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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Davos Shell Station Shut Down By Arctic Oil Drilling Protesters
Read more: Davos Shell Station Shut Down By Arctic Oil Drilling ProtestersDAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Activists with a big fake polar bear have occupied a Shell service station in the Swiss resort of Davos to protest Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s oil drilling in the Arctic. About 25 activists from around Europe…
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Ramiro Gomez, Public Artist Affirms The ‘Human Statement’ Of Hollywood Hills’ Gardeners, Housekeepers
Read more: Ramiro Gomez, Public Artist Affirms The ‘Human Statement’ Of Hollywood Hills’ Gardeners, HousekeepersBy Andrea Long-Chavez The recognizable figure of a Latino gardener is a common sight for most Southern California locals. But if you happen to see the cardboard painting of a gardener propped up against a chain link fence or hedge,…
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Candid Call Centre
Read more: Candid Call CentreFrom March 29 to April 28, 2012, artist Angel Chen transformed Toronto’s Whippersnapper Gallery into a pop-up call centre to field questions on the financial crisis. Phone lines were manned by passers-by, volunteers and guest operators, all of whom solicited…
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Articulo 6 (Action 5)
Read more: Articulo 6 (Action 5)MFA Fashion Parsons graduate and fashion designer Lucia Cuba, for her senior collection, created a fashion collection inspired by the victims and used to raise awareness of forced sterilization in Peru. Framed as “actions,” each collection presentation showcased before a…
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WOMEN ARE HEROES /
Read more: WOMEN ARE HEROES /The Women Are Heroes project has various steps in Africa, in Kenya, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Sudan. In January 2009, 2000 square meters of rooftops are covered with photos of the eyes and faces of the women of Kibera, in…
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Corset
Read more: CorsetArtists: Cindy Maguire, Assistant Professor Art Education Adelphi University and Teaching Artist with Artistic Noise and girls ages 13-17 from the Brentwood Residential Center on Long Island. This bra/corset is a collaborative work by Cindy Maguire, Assistant Professor of Art…
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The Rap That Sparked a Revolution
Read more: The Rap That Sparked a RevolutionAs the world watches Cairo burn, I can’t help but think that the flames of protest engulfing Egypt were sparked by Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire on December 17 after police confiscated his vegetable…
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Whirl-Mart Ritual Resistance
Read more: Whirl-Mart Ritual Resistance“Whirl-Mart Ritual Resistance is a participatory experiment. It is art and action. It came into being in 2001 as a response to Adbusters magazine’s call for foolish action on the first of April. What began as a single happening in…
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Movimiento de los indignados( MADRID 15m)
Read more: Movimiento de los indignados( MADRID 15m)El movimiento 15M fue formado por una series de protestas apartidistas con la intención de promover la democracia y la voz de las masas. Las asambleas se organizaron en plazas centrales en Madrid. A sus inicios, las protestas fueron organizadas…
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Web sites go dark in SOPA protest against plans to ban online piracy
Read more: Web sites go dark in SOPA protest against plans to ban online piracyBy Hayley Tsukayama, Published: January 18, 2012 Web users woke up this morning to find that, as promised, several prominent Web sites had gone dark or put up messages asking visitors to contact their members of Congress to vote against…
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MFA Billboard
Read more: MFA BillboardThe Guerrilla Girls tactic was well thought-out and was effective in creating a spectacle to draw attention to the issue at hand, which is the lack of female representation in the museum. Where I think the campaign has some drawbacks…
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Guerilla Girls
Read more: Guerilla GirlsThe Guerilla Girls are masked art activists who seek to bring attention to women in the art world and expose the unfair dominance of white males in the field. Their research into the racial and gender inequality in the art…