Projects tagged
Corporate Power
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Nikeplatz
Read more: NikeplatzIn September 2003 the news went out nationwide: Karlsplatz, one of Vienna’s main squares, is soon to be renamed Nikeplatz. Apart from the new name, it appears that a huge monument in the shape of Nike’s famous “Swoosh” logo will…
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Public Dissentiment
Read more: Public DissentimentThe project consists of an online tool that helps protestors negatively impact the price of a publicly traded stock by using the same sentiment analysis tools used by many stock trading algorithms. In the contemporary stock markets, high-frequency trading bots…
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The Peoples Bank of Govanhill
Read more: The Peoples Bank of GovanhillThe People’s Bank of Govanhill uses social and activist art practices to involve people in re-imagining the local economy, looking at how we can put feminist economics into practice in the local community. The project was intiated by artist Ailie…
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Western Flag (Spingletop,Texas) 2017
Read more: Western Flag (Spingletop,Texas) 2017Western Flag depicts the site of the ‘Lucas Gusher’ – the world’s first major oil find – in Spindletop, Texas in 1901, now barren and exhausted. The site is recreated as a digital simulation the center of which is marked…
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UNLESS
Read more: UNLESSUNLESS by Stephanie Cardon is a vibrant floor-to-ceiling installation that fills the main entryway of Boston’s landmark Prudential Center. Commissioned by Boston Properties and curated and produced by Now + There, UNLESS explores sustainability, climate justice, and how taking action…
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The Oil Enforcement Agency
Read more: The Oil Enforcement Agency“In 2006 members from a coalition of environmental groups posed as a government agency—the Oil Enforcement Agency—that should have existed, but didn’t. Complete with SWAT-team-like caps and badges, agents ticketed SUVs, impounded fuel-inefficient vehicles at auto shows, and generally modeled…
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The Yes Men – Bhopal Hoax
Read more: The Yes Men – Bhopal Hoax“I am very, very happy to announce that for the first time, Dow is accepting full responsibility for the Bhopal catastrophe. We have a $12 billion plan to finally, at long last, fully compensate the victims, including the 120,000 who…
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A Haunting Artistic Tribute to Garment Workers Killed in Bangladesh and the US
Read more: A Haunting Artistic Tribute to Garment Workers Killed in Bangladesh and the USNORTHFIELD, Minn. — Exactly 1,281 white garments hang from the ceiling of the Perlman Teaching Museum’s Braucher Gallery. The collared shirts, knit sweaters, tights, and other items of clothing glow with an eerie luminosity. The 1,281 garments represent the number…
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LEGOVC
Read more: LEGOVCLEGOVC is a fictional, made up, 100% fake, plastic, ‘pantomime villain’ Vice Chancellor of a fake British University struggling as his utter managerial brilliance crumbles in the face of sustained strike action by his staff after their pension scheme is…
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Oxycontin Protest at the Met
Read more: Oxycontin Protest at the MetThe US artist Nan Goldin has staged her first public protest since she launched her activist group PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now), shaming members of the Sackler family who have profited from the sale of Oxycontin and institutions that have…