Politics & Government – Page 62 – Actipedia

Inflatable Cobblestones

Practitioner:
Eclectic Electric Collective, Los Reflectantes, Tools for Action

Date:
May 1 2012

On the 25th revolutionary 1st of May demonstration in Berlin-Kreuzberg, protesters were throwing huge inflatable cobblestones, made of silver-reflective foil and tape. The creative intervention was initiated by the former art-activist collective “eclectic electric collective” (e.e.c.) and was meant as…

In China, Myths of Social Cohesion

Practitioner:
Chinese Government

Date:
May 1 2012

KASHGAR, China — They come for the camel rides, the chance to dress up like a conquering Qing dynasty soldier or to take selfies in front of one of the most historic Islamic shrines in Xinjiang, the sprawling region in…

Mapping skin deep

Practitioner:
CERRUCHA

Date:
May 1 2012

“Mapping skin deep” is an audiovisual public installation consisting of portraits with testimonies from refugee/undocumented immigrants currently residing in Montreal and elsewhere. Their bodies have been scarred in post-production tracing the route they took from their homeland to Montreal, hence…

ScareMail

Practitioner:
Benjamin Grosser

Date:
May 1 2012

ScareMail is a web browser extension that makes email “scary” in order to disrupt NSA surveillance. Extending Google’s Gmail, the work adds to every new email’s signature an algorithmically generated narrative containing a collection of probable NSA search terms. This…

ACTIVISTS POUR CONCRETE OVER ‘ANTI-HOMELESS’ SPIKES

Practitioner:
London Black Revolutionaries

Date:
May 1 2012

The war against London’s “anti-homeless” spikes escalated today from sign-waving to radical criminal action In the small hours of the morning, some activists dressed as builders poured concrete over the metal spikes outside a Tesco Metro on Regent Street, before…

Art in Exile: Women Without Men

Practitioner:
Shirin Neshat

Date:
May 1 2012

For third world artists who are forced into exile, the creativity process could be greatly challenged due to displacement in language, community and history. Many filmmakers in exile tend to look at their connection to the homeland in strictly political…

The Sugar Sphinx

Practitioner:
Kara Walker

Date:
May 1 2012

Over the past twenty-five years or so, ever since her spectacular New York début at the Drawing Center, in 1994, the now forty-four-year-old artist Kara Walker’s visual production—sculptures, cutouts, drawings, films—has been diaristic in tone. But the diary Walker keeps…

Tibetan Self-immolation Portraits

Practitioner:
Liu Yi

Date:
May 1 2012

Beijing-based artist Liu Yi is working on a series of black-and-white portraits he knows will never be shown in a Chinese gallery. His varied subjects — men and women, young and old, smiling and pensive — have one thing in…

Procedure Room

Practitioner:
Nikita Kadan

Date:
May 1 2012

The project (created in 2009-2010) consists of painted plats and posters depicted with drawings of police torture scenes. Images also include snippets of email exchanges. The plates have been exhibited in numerous galleries in Ukraine, and posters were hung in…

Independence Square Sculpture: “New Ukraine”

Practitioner:
Roti

Date:
May 1 2012

French street artist Roti installed a 4-ton marble sculpture in Independence Square in Kiev Ukraine, as an expression of solidarity with government resistors and protestors. The sculpture depicts a woman’s body emerging from water. From Rojo & Harrington (Huffington post):…