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Eclipse

“Nearly 2 million decaying Goodyear tires lie submerged off the coast of South Florida, decrepit hunks of rubber that have gradually succumbed to the pressures of tides and tropical storms. The steel cables that once strung them along the ocean…

Carolee Schneemann, Up to and including her limits, 1973-76

Practitioner:
Carolee Schneemann

Carolee Schneemann is largely associated with her performance art of the 1960s and 1970s, in which she boldly addressed feminist and political issues in ways that shocked and engaged viewers. But she has always maintained that she is a painter,…

#Protect Girls Project — Anti-surrogacy Stickers

Many girls in China may have seen the advertisements of egg donation as a surrogate, in hospitals, schools, public toilets, shared bikes, ATMs…… They are everywhere and the number of this kind of advertisements is large. Though there are lots…

The Paradox of the Tyre Nichols Video

Practitioner:
RowVaugn Wells

TYRE NICHOLS WAS a photographer with an eye for the natural world. He was especially drawn to landscape portraiture, its calm and innocence. It is said that Nichols liked to crane his lens skyward, capturing what sunlight he could before…

Santiago Sierra will soak British flag in blood of colonised peoples

Practitioner:
Santiago Sierra

The Spanish artist Santiago Sierra is planning to immerse a British flag in blood donated by indigenous peoples from countries colonised by the British Empire. The resulting artwork, titled Union Flag, is intended to be an “acknowledgement of the pain…

Zanele Muholi: ‘I’m a visual activist’

Practitioner:
Zanele Muholi

I am a visual activist. Most of what I have done over the years focuses on black LGBTQIA+ and gender-non-conforming individuals from South Africa and other neighbouring countries. It’s about making sure we exist in the visual archive. I call…

Vil Du – a therapeutic tool for victims of sexual abuse

Practitioner:
De Rading, Fontys ICT

“Vil Du?! is a rather explicit game. You can undress characters until they are fully naked. The action-icons are based on physical parameters of the characters. Amongst others there is a vagina, a penis, a hand, a tongue and a…

Autonomous Zones

Practitioner:
Student Plenum

After winning the parliamentary elections of 2014 Gruevski was accused by the opposition of rigging the elections, which led the latter to boycott the sessions of the legislative. Mass protests followed with the government – though nominally pro-EU and pro-NATO…

Activist Hangs Herself in Protest

Practitioner:
FEMEN

A topless activist staged a mock hanging from a bridge in Paris, to protest against the visit of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. The protester, from international women’s rights group Femen, hung from the bridge in an execution-style demonstration on 28…

LEGOVC

Practitioner:
iancooketal

LEGOVC is a fictional, made up, 100% fake, plastic, ‘pantomime villain’ Vice Chancellor of a fake British University struggling as his utter managerial brilliance crumbles in the face of sustained strike action by his staff after their pension scheme is…

Detox Levis – Vertical Catwalk

Practitioner:
Greenpeace

Detox Levi’s: 6th December: Greenpeace activists staged a vertical catwalk action in front of the levi’s store in the biggest mall in Copenhagen, Denmark. Greenpeace calls Levi’s to engage fully in the process of ending the use and release of…

The technopolitical struggle for free culture

Practitioner:
Xnet

The Spanish 15M/Indignados movement represents a citizen break-up with the current political system while proposing an alternative one, changing the prevailing participation patterns while transforming the cultural, social and political structures in the country. Nobody expected the Spanish r-Evolution and…