Projects tagged
Activates (people)
Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
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DISAPPEARED IN AMERICA
Read more: DISAPPEARED IN AMERICADISAPPEARED IN AMERICA is an ongoing project by Visible Collective/Naeem Mohaiemen that uses films, installations, and lectures to trace migration impulses, hyphenated identities, and the post-9/11 security panic. Excerpts of the project have been shown at various venues, including the…
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Can Graffiti Remake Egypt?
Read more: Can Graffiti Remake Egypt?Last week, a dozen of female artists turned the walls of a downtown parking lot in Cairo into a street art gallery. Colourful group murals carrying personal stories and spreading messages to increase women’s visibility, and positively affect public consciousness.…
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GRAFFITI ARTISTS GIVEN MASSIVE EMPTY WAREHOUSE AND UNLIMITED PAINT
Read more: GRAFFITI ARTISTS GIVEN MASSIVE EMPTY WAREHOUSE AND UNLIMITED PAINTThese graffiti artists were given carte blanche over an entire warehouse to do with what they wanted. The result? Everything from the soundtrack from the videography, editing and the painting is just absolute brilliance. External sources: https://www.trippapparel.com/2013/15056 https://unlooker.com/graffiti-artists-given-massive-empty-wharehouse-unlimited-pa…
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Visualizing Palestine
Read more: Visualizing PalestineOver the past 2 years, Visualizing Palestine (VP) has harnessed visual storytelling to bring public attention to the daily injustices facing Palestinians, from demolition of homes to mothers forced to give birth at military checkpoints. VP wants to start 2014…
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Sheep Storm Paris’ Louvre in Farmers Protest
Read more: Sheep Storm Paris’ Louvre in Farmers ProtestSheep stormed into Paris’ iconic Louvre museum on Friday (March 28) as farmers protested against reforms to the common agricultural policy (CAP). A dozen sheep ran into the museum’s entrance underneath its famous glass pyramid, baffling tourists and aggravating museum…
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How Bali punks Navicula took on the palm oil industry
Read more: How Bali punks Navicula took on the palm oil industryIn Indonesia, a loud and politically committed generation of punk bands are shaking big business – and getting results The briefing took place in a small commercial office in Jakarta, with no insulation from the heat, smog or noise of…
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Heidelberg Project
Read more: Heidelberg ProjectThe Heidelberg Project is an outdoor art project in Detroit, Michigan. It was created in 1986 by artist Tyree Guyton and his grandfather Sam Mackey (“Grandpa Sam”) as an outdoor art environment in the McDougall-Hunt neighborhood on the city’s east…
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Make Them Visible
Read more: Make Them VisibleIf a family member posed as a homeless person, would you recognize him or her? That’s the question a new campaign — Make Them Visible — is asking. In a video produced by ad agency Silver + Partners and Smuggler…
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Activists make a dramatic statement about the slaughter of dolphins
Read more: Activists make a dramatic statement about the slaughter of dolphinsAn Israeli member of the Taiji Dolphin Action Group, with a red body painting to evoke blood, is curled up on a sheet depicting the Japanese flag, during a January 30, 2014 protest against the killing of dolphins, notably in…
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NYPD Twitter Outreach Backfires
Read more: NYPD Twitter Outreach BackfiresA call for users to post photos with officers and the hashtag #myNYPD is met with images of police brutality after Occupy Wall Street mocks the request. In a tweet on Tuesday, Apr.22th, the New York City Police Department asked…
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The Last American Indian On Earth
Read more: The Last American Indian On Earth“The Last American Indian on Earth”, a performance art piece by Gregg Deal,a member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe originally based in northwestern Nevada.The project documents what happens when an unsuspecting public is confronted with the flesh-and-blood version of…
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“Reject and Protect” actions against Keystone XL pipeline in U.S.
Read more: “Reject and Protect” actions against Keystone XL pipeline in U.S.The Cowboy and Indian Alliance, a coalition of indigenous tribes, ranchers, farmers, stages a protest named “Reject and Protect” against the Keystone XL oil pipeline project along the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline route, as a part of series of…