Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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The Oil Enforcement Agency
Read more: The Oil Enforcement Agency“In 2006 members from a coalition of environmental groups posed as a government agency—the Oil Enforcement Agency—that should have existed, but didn’t. Complete with SWAT-team-like caps and badges, agents ticketed SUVs, impounded fuel-inefficient vehicles at auto shows, and generally modeled…
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The Yes Men – Bhopal Hoax
Read more: The Yes Men – Bhopal Hoax“I am very, very happy to announce that for the first time, Dow is accepting full responsibility for the Bhopal catastrophe. We have a $12 billion plan to finally, at long last, fully compensate the victims, including the 120,000 who…
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BP protest at Tate Britain
Read more: BP protest at Tate BritainProtesters bathed an entrance to the Tate Britain in mock oil provoking anger from guests attending a party to mark 20 years of BP’s sponsorship of the flagship gallery. A dozen veiled artists, angered by the Tate’s continuing involvement with…
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Feast
Read more: FeastVoina conducted a wake for absurdist poet and Soviet-era dissident Dmitry Prigov, featuring a table with food and vodka, in a Moscow Metro car. Originally, they had planned an action involving Prigov but he died before they were able to…
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Levitating the Pentagon
Read more: Levitating the PentagonIt was 1967, and sentiment against the Vietnam War was in the air nationwide. The counterculture was flourishing on the heels of the Summer of Love. Organizers from Mobe — the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam…
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Colorful Revolution
Read more: Colorful RevolutionA wiretapping scandal rocked the small Balkan nation in 2016 when opposition leader Zoran Zaev began publishing excerpts of secret recordings that were made by the national security service which targeted up to 20,000 people, including government officials, journalists and…
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ŠTO TE NEMA (WHY ARE NOT YOU HERE)
Read more: ŠTO TE NEMA (WHY ARE NOT YOU HERE)ŠTO TE NEMA is a public monument created as a response to Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II – the systematic killing of 8,372 Muslim men and boys in the UN-protected safe area of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina…
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Drawing For Peace
Read more: Drawing For PeaceAaron Hughes, an artist-activist and Iraq War veteran walked into the middle of a busy intersection in Champaign, Il. where he was then going to college, and propped up a signboard that read: “I am an Iraq War Veteran. I…
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Ottawa Eel Walk
Read more: Ottawa Eel Walk“Around 30 people gathered on Victoria Island Monday morning to advocate for the return of the endangered American Eel to the Ottawa River. The event mixed art with activism, with attendees carrying windsocks decorated to look like as eels as…
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Chicago Gun Share Program
Read more: Chicago Gun Share Program‘Gun-sharing’ stations in Chicago use art to make a point about gun violence. Users can’t actually grab a gun from the stations, but its creators hope the installation will send a message about how disturbingly easy it is for a…