2. “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” – Elie Wiesel

3. “The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” – Albert Einstein

 

After research and collection, I found similar political activism in China's history - The May Fourth Movement in 1919. Many younger college students keenly marched and demonstrated in the streets to against the government signing the unreasonable treaties. This behavior successfully stopped the government to giving up their ruling power.

 

Nowadays, I view plenty of clicktivists on the Internet. They announce some unfair or unjust events or news by thumbing up or forwarding. More and more people may know these negative effects through expand rapidly. After that, the relevant authorities will quickly investigate these phenomena based on crowd pressure. For example, some female college students are tricked to poor mountain areas; some officials are heavily corrupt and so on.

 

But clicktivism also has some bad problems. First of all, there will be numerous false news, which will waste a mass of human resources to investigate; secondly, there will be some bad speech, because the Internet does not control anyone's speech, this may cause some negative effects on the Internet; finally, people just against on the network, and do not take practical actions.

 

Therefore, I think Activism still needs people to against some unreasonable, unjust, and unfair phenomena on their own, this may help them deeply understand that the importance of activism. So as to draw the attention of the national government and make this society a better place.

Kahlo’s artistic career was a success despite a lifetime of physical pain and a difficult and famous husband who overshadowed her during her lifetime. She proudly wore her Mexican heritage in her clothing, jewelry, and hair styles, and readily expressed her distrust of authoritarianism and Capitalism. She was disabled, bisexual, outspoken, and revolutionary. Her art resonates with feminists, politically-active people, diversity advocates, and anyone who has experienced physical or psychological pain.（Frida Kahlo’s Art through the Lens of Magical Realism,2020）

The installation explores the catastrophic impact of our relationship with nature and its long term effects. The work provokes a dialogue on how the rising sea levels will affect coastal areas, its inhabitants and land usage in the future.