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Art AIDS America traveling exhibition

Practitioner:
Jonathan David Katz and Rock Hushka

Date:
Apr 1 2003

If you visit the Art AIDS America exhibition expecting to see activist slogans and memorial pieces along with some art-world superstars, you won’t be disappointed—Keith Haring, Robert Mapplethorpe and the “Silence = Death” slogan are present and accounted for—but you…

Radio Ambulante

Practitioner:
Radio Ambulante

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Radio Ambulante is an award-winning podcast and audio series co-founded by novelist Daniel Alarcón in 2012. Described by many commentators as a Spanish-language This American Life, Radio Ambulante publishes stories from “everywhere Spanish is spoken,” reaching as many as 60,000…

Bombay Underground: Publishing the Revolution

Practitioner:
Aqui Thami, Himanshu S

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Bombay Underground: Publishing the Revolution Flipping the modern, commercial definition of art on its head, Bombay Underground began in 1999 as a a group of people standing for free expression and creative social exchange. A means of engaging with local…

Weapons Of Mass Instruction

Practitioner:
Raul Lemesoff

Date:
Apr 1 2003

If you’re a bibliophile you’ll get a kick out of the car-turned-library that can be found in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Artist Raul Lemesoff took an old 1979 Ford Falcon, a popular mode of transport amongst the military forces of its…

Yellow pigs

Practitioner:
Jobless Brotherhood

Date:
Apr 1 2003

In February , two leaders of a guerrilla movement here traveled to the financial district carrying a wooden container that contained three pigs, each painted yellow from snout to tail. At a traffic light, the men unloaded the pigs into…

artist flashes museum-goers

Practitioner:
Deborah De Robertis

Date:
Apr 1 2003

… is this for protest? Perhaps. As is described online, it mentions that there was an attempt taken to challenge power relations, specifically between men and women; however, what I find most fascinating about this ‘action’ is that it ‘demonstrates’…

Edward Snowden bust

Practitioner:
Anonymous trio of artists, Illuminator Art Collective

Date:
Apr 1 2003

While most people slept, a trio of artists and some helpers installed a bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in Brooklyn on Monday April 6. They fused it to part of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, a memorial to Revolutionary…

Chipko Movement

Practitioner:
Chipko Andolan

Date:
Apr 1 2003

The forests of India are a critical resource for the subsistence of rural peoples throughout the country, but especially in hill and mountain areas, both because of their direct provision of food, fuel and fodder and because of their role…

Centros Sociales Okupados Autogestionados (CSOAs) in Spain: From abandoned houses to activist enclaves

Practitioner:
Movimiento Okupa

Date:
Apr 1 2003

A Centro Social Okupado Autogestionado (Self-Managed Occupied Social Center) or CSOA is an occupied building dedicated to the development of social and cultural activities. They are part of the “movimiento okupa” (“squatter movement”), a label created and circulated by the…

In China, a Young Feminist Battles Sexual Violence Step by Step

Practitioner:
Xiao Meili

Date:
Apr 1 2003

A hundred days. That’s how long it took Xiao Meili to walk from Beijing, in the arid north, to the humid, central city of Changsha. Since September, the 24-year-old has been trekking south and west across the Chinese heartland, along…

Tibetan Activists Project Messages of Hope while the Empire State Building is Lit in Chinese Colors

Practitioner:
Students for Free Tibet

Date:
Apr 1 2003

On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the communist takeover of China, Tibet activists projected messages of support for human rights and freedom from inside and outside of the Empire State Building, countering China’s public relations stunt to bathe…

Modi, A Message To You

Practitioner:
Ska Vengers

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Mode, A Message To You Remember the ska tune “A Message to You, Rudy” by the British band The Specials? Now an Indian band called the Ska Vengers is making waves with a cover of the song that wades deeply…