Atlas of The Polity of Literature).
Current Projects
Our projects are community-led creative and social justice initiatives rooted in deep, personal connections and rigorous local storytelling. We publish work from the projects as part of their related Series.
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Site-Specific Dances
Site Specific Dances is an experimental film series that transforms movement in nature into a form of non-narrative story-telling and environmental activism.
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From Bloody Sunday to Brexit
An interdisciplinary, multisite exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and exploring the implications of five decades of conflict and reconciliation in the face of Brexit.
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AXS Film Fund
In partnership with AXS Lab, the AXS Film Fund provides support to documentary filmmakers and non-fiction new media creators of colour with disabilities in Canada, the U.S. and internationally.
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Las Venas Que Nos Unen
Las Venas Que Nos Unen is a multidisciplinary collaboration between filmmakers, poets, musicians, performing and visual artists from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec who are united in defense of territory (land, sky, sea).
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Bidi Bidi Media Lab
An ArtsEverywhere-supported project that provides refugees living in Bidi Bidi settlement, West Nile, Uganda with equipment, expertise, and a platform to share their stories with the world.
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Fay Chiang Fellowship for Artistic Journalism
ArtsEverywhere's annual fellowship award supports experimentation and innovation in artistic journalism.