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Shouting 喊

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Shouting is one of Xu Zhen’s early works questioning the limits of individual expression. First exhibited at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005, the video shows Xu hiding in crowds and performing a series of loud screams in Shanghai. The…

Italian climate change protesters turn Venice’s Grand Canal green

Practitioner:
Extinction Rebellion group

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Italian environmentalists used a dye to turn Venice’s Grand Canal green on Saturday in protest at what they said was a lack of progress at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. The protesters from the Extinction Rebellion group, dangling from…

“Stop the plutonium shipment!”

Practitioner:
Mayumi Oda, Plutonium Free Future(PFF)

Date:
Apr 1 2003

While meditating in front of a Nepalese Sarasvati statue on New Year’s Day in 1991 at her California home, Mayumi received a calling that brought a sudden halt to painting. Having witnessed the horrors of atomic bombings as a child…

Voguing As Resistance

Practitioner:
Black Trans Liberation

Date:
Apr 1 2003

There were still bloodstains outside the Midwood Mobil gas station on Friday night; a fresh sign taped to a lamppost read “A Hate Crime Happened Here.” This is the place where, less than a week prior, 28-year-old O’Shae Sibley, a…

Hundreds of Pro-Palestine Protestors Stage Events at MoMA and Brooklyn Museum

Practitioner:
new yorkers

Date:
Apr 1 2003

As the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, hundreds of people gathered inside the Museum of Modern Art and outside of the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday for protests. Images and videos posted on Instagram show several banners unfurled inside MoMA’s…

Indigenous activists gather in Brazil to discuss future of the Amazon

Practitioner:
Brazilian Indigenous Activists and Environmentalists

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Thousands of Indigenous activists and environmentalists have converged in one of the Amazon’s biggest cities to voice their hopes and fears about the future of the world’s biggest rainforest. The Brazilian city of Belém will this week host a two-day…

Activists Pour Porridge and Spray Soup on Queen Victoria Sculptures in Glasgow to Protest Cost of Living

Practitioner:
This Is Rigged

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Activists poured porridge and jam on a marble bust of Queen Victoria and sprayed fire extinguishers filled with soup onto a large bronze statue of the monarch during two recent protests in Glasgow, Scotland. The group, called This Is Rigged,…

Art, Advocacy, and Action: Luke Ching’s Crusade for Labor Rights in Hong Kong

Practitioner:
Luke Ching Chin Wai

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Luke Ching Chin Wai is a conceptual artist and labour-artivist in Hong Kong. Since 2013, he has worked undercover in different low-paid jobs in the city, including as a security guard, supermarket cashier worker, and metro cleaner to learn about…

Transforming Memory into Action: The Climate Crisis Through Vintage Visions

Practitioner:
David Opdyke

Date:
Apr 1 2003

David Opdyke’s wry, panoramic visions of an America perceptibly in the grips of climate crisis were born of an artistic crisis—of “needing to come up an idea by digging somewhere other than my own brain.” Having drawn on his imagination…

Enroute Extinction

Practitioner:
Anjali Mehta

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Anjali Mehta is an illustrator from New Delhi, India. She is primarily known for her graphic shapes, gentle lines, bold colors, and strong female subjects. She is also designing a series titled Enroute Extinction that uses the same bright colors…

HUMAN RIGHTS WALL IN PARIS: A MURAL IN TRIBUTE TO SIX CONTEMPORARY ACTIVISTS, OUR PHOTOS

Practitioner:
Amnesty International in France, Mahn Kloix

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Paris inaugurates its first fresco, on the Human Rights Wall, in tribute to six contemporary activists. To be discovered in the capital’s 12th arrondissement, this XXL work of committed street art is by Mahn Kloix. Street art continues to color…

Ice Watch

Practitioner:
Olafur Eliasson

Date:
Apr 1 2003

Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has extracted 30 blocks of glacial ice from the waters surrounding Greenland and placed them in public spaces across London, where they will be left to melt. Called Ice Watch, the temporary installation is meant to…