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School of Echoes

Practitioner:
Ultra-Red

Date:
Apr 18 2001

Ultra-Red is a collective founded by two AIDS activists in 1994 to explore the intersection of the political and aesthetic through “militant sound investigations”. “While the image determines much of our understanding of activist art, Ultra-red turn the focus to…

French Feminist Collective Bearded Stand-ins

Practitioner:
Le Barbe

Date:
Apr 18 2001

Founded in 2008, the French Feminist Collective, La Barbe, targets inequities of female representation in media and cultural/governmental institutions. La Barbe, meaning “beard” in French, is also an old colloquial expression for “enough is enough!”. Known as barbues, the female…

Two Female Graffiti Artists in Afghanistan

Practitioner:
Shamsia Hassani and Malina Suliman

Date:
Apr 18 2001

Meet Shamsia Hassani. At age 24, she is one of Afghanistan’s first female graffiti artists. An associate professor of sculpture at Kabul University, she was first introduced to graffiti in 2010 by British artist, Chu, during a week-long course in…

SPEAK

Practitioner:
various groups around the world

Date:
Apr 18 2001

Last night I attended an Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault Speak Out, where people across campus from the LGBT community and coalitions of color came together in one sacred space to share their stories with strangers. For many, including…

The Exquisite Uterus

Practitioner:
Alison Gates, Helen Klebesadel

Date:
Apr 18 2001

This project served as an educational tool to demystify the female body and bring awareness to the issues of reproductive rights and the ignorance that sometimes plagues common misconceptions about the reproductive system. I think this campaign is very successful…

Lady Gaga’s Meat dress

Practitioner:
Lady Gaga

Date:
Apr 18 2001

Lady Gaga showed up to the 2010 MTV Music Video Awards wearing a dress made out of raw meat. She claimed that the dress showed her disgust towards the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy, but missed the media opportunity to…

Breaking the Spell

Practitioner:
Voices of Women Media

Date:
Apr 18 2001

In 2012, VOW Media worked with young girls – who have been victimized by, or are at the risk of falling victim to “loverboys”, as well as girls who have gone through severe traumatic experiences, such as repeated emotional, physical…

Stop Telling Women to Smile

Practitioner:
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

Date:
Apr 18 2001

Stop Telling Women to Smile is a street art project by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh that addresses gender based street harassment. Street harassment is a serious issue that affects women world wide. This project attempts to take women’s voices, and faces, and…

Afghan Grafitti artist Malina Suliman Refuses to Back Down

Practitioner:
Malina Suliman

Date:
Apr 18 2001

After Afghan artist Malina Suliman’s father suffered a brutal attack in their hometown of Kandahar, the Suliman family fled to Mumbai, where they plan on staying until the end of March. Malina is a 23 year-old grafitti artist whose work…

Slashing the Rokeby Venus

Practitioner:
Mary Raleigh Richardson, WSPU

Date:
Apr 18 2001

On March 10, 1914, Mary Richardson slashed Velasquez’s “Rokeby Venus” with a small axe during public hours at the National Gallery in London. A militant suffragette protesting the force-feeding of imprisoned suffragettes in prison (and the Cat and Mouse Act…