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Plastic Waste

Practitioner:
Ruth Peche

The political artist I chose to investigate is Ruth Peche, a Spanish sculptor and photographer. Her themes tend to center around plastic waste and the impact it has on the environment, using this as a muse for describing the relationship…

Abbie Hoffman and Yippies shower money on the NYSE

Practitioner:
Abbie Hoffman, James Fouratt and the Yippies

One interesting thing about this stunt is that there is no record of it other than the Yippies’ wonderful testimony. We believe that it actually happened, but it shows that storytelling is the most important part of any action of…

Peacmaker

Practitioner:
Asi Burak and Eric Brown

The following description is taken from Wikipedia.com: PeaceMaker is a video game developed by ImpactGames, and published in February 2007 for Windows and Mac OS. It is a government simulation game which simulates the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Labelled as a serious…

Conscious Lee

Practitioner:
Bog Fingers, student group in MTU’s Creativity and Change course

Conscious Lee is a public awareness project to help people value and protect their rivers. Rivers are rich sources of life and are vital for clean water. They are beautiful spaces to connect with nature. We all need to appreciate…

LGBT activists ask strangers for hugs in China protest at Weibo censorship

Practitioner:
Chinese LGBT activists

A social experiment testing the public’s reaction to gay people in China has gone viral. The blindfolded activists stood in public wearing T-shirts that said “I’m gay would you hug me?” and video of the protest then spread rapidly on…

Beethoven’s 200-Year-Old ‘Fidelio’ Enters Today’s Prisons

Practitioner:
Daniel Schlosberg, Ethan Heard, Heartbeat Opera

Few opera choruses are as moving as the one a group of prisoners sings in Act I of Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” Released temporarily from their cells, the inmates almost whisper a hymnlike paean to liberty: “Oh, what a joy to breathe…

“Broccoli” Magazine: Looking at Cannabis Through the Lens of Contemporary Culture

Practitioner:
Broccoli

Created by and for women, Broccoli is an independent print magazine based in Portland, Oregon. Although intended for cannabis users, Broccoli is an art and lifestyle magazine that bills itself as “playful, informed, eclectic, and thoughtful.” It encourages the discovery…

Suffragettes Dress as Famous Women in History

Practitioner:
suffragettes, The Women’s Social and Political Union

On June 17, 1911, a week before the coronation of King George V, women from diverse backgrounds united in costume and with installations over a shared political view – that of rallying the right for women to vote. Known as…

Tiny Homes for Toronto’s Homeless

Practitioner:
Khaleel Seivwright

On his way to work on a construction site, Khaleel Seivwright surveyed the growing number of tents lining an intercity highway and in parks with increasing discomfort. How would these people survive Toronto’s damp, frigid winters, let alone the coronavirus,…

Mesmerizing Flesh: The Visceral Corporeality of Tamara Kostianovsky’s Textile Sculptures

Practitioner:
Tamara Kostianovsky

For artists exploring themes of violence towards humans and animals, there is a fine line between thoughtfully engaging and needlessly shocking the viewer; being sensationally explicit can turn people away while being tacit or innocuous may fail to make an…

Washing the Flag

Practitioner:
People

“It might not seem that an act of public laundry could unsettle a president with a well-deserved reputation for inflexibility, corruption, and brutality. But mass washing ceremonies were a key element in getting rid of Peru’s unpopular president, Alberto Fujimori,…

Activists and Residents Light Up Bushwick with Anti-Gentrification Signs

Practitioner:
NYC Light Brigade

Since Christmas Eve, some lights along the streets and in the houses of Bushwick have spelled out a number of messages quite different from the festive wishes one usually finds during the holiday season. “GENTRIFICATION IS THE NEW COLONIALISM,” “NOT…