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Breaking Social Codes: An Outsider in Sweden
October 14, 2014 —
Reflecting on race and belonging in Sweden, the artist Santiago Mostyn walks through the streets of Stockholm, touching white strangers, in a video published as part of our Summit Series. The series explores themes at the heart of the 2014 Creative Time Summit Stockholm, a collaboration with the Public Art Agency Sweden. More -
They Take Care of Our Loved Ones, But Who Takes Care of Them?
October 7, 2014 —
Despite the essential labor they perform, domestic workers lack basic workplace protections, a fact the artist Marisa Jahn underscores as she mobilizes workers across the country with her NannyVan. More -
“What Is Common to All of Us?” Redefining Black Male Identity
September 23, 2014 —
Drawing from his collaborative transmedia project “Question Bridge: Black Males,” the artist Hank Willis Thomas examines the racial context of the 2012 killing of Jordan Davis as the man who shot the 17-year-old Florida resident, Michael Dunn, is retried for murder. More -
Jarvis Cocker: Do I Really Have to March?
September 18, 2014 —
As climate activists prepare for the People’s Climate March, the singer/songwriter and journalist Jarvis Cocker has some advice: take to the streets, but rather than march, why not dance? More -
Freed But Not Free
September 17, 2014 —
As part of Creative Time’s exhibition “Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn,” a collaboration with Weeksville Heritage Center, Creative Time Reports is featuring essays related to the history of African-American struggles for self-determination in Brooklyn. Here, the writer Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts meditates on the limits to freedom imposed by a legacy of institutionalized racism. More