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Showing videos filed under: Edge of Art
From Public Art to OWS: Living As Form. Flanders at the Creative Time Summit.
October 17, 2011Just days after the start of OWS, Flanders delivered this keynote presentation on public space and public protest, to the Creative Time Summit in New York.Occupy Wall Street Labor March Special Coverage
October 5, 2011If the networks won't bring the protesters into the studio, we're going to bring a broadcast "studio" to the protesters. On Wednesday, October 5, 4-7 pm eastern watch special collaborative coverage of the Occupy Wall St Labor March at http://www.livestream/lauraflandersAttica!
September 13, 2011Thinking about Attica, I'm remembering Bill Kunstler. Watch or rewatch his daughters' great film: Disturbing the Universe.Laurie Anderson: Exploring Art, Music, and Technology
May 10, 2011"If people think about how they might want to create something that isn't just me me me, that could be revolutionary," says musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson. Anderson has crossed genres, created new instruments, performed in "audio drag" and even created some comics, but she's best known for her experimental violin playing.Tom Morello: Union Town
May 6, 2011Tom Morello, Rage Against the Machine guitarist and protest singer as The Nightwatchman, was in Madison to support the workers' protest, and now his new music is inspired by those union workers. His new EP, Union Town, is coming out soon and its proceeds will go to support The America Votes Labor Unity Fund, but you can download this track for free now at SaveWorkers.org.Sex, Hope & Rock'n'roll: Ellen Willis and Pop Critique
April 29, 2011"Rock is, among other things, a potent means of expressing the active emotions--anger, aggression, lust, the joy of physical exertion--that feed all freedom movements, and it is no accident that women musicians have been denied access to this powerful musical language." So wrote Ellen Willis in June of 1974, when the acclaimed feminist thinker and cultural critic was working as the Rock, Etc. columnist at the New Yorker.East WillyB: Creating Socially Conscious Humor Online
April 23, 2011"We need to be able to laugh about issues but we also need to know that aside from the comedy, there is a very real issue of displacement in many urban communities," says Julia Ahumada Grob, the co-creator and lead actor of the web TV series East WillyB. The show is set in Bushwick a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, and it addresses the problems of gentrification and displacement of communities of color through humor, and brings high-quality TV production values to the 'net.Janus Metz: Armadillo, Kill Teams, and the Savagery of War
April 16, 2011"I think it's an identity project that's been given to you, you can go out there and play the hero in the big scene, inscribe yourself in this political rhetoric about the situation," says Janus Metz, who went with a team of Danish soldiers to Afghanistan to make his documentary, Armadillo.Projection-Bombing the Maine Labor Mural
April 16, 2011The Tea Party governor of Maine ordered a labor mural removed from the state's Department of Labor--and a controversy ensued that even involved the federal labor department, who contributed funds to the mural. Protesters have continued to fight to get the mural reinstated, but a group of artists made their protest a little more creative, projecting photos of the mural on the side of the capitol.American: The Bill Hicks Story
April 15, 2011Comedian Bill Hicks "was really obsessed in some ways with the idea of getting people to think for themselves, confronting them with ideas they might have on a big subject," says filmmaker Matt Harlock, one of the directors of the new documentary American: The Bill Hicks Story. Hicks died in 1994, but his influence lives on in today's political comics and his critiques of the first Iraq war sound remarkably prescient years later.
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