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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Wrap my Hijab
Read more: Wrap my HijabMona Haydar’s first single, “Hijabi (Wrap My Hijab)” is an empowering anthem for women everywhere who wear headscarves. It’s also a sharp rebuke to those who dare to ask headscarf-clad women what their hair looks like underneath, whether they’re hot…
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The Gate
Read more: The GateA site specific intervention аs part of the group exhibition Sculptural, organized and partly financed by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje. The text INVEST IN FUTURISM is a quotation of a gaffe uttered by the Macedonian PM on public…
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Education not Incarceration
Read more: Education not IncarcerationWhen you design an economy to be based on short term profit to the benefit of giant corporations, the results over the long term will be a country so hostile to human life that the unreasonable and unthinkable becomes an…
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The Oil Enforcement Agency
Read more: The Oil Enforcement Agency“In 2006 members from a coalition of environmental groups posed as a government agency—the Oil Enforcement Agency—that should have existed, but didn’t. Complete with SWAT-team-like caps and badges, agents ticketed SUVs, impounded fuel-inefficient vehicles at auto shows, and generally modeled…
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Borders
Read more: BordersThe video for “Borders,” a song off MIA’s album Matahdatah, features images recalling all sorts of migrations from the developing world—there are people crossing deserts, fences, and bodies of water. Though much of M.I.A.’s work has been about women and…
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The Yes Men – Bhopal Hoax
Read more: The Yes Men – Bhopal Hoax“I am very, very happy to announce that for the first time, Dow is accepting full responsibility for the Bhopal catastrophe. We have a $12 billion plan to finally, at long last, fully compensate the victims, including the 120,000 who…
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BP protest at Tate Britain
Read more: BP protest at Tate BritainProtesters bathed an entrance to the Tate Britain in mock oil provoking anger from guests attending a party to mark 20 years of BP’s sponsorship of the flagship gallery. A dozen veiled artists, angered by the Tate’s continuing involvement with…
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Feast
Read more: FeastVoina conducted a wake for absurdist poet and Soviet-era dissident Dmitry Prigov, featuring a table with food and vodka, in a Moscow Metro car. Originally, they had planned an action involving Prigov but he died before they were able to…
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Abortion Clinic – Ship Campaigns
Read more: Abortion Clinic – Ship CampaignsWomen on Waves sails a ship to countries where abortion is illegal. With the use of a ship, early medical abortions (till 61/2 weeks of pregnancy) can be provided safely, professionally and legally. Applicability of national penal legislation, and thus…
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Orixás
Read more: OrixásImagine if back in the 1960s, creators Jack Kirby and Stan Lee had found inspiration for The Avengers in Yoruba mythology. Instead of Iron Man, we’d have the warrior Oxaguiã. Taking the place of the blue-eyed, blonde-haired Norse god Thor…
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Levitating the Pentagon
Read more: Levitating the PentagonIt was 1967, and sentiment against the Vietnam War was in the air nationwide. The counterculture was flourishing on the heels of the Summer of Love. Organizers from Mobe — the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam…
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Colorful Revolution
Read more: Colorful RevolutionA wiretapping scandal rocked the small Balkan nation in 2016 when opposition leader Zoran Zaev began publishing excerpts of secret recordings that were made by the national security service which targeted up to 20,000 people, including government officials, journalists and…