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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People’s Tours: A social history of the South End walking tour
Read more: People’s Tours: A social history of the South End walking tourIn early 2012, a group of artists, activists and assorted other odd balls got together to form People’s Tours. The idea was to give walking tours in the Boston area. Standard enough. But instead of the usual history, we would…
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Anti-Capitalism Art on the Louvre’s Glass Pyramid
Read more: Anti-Capitalism Art on the Louvre’s Glass PyramidFor the first time since its controversial installation in 1989, the I.M. Pei-designed Louvre Pyramid has been decorated in a museum-sanctioned act of anti-capitalist activism. Italian conceptual artist Michelangelo Pistoletto has imposed a three-looped infinity symbol on the pyramid’s western…
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Everyday Sexism Project
Read more: Everyday Sexism ProjectStarted by UK resident Laura Bates, The Everyday Sexism project is an open forum for women to record their stories of experienced sexism. The project was started as a means to show that gender inequality and sexism pervade contemporary society.…
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Operation Paydirt
Read more: Operation Paydirt“Operation Paydirt is a multidisciplinary, artist-driven project advancing a solution to the devastating problem of lead (Pb) contaminated soil that puts thousands of children at risk for severe learning disabilities and behavioral problems. The goals of the project are to…
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‘Women on Walls’ campaign empower women via street art
Read more: ‘Women on Walls’ campaign empower women via street artMaha ElNabawi Amid the bleak backdrop of a revolution-riddled Egypt, a beacon of positivity shone on downtown Cairo Friday during the launch of one of the most exciting, social-conscious street art collaborations to happen this year. “Women on Walls” or…
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Complementary Currency Project
Read more: Complementary Currency ProjectInitially organized to respond to holes in service provision following Hurricane Katrina, Burners Without Borders has since 2005 “emerged as a community led, grassroots group that encourages innovative, civic participation that creates positive change locally.” One ongoing project headed by…
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School of Echoes
Read more: School of EchoesUltra-Red is a collective founded by two AIDS activists in 1994 to explore the intersection of the political and aesthetic through “militant sound investigations”. “While the image determines much of our understanding of activist art, Ultra-red turn the focus to…
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Wrinkles of the City
Read more: Wrinkles of the CityI think this is a very interesting project that is intended to pay hommage by showcasing portraits of survivors of the Cuban revolution. They are displayed in the streets of Havana and, as the artists explains, this is a place…
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Real Women
Read more: Real WomenThe Dove Campaign for Real Beauty is a worldwide marketing/public relations campaign launched in 2004 that includes advertisements, video, workshops, sleepover events and the publication of a book and the production of a play. The principle behind the campaign is…
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Nameless Vigilantes
Read more: Nameless VigilantesAnonymous (used as a mass noun) is a loosely associated hacktivist group. It originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain. It is…
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Smithsonian Collection of “Occupy Wall Street” Posters on View at Wesleyan
Read more: Smithsonian Collection of “Occupy Wall Street” Posters on View at WesleyanAfter collecting street art and memorabilia from “Occupy Wall Street” since the fall of 2011, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History has lent its collection of Occupy Wall Street posters to Wesleyan’s Davison Art Center. The posters will make…
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Park(ing) Day: Global Movement for More Urban Open Space
Read more: Park(ing) Day: Global Movement for More Urban Open SpaceIn 2005, Rebar, a design studio in San Francisco, transformed a single metered parking space into a temporary public park. The area where this two-hour park took place was one that lacked public open space. This was the first Park(ing)…