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ChallengeAccepted: empowering women

Practitioner:
global online users, Women in Turkey

Date:
Jan 1 2016

#ChallengeAccepted, also known as the Challenge Accepted campaign, is an Instagram tagged challenge as well as an awareness campaign on empowering women involving sharing posts of black-and-white selfies. The Instagram challenge was launched alongside another hashtag campaign #WomenSupportingWomen with the…

Vienna Rye’s Zine and Instagram: A Space for Education

Practitioner:
Vienna Rye

Date:
Jan 1 2016

Instagram and Zines have become a tool for activists worldwide, and Vienna Rye (@vrye) has amassed over 126,000 followers by promoting education, mutual aid, and advocacy. They are a self-taught visual artist and revolutionary community organizer, which translates into their…

Unhappily Ever

Practitioner:
Jeff Hong

Date:
Jan 1 2016

Jeff is an animation storyboard artist from Los Angeles, previously working as an animation artist on several famous Disney movies. He uses his talent to produce work highlighting environmental and social issues worldwide with Disney characters, called Unhappily Ever After.…

The Artist Is Present

Practitioner:
Marina Abramović

Date:
Jan 1 2016

From March 14, 2010 to May 31, 2010, in the Museum of Modern Art, Marina Abramović held an activist art called The Artist Is Present. In the exhibition, there were simply a pair of chairs and a desk. Abramović sat…

Rhythm 0

Practitioner:
Marina Abramović

Date:
Jan 1 2016

This is Marina Abramović’s first attempt to interact with the audience on the spot, allowing the audience to become part of her work. Guns, bullets, kitchen knives, whips and other dangerous items), the audience can use any item to do…

Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio

Practitioner:
Ricardo Levins Morales

Date:
Jan 1 2016

Ricardo Levins Morales is an artist and organizer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was born into the anti-colonial movement in Puerto Rico, and when his family moved to Chicago in 1967, he became interested in activism. After leaving high school…

‘Wolf Warrior artist’ strives to use new art to spread truth and inspire patriotism

Practitioner:
Wuheqilin

Date:
Jan 1 2016

With delicate composition, striking details and strong emotion, five editorial posters drawn by Wuheqilin have attracted some half million followers to his account on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter-like social media platform. His political views expressed in his art have led…

How Snowden Canceled the 4th of July Diplomatic Reception in Bolivia

Practitioner:
Julian Assange

Date:
Jan 1 2016

On July 2nd, 2013, after attending the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) conference, Bolivian President Evo Morales departed Russia from Vnukovo Airport in Moscow aboard his presidential plane. However, a “leak” suggested that Edward Snowden was aboard, which led Spain,…

CorrupTour

Practitioner:
Ruta Cívica

Date:
Jan 1 2016

A converted school bus with the sawed-off top is taking Mexico City visitors on the “Corruptour”, a visit to the country’s seedy underbelly of murderous misdeeds and multibillion-dollar graft by public officials. Stops include a scandal-plagued subway line that cost…

Naming the Lost Memorials

Practitioner:
artists around the country, CityLore, folklorists around the country, Fund Excluded Workers coalition, Great Small Works, Make the Road, Naming the Lost

Date:
Jan 1 2016

In May 2020, a team of artists, activists, folklorists, and people who lost loved ones to Covid-19 came together to make monthly memorial sites in New York City to remember victims of the Covid-19 pandemic. They continued installing memorials around…