Projects tagged

Clothing & Costumes

  • Entheon

    Entheon
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    May 15 2016

    A striking new cultural space is taking shape in New York’s Hudson Valley. Alex Grey and Allyson Grey, co-founders of CoSM, Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, have launched a Kickstarter campaign to build Entheon, sanctuary of visionary art, to ask for…

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  • Liberation Lab

    Liberation Lab
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    May 15 2016

    On April 30th NYU in conjunction with Free University held liberation lab in Washington Square Park from 11 30 Am until roughly 5 or 6pm. The day was very festive and full of amazing talks, performances, installations and discussions. I…

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  • Thriller Protest

    Thriller Protest
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    May 15 2016

    The following is a description of the action that Huffington post published online on 6/25/2011: “Student demonstrators took to the streets of Santiago dressed as goblins and ghouls from Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ video in their latest spirited pursuit of higher…

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  • Recycle Flash Mob

    Recycle Flash Mob
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    May 15 2016

    A group of unidentified guerrilla activists staged a unique pro recycling flashmob in a Quebec mall in July 2015. An actor ‘forgot’ an empty water bottle on the ground in a food court a couple of feet from a recycling…

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  • Guerrilla Girls- Twin Cities “takeover”

    Guerrilla Girls- Twin Cities “takeover”
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    May 15 2016

    A project as expansive as the Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover is a first for them. Kicking off on January 21, the festival will comprise a series of events by 30 different groups, which will take place until March 6…

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  • Arruinados

    Arruinados
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    May 15 2016

    In July and August 2013, O Teatrão, a Coimbra based theatre company, presented the project Arruinados, comprising three theatre performances in three abandoned spaces (‘ruins’), one in each of three cities in the Centre region of Portugal located along the…

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  • The “marriage effect”

    The “marriage effect”
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    May 15 2016

    Rights activists in Mozambique have marched through the capital Maputo to protest a colonial era law still included in new legislation that allows rapists to go unpunished if they marry their victims. The “marriage effect” clause sees convicted rapists given…

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  • What If We Switch Positions With Whales?

    What If We Switch Positions With Whales?
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    May 15 2016

    What would it be like if we switched positions with whales in captivity? Nothing like this – but at least prankster Rémi Gaillard had some fun trying to recreate the scenario. The actor and some of his friends dressed up…

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  • ‘Pharma – Greed – Kills’

    ‘Pharma – Greed – Kills’
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    May 15 2016

    April 2nd, 2016, organized by members of the Aids Coalition to Unleash Power faction in London, five activists stormed London’s Gilead Pharmaceutical offices and frantically disrobed to reveal painted backs spelling out the word ‘Greed.” About 30 other activists rallied…

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  • What the Skirt Lifts

    What the Skirt Lifts
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    May 15 2016

    “What the Skirt Lifts”, created by a student in France, is a day long protest against gender discrimination where male and female students were encouraged to wear skirts to school. External sources: https://actipedia.org/project/lift-skirt-what-skirt-lifts-what-skirt-raises http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/10834551/French-schoolbo… http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/lift-skirt-causes-french-boys-drop-trousers-day-1448851 https://www.rt.com/news/159380-boys-skirts-france-protest/

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