Projects tagged
Activates (people)
Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
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Lies for Less: Vermin Supreme for President
Read more: Lies for Less: Vermin Supreme for PresidentVermin Supreme is an American performance artist, anarchist and activist who is known for running as an alternative candidate in various local, state, and national elections in the United States since 1988. Supreme is known for wearing a boot shaped…
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Jesus: Creative Activist
Read more: Jesus: Creative ActivistRegardless of one’s spiritual ties (or lack thereof) to Christianity, all artistic activists can take a note or two from Jesus’s playbook–the actions of “a radical Mediterranean Jewish peasant building a revolutionary movement two millennia ago.” 1. Jesus: Media Mogul. …
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Oda Projesi: Apartment Project
Read more: Oda Projesi: Apartment Project“Oda Projesi is an artist collective based in Istanbul. It is composed of three members; Özge Açıkkol, Güneş Savaş and Seçil Yersel who turned their collaboration into an art project in 2000. The project members had met in 1997 and…
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Globos oculares contra las pelotas de goma
Read more: Globos oculares contra las pelotas de gomaDurante la jornada de huelga del 14 de noviembre, una mujer llamada Ester Quintana perdió toda visibilidad en uno de sus ojos. La culpa fue de un disparo policial con balas de goma. El consejero de interior, Felip Puig, niega…
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El banquero solitario
Read more: El banquero solitarioUn hombre trajeado viaja en el Metro. Utilizando frases clásicamente asociadas a la mendicidad, las invierte. En vez de anunciar precariedad económica y un estado de necesidad, afirma ser un banquero, sin cargas familiares, que no está perseguido por la…
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Operación Lola Flores
Read more: Operación Lola Flores“Si una peseta diera cada español, pero no a mí, sino a donde tienen que que darla, quizás saldría de la deuda” (Lola Flores) La frase de la celebérrima cantante Lola Flores pidiendo una peseta a cada español para así…
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Kurt Hiller’s Literary Activism
Read more: Kurt Hiller’s Literary ActivismKurt Hiller’s Literary Activism Sexual revolution and sexual liberation movements are traditionally associated with the 1960s and 1970s, and particularly linked to western protests and liberation discourses. However, there are some examples of sexual activism before this period. Kurt Hiller,…
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The Prometheus Project
Read more: The Prometheus ProjectThe Prometheus Project is a partnership between the American Repertory Theater and Amnesty International to bring the theater arts to the service of human rights advocacy. In an effort to bring the power of theater to aid the fight for…
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TEACHINGS OF DIOGENES
Read more: TEACHINGS OF DIOGENESTEACHINGS OF DIOGENES (c. 412- c. 323 B.C ) Diogenes was a very playful philosopher who liked to use great wit when challenging the values and beliefs of his fellow citizens in ancient Athens. He lived in great poverty, probably…
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Dramatic Dissent: the Occupation of Rome’s Teatro Valle
Read more: Dramatic Dissent: the Occupation of Rome’s Teatro ValleIn 2009, conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi demoted the publicly-funded Italian Theatre Insitute (or ETI) to “disposable” status, hacking funding for the arts considerably. ETI promoted Italian companies abroad, managed the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, the Duse theatre in…
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Project Orange- Detroit, Demolition, Disneyland
Read more: Project Orange- Detroit, Demolition, DisneylandObject Orange (formerly Detroit. Demolition. Disneyland. is an artistic project in Detroit, Michigan which seeks to draw attention to dilapidated buildings by painting them orange. The project is composed of local artists, who go by their first names only (Christian,…
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Iraq War Veterans Against the War
Read more: Iraq War Veterans Against the WarIraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) was founded by Iraq war veterans in July 2004 at the annual convention of Veterans for Peace (VFP) in Boston to give a voice to the large number of active duty service people and…