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Her/She Senses: Imag(in)ed Malady

Practitioner:
Angela Ellsworth and Tina Takemoto

Date:
Dec 1 1993

Tina Takemoto is an artist and associate professor of visual studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her work examines issues of race, queer identity, memory, and grief. Her current project explores the hidden dimensions of same-sex…

The LES vs. Hurricane Sandy

Practitioner:
Good Old Lower East Side

Date:
Dec 1 1993

In anticipation of Climate March NYC 2014, Good Old Lower East Side, a non-profit focused on defending tenants rights and disaster preparedness outreach following the wake of Hurricane Sandy, implemented a arts-based intervention called “The LES vs. Hurricane Sandy”. In…

Men’s Magazine Prints Editions Using HIV-Infected Blood To Tackle Stigma

Practitioner:
Saatchi & Saatchi, Vangardist

Date:
Dec 1 1993

Thanks to dramatic advances in drug therapy, infection with HIV has been transformed from a death sentence to a chronic, manageable disease. HIV-positive patients can even enjoy a normal life expectancy if treatment is successful. So we needn’t worry about…

Art AIDS America traveling exhibition

Practitioner:
Jonathan David Katz and Rock Hushka

Date:
Dec 1 1993

If you visit the Art AIDS America exhibition expecting to see activist slogans and memorial pieces along with some art-world superstars, you won’t be disappointed—Keith Haring, Robert Mapplethorpe and the “Silence = Death” slogan are present and accounted for—but you…

Dharavi Biennale

Practitioner:
Education and Health Action (SNEHA), Society for Nutrition

Date:
Dec 1 1993

Dharavi Biennale For the last two weeks, residents of Dharavi have been visiting an open exhibition that seeks to raise awareness of health issues. The 22 installations on display have been created entirely by the residents of Dharavi. They can…

Most Likely Safe

Practitioner:
Food and Water Watch, Yes Lab

Date:
Dec 1 1993

In April, 2011, Food and Water Watch partnered with Yes Lab to raise questions regarding drinking water around New York City. Yes Lab, an organization that collaborates with activist groups, aims to create successful media-related creative actions that help raise…

La Bolsa o La Vida

Practitioner:
School for Creative Activism Participants

Date:
Dec 1 1993

On Thursday 18th December 2014, dozens of leading international health activists staged a colorful protest in front of Hospital del Mar in Barcelona, Spain – highlighting the high prices of Gilead’s new hepatitis C treatment, Sovaldi. The medicine costs approximately…

Poop Protest

Practitioner:
Hongkongers

Date:
Dec 1 1993

A mainland couple allowed their 2-year-old son to relieve himself by the road at Mangkok, Hong Kong and conflicted with local pedestrians who took photos of the child caused quite a stir among Chinese netizens. While the majority of mainland…

Cancer Baby’s Kimo Kawa House

Practitioner:
Lu Yang

Date:
Dec 1 1993

Lu Yang attempts to bring the negative notion of Cancer cell into a “Kimo Kawa” object of love and/or pain and hopes to open a dialogue that brings awareness to the acceptance and tolerance of living with cancer cells. Using…

Clean and Reliable Water

Practitioner:
Art and Activism Caravan

Date:
Dec 1 1993

Today over 40 people gathered at the Ministry for Internal Affairs in the centre of Tirana, the capital of Albania. The issue is Tirana’s drinking water, which is not clean, unreliable as it comes out of the tap only a…