Projects tagged
Activates (people)
Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
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Taco Bell Boycott
Read more: Taco Bell BoycottFor years, workers in Florida’s tomato fields have endured poverty wages and terrible working conditions. In 1993, a small, community-based organization called the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) formed to demand an end to these unfair labor practices. By 2005,…
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The Mischief Makers
Read more: The Mischief MakersThe Mischief Makers built a giant bird as a symbolic way of opening up Serb borders and made an impressive mosaic on the same theme, possibly to be used in a new youth centre. Clowns trained and joked about at…
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ARMS DEALERS ON TRIAL
Read more: ARMS DEALERS ON TRIALA group of women arrested at the DSEI arms fair in 2013 have begun private prosecution proceedings against arms companies who exhibited illegal weapons at the fair. French company Magforce International and Chinese company Tianjin MyWay International Trading will be…
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Clean and Reliable Water
Read more: Clean and Reliable WaterToday over 40 people gathered at the Ministry for Internal Affairs in the centre of Tirana, the capital of Albania. The issue is Tirana’s drinking water, which is not clean, unreliable as it comes out of the tap only a…
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They Shoot Horses
Read more: They Shoot HorsesText taken from website: Phil Collins’s work often originates in areas of conflict, shifting the focus away from sensationalist news coverage to reveal unexpected aspects of life in contested territories – from Belfast to Belgrade to Baghdad and Bogotá. they…
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Autel de Lycée Chases (“Altar to the Chases High School”)
Read more: Autel de Lycée Chases (“Altar to the Chases High School”)Text taken from website: By appropriating mementos of other people’s lives and placing them in an art context, Boltanski explores the power of photography to transcend individual identity and to function instead as a witness to collective rituals and shared…
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A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby…
Read more: A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby…Text taken from Creative Time website: To say there is a riddle lurking in the sugar-coated monument conceived by Kara Walker may be an understatement as big as the sculpture itself. A massive sphinx-turned-mammy, she stands mute, looking outward, acting…
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Shibboleth
Read more: ShibbolethText taken from website: Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth is the first work to intervene directly in the fabric of the Turbine Hall. Rather than fill this iconic space with a conventional sculpture or installation, Salcedo has created a subterranean chasm that…
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Real Pictures
Read more: Real PicturesText taken from website: Alfredo Jaar seizes the challenge of making art out of information most people would rather avoid: the plight of refugees, genocide, ethnic and political violence. Rather than offering information in an expected or familiar form, Jaar…
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Peacmaker
Read more: PeacmakerThe 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…
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Sluts Across America
Read more: Sluts Across AmericaIn 2012, Sandra Fluke stood up in front of Democratic members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to advocate for the mandatory inclusion of birth control coverage in health insurance. Republicans on the committee refused to allow her…
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#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS
Read more: #BRINGBACKOURGIRLSBoth the Michelle Obama, the First Lady of the United States of America, and David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the UK, have been photographed holding signs with this hashtag in support of the still missing, kidnapped Nigerian girls. “The…