Projects tagged
Amplifies (issue or campaign)
Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign. Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.
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Operation First Casualty (OFC)
Read more: Operation First Casualty (OFC)Monday June 18, 2007 marked history with Operation First Casualty (OFC) – part IV, Chicago, Illinois. As IVAW members were coming into town, organizers were finishing last minute details. Participating IVAW members were from Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, DC and…
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Bread For All
Read more: Bread For AllCivil activists set up a giant loaf of bread on the small square of a bus stop near the Cathedral Store in Center to remind passersbys that a large number of their fellow citizens live below the poverty threshold. “Bread…
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Support for birds in Skopje
Read more: Support for birds in SkopjeAnonymous urban artists set up art installations, large nest eggs, at several locations in Skopje, wanting to alarm the growing number of trees in the city. In the nest read a message “You cut all the trees, where do we…
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Street Advertising Takeover – Artist turns billboards into democratic spaces
Read more: Street Advertising Takeover – Artist turns billboards into democratic spaces“Two weekends ago, a loose network of these artists and activists, under the name Subvertisers International, launched their first global effort to reclaim our shared public environment from its monopolization by commercial media. The demand was not for better or…
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Hypothetical Development Corporation
Read more: Hypothetical Development Corporation“As a public service, H.D.O. invents a hypothetical future for each selected structure. Unlike a traditional, reality-based developer, however, our organization is not bound by rules relating to commercial potential, practical materials, or physics. In our view, plausibility is a…
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And Where Do I Drive?
Read more: And Where Do I Drive?Cyclist activists from the Koce, Return to the Street initiative set up sculptures symbolically showing the marginalization of cyclists in the city, the inadequate and dysfunctional infrastructure for this means of transport, but also to point out the large number…
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14,000 Refugee Life Jackets
Read more: 14,000 Refugee Life JacketsChinese artist Ai Weiwei covered a Berlin landmark with thousands of refugee life jackets for his latest installation. The striking display was the activist’s attempt to highlight the scale of migrants taking to the seas every day. Ai’s team began…
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In/on The Way: Story Time
Read more: In/on The Way: Story Time“Story Time” emphasizes the significance of knowing the cultural histories of various nations and milieus, for it is precisely this knowledge that represents the first common point on the way towards understanding other cultures arriving in Europe with migratory flows.…
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Parliament in Exile
Read more: Parliament in ExileDecolonizing Architecture/Art Residency (DAAR) is an art and architecture collective set up by Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal and Eyal Weizman, based in Palestine. Their work is a critical examination of the role played by architecture in the occupation of the…
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THE NAMES OF THOSE KILLED IN THE SYRIAN CONFLICT, BETWEEN 15th OF MARCH 2011 AND 31st OF DECEMBER 2016
Read more: THE NAMES OF THOSE KILLED IN THE SYRIAN CONFLICT, BETWEEN 15th OF MARCH 2011 AND 31st OF DECEMBER 2016A performance by artist Santiago Sierra, titled THE NAMES OF THOSE KILLED IN THE SYRIAN CONFLICT, BETWEEN 15th OF MARCH 2011 AND 31st OF DECEMBER 2016, took place for a total duration of eight days from May 21 to 29,…
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Autonomous Zones
Read more: Autonomous ZonesAfter winning the parliamentary elections of 2014 Gruevski was accused by the opposition of rigging the elections, which led the latter to boycott the sessions of the legislative. Mass protests followed with the government – though nominally pro-EU and pro-NATO…
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Arca
Read more: ArcaAlejandro Ghersi, the Venezuelan-born artist behind Arca, is part of a relatively recent and growing diaspora, and at a time when the political situation back home is at a fever pitch, it feels difficult not to see the ways this…