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La Casa Invisible Protests Against Gentrification

Date:
Dec 3 2002

La Casa Invisible project was started in 2007 in Malaga, Spain, when a group of socially involved participants squatted in a run-down building, aiming to eventually claim the legal rights to the property (Moor & Smart, 2016). The space was…

China’s Creative Acts of Protest: Memes, Puns and Blank Sheets of Paper

Practitioner:
People of China

Date:
Dec 3 2002

In Shanghai, a vigil grew into a street protest where many held blank sheets of white paper in a symbol of tacit defiance. In Beijing, students at Tsinghua University raised signs showing a math equation devised by the Russian physicist…

Ride to the Polls

Practitioner:
Allie Young

Date:
Dec 3 2002

On Friday, 30-year-old activist Allie Young will lead a group of trail riders through Navajo Nation to help voters cast their ballots in the 2020 election on the last day of early voting in Arizona. Young, a citizen of the…

Young Latinas are using their quinceañeras to get Texas voters to the polls this election

Practitioner:
Ride to the Polls

Date:
Dec 3 2002

A group of young Latinas donned their quince gowns on Oct. 29 and led their families and friends along the streets of San Antonio, urging them to harness their electoral voice and vote in the upcoming midterm elections. The event…

Violence Against Women Art Map

Practitioner:
Lauren Stetz, Ph.D.

Date:
Dec 3 2002

The Violence Against Women (VAW) Art Map was conceptualized in the fall of 2018, in the wake of the #MeToo movement by Dr. Lauren Stetz, as part of her doctoral research in Art Education with a minor in Women’s, Gender,…

Anthem From the Iranian Protests

Practitioner:
Shervin Hajipour

Date:
Dec 3 2002

On September 27, 2022, a song by Iranian musician Shervin Hajipour ‘broke’ Persian social media. Hajipour posted a video on Instagram of himself singing a song for the mass protests that began in Iran following the death of Jina (Mahsa)…

Trump ‘played’ by K-pop fans and TikTok users who disrupted Tulsa rally

Practitioner:
K-Pop Fans

Date:
Dec 3 2002

K-pop fans and users of TikTok claimed tickets to Donald Trump’s Saturday night rally in Tulsa then did not use them, as part of a coordinated effort which helped to leave hundreds of seats empty in a 19,000-capacity venue. As…

Effects of Gentrification in Madrid

Practitioner:
El Rey de la Ruina

Date:
Dec 3 2002

El Rey de la Ruina (The King of the Ruin) has become an act of powerful recognizable symbolism throughout Madrid. In terms of his popular heart symbolism, the artist chose the organ, a heart, as one of his favorite symbols…

Aquatic Protests Against Climate Inaction

Practitioner:
Greenpeace

Date:
Dec 3 2002

A protest on June 18, 2022 took place in the Guadalquivir River in Seville, where fifty Greenpeace activists used their bodies and environment to stage a demonstrative performance, highlighting the water crisis that the Andalusian region is predicted to face…

Ghost Army

Practitioner:
US MIlitary

Date:
Dec 3 2002

The Ghost Army had one goal: Deceive Hitler’s forces and their allies. Credited with fine-tuning the ancient art of deceptive warfare, the American military units of the Ghost Army used inflatable tanks and trucks to cloak the true size and…