Author: Andrea Avidad

Andrea Avidad is a media researcher and producer based in Brooklyn
www.avidadavidad.com

Culture Strike: Art in Trump’s America

“Migration is beautiful.” These three words give dual meaning to Oakland artist Favianna Rodriguez’s daffodil-colored print of a stained-glass-esque butterfly, the wings of which are appropriately filled with human likenesses. The pro-migration butterfly is just one of the many distinctive images used throughout the artist’s transformational body of politically and socially entwined works. FIND MORE: …

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New artistic collaboration reflects history of migration

Culture and community combined this past week for a unique artist-in-residence program that brought a renowned Mexican artist to downtown Phoenix. Betsabeé Romero, a contemporary artist from Mexico City, collaborated with other artists from throughout the Valley during her stay in downtown Phoenix. Together, they used their cultural experiences as inspiration for a temporary public …

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Fire at Sea

— by Andrea Avidad and Sumita Chakravarty “The reaction of which man has been dispossessed can be replaced only by belief. Only belief in the world can reconnect man to what he sees and hears. The cinema must film, not the world, but belief in the world –this is the power of the modern cinema” …

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Transborder Immigrant Tool: Transition

Almost five years ago, Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab released the first iteration of the Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT), a mobile-phone technology that provides poetry to immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border while leading them to water caches in the Southern California desert. Creative writer Leila Nadir discusses the role of art and activism with Ricardo …

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Jesse Chun’s ‘On Paper’

On Paper: Visual Artist Jesse Chun explores visual rhetoric involved in identity and mobility through an appropriation and transformation of the familiar marks contained in immigration documents. On Paper was shown from July until October 2016 at the Spencer Brownstone Gallery in New York City. Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist Jesse Chun explores interdependencies between aspects of identity, …

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Coriolis Effect: Migration & Memory

Coriolis Effect extends its original curatorial intention of tracing cultural and historical exchanges in the Indian Ocean Worlds, and invites speculations on ideas of movement, displacement and the formation of new and informal models of 21st century communities. The artists selected for the residency represent a diverse geographical spread, and have approached the project concept …

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‘Great Migration’ films highlight transformative power of African-American communities

“Yes, individuals make up communities, and individuals may lead organizations, but it’s really rooted in communities,” said Massiah. “In some ways, institutions are official ways of recognizing communities.”   A selection of four films exploring the transformative power of African American communities in Philadelphia will be touring in different libraries and recreations throughout the city, …

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But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa

But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise gathers artwork from different contemporary artists such as Nadia Kaabi-Linke and Kader Attia who aim to explore issues of moving and migration in the Middle East and North Africa.   Exhibition on view at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City running until October 5th, 2016   Find the Exhibition Overview …

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