World hunger and poverty
I chose the issue and topic of poverty and hunger around the world because it’s a long standing and ongoing issue. World hunger affects almost 10 percent globally and is currently on the rise. As a person that likes to help others a huge part of advocating an issue is making people in a position to assist aware that there is an issue. If I can make a difference in even one person’s life, than I’m taking a step in the right direction and can be a voice for those who don’t have a platform or the tools to be heard. My art and my voice are tools that can make a difference. My work shows different color hands coming together, in a giving gesture symbolizing people lending and giving a helping hand. In another perspective the piece also symbolize the people holding on to faith and hope for better days and hope in new comings. It can definitely be seen as activist art because it is actively reflecting the issue and speaking about an issue.
My intervention is called faith in your hands. The intervention is in a form of a tik-tok video. The video discusses countries that are suffering from world hunger. With food being so limited in these countries people begin to resort to crime in order to provide for themselves, their family, or just to live day by day. My piece represent others giving back and coming together to give back to these countries. I enjoyed creating and editing this intervention in the form of a tik-tok because in doing so it makes others on social media aware of the issue. I also enjoyed learning more of what is going on in the world and becoming more aware of the many issue going on in society today. The artist i found inspired me the most through this process would have to be Micheal Rawokitz. Rawokitz produced a vast majority of interventions that shed light on important issues. I found project paraSITE to be my favorite intervention in chapter 1. Rawokitz actively tries to figure out how to create more shelter for the homeless by developing inflatable shelter that are easily potable for them to carry around and use throughout the day. I found this design not only to be resourceful but more accommodating to the homeless because they are able to inflate them by using outside building vents as. Rawokitz states "The visible parasitic relationship of these devices to the building, appropriating a readily available situation with readily available materials."
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