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American Indian artist Brian Larney uses a mix of art, activism to chronicle Indigenous history

Date:
Dec 26 2022

Brian Larney is an AI.tivist or American Indian artist. He is also an Artivist where he performs Artivism, a concept that includes art as a form of activism. Larney uses his unique artistry to tell the stories of American Indian…

7 Days of Garbage

Practitioner:
Gregg Segal

Date:
Dec 26 2022

Gregg Segal — a California-based artist who is known for using the medium of photography to explore culture with the “sensibility of a sociologist” — asked family, friends, neighbors and other acquaintances to save their trash and recyclables for a…

Zone à Défendre, or “zone to defend” (ZAD)

Practitioner:
local community groups

Date:
Dec 26 2022

The ZAD (zone à défendre, or “zone to defend”) in Western France is 4000 acres of wetland, farmland and forest that was originally intended to be built into an airport in 1965 but is now an autonomous territory occupied by…

Pro-Palestine Subway Art

Practitioner:
Anonymous Artists

Date:
Dec 26 2022

“Late last night, an autonomous group of activists placed posters throughout the subway system, blocking out advertisements with their own materials protesting Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza. One group of about a dozen gathered deep in the Bronx, obscuring their…

Activists Pour Porridge and Spray Soup on Queen Victoria Sculptures in Glasgow to Protest Cost of Living

Practitioner:
This Is Rigged

Date:
Dec 26 2022

Activists poured porridge and jam on a marble bust of Queen Victoria and sprayed fire extinguishers filled with soup onto a large bronze statue of the monarch during two recent protests in Glasgow, Scotland. The group, called This Is Rigged,…

The Invisible Man

Practitioner:
Liu Bolin

Date:
Dec 26 2022

“My intention was not to disappear in the environment but instead to let the environment take possession of me” Said Liu Bolin. With his strong photography, Bolin vanishes into the city, creating a powerful statement about our relationship, as humans,…

Zhang Huan, To Raise the Water Level in a Fishpond

Practitioner:
construction workers, fishermen, some laborers, Zhuang Huan

Date:
Dec 26 2022

Zhuang Huan invited more than 40 men – laborers, fishermen, construction workers––who had recently migrated to Beijing from other areas of China to participate. Zhang Huan said, “In order to find these workers, I visited many of the shacks where…

The Worlds Only Mobile Feminist Nation: Obsidia

Practitioner:
Carolyn Yagjian

Date:
Dec 26 2022

Introduction: The Ambulatory Free States of Obsidia The Ambulatory Free States of Obsidia is a tiny, Matriarchal, Micro-nation located at the confluence of feminism and geography. Grand Marshal Yagjian’s Great Vision for The Ambulatory Free States of Obsidia came in…

Aboriginal Embassy, Richard Bell

Practitioner:
Richard Bell

Date:
Dec 26 2022

Richard Bell has often called himself ‘an activist masquerading as an artist’. Aboriginal journalist and radio broadcaster Daniel Browning has suggested that Bell is also ‘a megaphone. But unlike so many other megaphones, his abiding message is not rhetorical, it…

Princess Diana’s 1997 landmine walk: ‘I come with my heart’

Practitioner:
Princess Diana, The American Red Cross

Date:
Dec 26 2022

It’s an evocative image — and it was intended to be: Diana, Princess of Wales, wearing a protective visor and flak jacket, walking through a live minefield in Huambo, Angola. The image of the princess, at the time one of…