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CURRENT PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES

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Resurgent Histories, Insurgent Futures
Begins Sep 07, 2017
An exhibition about cultural guerrilla warfare from across the Americas
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Straying: Surviving On the Margins
Begins Jul 06, 2017
A series of conversations about the politics of adaptation in a disruptive era
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Sinking under the dark sea
Begins Dec 16, 2016
An online project about the Sewol Ferry Disaster (2014) and the contestation of memory in South Korea
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Sep 14, 2017
Forensic Oceanography, Emilija Škarnulytė, Ayesha Hameed, Filipa César and Louis Henderson

A program of short films exploring the visual geopolitics of oceans

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Sep 22, 2017
Against Conquest

A conversation with Sandra de la Loza, Fran Ilich and Jennifer Ponce de León on history as insurgency

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Health Ecologies Lab

A lab focusing on the impact of social systems on the health of individuals and communities

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John Cage | How to Get Started

An interactive installation featuring a rarely heard performance by John Cage

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Mediatheque

A screening room for programming about media arts, activism, and mediated experience

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A Beautiful Ghetto
A visual story by Devin Allen about Freddie Gray's Baltimore and the rise of the New Activist

Erasures
An exhibition with Fazal Sheikh tracing the dispossessions and displacements of the Arab-Israeli War of 1948

Love-Driven Politics
A dialogue series about the urgency of love as a political virtue and practice

We are powerful
A conversation with Philadelphia's top reentry experts, a group of formerly incarcerated individuals who power the Reentry Think Tank

Fairytale Project
A research initiative and archive about the experiences of 1001 Chinese participants who traveled to Germany with Ai Weiwei

Love Me If You Can
A performance and action questioning the dichotomies and boundaries between public/private and collective/individual

John Cage | How to Get Started
A permanent installation that features a rarely heard performance by John Cage and evolves over time through participation from the public

Mixplace Studio
An urban education model addressing the crisis in community participation and political representation