This graphic performance action follows the international occurrence of protestors sewing their mouths closed, like this one in Greece in solidarity with mistreated Iranian asylum seekers. Watch as two artists get Stitched Together. NSFW. Read more »
If you enjoy gorging on imaginary fruit-flavored Asian candy and like to slab some vinegar-soaked herring on your Russian rye once in awhile, you will like project Blender. This month, Japanese immigrant Hidemi Takagi brings her informative photostudy of strange snacks from 5 boroughs, 35 neighborhoods and their dozens of stores stocked with imports from 47 countries… to the sides of “garbage receptacles” of Times Square. Read more »
Charushin’s latest project Board of Honour is a tribute to illegal immigrants from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in xenophobic Russia. Their trend of wearing “Russia” skullies is sort of a demonstratively patriotic, protective gesture. The portrait series was displayed as a site-specific “employee of the month” board exhibit in a village where many of the immigrant laborers live. Read more »
So that’s how Mexican immigrants are able work so much for so little, take all this crap, just to send some money to family back home: They’re really superheroes!.. Wait, nope, they’re real. See the latest additions to Dulce Pinzón’s ongoing classic NYC-based photo essay Superheros.
Still no love for, Aliou Niasse, the immigrant hero from Senegal who helped foil the Time Square bombing in this AP article profiling the hero vendors.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer just signed a new law instructing police to racially profile Mexican-looking people. Also, immigrants will be required to carry papers proving their legal status at all times, effectively turning the Grand Canyon State into a real life version of District 9. Amazing. A racial profiling law that exempts black people while putting Latinos and tanned Caucasians on notice. Well done Arizona.
Hey, fellow immigrants, expats and spies! If you’re an artist who wasn’t born in US and lives in Brooklyn, there’s a nifty little opportunity for well-intended exposure. Non-native New York call for submissions is now open. Thirty lucky international Brooklyn-based artists get perks, including a group show, promoting the diverse Brooklynite community and feeling awesome.
While most Americans have no problem blaming politicians, Wall Street types or rich asshole bankers for the looming economic crisis, in Ireland, it’s the immigrants who are at fault according to this spray painted slogan on the side of a truck near that country’s “busiest” roadway. The scrawl was described as an “incitement to hatred,” by anti-racists groups who want the truck removed. |Herald|
So the Italians aren’t the only ethnic group fusing paganism with Christian traditions in the city over the next few days, check out these amazing costumes worn by Chinelo dancers, originally from the revolutionary prone, Mexican state of Morelos and spotted in Bushburg, Brooklyn. The dancing custom has pre-Hispanic roots and is steeped in Aztec imagery, but as the role of Christianity expanded, the garb eventually adapted to include Catholic elements and icons. These elaborate costumes you see in these photos came later in the mid 19th century as a way to mock he the Spaniards and later European occupiers while staying anonymous: “The elaborate dress, gloved hands, uptilted beard and arrogant stance makes a mockery of the salon dancing so beloved of the upper classes during the period of the French intervention (1864 – 1867) under the hapless Hapsburg Emperor Maximilian and his Empress Carlotta.” More Chinelos after the jump
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