Projects tagged
Activates (people)
Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
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The Utopia of 20 Minutes Embrace
Read more: The Utopia of 20 Minutes EmbraceOn the afternoon of September 11th, nearly a hundred people hugged each other to feel the beauty of the hug on the Paris Square in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, under the leadership of the Chinese artist Gao…
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CorrupTour
Read more: CorrupTourA converted school bus with the sawed-off top is taking Mexico City visitors on the “Corruptour”, a visit to the country’s seedy underbelly of murderous misdeeds and multibillion-dollar graft by public officials. Stops include a scandal-plagued subway line that cost…
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My World Is In Your Blindspot
Read more: My World Is In Your BlindspotThis is a series of paintings reflecting the struggle and sacrifices made by the Tibetan people for independence. The author is Tenzing Rigdol, who is a Tibetan and influenced a lot by the Dalai Lama and traditional Tibetan culture. The…
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Kodaikanal Won’t video: All you need to know about the Unilever mercury dumping case
Read more: Kodaikanal Won’t video: All you need to know about the Unilever mercury dumping caseThe Kodaikanal Won’t video by Chennai artist Sofia Ashraf, asking Unilver to ‘clean up their mess’ in connection with the Kodaikanal mercury dumping, has gone viral with over 783,533 views at the time of writing this, in just over two…
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Naming the Lost Memorials
Read more: Naming the Lost MemorialsIn May 2020, a team of artists, activists, folklorists, and people who lost loved ones to Covid-19 came together to make monthly memorial sites in New York City to remember victims of the Covid-19 pandemic. They continued installing memorials around…
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Gay men take over the Proud Boys Twitter hashtag
Read more: Gay men take over the Proud Boys Twitter hashtagThe Proud Boys hashtag, which members of the far-right group have been using, was trending Sunday after gay men on Twitter hijacked it and flooded the feed with photos of their loved ones and families and with memes. The Proud…
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The Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and Action
Read more: The Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and ActionThe Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and Action (https://theamplificationproject.com) is a community-led participatory public digital archive to which any artist and activist can document, preserve and share their work inspired, influenced, or affected by forced migration.…
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Putting LSD in Chicago’s water supply
Read more: Putting LSD in Chicago’s water supplyAs the Yippies prepared for protests at 1968 Democratic National Convention, Yippie Paul Krassner rattled Chicago leaders by suggesting that the Yippies were planning to put LSD in the city water supply. As Abbie Hoffman said at the Chicago Seven…
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Left Litter in the Park? Thailand Officials Will Mail It to Your Home
Read more: Left Litter in the Park? Thailand Officials Will Mail It to Your HomeOfficials in Thailand had an unorthodox approach to deal with visitors who left a tent filled with litter in a national park: mail the trash to the offenders. The country’s environment minister said that he wanted to call attention to…
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The Climate Clock
Read more: The Climate ClockFor more than 20 years, Metronome, which includes a 62-foot-wide 15-digit electronic clock that faces Union Square in Manhattan, has been one of the city’s most prominent and baffling public art projects. Its digital display once told the time in…
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My Calling (Card) #1 Meta-Performance (1987-88; 00:58:00)
Read more: My Calling (Card) #1 Meta-Performance (1987-88; 00:58:00)Adrian Piper created ‘calling cards’ that can stand alone as individual works, but Piper also used them in performances. The works described here include edited documentary footage from two performances (one in Chicago, one in Harlem) based on My Calling…
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Feminists Paper Paris With Stark Posters Decrying Domestic Abuse
Read more: Feminists Paper Paris With Stark Posters Decrying Domestic AbuseA widespread but illegal campaign by a group calling itself “the Gluers” uses posters to denounce violence against women. It has become an effective — and ubiquitous — tool to raise awareness. On a recent mild night, a squad of…