Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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Pothole Party!
Read more: Pothole Party!“Potholes!” That’s what Nikola Pisarev, a co-founder of the Contemporary Art Center (CAC) in North Macedoniona responded with when asked what sort of impact creative activism can have. Nikola went on to explain what he meant, describing a series of…
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Chilean Protesters Used Lasers to Bring down Police Drone
Read more: Chilean Protesters Used Lasers to Bring down Police DroneA technological feat has emerged amid the Chilean protests. A video of protestors bringing down a police drone has gone viral on social media sites. These protestors didn’t use any physical or gun force to bring the drone down. Instead,…
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COUNTERSPACE
Read more: COUNTERSPACECounterspace is an independent curatorial platform functioning as the first decolonial thinktank mapping cultural activism worldwide. It shapes collectively decolonial toolkits with common tools and resources, and a global directory browsable by continent, praxis, and social construct, as a Beuys-inspired…
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“Si 8 Do” Seville Poop Project
Read more: “Si 8 Do” Seville Poop ProjectIn the Si 8 Do project, Seville activists convened in a neglected barrio during the Euromediterranean Conference on Sustainable Cities, which was taking place in Seville. To protest the city’s housing policies—selling prime public land to wealthy developers, and neglecting…
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Tim DeChristopher Thwarts a Land Auction (Bidder 70)
Read more: Tim DeChristopher Thwarts a Land Auction (Bidder 70)In December 2008, Tim DeChristopher, along with his church group, was protesting outside a Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease auction of 116 parcels of public land in Utah’s red rock country. Tim decided to take his protest…
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Fake Drone Crash on UCSD Campus
Read more: Fake Drone Crash on UCSD CampusStudents at the University of California-San Diego were surprised when an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, commonly referred to as a drone, crashed in the middle of campus — or at least they thought that’s what happened. A photo of a drone…
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Balls Across America
Read more: Balls Across AmericaThe Survivaball made its first appearance in 2006, when “Halliburton representatives” attended a conference on catastrophic climate change and demonstrated the functionality of the large inflatable suits (“a gated community for one”), which keep corporate managers safe from global warming.…
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Coal for the rich
Read more: Coal for the richStudents from Colombia College teamed up with Greenpeace and The Yes Men to take on the Chicago coal industry in an elaborate, multi-layered hoax. The group created a scheme to announce that a new coal plant was planned—but instead of…
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Problem Air Drop
Read more: Problem Air DropIn 2013, Ghana ThinkTank received a Creative Capital Award for Emerging Fields, enabling them to begin the multi-year ThinkTank at the Border project. In this project, they are collecting problems from civilian border patrols like the Minutemen, “Patriot” groups, and…
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Tamms Year Ten
Read more: Tamms Year TenTamms Year Ten is an all-volunteer grassroots coalition of artists, prisoners, men formerly incarcerated in Tamms, family members and other people of conscience. In 2008, at the ten-year anniversary of the opening of the Tamms supermax prison, the group launched…