Projects tagged
Corporate Power
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“Human Cost” Oily Protest at the Tate
Read more: “Human Cost” Oily Protest at the TateOn the one-year anniversary of the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, artist-activists at Liberate Tate staged a guerrilla performance in the Tate Britain galleries to highlight the museum’s ties to BP. The peformance: “A naked member…
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“Hail to the Thief” : political art or creative activism?
Read more: “Hail to the Thief” : political art or creative activism?Established Cape Town based artist Brett Murray returns to Goodman Gallery Johannesburg with Hail to the Thief II. This body of satirical work continues his acerbic attacks on abuses of power, corruption and political dumbness seen in his 2010 Cape…
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Man at the Crossroads
Read more: Man at the CrossroadsIn 1932, Rivera was commissioned by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and her husband John D. Rockefeller Jr. to paint a mural for the lobby of Rockefeller Center. Rivera kept the original, approved plan for the two outer sides of the mural…
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Candid Call Centre
Read more: Candid Call CentreFrom March 29 to April 28, 2012, artist Angel Chen transformed Toronto’s Whippersnapper Gallery into a pop-up call centre to field questions on the financial crisis. Phone lines were manned by passers-by, volunteers and guest operators, all of whom solicited…
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Whirl-Mart Ritual Resistance
Read more: Whirl-Mart Ritual Resistance“Whirl-Mart Ritual Resistance is a participatory experiment. It is art and action. It came into being in 2001 as a response to Adbusters magazine’s call for foolish action on the first of April. What began as a single happening in…
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Just Fashion: Critical Cases on Social Justice and Fashion
Read more: Just Fashion: Critical Cases on Social Justice and FashionOver the course of a semester, fashion hactivist and fashion social justice scholar, Otto Von Busch, facilitated a course on “Critical Fashion and Social Justice,” where graduate fashion students at Parsons design school researched, contextualized and at times critiqued case…
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Human Cost, Tate Britain Performance – First anniversary of the Gulf of Mexico disaster
Read more: Human Cost, Tate Britain Performance – First anniversary of the Gulf of Mexico disaster“Human Cost, Tate Britain Performance (87 minutes), charcoal and sunflower oil 20 April 2011 – First anniversary of the Gulf of Mexico disaster. On the same day, 166 people who work in the arts published a letter in the Guardian…
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Money on an Island (Hip-hop video)
Read more: Money on an Island (Hip-hop video)The Apopalyptics take on tax-dodging multi-national corporations Lyrics below (for subtitles – click – clip sous-titré en français et anglais) Lyrics: Money on an island © O.McEldowney/D.Cole 2012 – www.apopalyptics.com You can keep your money on an island You can…