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Max Factor 26 billboard improvement campaign launches the Billboard Liberation Front

Practitioner:
Billboard Liberation Front

For 35 years, the Billboard Liberation Front have been altering public advertisements in San Francisco under the cover of night, strategically changing words or phrases to invert the intended message of corporate sponsors. Considering their guerrilla reclamation of public space…

Yomango Fashion Show

Practitioner:
Yomango

“On July 5, 2002, a strange new brand began cropping up in the streets of Barcelona. That day, at the height of sales season, more than fifty people rushed through the center of Barcelona to the Bershka clothing store to…

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,…

Twelve Square Meter

Practitioner:
Heng Zhang

Zhang Huan is a very talented performance artist in China. In the famous work “Twelve Square Meters”, he was covered with fish oil and honey sitting in a dirty public toilet in Beijing’s East Village for an hour, not only…

How Nina Simone turned the movement into music

Practitioner:
Nina Simone

My skin is black,” the first woman’s story begins, “my arms are long.” And, to a slow and steady beat, “my hair is woolly, my back is strong.” Singing in a club in Holland, in 1965, Nina Simone introduced a…

Bed Stuy Aquarium

Practitioner:
Brenda Starr, Jequan Irving

The Bed-Stuy “aquarium” is back. The neighborhood’s beloved sidewalk fish pond was resurrected this week — in an act of defiance that comes just five days after the city cemented over the original and left the neighborhood’s goldfish to die.…

OWS Subway Storytelling

Practitioner:
Occupy Wall Street, OWS

In the Fall of 2011, after the Occupy Movement was in full swing, and meetings, actions and info sharing had expanded beyond Zuccotti Park, meaningful messaging and outreach tactics were were activated on a near daily basis. Subway Storytelling had…

Lesbians 101

Practitioner:
FindChaos

Lesbians 101 is a full-color, 16 page magazine-sized comic book packed with light-hearted education based on the most common set of questions lesbians frequently get. A few lesson examples include: “Why Do All Lesbians Look The Same,” “Why Do Lesbians…

K-Pop Fancams Got Political to Protect Black Lives Matter Protesters From Dallas Police

Practitioner:
K-Pop Fans

If you’ve spent a decent amount of time on Twitter, you’re probably familiar with the concept of K-pop fancams. The short clips of live performances, primarily by South Korean acts, often dominate replies on the app and are hated by…

Putting a Trans Mark on the City of Berlin

Practitioner:
TGEU and international trans activist collective

As part of an international workshop (10-11 October 2015) with the Center for Artistic Activism, 17 trans activists and artists from 13 European countries developed a creative campaign to mark some of the spaces in Berlin which have symbolic significance…

THEY Still want to kill us: Film of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre to Air at Arts Center

Practitioner:
UMass Amherst Arts Center, Yoram Savion

Joining art institutes nationally, a film on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre will premiere at the UMass Amherst Arts Center. This is especially important given its will be the 100th anniversary of the tragic event of when “Black Wall Street”…

Toy Soldiers

Practitioner:
Caracas Art Students

Students of the Experimental Art University dress as plastic soldiers in a protest at a metro station in Caracas, Venezuela External sources: https://guff.com/some-of-the-most-clever-approaches-to-protesting/protest-until-y… https://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/americas/article4061384.ece