Projects tagged
Health
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AIDS
Read more: AIDSPepe Espaliú was an artist from Cordoba who made various art from paintings to sculptures and public actions. He was diagnosed with AIDS in 1990, and up until 1993 when he died, he focused on drawing attention to those affected…
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Prescription Blizzard
Read more: Prescription BlizzardThe scraps of paper swirled through the Guggenheim Museum in New York on Saturday night like confetti, thrown from an upper walkway into the central rotunda before floating to the ground. Designed to look like prescription slips for OxyContin, the…
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Comic: Vaccines Work. Here Are the Facts.
Read more: Comic: Vaccines Work. Here Are the Facts.“Vaccines Work. Here Are the Facts.” is a short web comic by Maki Naro explaining “The risks, the misinformation, and the science behind history’s greatest life saver.” Fighting disinformation about vaccines is difficult. Hundreds of sites with bogus information have…
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Water Bar
Read more: Water BarNortheast Minneapolis is going to have the first full-fledged water bar of its kind, an establishment where you can sit and drink a variety of local tap waters to your heart’s content. Their delightful motto: “Water is all we have.”…
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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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Abortion Clinic – Ship Campaigns
Read more: Abortion Clinic – Ship CampaignsWomen on Waves sails a ship to countries where abortion is illegal. With the use of a ship, early medical abortions (till 61/2 weeks of pregnancy) can be provided safely, professionally and legally. Applicability of national penal legislation, and thus…
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Nongfu Spring Market
Read more: Nongfu Spring MarketThe 9,000 bottles of water on display at an art gallery in Beijing last month appeared identical to those of Nongfu Spring, one of China’s most popular spring water brands, with one jarring difference. Inside each bottle was brown, murky…
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Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides
Read more: Elegy: GTA USA Gun HomicidesA computer game as a data visualizer – a daily reenactment of the total number of USA gun homicides since January 1st, 2018. The project works from a daily update of gun homicides as scraped from the Gun Violence Archive.…
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Fall in Love With Nature
Read more: Fall in Love With NatureWe set up a gazebo and table in a public park. The gazebo had two notice boards in the shape of trees where reflections were encouraged. We had a sign with the name of the action “Fall in Love With…
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Share The Love
Read more: Share The LoveWe were ‘Superheroes’ and had fun, colourful, engaging activities which had a high visual impact with a purpose to engage the head, hand and heart. We believe that everyone has superpowers within and they just need to be released but…