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Aaron Hughes

Berkeley, CA / Chicago, IL / on the road ...

Aaron Hughes is an artist, activists, organizer, and Iraq War veteran, whose work seeks out poetics, connections, and moments of beauty, in order to construct new languages and meanings out of personal and collective traumas. He uses these new languages and meanings to create projects that deconstruct systems of dehumanization and oppression. In addition to Justseeds, he works with a variety of art, veteran, and activist organizations and projects including: Iraq Veterans Against the War, Warrior Writers, Dirty Canteen, emerging Veteran Artists Movement, National Veterans Art Museum, and Center for Artistic Activism.

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168:01 Poetic, Political, & Useful

168:01 Poetic, Political, & Useful

January 27, 2016

Wafaa Bilal’s new project 168:01 is one of the most poetic, political, and useful artworks of the last decade. Through the project he highlights and acknowledges the destruction of the…