Projects tagged
Cities
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Urbaneer
Read more: UrbaneerWhose job is it to create a city? Our intention is to jumpstart a new profession that can re-invent and negotiate the complex mix that encompasses a city. We have defined a radical new occupation to regenerate, pioneer, and sustain…
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Art in Odd Places
Read more: Art in Odd PlacesArt in Odd Places (AiOP) presents visual and performance art in unexpected public spaces. AiOP also produces an annual festival along 14th Street in Manhattan, NYC from Avenue C to the Hudson River each October. Art in Odd Places (AiOP)…
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Circus Amok
Read more: Circus AmokCircus Amok is a New York City based circus-theater company whose mission is to provide free public art addressing contemporary issues of social justice to the people of New York City. Directed and founded by Jennifer Miller, the group has…
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Big street barbecue for the distinct people
Read more: Big street barbecue for the distinct peopleIn São Paulo, just like in many other metropolitan regions, public transport is not as effective as it could be. Buses and trains usually run overcrowded, late and on limited hours, so that owning a car increases a lot one’s…
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Reclaim the Streets occupy Camden High Street
Read more: Reclaim the Streets occupy Camden High StreetA collective resistance movement dedicated to reasserting communal ownership of common spaces, Reclaim the Streets staged its first action on Camden High Street in 1995, when activists closed the road to vehicle traffic to make way for a street party.…
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Sao Paulo goes completely ad-free with Clean City Law
Read more: Sao Paulo goes completely ad-free with Clean City LawMayor Gilberto Kassab passed a Clean City Law that banned all public advertising in Sao Paulo, one of the world’s most populous cities. The mayor gained the support of the city’s elites in pressing the law as an anti-pollution measure…
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Cegos | Ciegos | Blind
Read more: Cegos | Ciegos | BlindA troupe of approximately thirty women and men of various ages, sizes, ethnicities and performance backgrounds marched through the performance art space of SESC-Vila Mariana in Sao Paulo and then through the streets of downtown Sao Paulo, silent, blind folded,…
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Witness to the ruins/Testigo de las ruinas
Read more: Witness to the ruins/Testigo de las ruinasThe starting point of this artistic project, carried out by MAPA within its Laboratory of Artists in Colombia, is the disappearance of one of the oldest “barrios” downtown Bogotá: El Cartucho. This place, where thousands of people survived for decades…
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Dramatic Dissent: the Occupation of Rome’s Teatro Valle
Read more: Dramatic Dissent: the Occupation of Rome’s Teatro ValleIn 2009, conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi demoted the publicly-funded Italian Theatre Insitute (or ETI) to “disposable” status, hacking funding for the arts considerably. ETI promoted Italian companies abroad, managed the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, the Duse theatre in…
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Project Orange- Detroit, Demolition, Disneyland
Read more: Project Orange- Detroit, Demolition, DisneylandObject Orange (formerly Detroit. Demolition. Disneyland. is an artistic project in Detroit, Michigan which seeks to draw attention to dilapidated buildings by painting them orange. The project is composed of local artists, who go by their first names only (Christian,…