Projects tagged
Does nothing (at all)
Doesn’t really have an impact, beyond possibly expressing the artist-activist’s dissatisfaction with the world.
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Do Not Talk About Climate Change
Read more: Do Not Talk About Climate ChangeFranke James put up “Do Not Talk about Climate Change” posters around cities to raise people’s awareness on climate change issues. The artist cited that many Canadian cities are ill-prepared for catastrophic weather. CBS reported that “Many Canadian cities and…
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Barbed Wire Protest
Read more: Barbed Wire ProtestIn May, 2013, Russian performance artist Petr Pavlovsky wrapped his body, nude, in barbed wire and lay outside the St. Petersburg legislative assembly. The act was in protest of restrictions imposed on freedom of speech and assembly. Police officers were…
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Red Square Performance “Fixation”
Read more: Red Square Performance “Fixation”Petr Pavlensky, a Russian performance artist, sent a nail through his scrotum to the cobblestones of Red Square in Moscow (on a holiday in celebration of law enforcement). He was later charged with hooliganism. Pavlensky, as quoted in the Guardian:…
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Bulgarian students protest for ‘change’
Read more: Bulgarian students protest for ‘change’“Wake up!” chanted some 2,000 protesters rallying in front of Sofia University after students, who have been occupying part of the university since October 25, called for faculty and anti-government protesters to join their demonstration. Protesters marched in the streets…
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Coca Cola is Out of Order – Grassroots Campaign For Container Deposit Recycling in Australia
Read more: Coca Cola is Out of Order – Grassroots Campaign For Container Deposit Recycling in AustraliaIn March 2013 we started a grassroots boycott movement against Coca-Cola for exploiting legal loopholes to kill off container deposit recycling in the Northern Territory. We simply used the same successful strategy as the ANZ Out of Order action, putting…
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Coal Seam Greed – Coal Seam Gas Hoax
Read more: Coal Seam Greed – Coal Seam Gas HoaxCoal Seam Greed was going to be a simple satire showing Katso and Nowhereman posing as a mining company called Reed Gas and erecting notices stating their intent to explore for unconventional gas or CSG in inner-city Brisbane. The idea…
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Doll Protest / Mini Protest
Read more: Doll Protest / Mini ProtestThis demonstration was in response to a new law (as of June, 2012) imposing fines for unauthorized protest of up to $20,000 for organizers and $10,000 for participants. After activists were turned down for a more traditional protest, Lyudmila Alexandrova…
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Lift the Skirt / What the Skirt Lifts / What the Skirt Raises
Read more: Lift the Skirt / What the Skirt Lifts / What the Skirt RaisesWhat the Skirt Lifts is a day long protest against gender discrimination initiated by student Arthur Moinet and sanctioned by the Académie de Nantes, made up of local school officials. Both male and female students were encouraged to school wearing…
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Real Cost of Prisons
Read more: Real Cost of PrisonsThe Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together justice activists, artists, researchers and people directly experiencing the impact of mass criminalization to work to end mass incarceration. The Real Cost of Prisons Project is a national organization, begun in 2000.…
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New York City Food Not Bombs
Read more: New York City Food Not BombsNew York City Food Not Bombs Food Not Bombs–NYC is now working out of a kitchen provided by the Catholic Worker: 36 East First Street, between First and Second Avenues. Every Sunday they start cooking around 1:00pm and are in…
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The Real Estate Show Was Then: 1980
Read more: The Real Estate Show Was Then: 1980James Fuentes 55 Delancey Street Lower East Side Through April 27 This messy scrapbook of an exhibition reprises “The Real Estate Show,” a semifamous exhibition that opened on New Year’s Eve 1979 in a vacant, city-owned building on Delancey Street.…
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Fruit Activists Take Urban Gardens in a New Direction
Read more: Fruit Activists Take Urban Gardens in a New DirectionDEL AIRE, Calif. — Fruit looms large in the California psyche. Since the 1800s, dewy images of oranges, lemons and other fruits have been a lure for seekers of the state’s postcard essence, symbols of fertile land, felicitous climate and…