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Bicycle Advocacy Love Your Lane

Practitioner:
American Youth Hostels (AYH)

Date:
Apr 7 1973

On April 7, 1973, some 400 cyclists chanting “Bikes don’t pollute” rode through midtown Manhattan in a “Bike-In” that called for separate lanes to encourage bicycling and provide safety on city streets. Bicycle advocacy had been building since the 1960s,…

Yoko Ono, Add Colour (Refugee Boat) presented by the Tate Modern

Practitioner:
Yoko Ono

Date:
Apr 7 1973

Add Colour (Refugee Boat) begins as an all-white boat in an all-white room. Ono’s instruction for this collective, participatory work reads: ‘Just blue like the ocean.’ You are invited to contribute your hopes and beliefs in blue and white. Ono…

North Korean Artist Hopes Reverse Propaganda Will Change Lives Back Home

Practitioner:
Song Byeok

Date:
Apr 7 1973

Song Byeok is one of the most acclaimed Korean artists living today. He is from North Korea, where he was a propaganda artist for the North Korean government for two decades. After defecting in 2002, Byeok has turned his prolific…

Dismaland

Practitioner:
Banksy

Date:
Apr 7 1973

Dismaland was an experimental and interactive art installation that mimicked and mocked similar attractions and characters of the Disney franchise. He later referred to it as a ‘bemusement park.’ Although the bemusement park seemed to disappear as suddenly as it…

Artist Rufina Bazlova uses embroidery as a form of ‘gentle protest’

Practitioner:
Rufina Bazlova

Date:
Apr 7 1973

Rufina Bazlova is not afraid to surrender her art to activism. Born in Belarus, a former Soviet republic ruled by the authoritarian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko for 29 years now, Bazlova knows all too well that being apolitical is a privilege…

The Aesthetic and Conceptual Impact of El Anatsui’s Sculptures

Practitioner:
El Anatsui

Date:
Apr 7 1973

El Anatsui, a visionary originally from Ghana, blends discarded materials into breathtaking sculptures that, in themselves, advocate for change and prompt us to reimagine our relationship with the environment. His meticulous artistry serves as a vivid reminder of environmental challenges…

Bread and Puppet Theatre: Insurrection Resurrection Service Circus

Practitioner:
Bread and Puppet

Date:
Apr 7 1973

The Insurrection-Resurrection Service Circus is this summer’s [started in 2020 and is ongoing] contribution to the iconic Bread and Puppet Circus tradition beloved by audiences worldwide for nearly 2 generations — a bright, raucous melee of short acts governed by…

Māori Artist Gives Glimpse of Future Water-World Full of Plastic

Practitioner:
George Nuku

Date:
Apr 7 1973

New Zealander artist George Nuku has presented his latest work as an installation that imagines the state of the world’s oceans 100 years in the future where plastics have totally changed the marine environment. Nuku’s project, dubbed Bottled Ocean 2122,…

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

Practitioner:
local community groups

Date:
Apr 7 1973

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…

Reimagining Albus

Practitioner:
Athenkosi Kwinana

Date:
Apr 7 1973

Through her work, South African art activist Athenkosi Kwinana aspires to deepen the understanding of Albinism in her native country, where she has faced discrimination in most aspects of her life from childhood days on. Working with both drawing and…