Projects tagged
Civil Liberties
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Autonomy Cube
Read more: Autonomy CubePursuing the possibility of emancipatory use of technology, Paglen, together with Jacob Appelbaum, developed Autonomy Cube (2014). Autonomy Cube is a sculpture and internet router designed to be housed in civic spaces. The sculpture is meant to be both “seen”…
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Guide for Youth Protestors
Read more: Guide for Youth ProtestorsThe project consists of a double-sided, hand-drawn 8.5″ x 11″ quarter-fold sheet available to print and distribute freely. It features such topics as basic information on police tactics (kettling, LRADS, tear gas or pepper spray), ways cops might try to…
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Glory to Hong Kong – Protesters Create National Anthem
Read more: Glory to Hong Kong – Protesters Create National Anthem“Glory to Hong Kong,” created less than three weeks ago, has rapidly been adopted as a symbol of the pro-democracy movement. via NYTimes: “Written and composed anonymously, then modified in online forums popular with protesters, “Glory to Hong Kong” features…
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Art, Activism and the Age of AIDS
Read more: Art, Activism and the Age of AIDSDavid Wojnarowicz as a Catalyst for Collective Action Not all art is political and by no means are politics art. However, through Wojnarowicz’s works criticizing and critiquing the US government, he was able to successfully blend art and politics to…
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The Peterloo Memorial: A monument to discrimination
Read more: The Peterloo Memorial: A monument to discriminationDisabled people gathered to protest at the site where a memorial to the Peterloo massacre in 1819 is being built. We are keen to have a memorial to Peterloo, but we want one we can be proud of, rather than…
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50 People in 40 Square Meters
Read more: 50 People in 40 Square MetersIn a case of voter fraud, an investigation revealed that the party in power had won fifty votes from the residents of a single apartment. A group of activists reproduced the apartment in a downtown square and invited 50 people…
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Police dogs and firehoses
Read more: Police dogs and firehosesPolice dogs and firehoses is, for most of the world, the image of Birmingham made by Bull Connor and the Birmingham Police Department during the Birmingham Campaign of the African American Civil Rights Movement. While both weapons had been used…
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Diagram of the “Brookes” Slave Ship
Read more: Diagram of the “Brookes” Slave ShipThis diagram of the ‘Brookes’ slave ship is probably the most widely copied and powerful image used by the abolitionist campaigners. It depicts the ship loaded to its full capacity – 454 people crammed into the hold.The ‘Brookes’ sailed the…
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Rap Challenge to the Thai Military Junta
Read more: Rap Challenge to the Thai Military JuntaBANGKOK — The rhymes came to Nutthapong Srimuong before dawn, when Bangkok is as still as it can be and the night jasmine overpowers the Thai capital with its perfume. The country whose capital is turned into a killing field…
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Tournons le dos ! / Turn our back ! [April 22, 2012 – April 23, 2017]
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Read more: Tournons le dos ! / Turn our back ! [April 22, 2012 – April 23, 2017]In France, abstention, vote of protest, lassitude or violent reactions rise from all over the crisis of our “representative democracy ». What about thinking the other way round ? What if we reappropriate the iconography of the election? With Turn…