The Patriot Library restores censored materials to the public domain through the use of a nomadic resource. A firm belief in the uncensored right to the pursuit of knowledge led the artist collective Finishing School to create a traveling library. Their collection consists of books, periodicals, photographs, and other forms of media that were all censored…

Ultra-Red’s public sound interventions interrupt the flow of everyday life, forcing passersby to confront the different forms of oppression experienced by marginalized peoples. The militant sound collective compiled one-minute audio recordings from fifteen international artists and activists, who were asked to respond to the question “What is the sound of the war on the poor?”…

Yoko Ono – yes, the very Yoko who broke up the Beatles – brings imagination and participation to the forefront in her work “Wish Tree” (1981). In her work that has been installed in locations across the globe, Ono plants a tree native to the site of installation and invites viewers to tie a written…

This activist installation was presented as a collaborative effort between The Society of Friends of Halit and the Forensic Architecture at documenta 14. Halit Yozgat, the son of a local shop owner in Kassel, Germany, was the ninth victim in a string of racially motivated murders of immigrants committed by the National Socialist Underground, a…

Olu Oguibe’s work is significantly influenced by his experience as a child during the Nigerian Civil War in the late 1960s, which was fought between the government of Nigeria and the secessionist state of Biafra. Many of the inhabitants of Biafra, who are mostly the Igbo people, have now crossed into Europe from the Middle…

Roee Rosen, a painter, novelist, and filmmaker, is a critical contemporary voice in Israel. His work deals with the representation of structural violence, and explores the implications of identities and power struggles through fictionalization and irony. His work The Dust Channel (2016) is a short absurd opera film set in the impeccably decorated household of…

Bonita Ely’s project for documenta 14 “Memento Mori” combines the traumatic consequences of war and displacement on one hand and environmental pollution on the other, demonstrating the interdependence within these two systems. Her installation “Interior Decoration” draws attention to the chronic and intergenerational effects of post-traumatic stress disorder as an outcome of war. Ely renders…

Originally a portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, this painting challenges the audience’s collective memory and urges us to recognize the legitimacy of a black man praised to the same standard. It reflects the lack of diversity within some of the most famous paintings of Western art and is in opposition to the idea of a masterpiece….

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith serves on a silver platter the perceived Native American identity and asks the audience to realize that what you may know about her community is actually due to white privilege that fostered nothing but lies. In response to the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s unwanted arrival in the Americas, Smith retaliates against…

This installation brought people together through their shared understanding of a barbershop and its downfalls while holding a public for the community to want to change this aspect of their culture. Instead of just telling his community of what was wrong with barbershop culture, Osorio held spaces for them to really examine the work and come to…