Saturday, December 01, 2007
Today, New York City artist, floral and event designer Wolfang Thom challenges World AIDS Day traditional practice of covering artworks in museum and galleries with black cloth.
The practice was started in 1989 from the activist organisation Day Without Art. In 1997 the group decided that hiding art wasn't the right answer and proposed it as a means to bring AIDS awareness to the masses. Thom agree on that:
Given the option of a Day Without Art and a Day With Art, I say definitely with.
Wolfang Thom.
Labels: art, design, health, politics
Friday, October 12, 2007
Disaster Capitalism
Are out there opportunities to produce visual outstanding works supporting a right cause for free? Naomi Klein's latest book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism represents such a right cause indeed!
I just begun to read the book, watched a lot of video interviews with Naomi Klein and read through all the pages of the book's official website:
In The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s free market policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.
Naomi Klein's latest book is based on hard fact and probably a lot of historical research was needed before the writing process.
The short film aimed to accompany the book was the result of a collaboration between Naomi Klein, the mexican film director Alfonso Cuarón and his son Jonás Cuarón. Despite the film was first conceived as a promotional tool it now stands on its own because of its polical message strenght.
Everybody can pirate it, download it, give it to their friends, do whatever they want to do. It's not a commercial product in that respect.
Alfonso Cuarón.
Labels: books, economy, films, globalisation, politics
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
euro mayday 007
Started at 3.00 p.m. from Porta Ticinese, the seventh Mayday Parade in Milan has just ended.
Precarisation of living and working conditions are the norm for a growing number of youths. The same precarious conditions are nowadays more than ever motive of concerns among the aged population.
No wizardry is going to solve such problem in the short term. On the other hand only through self-engagement and community awareness we were able to draw more attention to the process of precarious employment and overcome what can be seen as a lack of civil rights and equal opportunity.
Labels: employment, globalisation, politics
