Center For Artistic Activism

Open Call for C4AA Arts Action Academy in Dublin
I’ll be running Center for Artistic Activism workshop in Dublin for artists looking to do projects around sex work and…
Art, Politics, and Cities in Transition
Art, Politics, Cities in Transition explores the role of art and creative industries in urban regeneration. Organized by Purchase College,…
SWEAT video on 2016 AIDS Conference
This summer I worked with the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce at the 2016 International AIDS conference. This video…
Center for Artistic Activism at Creative Capital
Creative Capital asked the Center for Artistic Activism to create a short workshop they could host. This is the first…
Center for Artistic Activism in Berlin
A mini-documentary on the Center for Artistic Activism‘s work with TransGender EU in Berlin from 2015.
Pop Culture Salvage Expeditions 10: Professional Wrestling
This time the gang heads to Newark to see WWE Smackdown live! This is the first time any of them…
C4AA Receives Rubin Foundation Grant
The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation selected 46 inaugural grant recipients – including the Center for Artistic Activism – following…
Pop Culture Salvage Expeditions 9: Zumba
We took a Zumba class and learn about real leadership.
C4AA at Creative Time Summit
The Center for Artistic Activism(Stephen Duncombe and I) will be doing a two-part workshop at the Creative Time Summit on…
Pop Culture Salvage Expeditions 8: Mega-Church
We went to the rock and roll megachurch, Hillsong Church, in NYC.
Pop Culture Salvage Expeditions 7: Minecraft
…with our child experts Sydney and Sebastian Railla-Duncombe!
Pop Culture Salvage Expeditions 5: Stand Up Comedy
We headed to the The Comedy Cellar in New York City with our special guest, Leonidas Martin from EnMedio. Combining…
Keynote at Creative Catalyst in Toronto
SYMPOSIUM ON ART & SOCIAL INNOVATION, TORONTO, JUNE 11-12, 2015 Creative Catalyst brings together Canadian artists, designers, researchers, industry, and…
Pop Culture Salvage Expeditions 4: The Billboard Hot 100
This episode we had author, philosopher, and punk rock drummer Max Trembley tour us through hit songs on the Billboard…
Pop Culture Salvage Expeditions 3: Mini-sode, 50 Shades of Grey
Recorded live in South Africa. 50 Shades of Grey, a series of books and a movie dealing with “deviant” or…
Center for Artistic Activism in South Africa
Working with several advocates for the decriminalization of sex work, we took over the controversial sculpture “Perceiving Freedom” in Cape…
Pop Culture Salvage Expeditions 2: TGI Fridays
This month the Center for Artistic Activism heads to TGI Friday’s in New York’s Union Square.
Pop Culture Salvage Expeditions 1: Transformers Age of Extinction
In our first expedition the Center for Artistic Activism will watch the highest grossing worldwide movie of 2014, and one…
Podcast: The Pop Culture Salvage Expeditions
I’m doing a podcast with Stephen Duncombe and Patricia Jerido from the Center for Artistic Activism. Each month we choose…
School for Creative Activism Barcelona
At the School for Creative Activism in Barcelona, we created a carnival outside a hospital to demonstrate the arbitrary pricing…