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London’s “Free Butt Plug Catalogue” Confronts Hostile Architecture

Hostile architecture—urban design features like ground spikes that deter the homeless from lying down or slanted benches that prevent lingering—inscribes exclusion into our streets. In response, a Chinese artist will launch the Free Butt Plug Catalogue, an art-activism project that…

Visions from the Inside

Practitioner:
CultureStrike, Mariposas Sin Fronteras and End Family Detention

Visions from the Inside is a project enlisting 15 artists from across the country to create a piece of art based off letters from women in detention. The initiative, a collaboration between CultureStrike, Mariposas Sin Fronteras and End Family Detention,…

La Casa Negra

Practitioner:
La Casa Negra

La Casa Negra is a moving artist squat that occupies houses destined for demolition as temporary venues for site specific performance art in Barranco (Lima, Peru). Artists use all of the available rooms (kitchen, bathrooms, stairs, backyard) to enact a…

Unknown

I’ve decided to post about a recent experience, considerable an “action” in its nature, and how it felt, which was comparable to solicitation rather than activism. However, there was a sense for consciousness-raising regardless of any tangible outcome. I offer…

Humor to overthrow Mubarak

Practitioner:
Egyptian revolutionaries

from “Laugh, O Revolution: Humor in the Egyptian Uprising” by Anna Louie Sussman, in 2011. Revolutions can be messy. They can be tragic. As long as the Internet is working, they can be tweeted. And, as Egyptians demonstrated during their…

Platform

Practitioner:
Michael Kienzer

“As of October 2009, Retznei boasts a new centre. In the middle of the square the black contours of a concrete surface stand out, reminiscent of the shape of a pond. If you step on the Platform, you notice that…

Pandas on Tour

Practitioner:
Paulo Grangeon

Grangeon’s long-running traveling exhibit, Pandas on Tour, features 1600 papier-mâché pandas. That’s approximately one for as many as there are left in the world (recent estimates actually place the number slightly below that, at 1596). Each papier-mâché sculpture represents a…

Chinese High School Students Making Film about Trans Gender

Practitioner:
Hu Ranan

A high school student from The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China Made a Movie about “Sexual Minorities”, a Topic Avoided By Almost Every Parent. How Should We Start Talking About This?” was widely circulated among people on…

Left Litter in the Park? Thailand Officials Will Mail It to Your Home

Practitioner:
Environment Minister of Thailand, Varawut Silpa-archa

Officials in Thailand had an unorthodox approach to deal with visitors who left a tent filled with litter in a national park: mail the trash to the offenders. The country’s environment minister said that he wanted to call attention to…

Pro-Palestine Subway Art

Practitioner:
Anonymous Artists

“Late last night, an autonomous group of activists placed posters throughout the subway system, blocking out advertisements with their own materials protesting Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza. One group of about a dozen gathered deep in the Bronx, obscuring their…

Unleashing the Power of Art Through Artistic Resources: PIGMENT TOKYO Creates a Canvas Embracing People, Knowledge, and the Art of Tomorrow

Practitioner:
PIGMENT TOKYO

Established in 2015 in the Tennōzu neighborhood of Tokyo, and attracting industry professionals and art enthusiasts from both Japan and abroad, PIGMENT TOKYO has emerged as an art supply store specializing in the materials and tools used in traditional Japanese…

Remember La Tierra

Practitioner:
Lucinda Hinojos

In a collaboration with fellow artist @vyalone on Instagram, Lucinda Hinojos or La Morena as the artist is known recently completed this mural in Phoenix which showcases the Native American culture of the people indigenous to the area. La Morena…