Increasingly, the experience of an activated public space, a space full of political vitriol and community participation, is a rarity. We could point toward moments of political protest or rallies, but whatever happened to the spaces of regular activity? The place where folks are not forced into political positions but...

On a sunny Wednesday at the DNC, with the streets of Denver full of riot police and Obama-mania, artist Sharon Hayes produced an unlikely protest equipped. Titled Revolutionary Love: I am Your Worst Fear, this performance piece in the center of DNC madness was a mass reading of a first...

On Saturday July 26th, next door to the Circus Sideshow in Coney Island (featuring sword swallowers, magicians and performers capable of digesting grubs and snot), artist Steve Powers opened a sideshow of his own. Entitled The Waterboard Thrill Ride, this madcap installation invites visitors to put a buck into a...

On Saturday, August 2 artist Mark Tribe will organize a reenactment of an Angela Davis speech from 1969 connecting the liberation of domestic political prisoners from the civil rights movement with the war in Vietnam. A performer portraying Davis will stand at a podium and deliver the speech at its...