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Range Studio

The project consists of a small mobile workspace and a micro artist residency program composed by two tiny art studios founded in Oakland. Studio 1 is a solar powered art studio which was built on the back of a flatbed…

International Day for Animals in Laboratories

Practitioner:
Animal Equality

On April 23rd, in commemoration of the International Day for Animals in Laboratories, Animal Equality’s activists in Rome, Madrid, Barcelona and many other cities across Europe carried out demonstrations against animal testing. In Rome, two flash mobs formed to protest…

menstrual pad mutual aid boxes

Practitioner:
Chinese University Students

Since 2020, university students across China have launched a grassroots initiative to combat menstrual stigma by placing “menstrual pad mutual aid boxes” in campus restrooms. These boxes, often accompanied by signs reading “Take one if you need it, donate if…

Liberation art from the Church

Practitioner:
Sister Corita Kent

From Black Power to Migrants’ Power BY Robin Cembalest POSTED 01/22/13 As ’60s activist art enters museums, a new generation is creating an iconography of protest for today “There have been the singing nun and the flying nun, but the…

Break-dancing for social justice in Tunisia

Practitioner:
Art Solution

In Tunisia, a country gripped by economic uncertainty and still in the midst of rebuilding its identity after the Arab Spring, hip-hop culture is viewed as part of an ongoing dissident movement. Just a few events, such as the recent…

Where an Internet Joke Is Not Just a Joke

Practitioner:
Pi San

From The New York TimeBy BROOK LARMER The cellphone vibrated softly, insistently, echoing off the whitewashed walls of the artist’s studio. It was a Sunday morning in early April, and Wang Bo — an Internet animator better known to his…

[Human Compliance Experiment] ‘The Push’: Netflix Special That Tests Human Compliance Is a Life-or-Death ‘Nathan for You’

Practitioner:
Derren Brown

https://www.netflix.com/title/80220000 https://www.indiewire.com/2018/02/the-push-netflix-review-ending-derren-b… Article from IndieWire by Steve Greene The hour-long experiment from magician and UK TV mainstay Derren Brown asks a dangerous question with an unexpected twist. [Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for the Netflix special “Derren Brown: The…

Protest Posters for Fees Must Fall

Practitioner:
Burning Museum and Faith47

Daniel Hewson describes the use of protest posters and the work of collective, Burning Museum, and artist, Faith47, in the Fees Must Fall movement taking place in South Africa: “The protest poster movement is still alive and vibrant in South…

Speculative Fiction: Global Warming to the Extreme

Practitioner:
Josh Keyes

Josh Keyes is a contemporary artist who takes a “satirical look at the impact urban sprawl has on the environment and surmises, with the aid of scientific slices and core samples, what could happen if we continue to infiltrate and…

Public Fruit Jam

Practitioner:
Fallen Fruit

“Fallen Fruit invites the public to bring homegrown or street-picked fruit and collaborate with us in making a collective fruit jams. Working without recipes, we ask people to sit with others they do not already know and negotiate what kind…

An Artist Strikes Back Against Foul Subway Smells

Practitioner:
Angela H. Kim

The New York City subway is many things, but clean isn’t necessarily one of them. It doesn’t exactly smell great, either. While the MTA hedges on solutions (and continues to debate whether eliminating trash cans from the stations actually solves…

Toilet Strike: Matt Damon (Water.org)

Practitioner:
Matt Damon, Water.org

For the launch of a new organization fighting to end the water crisis, Matt Damon, Co-founder of Water.org, has produced a video using humor to shed light on the issue of access to clean water. In the spoof, he holds…